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It's because it's probably trained with "professional audio", ads, movies, audiobooks, and not "normal people talking". Like the effect when diffusion was mostly trained with stock photos.


I used to drink coca tea a lot when I lived in Argentina where you get it in the supermarket. It's around on par of nicotine as an appetite suppressant for me, as a stimulant I feel caffeine and mate are better for the "stay awake" but coca tea is better for "zoning in", with less of anxiety driving but it's a more single tasked high where interruptions are harder to deal with than with caffeine. Like if I have a lot of meetings I prefer coffee and if I have to code for four hours I prefer coca tea. I used to rotate coffee, mate, and coca tea as a daily driver and having something else on the rotation may have been helping more than that something else being coca tea.


> single tasked high where interruptions are harder to deal with than with caffeine

That comports well with my contemporary and anecdotal understanding of cocaine's most popular effects.


Yes, anyone who’s ever been trapped in a conversation with someone yakked to the gills can tell you all about singleminded focus as an effect of cocaine.


Cocaine in the U.S. is at least 5/10% anfetamines tho, so it's probably worse.


>I used to drink coca tea a lot when I lived in Argentina where you get it in the supermarket.

Really? I've never seen it. Were you in a northern province? Reading the comments I became curious and figured I could probably find it somewhere, but I wouldn't expect to find it in a supermarket.


The Chinese supermarkets all had it, I moved out on 2018 and I think they had it in the Jumbo in Palermo in the section where they had some Peruvian stuff on the back of the store. I can't find it on the online Jumbo store, but Mercadolibre has it.


That's close to the office. I'll have to check. Weird that I've never seen it. I guess I just haven't been paying attention.

Thanks for replying.


I think what they mean (not OP here so just chiming in to to try interpret and answer your question) is that you don't know what you are talking about.


It's good for privacy so media companies probably don't want you to know it exists.


I mean, not with that attitude


I mean, those are the best parties


And here people thought it's LLMs who are statistical parrots...


Same, I got a pack of cigarettes ready to read the apologist comments.


Reddit is a problem only on the popular frontpage subs for people with just-reading or no accounts. If you make an account and read certain subs their algorithm will recommend you the alternate subs that are less astroturfed and the discussion is free from people telling you that there's evidence and reports that don't exist and insult you if you ask for links, or people that say that something says something and post you a link and then you go and it says something else (usually less favorable to Israel). The main subs have been pretty bad with Israel-related news since forever, it's not a new thing, it's that there's more of those news now.


/r/ukpolitics is not a main sub, yet they operate on there as well. It is not very hard to have an alert any time anyone posts a topic with the word "Israel" in the title, coming to mass downvote anything remotely critical of their employer.

Of course on a main sub like /r/worldnews for example, the astroturfing there is even more noticeable and blatant.

You know what makes it even more obvious? How seemingly few Israeli or Jewish people on social media seem to be against the current massacre and/or the Netanyahu government. Of course there are many in the real world, but these dissenting voices are drowned by the massive pro-govt propaganda operation.


Also I think the "we are all Google" borg/hivemind thing plays a part, other companies like Amazon or Apple are organized more like a lot of smaller companies so when people join they have different expectations towards corporate and feedback up and down and internal dissent work different.


Yeah I thought it was a scam. To be fair some of the most ridiculous things they announced when they put up the website, like the IMAX camera with a sensor that would basically take a wafer end to end to cut, didn't come out.


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