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Hey @NetworkChuck when can we expect a @bot video from you? You have a real talent for making this stuff approachable to us normies. I just got my first bot set up on the weekend but I would love to see your take and insights on it.
The whole issues with food and nutrition is no one knows what is objectively true and what is a misconception. It seems Every topic has competing and conflating studies and experts decrying their sect of food facts and telling you everyone else is misinformed, uninformed or flat out lying. All further complicated by the fact that nutrition is heavily subjective to your body/genetics.
This information is good but just as useless as everything else already out there without more context and individual application.
The citric acid in your food is grown on a black mold. Pfizer figured out how to mass produce it and it's how Pfizer learned to make penicillin.
Nearly all of it, about 2 million tons a year, comes from a fungus called Aspergillus niger fed sugar in steel tanks. The mold eats the sugar and gives off citric acid. The acid gets filtered off, crystallized and sold as a white powder. A Pfizer chemist named James Currie got it running at scale in 1919, and by 1939 a pound had gone from $1.25 to 20 cents. The deep tanks Pfizer built for citric acid are the ones it used for penicillin in 1941, when it was the only company making it by fermentation.
About 60% of it is made in China, and the US has had tariffs on Chinese citric acid since 2009 at the request of ADM, Cargill and Tate & Lyle.
Sprite, Gatorade, Hunt's tomatoes, Kraft mac and cheese, Pillsbury frosting and the liquid eggs on a hotel line all have it. It's the most used acid in food because it's cheap, it's sour, it keeps cut fruit from browning, and it holds pH where bacteria don't grow.
A 2018 paper described 4 people who reported joint pain and swelling after eating foods with manufactured citric acid, but the authors wrote that nothing had been proven. No large scale controlled study has been run since.
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The full video is now live on @YouTube!
A big thank you to @larsmoravy, @EricETesla, and the rest of the Tesla team for taking the time to walk us through the Cybercab and share the engineering, design, and technology behind it.
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First signs of Toronto's futuristic elevated subway line are now visible
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This will be a big one
We can’t wait to share this one with you! Tomorrow, we’re taking a deep dive into the @Tesla Cybercab, exploring the engineering, design, and technology behind it.
Stay tuned!
Oh really?! Where is the news on this?
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Hey @grok, what EXACTLY just happened in Canada, why is it such a big deal, and what are most people MISSING about it?
Not only does he have a neuralink implant but he also has the cleanest fucking J’s on the planet!
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