No, the product is simply much better. If you pay $2000 for an Apple laptop vs. a PC running Windows or Linux, the Apple laptop will have twice the battery life and be in better physical condition after 3 years of equivalent use.
the demand for non-virgin plastic is practically zero, while the cost is higher
there are no economic incentives to use recycled plastic, and regulation mandating its use is minimal to non-existing. so most plastic that could be recycled isn't, and not because it isn't available/collected/sorted.
It seems though like many of the throwaway plastic containers I can find here like shampoo, water bottles, containers for sauces - NOT the Heinz ketchup bottle in my fridge though (which does say the body is recyclable but the cap is not) mention some percent of recycled plastic contents, from 90% to 20% in the items around me.
So maybe it's more expensive but there seems to be some kind of incentive for these companies, even if it's just marketing.
Yes, processes that are bad for the environment is cheaper. I find that a failing of the capitalist system, not the recycling process. If externalities were properly priced, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
I think you're misunderstanding what I'm saying. I enjoy plenty of non-spicy foods, and don't need every meal to be spicy, nor to I think that the only flavorful meals are spicy meals.
My point is exclusively with chili peppers, as the spice increases so does the flavor. I didn't grow up eating spicy food, and my experience has been that as my spice tolerance has grown overtime I have found access to increasingly wonderful flavors that are simply not present at lower spice levels.
That's interesting, I am curious if it's the capsaicin itself you're tasting directly.
I know I've had hot sauces that were just heat without any kind of real flavor. It's not that I couldn't taste it. I could, I just didn't want any more of it.
It could be quite possible that for a given pepper, the variables that increase the capsaicin also increase the flavor compounds. It is possible to separate out the flavor, I remember reading about Grant Achatz experimenting with it, but you need a rotary evaporator to pull it off.
That isn't how it works, flavor sensitivity is orthogonal to heat sensitivity.
Being desensitized to heat does not desensitize you to flavor. Because of a correlation between heat and flavor diversity in peppers, people desensitized to the heat can taste the more complex range of flavors available in peppers.
There it is! It only took about a dozen posts to attract a fan of the recent trendiness in ultra hot peppers to state that heat lovers have superior taste.
I never stated any such thing nor am I a fan of ultra-hot peppers, but you sure seem insecure about it. What I did state is not controversial. Self-selecting expertise in the qualities of food applies to a great many things we eat. It doesn't have anything to do with "superior taste".
Anyone can learn to eat peppers, most people choose not to. Could swap out peppers for a very long list of other foods and it would still make sense.
If we get anywhere close to that, coming up with a new economics model is going to be the prompt we'll be giving the AGI when it's ready. We'll need it.
The way to make it make sense: there is a large group of people out there who essentially, have failed to launch. They are unemployed or have deadend jobs. They watch tons of internet porn but may have never had sexual intercourse with a woman. They have few or zero real life friends. They are obese or feeble-bodied. They have no real life skills or vital energy. The one way they can feel alive, like a "player character," is by hitting someone, but not in a boxing gym (see above), on the Internet.
The Norm Macdonald tweet isn't "triggering," they've already been triggered and are looking for their next victim. The Norm Macdonald Tweet is like raising your hand and saying "it's me."
Weird stuff about weight and virginity aside, I don't find it reductive to say there are people who have wasted their lives and can't process it well. This is a pretty apt description of a certain demographic on Steam. I've spent time in a lot of clans and it's pretty shocking to find what underachieving people are willing to do to people online if they encourage each other.
VR headsets are already borderline impossible for 90% of the population to operate. Kid gloves / rails experience is the only way normal people can use it.
"Replacing the CEO" isn't a panacea because most CEOs are pretty average, but when an exceptional CEO does take the helm, they can pull off some amazing feats (e.g. Satya Nadella).
I agree that most people are "average" (truism?), and that some are exceptional. And I agree that exceptional people sometimes achieve amazing feats in their field of endeavour. But what's so special about CEOs?
