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Cake day: December 14th, 2023

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  • To add some more context on why you’re seeing this everywhere right now, the 2017 game was very successful, they announced the sequel in 2019 and then… kind of stopped communicating for a very long time. They only recently announced that it was releasing on Sept 4, basically bursting a gigantic bubble of anticipation (see r/silksong posts from before the release to gauge the level of insanity the wait had created)






  • According to Yuka (a food and cosmetics rating system), most brands listed in the OP image do not have a good rating. There are two moderate risk ingredients : Sodium Laurel Sulfate (listed as an irritant and an allergen, present in Botot, some Colgate products, OralB, some sensodyne products and some paradontax products) and Titanium dioxide (listed as potential carcinogen, present in some paradontax and some oral-B, I think it’s for teeth whitening). Having a “Moderate risk” ingredient means your score cannot be better than “Poor”.

    The app also lists other potential allergens that are “Low risk” and present in most most products across brands (there are sometimes differences within the same brand). If a product only has low risk ingredients, its rating is usually “Good” or “Excellent”.

    I couldn’t find exactly the pictured product, but this danish brand has an “Excellent” rating on all of its products, not a full score because it includes some of the Low Risk allergens. The best rated products are actually from Elmex.

    Of course this is just one arbitrary rating system, but it’s quite transparent and you can get all the details for risk for each ingredient, backed by scientific literature. Also the app is free if you want to scan barcodes :)






  • I also think this bias was probably taken into account if it exists, I’m more interested in how they translated “drunk” in other languages (or if they used more precise phrasing). I feel like the translation could be perceived as a weaker or stronger level of intoxication than what is meant in English by drunk.

    However, the wording of the article makes it feel like this is not the only study reporting similar results, so that’s a good sign (well, or bad…).




  • Hm yes sorry simplistic analogies like this are always hard to reason about. In real life, the verdict would depend on the laws of your country, if self defence was proportionate, etc. Also, if you focus only on your personal gain, it makes sense to kill your mugger.

    However, that’s not what I had in mind when writing it: I hope that I’m not the only thinking that killing someone who wants to mug you, even by force, is bloody absurd and should be avoided at all costs ? Both because one might not feel good about what they did, even if it was to avoid injury or losing money, and because this mechanic feels very unsustainable, to say the least, on the scale of a society.

    Idk if this analogy makes more sense now; of course if you don’t share my opinion on this it becomes a pretty bad analogy. Maybe a better one would be wondering why most countries have abolished the death penalty (punishment is proportionate to crime, except when we decide there’s a baseline that we won’t cross for punishing some crimes that go below said baseline). Similarly, and as other commentators have said, war crimes have been agreed to be the baseline you must strictly respect, regardless of any other circumstances, including uneven conflict.