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Canned food such as canned tomatoes or canned pickles (if pickled with vinegar/salt/spices) is not considered ultra-processed food. It's considered processed food and can be considered as part of a healthy diet. Well, same could be said about UPF -- your health is unlikely to detoriate long term if you have 1 frozen meal per week. It's just quantity that matters and lack of moderation.

> My weekly routine now consists of going to local farmer's market and buying stuff from farms I trust.

This is interesting. What gives you extra trust when buying from this person? How confident are you in what conditions their foods are grown. In a nutshell, I agree that food may feel and seem fresher because it is harvested closer to their prime time, but it says nothing about safety.

> The comment is still true regardless of the fact that Whole Foods exists. It is genuinely more difficult to find healthy food in the US than abroad.

As an european immigrant to US who still spends lots of time in EU, this is not true. It's relatively easy to find grocery stores in higher density areas with fresh produce/meats.

Organic food does not make it any healthier than non-organic choice. Organic UPF will still be UPF with excess of sugar/salt.

The data does not support your thesis. US ranks 3rd in Quality and Safety of foods [1]. USDA Prime beef ribeye will have similar quality from variety of stores, USDA Choice will be similar across multiple stores as well.

US does not have a problem with food safety, it has a problem with widely available UPF with many other factors (price, time, distance to fresh produce etc).

[1] https://impact.economist.com/sustainability/project/food-sec...

Usually a good idea to get a second opinion. I had a major pain in one of my teeth a few years ago. I went to a dentist, they had diagnosis in 20 minutes: the tooth is broken, needs to be extracted and implant was recommended.

Somehow I got into other dentist through my friend recommendation. They referred me to their endodontist and they said there is no break in tooth bone. After doing root canal and crown, a few years later I'm happy with having my biological tooth and crown with zero pain and saved a good few grands.

Always get a second opinion.

Joint account.

Beneficiary of each other, everywhere.

Trust.

Monthly allowance, currently $500/mo, for purely spending on each other. Necessities such as clothes etc are not part of that, this is when she wants a new Chanel handbag and I want a new bike.

One aspect that is quite important to me but I can't find it mentioned anywhere is the integration with the API of superchargers. Will Ford cars get live access to statistics on what superchargers are available in what capacity that could help planning the trip a bit better?

It's finally a good time to start considering other EVs than Tesla assuming one drives relatively far distances. One thing that Tesla car still does exceptionally well is trip planning where I don't have to think anything about planning the trip w.r.t. charging. I don't know if using CarPlay with Apple Maps would provide similar experience.

What I dislike about the current discourse in the American politics is the constant chatter about "reducing expenses". We have $1.7T deficit in 2023, so we would have to find cuts to account for that even if we just wanted to break even. It's nearly impossible.

What about substantially expanding taxation to increase the federal income and fund more socially-responsible programs such as maternal care or child care. So the question is, who is going to pay a bit more? Random Joe who makes $100k/year or someone who sits on >$50B wealth?

People won't stop buying and/or using these products/services, because exactly what you said:

> They became rich because they built something valuable that a lot of people give them $$$ for. We the population made them rich.

There isn't many EV cars <$40k that can have >250mi range. There aren't many other powerful social networks as Facebook that can let people connect with their friends and families.

An average Joe doesn't care about Elon nor Zuckerberg. Sure, they probably heard about Elon and his recent shenanigans, but it isn't much of a factor when purchasing a good/service.

As a result, we can't rely on just society regulating wealth.

You give them read only access, the financial API ecosystem is extremely well defined and provides advanced access control. I'm pretty sure you just log in to your bank account and they establish read only access. I would be shocked if Mint stored these logins, I don't think they can do that.

Why did you cherry-pick the sentence that confirms your thesis? For the record, here is the full paragraph that adds way more context:

> The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act does not require cosmetic products and ingredients to be approved by FDA before they go on the market, except for color additives that are not intended for use as coal tar hair dyes. However, they must be safe for consumers under labeled or customary conditions of use. Companies and individuals who market cosmetics have a legal responsibility for the safety of their products and ingredients.

You clearly missed "however" that could undermine your thesis.

For example, here is what FDA says on parabens (something people often freak about needlessly): https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/cosmetic-ingredients/parabens-...

> Are parabens safe as they’re used in cosmetics? Are they linked to breast cancer or other health problems?

> FDA scientists continue to review published studies on the safety of parabens. At this time, we do not have information showing that parabens as they are used in cosmetics have an effect on human health. Here are some of the questions we are considering: (...)

Everything is carcinogenic. It's the dose that is a poison not the substance. That's what scientific evidence over long years of research shows.

> Other lane-keeping systems do nothing but try to keep the car in the lane (and some do a poor job of even that).

This is simply not true. Drove recently in BMW, Audi, and Volkswagen and all had a very reliable adaptive cruise control + automatic lane change assist. I have two cars, one of them being Tesla, and Tesla does not have advantage in basic cruise control.

Yes, this problem can definitely be seen on some of the trackers, but many old school players have crews that are mature and behave normally. The only proof for this is their long track (10+ years) of successful existence. What the regular person gets from it is the access to the great quality of content in easy way.

Which, I believe, is happening, right? With new players starting their streaming services in next 1-2 years, the content will become sharded even more.

We circled. Streaming services partially were about to solve the problem of not paying serious $$$ for a cable subscription (lots of programming that people don't care about/watch) by providing a cheap, affordable service with lost of content that is interesting and worth to watch. Today, streaming services are creating the very same problem they were trying to solve.