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I could maybe get it if it showed someone out shopping and they couldn’t remember if they had milk so they could check their smart fridge

That’s one reason. They can also track what you put in and take out to track the age of things for food safety. Notifying you of things that have been in there too long, or that you need to replace.

Since many people no longer use film cameras, they replace the old need to use a magnet to put a photo on the fridge. Instead able to just show a never ending slideshow of everything.

Replacing the old whiteboard or notepad for messages to the household.

Able to search and walk you through recipes on the screen itself, even notifying whether you have the ingredients on hand. to make something.

Letting you play and control music while cooking, or even making/receiving phone calls or even video calls on some models.

They are by no means necessary, but neither is your smartphone. 20 years ago a very tiny percentage of people had Internet on their phones. 30 years ago, few people had cell phones at all. Yet not having a smartphone nowadays is basically impossible while living in modern society, it is possible but nearly no one does it. All of it is about increased convenience.

Smaller classes mean more money for those actually affected. The millions in settlements getting split between millions of people isn’t much, but across just a hundred thousand… Some actual restitution.

Sort of, but not really. You’re almost certainly referencing E471, mono- and diglycerides that are used as emulsifiers.

The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) has set an “acceptable daily intake” (ADI) as “not limited” due to the safety of these ingredients.

In 2017, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) re-evaluated the safety of mono- and diglycerides and concluded that there is no need to establish a numerical ADI and there is no safety concern for the reported food uses.

A diet high in saturated fats, trans fats, and cholesterol in general increases your risk of Cardiovascular issues. So does alcohol, and tobacco use.

Looking up a few of the big brands nutritional labels really quick, their products aren’t particularly high in saturated fats, and most have no trans fats listed. Meaning the amounts are small enough they don’t even need to be listed. Jif creamy peanut butter for instance in a 2 Tbsp (33g) serving… has a total of 16g of Total Fat, which breaks down to 3.5g Saturated fat, 0g Trans fat, and 0mg cholesterol. It also only has 2g of added sugar, 6g net carbs, and 7g of protein in that same serving.

11 spoonfuls like the meme is excessive, but some peanut butter sandwiches aren’t where your cardiovascular risks are going to be coming from.

It didn’t take that long before Trump’s War on Iran used the stockpile in a handful of months for nothing.

Almost like that was maybe the actual plan. Emptying the US defense stockpile means both a militarily weaker US, and a ton of new manufacturing contracts for defense contractors.

Finland is extremely protective of their forests. This is basically the one thing they could do to anger the country enough to prevent their ability to built the datacenter at all, anywhere in the country.

They could always use more practice for a potential Russian invasion. Can never be too prepared.

The issue isn’t so much that the datacenter and forest changes were completely unexpected.

It’s more that Google didn’t even bother to submit for the required permits, almost surely because they didn’t want to do the environmental studies they require that would limit their build plans.

The difference is that the banks are actually necessary for the economy to function. And mitigations were put in place to limit that exposure in the future. Mitigations that have been stripped back again in recent years because of billionaire lobbying.

None of the AI companies are necessary for the economy. And the big players that stepped into the quagmire aren’t over leveraged enough to actually be in danger. Only the AI-only companies are in danger. The mega corps like Meta, Microsoft, Google, etc. would be hurt but would survive just fine.

I moved over to Tuta personally for email. And Tuta is EU-based if that matters to you. If you use other Proton features there are alternatives there as well.

For Proton Pass and Authenticator, there’s Bitwarden (and self-hosted Vaultwarden). Which supports password storage, 2FA codes, and Passkeys across basically all devices. Also supports SSH agent forwarding if you work with that a lot.

For Proton Drive, Koofr seems to be a good option for cloud storage, also EU-hosted. They also have an additional locally-encrypted Vault for files you want additional security on. Things like 2FA bypass codes you get when you set up your accounts but don’t want want hanging around in the open at all.

There it is. Defending the Nazis, while trying to spin it as if you aren’t.

It has nothing to do with being scared of what people say. It has everything to do with cutting out the shit parts of humanity, getting rid of a cancer.

A couple of the apps were even made by reddit app devs that abandoned the platform. So some of the lemmy/piefed apps are literally those remade.