Interesting comments here. I've never lived in a time when there weren't news stories about food recalls. I don't think they can be used as data, though. They don't tell me anything about wether the US food supply is worse than it was last year, or 10 years ago, or if its standing in the world is rising or falling.

Are we not interested in science and reason here?

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arjie a day ago | parent | next [-]

The site is fairly politically polarized. However it is not a very large subset participating. Strategically blocking users using a Chrome extension can help you maintain epistemic hygiene. The comments section I see is much sparser and much less prone (though not immune) to human impersonation of robots.

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vict7 a day ago | parent [-]

i.e. create a personal bubble to avoid being exposed to alternative points of view. We’ve seen how well that has been working out.

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arjie a day ago | parent | next [-]

I enjoy forums, so I prioritize spam filtering to preserve signal to noise. Others may prefer to read every cialis ad. I think these two extremes and everyone in between can coexist on the same forum, but in order to do so it helps to have adequately tuned filters customizable on a personal level. In more detail if you care to: https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Overmod#Philosophy

I was primarily motivated to do this by repetitive commentary which is indistinguishable from bot content, and I continue to be motivated by this.

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xboxnolifes a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Curating your news is part of healthy media consumption. You literally connect consume all news. There is too much, and once you find an unreliable source, its generally best avoided.

	▲	vict7 a day ago \| parent [-]
		I agree with you. I simply took umbrage with the characterization of other human beings with different points of view as “bots”. It’s really no different than the cringy characterization of other humans as “NPCs” often spouted by children. That thinking indicates a sort of complex that is very off-putting. Given that, this person would likely benefit from exposure to alternative viewpoints instead of further insulating themselves.

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mrguyorama a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's Friday, so probably a lot of the more well adjusted human beings are a little busy living life.

But yeah, good god people are being absurd.

However, there was similar absurdity a couple years ago, when an article about Costco having to dump a truckload of butter because it was mislabled, with everyone coming out of the woodwork to decry it as obvious government waste making us all poorer.

Which was insane of course. It was one truckload, just like here, and improperly labeled, just like here.

The US system takes the sanctity of product labeling extremely seriously, because the intent is that you can trust the label, and therefore make informed free market decisions! Strictly regulated labeling is a great way to reduce the information asymmetry between producer and consumer, and help keep a market competitive!

The reality is that nobody here is any better or worse than the average on any website that doesn't make you take a test before you can post. That was always true, but it's getting a little noisy. Notice how there is in fact pushback in this comments section to those running wild with assertions and bullshit, and those comments are getting downvoted to oblivion.

That is new and utterly toxic.

How many in this comment section even noticed that this is not safety related?

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vict7 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Are you familiar with the concept of cause and effect? Are you aware of any major changes to these agencies in the past couple years?

I’ll leave the rest as an exercise to you.

inb4 correlation is not causation.

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xboxnolifes a day ago | parent | next [-]

Let's see some stats on frequency of recalls over the years rather than relying on perfectly reliable human perception and never biased news headline frequency.

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vict7 a day ago | parent [-]

That is a perfectly reasonable request.

Is it reasonable to trust statistics provided by the current administration?

	▲	xboxnolifes a day ago \| parent [-]
		Do we need statistics by the administration? Look at the numbers of FDA recalls. And if you think recalls are happening less often, look for food poisoning cases too.

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