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[–] 116 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You gotta hate clickbait titles.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The Number 1 Reason People Hate Clickbait Titles (And it May Not Be What You Think)

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    where did u go wrong in life to allow CNN push notifications on your phone

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Yeah, if your reaction to "website wants permission to push notifications to your device" isn't some mix between mirth and revulsion, I don't fundamentally understand you.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's like people who actually watch commercials. If you don't skip/look away/mute/otherwise attempt to ignore commercials, there are massive differences between us. I even had an ex who thought targeted ads were a good thing, and he would voluntarily fill out the marketing questions that streaming services asked in lieu of commercial breaks. I just ... I can't imagine wanting that.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I have no idea where to find it anymore, but I once got an advertisement for some industrial machine that I think used lasers or something, but more importantly it sounded incredibly fake but was actually real. It was beautiful and made no sense to show me but I love it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wait, why would mirth be involved?

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    And that even though they could've bait-and-switched with a whole range of colors:

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    The purple ones are still orange on the inside

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    Ah, interesting. I guess, you mean those at around 10 o'clock? I've had the more sort of violet ones at 2 o'clock before and they looked like this:

    Violet carrots which look somewhat like beetroot inside

    They colored my whole food blue, as if I had spilled some ink into there. 🙃

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I could be misremembering, I haven't had a garden in a year, I just remember feeling scammed when 1 of the colors was only on the outside.

    Really nice carrot btw, girthy 🤤

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh, I didn't mean to put your comment into question. I did find pictures on the internet like these, so it seems to be a thing:

    Purple carrots have been around for longer than the orange variety, though, so it'd be a bit weird to create a variety which is only purple on the outside just for scam purposes. Like, you can likely get the seeds for actually purple carrots much more easily. 🙃

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Looks like they crossed them with beetroot. Interesting combination if so.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    From what I understand, this is what carrots often looked like originally. It was later on that we selected for more orange carrots.

    Either way, they certainly don't taste beetroot-y. I've heard them described as somewhat sweeter. I've had them only once so far, but would agree with that description in the sense that they have a more rounded taste. I think, I like their taste slightly more.
    Wikipedia also says that the orange carrots probably won out not for tasting better, but rather because they don't discolor stews, which is a fair reason.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (30 children)

    What really hit me that all this superfood shit was nonsense was when I watched a real nutritionist answer a question about "the best superfood" and they said "potatoes."

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    It's true, potatoes are one of the few singular plants that can provide almost all of a person's nutritional needs with barely any other supplement.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    More protein per acre than soy.

    A factoid brought to you by the National Potato Council, who told me this once and I've never bothered to fact check it.

    Edit: It's a lie! What other lies have lobbing groups told me???

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I am going to consider this a success story, given that you were transparent about the provenance of this factoid, and you corrected yourself. Yay for learning!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    In fact it’s the most factoid it could be, an outright falsehood shared as a fact.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes, I did delight in getting to accurately use the word "factoid"; it's useful for working through the trauma of learning that "factoid" doesn't just mean a neat tidbit of fun facts, but rather quite the opposite. And for a "learning is fun" kind of gal like me, misinformation masked as genuine learning is deeply unfun — that is, unless we make the factoid itself our new object of study.

    The system works!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    iirc its more calories/acre than... well lliterally anything else. Not sure about any specific nutrient though.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Corn beats it out, and by some reckonings so does rice. Pumpkins too.

    There are a few more exotic plants like tigernut and duckweed that are supposed to be really high, but not many people eat those as a staple crop. Palm oil and sugar cane are supposed to be super high too, though you probably don't want to be eating huge quantities of straight oil and sugar.

    Finally there are a few tropical trees like jackfruit and breadfruit that produce enormous quantities of calories once mature. They have a huge advantage from their large leaf crowns and root systems (that they don't have to periodically regrow like annual plants) + the tropical weather allowing production for the entire year.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Yes, but no. Yes it's a "super food" in the sense that they are easy to grow and are nutritious and contain almost everything the body needs, but you'd have to eat like twenty kilos a day to survive on them solely.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Also, they can't fly and potato eyes do not emit lasers.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Rather broccoli. Mulberry and flaxseed too. Who knew, our pre-agriculture ancestors ate the healtiest.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    pre-agriculture ancestors ate the healtiest.

    and lived to the ripe age of 42.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    But not because of their food.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Most likely also because of their food. Diabetes, gluten intolerance, food allergies, vitamin deficiency from eating way too much of the one thing that grew and didn't die that harvest. Food related issues were all rampant, people just died of them.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    But even more likely is child mortality bringing down the averages.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    You're not gonna believe why child mortality was so high.

    Also, the (often) improper diets of pregnant ladies, especially among the poorer classes of society, that meant a lack of essential vitamins and minerals, put mothers too at great risk. To compound the issue, matters got out of hand during the periods when the annual Nile floods did not materialize. With the mother dead, the newborn faced an uphill task in surviving the odds. Feeding a motherless child was one of the greatest difficulties that the ancient Egyptians encountered. The milk of livestock – cows and goats – was the only substitute to natural mother’s milk. How many could afford it? This is where the aunts or other close family members of the baby stepped in to carry out this function and keep the baby well-fed.

    It was also the food.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Uhm, i'm talking pre-agriculture. Hunter-gatherer style, lots of seeds, some roots and vegetables, berries fruits, sometimes meat or fish.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    "Science discovers that a type of repetitive leg movement that propels the body in a sustained motion over a flat surface can have positive health impacts if done for only twenty minutes every day."

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    honestly news doesn’t deserve push notifications imo

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Practice skipping all clickbait headlines.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Somebody said carrots?!??

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    Huh, didnt know cnn plays dota2.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    You won't believe how this title makes you click itself.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Did you know that the real reason why carrots are orange is that they absorb electromagnetic radiation on particular wavelengths and reflect it at others?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I thought it was about Trump, but at "nutrients" I was like: Wait a minute ...

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Me to a group of people: "I'll do anything for money. No behavior is too low." wink wink They all laugh and never talk to me again.

    Clickbait authors: "I'll do anything for clicks. No behavior is too low." wink wink The internet: clicking furiously

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  • Sweet potato.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    The carrot has mystery. Flowers are essentially tarts. Prostitutes for the bees. There is you will agree special about a firm, young carrot.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    Is that the eli yudin from the "What A Time to be Alive" podcast?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Its also good at getting your cart pulled

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    The sad thing is if Americans saw a supermarket shelf of only carrots or Cheetos, its clone in color and size only, they would stuff their carts with bags of Cheetos instead of a rabbit's favorite snack. I love carrots but processed foods are America's comfort cooking

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    a rabbit’s favorite snack.

    Just a PSA about this common myth - rabbits DO NOT naturally eat carrots.

    Bugs Bunny popularized the idea, yet the only reason he ate carrots was as a reference/homage to Clark Gable in the 1934 film It Happened One Night.

    Peter [Gable's character] pulls out a carrot with the long leafy greens still attached, peels the skin with a pocket knife, and nonchalantly nibbles on the vegetable as cars whisk by. Peter continues to give the lesson while speaking with a mouthful of carrots, a personal quirk reminiscent of Bugs Bunny's casual, carefree attitude.

    Apparently a lot about Bugs Bunny was a reference to that character, including the phrase, "What's up, Doc?"

    Anyway, I've seen pet-owners give their rabbits carrots as if it's a normal meal. It is not, and the high sugar in carrots can cause health issues. For the sake of your bunny, please get dietary advice from your pet's veterinarian - not from a cartoon that parodied a film character 85 years ago.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I, too, love carrots, but man, you can't tell me that a cheeto isn't more tasty.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Depends if you include the feeling of disgust and regret afterwards.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I recently got my partner on board with replacing sugary snacks with carrots and it's great. Plan on making my own chutney soon from apples I foraged for recently, should be nice with some carrot sticks. Supermarket chutney is made with more sugar than fruit, I know it needs some to preserve it along with vinegar but they use way more than necessary. Any recipe I find the main ingredients are fruit/veg, any I find in the shop then the largest ingredient is sugar.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Tell this to the internet loon that says carrots are not food

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6g_9xZNdRI

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