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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Try to find out as much as you can about what the job/career is actually like, ask people who are in that field, if you can try to get some experience as an intern.

    The worst thing you can do is focus on a major without considering what the actual work will be like once you graduate. Even if you love studying a topic, the actual work may be much less fun in practice.

    Try to get some part-time experience of your own as you can, even at sub-entry level/intern levels it should help you know better what kinds of jobs you would enjoy full time. It’s often hard to envision a job without having some exposure to the field.





  • There is a lot of public misunderstanding of the rodent studies that linked aspartame to cancer, which are very flawed and essentially come from a single Italian research group.

    There is still no definitive link to cancer risk in humans so I would continue to be skeptical. The maximum recommended safe exposure for aspartame is the equivalent of 12 cans of coke, and the strong effects from the rodent study were using exposure amounts equivalent to 5 times that amount, or 60 cans daily, every day of their life after day 12 of fetal life (i.e. before birth).

    Almost anything can cause long-term health risks and toxicity at such massive exposure levels.

    https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/chemicals/aspartame.html

    Link to the free Pubmed link to one of the original source studies from 2008 so you can see their methodology and the absurdly massive exposure amounts needed to ovserve these effects:

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17805418/





  • Thank you for the non-Test Flight update! Just installed the app today and really love the browsing UI and functionality.

    My only issue so far has been with voting on comments, there is seemingly no way to vote on a comment without swiping (context menu has no option, tapping comment score just hides comment), and the swiping seems to upvote/downvote at random with no relation to the strength/size of the swipe. I see that is updated in 0.1 so looking forward to it.

    If you are supposed to be able to tap the comment vote score to upvote/downvote like in the webapp, it does not seem to work at the moment. iPhone 14/iOS 16.5.1