Did this leak happen before or after NYT published an investigation detailing how Israeli forces were raping and torturing defenseless Palestinian detainees brought in from the Gaza Strip?

I bet an AI could do it

Bah, the data is on their websites, figure out how to collect it.

Why is there not an app that tells you which grocery stores have the best prices? I should be able to give it a list and it’ll tell me where to buy each item.

Why are you doing this?

Evolution and natural selection never stops, we’ve only changed what the selective pressures are.

It’s like we’re going back to the pre-internet era but it’s obviously a little different. Before the internet, there were just a few major media providers on TV plus lots of local newspapers. I would say that, for the most part in the USA, the public trusted TV news sources even though their material interests weren’t aligned (regular people vs big media corporations). It felt like there wasn’t a reason not to trust them, since they always told an acceptable version of the truth and there wasn’t an easy way to find a different narrative (no internet or crazy cable news). Local newspapers were usually very trusted, since they were often locally owned and part of the community.

The internet broke all of those business models. Local newspapers died because why do you need a paper when there are news websites? Major media companies were big enough to weather the storm and could buy up struggling competitors. They consolidated and one in particular started aggressively spinning the news to fit a narrative for ratings and political gain of the ownership class. Other companies followed suit.

This, paired with the thousands of available narratives online, weakened the credibility of the major media companies. Anyone could find the other side of the story or fact check whatever was on TV.

Now what is happening? The internet is being polluted with garbage and lies. It hasn’t been good for some time now. Obviously anyone could type up bullshit, but for a minute photos were considered reliable proof (usually). Then photoshopping something became easier and easier, which made videos the new standard of reliable proof (in most cases).

But if anything can be fake now and difficult to identify as fake, then how can you fact check anything? Only those with the means will be able to produce undeniably real news with great difficulty, which I think will return power to major news companies or something equivalent.

I’m probably wrong about what the future holds, so what do you think is going to happen?

Nah it’s not really bad at all:

The use of microwave transmission of power has been the most controversial issue in considering any SPS design. At the Earth’s surface, a suggested microwave beam would have a maximum intensity at its center, of 23 mW/cm2 (less than 1/4 the solar irradiation constant), and an intensity of less than 1 mW/cm2 outside the rectenna fenceline (the receiver’s perimeter). These compare with current United States Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) workplace exposure limits for microwaves, which are 10 mW/cm2,[original research?] - the limit itself being expressed in voluntary terms and ruled unenforceable for Federal OSHA enforcement purposes.[citation needed] A beam of this intensity is therefore at its center, of a similar magnitude to current safe workplace levels, even for long term or indefinite exposure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power?wprov=sfla1

Did something happen to you? Like was your mom, sister, granny, father, and/or brother killed?

Russia doesn’t need Ukraine on its own, they need Ukraine to get access Poland, Romania and Moldova.

But why? Poland and Romania are already in NATO. Isn’t that why they’re attacking Ukraine now and Georgia in 2008, to prevent them from joining NATO?

Why did the federal agents back off? Don’t they have the higher authority in this situation?

Yeah what happened to that one out of South Korea?

So ummm, you should probably see this: https://lemmy.world/post/9621277

lol. Okay candybrie, I’m going to break down what could have happened, again.

1. the cinnamon used in the applesauce was somehow grown in soil that contained a ridiculous amount of lead. No conspiracy, just human error.

2. Equipment used in the processing of the cinnamon contained lead. That lead accidentally got into the processed cinnamon. No conspiracy, just human error.

3. Lead was deliberately added to the cinnamon to either increase its weight or alter its color. That’s a thing that happens. Possibly one person, maybe more were involved, but it’s not what most people would consider a conspiracy. It’s just people being lazy, unscrupulous, or greedy.

Don’t take my word for it, here’s a link to a peer reviewed paper measuring lead levels in spices:

Adulteration of spices can occur at any point along the supply chain due to the intentional or inadvertent addition of lead. Lead may be added as a coloring agent, or to add weight for products sold by weight, or it can be introduced because of poor processing equipment; the presence of lead in air, dust, or soil where food is grown or processed can also contribute toward contamination. In addition, poor regulatory controls in some countries can further impact the safety of food supplies.

If you think I’m acting like a conspiracy theorist, then you’re cognitively impaired or trolling. Stop eating lead laced food?

Although true, that has nothing to do with high levels of lead in food products. It’s a totally separate issue.

Okay so I don’t understand what you’re arguing or why. Seems like you’re saying there’s high levels of lead in lots of food, but we don’t know because we don’t test… so how do you know if we don’t test?

I’m saying that levels of lead found in the cinnamon applesauce probably don’t occur just by chance, cuz they were so high they were causing symptoms in children which triggered a recall. That suggests there was more lead present than what naturally occurs. So where’d it come from? The FDA is pretty sure it’s the cinnamon that came from Ecuador, so here are some possibilities:

1. The cinnamon was grown in a lead mine or something and had extremely high lead levels. Kind of doubt that.

2. Introduced during processing by machinery containing lead in its metal components. Possible.

3. Deliberately added to the cinnamon to alter its color or increase its weight. Also possible.

I’m guessing it’s either #2 or #3.

You seem confused

Yeah but not enough to be recalled.

Tangential question: at what point, in the manufacture of applesauce, would lead even come in the vicinity of the product. I just don’t see how unless it was deliberately added.