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It's possible your space isn't federated with those communities yet? You might need to start the link with searching for them using the !instance@web.site command to force your instance to download their pages first.

The study I posted in my initial comment notes how easy it is to reach near lethal levels for a healthy adult (second article, as well as myself, notes that most folks aren't healthy) with the current trend of supplements, powders, and additives in other foods. Other studies have noted that high/toxic levels of caffeine can and does lead to varying types of death, including suicide, but also major cardiovascular issues.

We don't take it seriously enough, but we've always done this. Used to put cocaine in cola too. Regulations just haven't caught up with it yet.

400mg is the upper limit of what a healthy adult should consume in a 4hr period. I can easily crush a Trenta Pink Drink from Starbucks in like, 25mins if I'm thirsty. But not all adults are healthy, in fact, most aren't. If you read my linked article, those drinks alone can cause caffeine toxicity in really short order. Especially for people using Panera to telework or study in a place with decent food, wifi, and free refills who just keep going back for more, unknowing of the danger they're putting themselves in.

It's insidious too, because while stimmed up on caffeine, they'll find they 'work better' when they're in a Panera, thus creating the wholly intentional feedback loop of wanting to work/study there more often.

The issue is simply that, because of the unregulated nature of it, caffeine is working its way into tons of things one might not think to find it. From fruity drinks to candy bars to simple snacks. They're doing this because, as a stimulant, you feel 'good' from consuming it, and it has addictive properties.

But coming from so many sources, many of whom are putting dangerous levels of caffeine in their products (such as Panera Bread with their ~400mg of caffeine in a single large lemonade!! for comparison, a cup of coffee has only ~90mg) with little to no warning or labeling, is literally going to kill people from heart arrhythmia if they have undiagnosed issues or aren't given proper warning.

This is a weird study, or at least article on the study. Basically, "over the counter stimulant still works as a stimulant," was their conclusion, which-- yeah? That's-- that's what stimulants do? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding it here.

If the study aims to get less people to misuse Adderall, great, but I don't know that recommending that folks take caffeine supplements (which are poorly regulated as both supplements and food additives) as a 'safe and effective alternative' is a good idea.

Yeah, admins and mods just need more robust tools to identify and remove ban evaders, escalate issues with troublemakers to their home instance admin, as well as create litmus tests for community participation (i.e. your account must be X days old if from a federated instance to post here) to make it less attractive to relentlessly spam and troll.

Cannot delete the sub but you can nuke the posts, like r/shadowwar did. As long as it's the act of the entire mod team and not one rogue mod, technically Reddit isn't supposed to step in.

Unfortunately, we know that's not going to be the case.

At the moment, I'm fully in support of retaining the defed from shitjustworks, simply because they have an open registration policy and as such, are completely filled to the brim with trolls and other bad actors using their space to harass other people. Right now what's happening is folks are able to make an account on shitjustworks and lemmy.world, go troll other instances to their heart's content, get banned, and then spin up a new account in seconds to do it again.

Lemmy's mod tools aren't very robust at the moment, so defederating from a place that isn't ensuring they have a handle on their own community is the best tool instances have to protect their own community. If either of those places get themselves together properly, I assume there should be no problem refederating with them.

Yes. Many of them. I use Baconreader which predates the official Reddit App by like four years.

Does he have a disease that forces him to lie at every opportunity?

We've had people try to spin up alternates for years and they haven't taken off, except with certain groups of people who can't help but miss the entire point of Star Trek.

The moderators are as much responsible for the community as the platform is. These communities are growing exceedingly fast, and it's not like Lemmy isn't just slightly jankier old.reddit anyway.

The ship looked kitbashed from a Crossfield hull and something else to me. I assume it's a war wreck they salvaged and rebuilt on the moon for this purpose.

The Disco and the Glenn were the two spore drive bearing Crossfield class ships, but I doubt they were the only ones as they could be fit with a normal warp drive too.