The glass of wine is likely due to a selection bias in Tea Total people. Most people who are completely sober, are so either because they are recovering alcoholics, or have other health issues.
Most people who are healthy and have no prior alcoholism issues drink at least occasionaly, which introduces a selection bias favouring people with health issues as strict non drinkers, which causes not drinking at all to be correlated with worse health than drinking occasionally.
OP is referring to the j-curve historically seen in studies about drinking. Because researchers didn't control for people who stopped drinking after years of abuse or people who couldn't drink because of other health issues, it looked like having 0 drinks per day led to worse health outcomes than 1-2 drinks per day. Because of that, many health organizations spent decades telling people that 1-2 drinks per day was better for you than 0 drinks per day.
Someone finally controlled for those variables a few years ago, and the j-curve vanished. Most health organizations now say they're is no amount of alcohol that is safe to consume.
So it's got nothing to do with Gen Z drinking habit specifically, and the science has been corrected since. But a lot of people still internalized and parrot the "1-2 drinks is healthy" thing.
Sure. Any driving you do increases your risk of death. But it's likely you need to drive for other reasons that reduce your risk of death (like buying food).
Drinking is different because no one needs to drink.
It means that any amount of alcohol increases the odds of you dying sooner or having other negative health effects sooner (which will lead to you dying sooner). There is no amount that won't increase those odds. It says nothing about how much any given drink would impact your life span. I'm not saying it's negligible or significant, but I can't be bothered to look it up.
i get what you're saying, but what i'm wondering is, while alcohol is bad for your liver and damages your health in that way, it also leads to social occasions and less loneliness, i guess. so you might have psychological improvements; and was that also tested for?
because they can't afford it. prices are up, incomes are down. Gen Z starting incomes aren't much higher than the start incomes of people from 10-20 year ago, but booze prices are triple what they were, i've actually seen them start to come down recently because well, even older folks can't afford $20 cocktails or $20 four packs of beer. when I was 25 $20 got you a 24 pack of craft beer. or a 48 of the cheap shit.
That might have something to do with it. But gen-z seems to have more a purity culture than millennials and gen-x had.
Many are very into exercise and fitness from a very young age. Control their diets. Sleep super early, get up early.
They are going less to clubs (and shitty dive bars). Doing less drugs. Having less sex.
You can say its all because of money. But broke teenagers and young adults of previous generations had their fun, went out, destroyed their bodies. You know, it can be REALLY cheap to get fucked up and well, get fucked or fuck.
it's not cheap to get fucked up anymore. it's not cheap to go out, all this tracks.
gyms however, are still cheap.
no idea what you are on about purity. i just know a lot of 22 year olds at my work who are broke and live at home. they are 'boring' and 'pure' because they don't have much other choice. they can't afford to party. they'd like to, but when you make 2-3K a month, spending $200 going out on a saturday night at a bar isn't exactly affordable.
sex rates also correlate highly to economic conditions. nobody fucks and has babies when it's economically tough, and when we have good economy there is a baby boom and the marriage rate spikes.
Yeah but these (usually flawed) studies that have wormed their way into the public consciousness were done long before gen z was drinking age. From up-to-date information it's pretty clear that any amount of any kind of alcohol is quite bad for you. Obviously increasing with quantity.
That's teetotal, nothing to do with the nice hot cuppa
Also last time I saw teetotalers being less healthy than occasional drinkers was decades ago before never drinking became normal among the youth as they came of age
Back then the only reason to not drink was to treat alcoholism or a serious problem. Now people abstain because their friends do
It varies dramatically for different types of wine, even within the broad categories (red, white, rosé, etc.). Some wines are grapier and will be reminiscent of juice you've had. Others are further away from that. Invariably they will taste different if you've never had wine before, even moreso if you've not had alcohol.
If you are interested in wine for the experience, I'd recommend situations where it's well-paired with food. The best wine I've ever drank has been with good food that complemented it.
A good bottle of wine is only in the $20-$30 range. IMO, every wine I have ever had that costs more than $30 is not any better than wine that is $30. Ive tried quite a bit of different stuff up to $75-$300 bottles that I got for free. None of it was worth more than a $30 bottles, at least to my palette. The one exception probably being Veuve Cliquot champagne, which is really good but costs like $50.
There is a pretty big difference between a $7 bottle of wine and a $30 bottle of wine though. Honestly wine is kind of an acquired taste, and there are a lot of varieties. If you want something good but also cheap then you cant go wrong with a $10 bottle of sweet table wine. Any other kind of wine its worth it to spend for something in the $20-$30 price range if you want it to be decent
I am not American and where I live, wine is illegal (exceptions are there and loopholes too) so it is difficult for me to drink wine in my community and country.
The basic recipe for wine is grape juice, yeast, and time, and yeasts are everywhere. It's not hard to "accidentally" turn an opened bottle of grape juice into wine.
Depends on the wine. I wanted to see for myself so I bought 2 bottles from the same producer. Same type of wine and stuff as well. One bottle was 25-ish€ and the other was 80-ish. I could instantly tell which the more expensive wine was. Then I asked my wife to taste without telling her which is which. She could also instantly tell. Was it worth the price? Fuck no. I usually buy in the 10-15 range from a guy that I trust since supermarket stuff is hit and miss and I like trying new ones, not just buying the same one every time.
I suppose thats kind of what I meant. For sure there are actual differences between a $30 bottle and an $80 bottle, but after $30 it is mostly a game of massively diminishing returns. A $60 bottle of wine is nowhere near as good of a value as two $30 bottles of wine. A $300 bottle is sure as shit nowhere near good enough to be better than the value of 10 $30 bottles
Other than Cliqout, Ive never had a bottle of wine worth over $30 that I would ever pay for myself. Im a big fan of Saldo, which doesnt have hardly any label on it. I figured it would be good wine since its definitely not selling itself with a sexy label lol
I'm lucky to live in France so there's plenty of affordable and good local wine but I'll definitely keep an eye on the import section for that one. Heard good things about Californian wines. So I was already curious but never actually tried any.
personally I don't think any alcoholic beverage tastes good - at least not the traditional ones like wine, beer, spirits. I do still drink and have done since I was a kid because it does make you feel kind of happy and socialising is easier and more enjoyable. (just two or three drinks though - more than that and it starts having negative effects)
Well I don't think so cuz it is forced upon us, rather than our conscious choice. For rich, there is no problem though. They drink and party. These laws are implemented only on poor and middle class.
No I just meant I think that wanting to experience life rather than needlessly restricting yourself of everything "unhealthy" to try and gain another day without these experiences is a good philosophy.
I understand that you are not the one deciding to restrict yourself in this case. That and the unequal enforcement of the law on the rich are both another thing entirely and complete bullshit.
Hope you get the opportunity to enjoy more out of life, buddy.
No one recommends 9 hours sleep. Humans in the wild (hunter gatherers) sleep about 6 hours. People in the industrialised world sleep about 7 or 8 hours. We don't know whether 8 hours is better or worse than six
I agree. Sitting my yass all day playing video games? Sure, 4-6 hours will be okay. Doing yard work and manual labor in 110 degree weather, I'll see you in 14 hours. Also, I have sleep apnea so I'm used to feeling dead all day.
There are different levels of poverty that vary drastically in quality of life, and are highly dependent on what region you live in.
Being poor basically anywhere in Europe is a lot easier than being poor in America. Being poor in a state like California or New York is going to be easier than being poor in Oklahoma or Alabama.
Different regions have different local governments that have a huge impact on the social safety network afforded to the working poor and the disabled.
In my experience, I haven't known very many poor people who weren't disabled that had a lot of extra free time on their hands. Good habits are hard to keep when you work two to three jobs 6-7 days a week to make a wage that barely pays the bills.
Yeap, an unfortunate side effect of "Obamacare" mandating corporations provide coverage for full time employees was everyone cutting hours back to make sure no one was full time. Labour laws here are a joke.
In the UK where everyone has decent basic health care on average you live 2 years shorter if you own a horse. It's worse than riding a motorcycle (1 year shorter). It turns out that owning a big animal that will kick you if you look at it funny or throw you off if it gets startled by a packet of crisps in the road isn't that great for your health.
I'm not a horse person, but having been around several, my understanding is that horses don't joke about that sort of thing. They take it very seriously indeed.
That, and, as the previous commenter said, get spooked by a rogue crisp packet, their own shadow, or the fact the sun has come up again.
My wife's family would be the atypical version. Income wise they were below the poverty limit, but because they farmed a quarter section in N. Alberta they had lots of horses.
Kind of like all the sugar substitute correlation “studies” that keep saying sugar substitutes cause the same diseases that being obese cause. Hmmm, I wonder who typically consumes sugar substitutes…
Yeah, this isn't about comparing almonds vs. pistachios. This is about comparing almonds vs. hot cheetos and takis.
Which, granted, are closer in price now, but when that study came out and was all over the news, it was just classism wrapped up as some health news. At the time even jerky was about the same price as almonds, and gas stations wouldn't ever carry almonds. Sunflower seeds, peanuts, corn nuts, jerky.
Good point, has any good prospective study been done on this? Seems like something that really should be studied with methodology that can prove or disprove causation.
Yes, artificial sweeteners are literally the most studied food in human history. There are a lot of different chemicals involved so I won’t make any sweeping statements, but all of the most popular ones have been proven over and over to be harmless.
But then things get complicated because the sugar lobby will fund a rat study where they inject an absolutely insane amount of sweeteners into their blood and it obviously fucks them up. Then they publish a study about how the sweeteners cause all kinds of ailments. But when you actually look into it (nobody does) you realize they injected the equivalent of drinking 100 Liters of soda per day, which obviously nobody does.
I think more studies are still warranted. I agreed with you before, based on that available data, but later they have found that the bmi of people who use artificial sweeteners is the same as people who don't.
2 takeaways can be considered here. First, that just keeps their palate attuned to extra sweetness, which if they just took a break for a bit from all sweetened stuff, even fruit might taste amazing again. Second, it's possible that it directly affects their microphone, perhaps feeding poorer quality microbes which would lead to all kinds of things, perhaps increasing hunger for foods those microbes like, perhaps affecting their mood, etc.
But those really amount to the same thing. If you can cut sugar, and not supplement with other added sugar, you might consume more fruits and get the associated fiber, which is probably a good thing.
Most horse people I know (me included) are BROKE because we choose to have horse(s) when we really shouldn't. Bad financial decisions for sure, but most horse people have a passion for the creatures and don't let things like finances get in the way.
There have been days where I've skipped meals in order to buy my horse her supplements. Not many days, but a couple. My bond with horses is what keeps me going when I'm at my lowest, so I refuse to give them up. My mom and grandma will occasionally sneak me a few bucks to help because they're almost as invested in my horse as I am.
Also, if you own horses, you're probably going out to take care of them on a daily basis, which means you get at least a little bit of mild exercise every day. That would help a lot, compared to people who are entirely sedentary.
All these comments are great, but the real mystery is:
Why did someone overlay a different font on top of the original graphic rather than just make a whole new graphic? Like, the work is exactly the same, and the rest of us can view sane font placement.
Jr researchers are using AI to comb through cancer research datanases and every time they come back with data linking racial minority to worse outcomes or faster tumor progression, and proposals to review genetic differences.
Never does it link that non rich people don't go to a doctor unless it's very bad, and so present at later stages of cancer, and can't afford the better personalized treatments.
The entire world of dog cancer research has recently collapsed not because there aren't researchers invested in the work or that there aren't clinical trials available, it's that dog owners can't afford to even travel to clinical sites for treatment.
Never does it link that non rich people don’t go to a doctor unless it’s very bad, and so present at later stages of cancer, and can’t afford the better personalized treatments.
Also...
Poor people are more likely to work in dangerous industrial jobs that expose them to carcinogens.
Poor people are more likely to work outside, where they're exposed to high levels of UV, causing skin cancers.
Poor people are more likely to live in less desirable places, which may be located closer to industrial sites that spread carcinogenic waste into the air and water.
Poor people are more likely to eat highly processed foods that increase cancer risk.
Poor people are more likely to be obese, which increases cancer risk.
Poor people are more likely to smoke and/or be exposed to second-hand smoke.
Poor people are more likely to have high stress levels, which increases cancer risk.
There's a million different non-genetic reasons why racial minorities (who tend to be poorer) would have higher cancer rates.
Why is the word "causation" photoshopped on? What word was there originally that would have changed the meaning enough to warrant pasting a different word there?
well, here in austria, if i'm correctly informed, there is free healthcare for anyone under 27, or anyone who has a job. everyone else can (has to?) get private insurance, for which they have to pay out of pocket.
Nah. Horse girls have got to learn how to keep up with the rhythm and roll their hips. Sure, the horse does most of the work, but they're still doing some work ... work that's very applicable to other activities as well.
I would change "health insurance" to "health care". I have had better care when uninsured and negotiating prices in cash than when I had terrible health insurance I couldn't afford to use and never got any care.
Many literal scientists assume the correlations they find are causative without much thought. Definitely a pervasive problem the assumption of correlations as causations.
The real reason though, those scientist trained hacks are signing on to what they are paid to, to design studies to work backwards from poisoning the population is actually totally safe.
The other month in our field some random team published a paper where they surveyed people sick with a chronic illness and people who had recovered from that illness. They found the recovered people had better mental health than those who were ill.
The authors in all their wisdom decided that means mental health causes the illness. It apparently didn’t cross their mind that being chronically ill is not fun so you have worse mental health and being recovered is comparatively great so you have better mental health.
Now some right wing chuds are citing this silly study to try and paint the illness as fake.
The amount of shit science being published today is appalling. It's always been a significant issue, but it has gotten worse with time. I have read articles published in the top journals who's methodology should have made a 1st year graduate student cringe. I have no idea how they made it past peer review and were published.
I really agree. The decline in methodology and proper hedging (not overstating) is really appalling. It feels like science publishing has become about marketing your paper not trying to uncover the “truth”…
I have no idea how they made it past peer review and were published.
The authors aren't the only ones getting paid off.
I suspect, at some point, it will slip and become a major scandal that reviewers at major scientific journals have been accepting "gifts" from interested parties to help ensure that specific articles get approved and published.
Your argument may be better received with less hostility. People are going to criticise your ideas throughout life, however this reaction could be seen as a distraction to your focus on the subject. Everyone is at dismay at a topic, and many topics have the capability to become heated, yet you will be amongst greater levels of respectability for future interactions if you consider refraining from attacks today (even if you feel as though this is being done to you).
Just trying to help, not scold. There's always a better way to get your point across without making people dislike your comments, is what I'm essentially trying to get at.
First of all, I don't give a fuck how I'm received, until I am satisfied my comment is in the common good. And I stand by this comment entirely. I am proud of my preceding comment, and if you don't like it, I don't care. Not one little bit. Other than caring enough to argue a bit obviously.
Granted those that realize this already are not perhaps even a majority now int eh US.
Yeah, that's the thing.
There are pockets of people who are clued in and take the time / have the time to process what they read/see & hear. Those people seem to be fewer and harder to find.
I don't think people are generally just plain dumb (I know unpopular opinion), but I think a good majority of us are in sensory and informational overload and human understanding of the world has likely never been so complex nor moved so quickly.
This is all happening during a modern renaissance period for malicious misrepresentation (i.e. convincing lies). And even if people are too "dumb" to tell truth from lies, they do recognize that the lies are coming in rapid fire and from every direction. Easier just to tune out and not think too much about all that, otherwise it's depressing.
Don't forget that older folks are aging into cognitive issues, younger people have only known this as their reality, poor people are struggling to make ends meet with no time to stop and think, and so many of the ones who've "made it" are doing their best to keep it all conveniently compartmentalized away and out of sight.
So, yes, sometimes you do have to be direct and spell otherwise obvious things out for people. The struggle is real.
This is a case where it's obvious there's no direct causation, but so often it's not this clear, and even the really smart people sometimes mess that part up -- intentionally or otherwise.
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kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 142 pts · 1d
People who live longer:
People who drink a glass of wine every night.
People who buy organic and cook whole foods at home.
People who spend 30+ minutes a day being activr/at the gym.
People who get 9+ hours of sleep every night.
People who have less chronic stress.
People who get regular checkups/screenings at the doctor.
So... rich people that have the time and can afford to do all of those things or have them done for them.
Devial@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 1d
The glass of wine is likely due to a selection bias in Tea Total people. Most people who are completely sober, are so either because they are recovering alcoholics, or have other health issues.
Most people who are healthy and have no prior alcoholism issues drink at least occasionaly, which introduces a selection bias favouring people with health issues as strict non drinkers, which causes not drinking at all to be correlated with worse health than drinking occasionally.
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 1d
Idk... a lot of gen Z people I know just don't drink at all
tmyakal@infosec.pub · 58 pts · 1d
OP is referring to the j-curve historically seen in studies about drinking. Because researchers didn't control for people who stopped drinking after years of abuse or people who couldn't drink because of other health issues, it looked like having 0 drinks per day led to worse health outcomes than 1-2 drinks per day. Because of that, many health organizations spent decades telling people that 1-2 drinks per day was better for you than 0 drinks per day.
Someone finally controlled for those variables a few years ago, and the j-curve vanished. Most health organizations now say they're is no amount of alcohol that is safe to consume.
So it's got nothing to do with Gen Z drinking habit specifically, and the science has been corrected since. But a lot of people still internalized and parrot the "1-2 drinks is healthy" thing.
jdr@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1d
No amount of alcohol is safe? Is that like saying no amount of driving is safe?
Dave@lemmy.nz · 7 pts · 21h
Sure. Any driving you do increases your risk of death. But it's likely you need to drive for other reasons that reduce your risk of death (like buying food).
Drinking is different because no one needs to drink.
jdr@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 21h
Haha, ymmv but I find driving to be unnecessary
Dave@lemmy.nz · 6 pts · 21h
Yes but this depends significantly on where you live.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 20h
Yep.
Viceversa@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
alcohol is driving?
jdr@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 23h
Exactly!
I meant that plenty of people drink reasonable amounts alcohol all the time with no apparent issues.
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 23h
It means that any amount of alcohol increases the odds of you dying sooner or having other negative health effects sooner (which will lead to you dying sooner). There is no amount that won't increase those odds. It says nothing about how much any given drink would impact your life span. I'm not saying it's negligible or significant, but I can't be bothered to look it up.
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1h
i get what you're saying, but what i'm wondering is, while alcohol is bad for your liver and damages your health in that way, it also leads to social occasions and less loneliness, i guess. so you might have psychological improvements; and was that also tested for?
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
because they can't afford it. prices are up, incomes are down. Gen Z starting incomes aren't much higher than the start incomes of people from 10-20 year ago, but booze prices are triple what they were, i've actually seen them start to come down recently because well, even older folks can't afford $20 cocktails or $20 four packs of beer. when I was 25 $20 got you a 24 pack of craft beer. or a 48 of the cheap shit.
novibe@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 6h
That might have something to do with it. But gen-z seems to have more a purity culture than millennials and gen-x had.
Many are very into exercise and fitness from a very young age. Control their diets. Sleep super early, get up early.
They are going less to clubs (and shitty dive bars). Doing less drugs. Having less sex.
You can say its all because of money. But broke teenagers and young adults of previous generations had their fun, went out, destroyed their bodies. You know, it can be REALLY cheap to get fucked up and well, get fucked or fuck.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 4h
it's not cheap to get fucked up anymore. it's not cheap to go out, all this tracks.
gyms however, are still cheap.
no idea what you are on about purity. i just know a lot of 22 year olds at my work who are broke and live at home. they are 'boring' and 'pure' because they don't have much other choice. they can't afford to party. they'd like to, but when you make 2-3K a month, spending $200 going out on a saturday night at a bar isn't exactly affordable.
sex rates also correlate highly to economic conditions. nobody fucks and has babies when it's economically tough, and when we have good economy there is a baby boom and the marriage rate spikes.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1d
Yeah but these (usually flawed) studies that have wormed their way into the public consciousness were done long before gen z was drinking age. From up-to-date information it's pretty clear that any amount of any kind of alcohol is quite bad for you. Obviously increasing with quantity.
psud@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 21h
That's teetotal, nothing to do with the nice hot cuppa
Also last time I saw teetotalers being less healthy than occasional drinkers was decades ago before never drinking became normal among the youth as they came of age
Back then the only reason to not drink was to treat alcoholism or a serious problem. Now people abstain because their friends do
Naive@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
How does wine taste? I really wanna taste wine before I die.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 1d
The crazy thing about wine is that it tastes wiiiiiiiiiiildly different based on the grape and process.
Naive@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 13h
fermentation plays an important role in determining the taste i guess.
awfulawful@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 1d
It varies dramatically for different types of wine, even within the broad categories (red, white, rosé, etc.). Some wines are grapier and will be reminiscent of juice you've had. Others are further away from that. Invariably they will taste different if you've never had wine before, even moreso if you've not had alcohol.
If you are interested in wine for the experience, I'd recommend situations where it's well-paired with food. The best wine I've ever drank has been with good food that complemented it.
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social · 8 pts · 1d
A good bottle of wine is only in the $20-$30 range. IMO, every wine I have ever had that costs more than $30 is not any better than wine that is $30. Ive tried quite a bit of different stuff up to $75-$300 bottles that I got for free. None of it was worth more than a $30 bottles, at least to my palette. The one exception probably being Veuve Cliquot champagne, which is really good but costs like $50.
There is a pretty big difference between a $7 bottle of wine and a $30 bottle of wine though. Honestly wine is kind of an acquired taste, and there are a lot of varieties. If you want something good but also cheap then you cant go wrong with a $10 bottle of sweet table wine. Any other kind of wine its worth it to spend for something in the $20-$30 price range if you want it to be decent
Naive@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
I am not American and where I live, wine is illegal (exceptions are there and loopholes too) so it is difficult for me to drink wine in my community and country.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 20h
The basic recipe for wine is grape juice, yeast, and time, and yeasts are everywhere. It's not hard to "accidentally" turn an opened bottle of grape juice into wine.
sukhmel@programming.dev · 1 pts · 6h
That would make for a very unpredictable result, and even as someone who is not that much into wine, I would advise against doing that
nyctre@piefed.social · 6 pts · 1d
Depends on the wine. I wanted to see for myself so I bought 2 bottles from the same producer. Same type of wine and stuff as well. One bottle was 25-ish€ and the other was 80-ish. I could instantly tell which the more expensive wine was. Then I asked my wife to taste without telling her which is which. She could also instantly tell. Was it worth the price? Fuck no. I usually buy in the 10-15 range from a guy that I trust since supermarket stuff is hit and miss and I like trying new ones, not just buying the same one every time.
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social · 6 pts · 1d
I suppose thats kind of what I meant. For sure there are actual differences between a $30 bottle and an $80 bottle, but after $30 it is mostly a game of massively diminishing returns. A $60 bottle of wine is nowhere near as good of a value as two $30 bottles of wine. A $300 bottle is sure as shit nowhere near good enough to be better than the value of 10 $30 bottles
Other than Cliqout, Ive never had a bottle of wine worth over $30 that I would ever pay for myself. Im a big fan of Saldo, which doesnt have hardly any label on it. I figured it would be good wine since its definitely not selling itself with a sexy label lol
nyctre@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1d
I'm lucky to live in France so there's plenty of affordable and good local wine but I'll definitely keep an eye on the import section for that one. Heard good things about Californian wines. So I was already curious but never actually tried any.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1d
I had a nepo coworker gloat about spilling $500/bottle champagne in NYC for his birthday party. I said, “why aren’t you drinking that?” Sick.
psud@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 21h
They are varied. Red wines have more tannins than white, white wines come in different sweetness, with the less sweet ones described as dry
If you wanted to try a red wine I would suggest starting on merlot
I wouldn't recommend drinking an entire bottle in a day. Opened wine can be kept in the fridge for a few days
Naive@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 10h
How do you know if a wine is expired? Will it get insects on it or what?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7h
No insects, the taste will just get worse as it approaches funky
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1d
If you haven't tried it because you have to avoid alcohol, good news - alcohol free wine is hitting the market.
Tbh, it's not the most amazing example of wine, but the ones I tried were not awful either. It would give you a good example how wine tastes like.
Naive@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
I wanna drink alcohol bro.
rollin@piefed.social · 0 pts · 1d
personally I don't think any alcoholic beverage tastes good - at least not the traditional ones like wine, beer, spirits. I do still drink and have done since I was a kid because it does make you feel kind of happy and socialising is easier and more enjoyable. (just two or three drinks though - more than that and it starts having negative effects)
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Tastes a lot like grapes that have gone off, actually. So just imagine that. Maybe you'll live longer.
Naive@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
Well I don't wanna live longer. I wanna enjoy everything in this life before I die.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Based
Naive@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 13h
Well I don't think so cuz it is forced upon us, rather than our conscious choice. For rich, there is no problem though. They drink and party. These laws are implemented only on poor and middle class.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 8h
No I just meant I think that wanting to experience life rather than needlessly restricting yourself of everything "unhealthy" to try and gain another day without these experiences is a good philosophy.
I understand that you are not the one deciding to restrict yourself in this case. That and the unequal enforcement of the law on the rich are both another thing entirely and complete bullshit.
Hope you get the opportunity to enjoy more out of life, buddy.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 3 pts · 1d
Here for a good time, not for a long time.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 1 pts · 1d
Pretty terrible, honestly. My review is: "Ugh, this grape juice has gone really bad!"
I don't mind the occasional whiskey, and I really like Amaretto ... but IMO, wine is just gross.
Naive@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 10h
what is amaretto?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7h
Almond flavored liquor, it tastes sweet and nutty
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 0 pts · 2h
Usually used as an ingredient in cocktails, but IMO, it's very delicious and great to drink as a straight shot.
natecox@programming.dev · 0 pts · 1d
There are notable exceptions, but in general:
White wine: candy.
Red wine: asshole.
psud@aussie.zone · 0 pts · 1d
No one recommends 9 hours sleep. Humans in the wild (hunter gatherers) sleep about 6 hours. People in the industrialised world sleep about 7 or 8 hours. We don't know whether 8 hours is better or worse than six
Ed correcting autocorrect
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 23h
I think at that point it just varies too much by individual. Some people are completely fine with 6 hours a night. I am not one of those people.
myyass@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 19h
I agree. Sitting my yass all day playing video games? Sure, 4-6 hours will be okay. Doing yard work and manual labor in 110 degree weather, I'll see you in 14 hours. Also, I have sleep apnea so I'm used to feeling dead all day.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 1d
i grew up poor and did most of those things, except from the organic whole foods stuff, which didn't even exist where i lived.
you don't have to be rich rich, you just have to have free time and good habits. and lots of poor people have lots of free time and very bad habits.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 1d
There are different levels of poverty that vary drastically in quality of life, and are highly dependent on what region you live in.
Being poor basically anywhere in Europe is a lot easier than being poor in America. Being poor in a state like California or New York is going to be easier than being poor in Oklahoma or Alabama.
Different regions have different local governments that have a huge impact on the social safety network afforded to the working poor and the disabled.
In my experience, I haven't known very many poor people who weren't disabled that had a lot of extra free time on their hands. Good habits are hard to keep when you work two to three jobs 6-7 days a week to make a wage that barely pays the bills.
Eq0@literature.cafe · 5 pts · 23h
“Two to three jobs” is already a statement that in Europe would apply to basically no one, while it’s a common reality in US
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 20h
Yeap, an unfortunate side effect of "Obamacare" mandating corporations provide coverage for full time employees was everyone cutting hours back to make sure no one was full time. Labour laws here are a joke.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
I had to sell all my free time for some ultra-processed foods
BallShapedMan@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 1d
And are getting exercise, eating healthy, etc.
gilesroberts@feddit.uk · 34 pts · 1d
In the UK where everyone has decent basic health care on average you live 2 years shorter if you own a horse. It's worse than riding a motorcycle (1 year shorter). It turns out that owning a big animal that will kick you if you look at it funny or throw you off if it gets startled by a packet of crisps in the road isn't that great for your health.
cabillaud@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 23h
I always thought horses could murder someone because that's their idea of a good joke.
notabot@piefed.social · 4 pts · 9h
I'm not a horse person, but having been around several, my understanding is that horses don't joke about that sort of thing. They take it very seriously indeed.
That, and, as the previous commenter said, get spooked by a rogue crisp packet, their own shadow, or the fact the sun has come up again.
Zephorah@discuss.online · 24 pts · 1d
You don’t typically have a horse without money.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev · 53 pts · 1d
Typically all horses have no money. What would a horse even do with it anyway. And they don't even have pockets to put in it.
ickplant@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 1d
No pockets, you say?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 15 pts · 1d
Tweed on a steed!
decolo@piefed.social · 12 pts · 1d
saddlebags
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev · 6 pts · 1d
Touche
Skipcast@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1d
What about a horse with no name?
psud@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1d
Good for riding through a desert
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
horse people love to tell you how they have no money because of their horses though
West_of_West@piefed.social · 5 pts · 1d
My wife's family would be the atypical version. Income wise they were below the poverty limit, but because they farmed a quarter section in N. Alberta they had lots of horses.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 1d
Kind of like all the sugar substitute correlation “studies” that keep saying sugar substitutes cause the same diseases that being obese cause. Hmmm, I wonder who typically consumes sugar substitutes…
hansolo@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 1d
Flip side of the studies that show people that eat almonds as a snack live longer.
Almonds are fucking expensive, yo. If you're snacking on almonds, you're doing OK already.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 23h
what? they are fairly cheap for a nut. that's why they are so ubiquitous. walnut, pecan, pistachio, macademia... all more per lb.
most other nuts cost more, excluding peanuts.
almonds are about 5 dollars a lb raw, which is the price of cheap cuts of chicken, which is by far the cheapest meat on the market.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 10h
Yeah, this isn't about comparing almonds vs. pistachios. This is about comparing almonds vs. hot cheetos and takis.
Which, granted, are closer in price now, but when that study came out and was all over the news, it was just classism wrapped up as some health news. At the time even jerky was about the same price as almonds, and gas stations wouldn't ever carry almonds. Sunflower seeds, peanuts, corn nuts, jerky.
Lemmine@feddit.org · 1 pts · 14h
ActUalLy: peanuts, although having 'nuts' in their name, are botanically speaking legumes from the family fabaceae, like lentils or chickpeas.
FundMECFS@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 1d
Good point, has any good prospective study been done on this? Seems like something that really should be studied with methodology that can prove or disprove causation.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1d
Yes, artificial sweeteners are literally the most studied food in human history. There are a lot of different chemicals involved so I won’t make any sweeping statements, but all of the most popular ones have been proven over and over to be harmless.
But then things get complicated because the sugar lobby will fund a rat study where they inject an absolutely insane amount of sweeteners into their blood and it obviously fucks them up. Then they publish a study about how the sweeteners cause all kinds of ailments. But when you actually look into it (nobody does) you realize they injected the equivalent of drinking 100 Liters of soda per day, which obviously nobody does.
Kage520@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
I think more studies are still warranted. I agreed with you before, based on that available data, but later they have found that the bmi of people who use artificial sweeteners is the same as people who don't.
2 takeaways can be considered here. First, that just keeps their palate attuned to extra sweetness, which if they just took a break for a bit from all sweetened stuff, even fruit might taste amazing again. Second, it's possible that it directly affects their microphone, perhaps feeding poorer quality microbes which would lead to all kinds of things, perhaps increasing hunger for foods those microbes like, perhaps affecting their mood, etc.
But those really amount to the same thing. If you can cut sugar, and not supplement with other added sugar, you might consume more fruits and get the associated fiber, which is probably a good thing.
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 23h
Most horse people I know (me included) are BROKE because we choose to have horse(s) when we really shouldn't. Bad financial decisions for sure, but most horse people have a passion for the creatures and don't let things like finances get in the way.
There have been days where I've skipped meals in order to buy my horse her supplements. Not many days, but a couple. My bond with horses is what keeps me going when I'm at my lowest, so I refuse to give them up. My mom and grandma will occasionally sneak me a few bucks to help because they're almost as invested in my horse as I am.
Here's the horse tax:
Lemmine@feddit.org · 4 pts · 14h
Oh hi Sandy
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 15h
Nice yee yee ass horse you got there
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 8h
She looks better than she did lol. Spent 2 years rehabbing her. She's also old as fuck, so she'll always look a lil yee yee ass
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 15 pts · 1d
Also, if you own horses, you're probably going out to take care of them on a daily basis, which means you get at least a little bit of mild exercise every day. That would help a lot, compared to people who are entirely sedentary.
TrumpetX@programming.dev · 14 pts · 19h
All these comments are great, but the real mystery is:
Why did someone overlay a different font on top of the original graphic rather than just make a whole new graphic? Like, the work is exactly the same, and the rest of us can view sane font placement.
fake@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 10h
Original probably said 'correlation' when it should be causation. The correlation is established in the headline.
Apparently someone took that personally.
FundMECFS@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 8h
That was exactly what I did lmfao. It was technically incorrect, so I made it technically correct lol.
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1h
because changing 1 word is less work than changing the whole text?
fodor@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 15h
Health care. Not insurance. Care.
xav@programming.dev · 4 pts · 9h
Depends on the country.
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world · 11 pts · 1d
Jr researchers are using AI to comb through cancer research datanases and every time they come back with data linking racial minority to worse outcomes or faster tumor progression, and proposals to review genetic differences.
Never does it link that non rich people don't go to a doctor unless it's very bad, and so present at later stages of cancer, and can't afford the better personalized treatments.
The entire world of dog cancer research has recently collapsed not because there aren't researchers invested in the work or that there aren't clinical trials available, it's that dog owners can't afford to even travel to clinical sites for treatment.
It's heartbreaking
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 6 pts · 1d
Also...
Poor people are more likely to work in dangerous industrial jobs that expose them to carcinogens.
Poor people are more likely to work outside, where they're exposed to high levels of UV, causing skin cancers.
Poor people are more likely to live in less desirable places, which may be located closer to industrial sites that spread carcinogenic waste into the air and water.
Poor people are more likely to eat highly processed foods that increase cancer risk.
Poor people are more likely to be obese, which increases cancer risk.
Poor people are more likely to smoke and/or be exposed to second-hand smoke.
Poor people are more likely to have high stress levels, which increases cancer risk.
There's a million different non-genetic reasons why racial minorities (who tend to be poorer) would have higher cancer rates.
kamen@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 8h
Is this an US joke I'm too European to get?
modus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 5h
Owning and Maintaining a horse is expensive. So is private health insurance. Most Americans can't afford either.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2h
you don't have horses in europe?
pretty sure you do, as you're always winning dressage.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 7h
Why is the word "causation" photoshopped on? What word was there originally that would have changed the meaning enough to warrant pasting a different word there?
ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 6h
OP replaced “correlation”
cholesterol@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
Headlines need to not mislead, yes. But people also need to read beyond headlines.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
they used to teach that in schools. probably not anymore.
trashboat@piefed.social · 3 pts · 20h
Shiiit for a second I thought that said “Implied Caucasian”
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 8h
This goes for all animals btw. Their company makes us live longer. Very well established research.
It goes for human companionship too. Humans live longer with company.
Tiger_Man_@szmer.info · 3 pts · 6h
reality:
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1h
well, here in austria, if i'm correctly informed, there is free healthcare for anyone under 27, or anyone who has a job. everyone else can (has to?) get private insurance, for which they have to pay out of pocket.
Quexotic@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 8h
I'll just leave this right here.
https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1h
camden does kinda sound like an out-of-this-world name now that i think about it
wallwood@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 4h
Horses whose owners have a yacht live longer
Redditmodstouchgrass@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1d
Magical domesticated equine!
airgapped@piefed.social · 2 pts · 20h
Implied Causation #2: health insurance has a bearing on longer life
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 20h
Health insurance doesn't equal Healthcare
hyphen0175@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 20h
Implied Causation #3: Health insurance isn’t effective at insuring health, thus the implied causation needs to be explicitly noted
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1d
Just remember, you’ll always be third to a horse girl after her daddy’s money and her horse.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 5 pts · 1d
She's really good on top, though.
psud@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 11h
I married a horse girl, she rode well
She also hated being a parent and left me and our daughter
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 20h
No, she’s not. The horse does most of the work.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 2 pts · 20h
Nah. Horse girls have got to learn how to keep up with the rhythm and roll their hips. Sure, the horse does most of the work, but they're still doing some work ... work that's very applicable to other activities as well.
darklamer@feddit.org · 1 pts · 23h
Tru dat.
ieGod@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2h
In the civilized world, you don't need to struggle for health care.
laserm@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1h
Here everyone can afford insurance since it's mandatory and tied to your paycheck
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 0 pts · 2h
I would change "health insurance" to "health care". I have had better care when uninsured and negotiating prices in cash than when I had terrible health insurance I couldn't afford to use and never got any care.
Danika7@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 8h
Joyful people live longest.
FundMECFS@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 8h
Healthy people who faced little suffering live longer?
Danika7@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7h
Joyful people live longest.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7h
Cancer is a real buzzkill
bedwyr@piefed.ca · -5 pts · 1d
Everyone that isn't a tool already realizes the differences between causation and correlation.
Granted those that realize this already are not perhaps even a majority now int eh US.
FundMECFS@piefed.zip · 19 pts · 1d
Many literal scientists assume the correlations they find are causative without much thought. Definitely a pervasive problem the assumption of correlations as causations.
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 1d
they will pay for it. every single person who mistakes causation and correlation will die!
bedwyr@piefed.ca · -9 pts · 1d
The real reason though, those scientist trained hacks are signing on to what they are paid to, to design studies to work backwards from poisoning the population is actually totally safe.
But yes.
FundMECFS@piefed.zip · 11 pts · 1d
The other month in our field some random team published a paper where they surveyed people sick with a chronic illness and people who had recovered from that illness. They found the recovered people had better mental health than those who were ill.
The authors in all their wisdom decided that means mental health causes the illness. It apparently didn’t cross their mind that being chronically ill is not fun so you have worse mental health and being recovered is comparatively great so you have better mental health.
Now some right wing chuds are citing this silly study to try and paint the illness as fake.
The_v@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
The amount of shit science being published today is appalling. It's always been a significant issue, but it has gotten worse with time. I have read articles published in the top journals who's methodology should have made a 1st year graduate student cringe. I have no idea how they made it past peer review and were published.
FundMECFS@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 1d
I really agree. The decline in methodology and proper hedging (not overstating) is really appalling. It feels like science publishing has become about marketing your paper not trying to uncover the “truth”…
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 1 pts · 1d
The authors aren't the only ones getting paid off.
I suspect, at some point, it will slip and become a major scandal that reviewers at major scientific journals have been accepting "gifts" from interested parties to help ensure that specific articles get approved and published.
4am@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1d
“Guys! It’s the scientists who are bad!” said the smartest person in the room
A point which he arrived at through correlation, without citing any causation.
Curious.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · -5 pts · 1d
Gtfo of here, we should all know trade groups hire agencies to construct studies from it's cool to reach that conclustion.
You are either ignorant and given to trolling people you think (often incorrectly,) have made some offense, or a fucking moron.
Now piss off.
JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d
Your argument may be better received with less hostility. People are going to criticise your ideas throughout life, however this reaction could be seen as a distraction to your focus on the subject. Everyone is at dismay at a topic, and many topics have the capability to become heated, yet you will be amongst greater levels of respectability for future interactions if you consider refraining from attacks today (even if you feel as though this is being done to you).
Just trying to help, not scold. There's always a better way to get your point across without making people dislike your comments, is what I'm essentially trying to get at.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · -3 pts · 1d
First of all, I don't give a fuck how I'm received, until I am satisfied my comment is in the common good. And I stand by this comment entirely. I am proud of my preceding comment, and if you don't like it, I don't care. Not one little bit. Other than caring enough to argue a bit obviously.
JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d
lol fair enough, big man.
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social · 3 pts · 21h
"Some studies are done with funding contingent on a certain result, therefore all science is junk and science as an institution is untrustworthy"
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 1d
Yeah, that's the thing.
There are pockets of people who are clued in and take the time / have the time to process what they read/see & hear. Those people seem to be fewer and harder to find.
I don't think people are generally just plain dumb (I know unpopular opinion), but I think a good majority of us are in sensory and informational overload and human understanding of the world has likely never been so complex nor moved so quickly.
This is all happening during a modern renaissance period for malicious misrepresentation (i.e. convincing lies). And even if people are too "dumb" to tell truth from lies, they do recognize that the lies are coming in rapid fire and from every direction. Easier just to tune out and not think too much about all that, otherwise it's depressing.
Don't forget that older folks are aging into cognitive issues, younger people have only known this as their reality, poor people are struggling to make ends meet with no time to stop and think, and so many of the ones who've "made it" are doing their best to keep it all conveniently compartmentalized away and out of sight.
So, yes, sometimes you do have to be direct and spell otherwise obvious things out for people. The struggle is real.
This is a case where it's obvious there's no direct causation, but so often it's not this clear, and even the really smart people sometimes mess that part up -- intentionally or otherwise.