yggdar

joined 1 year ago
[–] yggdar@lemmy.wtf 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Welcome to the club of lactose intolerance! If, like me, you really like dairy, there is a very easy way to cheat the system... (Seriously, how would anyone survive without cheese?)

You can get lactase tablets. Those are little pills full of lactase, which is the protein that breaks down lactose into digestible simple sugars. All you have to do is take a lactase tablet when you eat anything with lactose, and you can continue to live your life like before.

Lactose intolerance is not black and white either. You may have some tolerance left, which may be enough to eat your cereal with milk, if that is the inly lactose you have during the day. Your tolerance can also fluctuate over time. For example, the first time I had an issue with lactose it only lasted a few weeks.

[–] yggdar@lemmy.wtf 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the reminder, I still had one of those messages waiting for me...

[–] yggdar@lemmy.wtf 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same! As an introvert it is not easy though.

[–] yggdar@lemmy.wtf 13 points 1 year ago

While I agree that advertisers go much too far, the 650k labels figure used here is a bit manipulative. They make it seem like the advertisers have 650k different bits of information on everyone, but clearly they don't.

The examples they provide of labels show that they are combinations of multiple things. For example they show a label "France + Land Rover", which really are two different bits of information combined into one label. If they would have an exhaustive list of all countries (about 200) and the most popular car brands (let's say about 20), that would be around 4000 labels, or 0.6% of the 650k labels. If they add a third characteristic, that number would explode.

[–] yggdar@lemmy.wtf 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yes... But what about the 4k version? Surely you have heard of that?

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