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Musk Lied to Kill High Speed Rail
  • I've been on the high speed line from Shanghai, it's fantastic. Covered 700km in around 2 hours with beautiful views of the landscape. The ride was comfortable and relaxing.

    I've also been on the Shanghai Maglev, which I believe at the time and maybe still is the fastest passenger train in the world. It was pretty amazing flying over the motorway. It goes between Pudong airport and Shanghai city centre in about 10 minutes. I felt slightly nauseous during the acceleration.

  • The amount of sugar consumed by children from soft drinks in the UK halved within a year of the sugar tax being introduced, a study has found.
  • Of course the amount of sugar they consume from soft drinks will decrease if they've changed all the soft drinks to contain aspartame instead of sugar.

    The question is does this actually improve people's health?

    There are lots of suggestions that artificial sweeteners are harmful to health in their own ways

    https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/artificial-sweeteners-and-weight-gain#:~:text=Several observational studies on artificial,than weight loss ( 16 ).

    And the evidence they reduce weight compared to sugar is not clear cut.

    This seems like a study designed to make the sugar tax seem like a good thing, but it misses the crucial point, which is whether this improves health.

    They've failed to mention that the decrease in sugar consumption will correspond with an increase in aspartame consumption

  • YSK: Using dairy milk after being tear gassed or pepper sprayed doesn't provide more relief and has slightly increased infection risk. Use water or saline instead
  • Yeah, if the irritant is capsaicin I would think that milk would wash it off sensitive tissue more effectively than water as capsaicin is more lipid soluble than water soluble. I think if you eat a spicy chili, to stop the pain you need to wash the irritant off your tongue and milk does this more effectively than water.

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