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Trickflation (lemmy.world)
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[–] 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Maybe you want to have a cup of tea instead? Way more cheap and healthy. Or buy some off-brand soda. It is just as much garbage as coca cola but at least it's cheap.

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  • [+] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes, of course. Preferably tap water.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    In America? Maybe not the best idea. Especially if you're in, say, Jackson, Mississippi.

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/in-jackson-the-tap-water-is-back-but-the-crisis-remains

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    What's the point of this comment? 99% of counties in the US have safe drinking water and the few that don't get called out for it like this. This is probably a better situation than most countries - including yours

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Where did you get that 99% figure from? Because I suspect you made it up.

    Especially since:

    One-fourth of Americans currently receive water from a source that violates the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Safe Drinking Water Act.

    https://www.multipure.com/purely-social/science/top-10-states-worst-public-water-ratings-united-states/

    More information:

    https://www.science.org/content/article/millions-americans-drink-potentially-unsafe-tap-water-how-does-your-county-stack

    And then there are the substances which municipal water supplies don't even need to get out of their water-

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_water_quality_in_the_United_States#Substances_for_which_there_are_no_federal_standards

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  • [+] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm pretty sure that wasn't my point what with my link being about tap water. The thing the person I was replying to was talking about.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What? No no no. Clearly soda is the healthy option. You can never be too cautious.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Got it. You're totally ignoring my point that water straight from the tap is too unsafe to drink in multiple U.S. municipalities and are just trolling. Have fun with that.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I agree soda dependence isn't a good thing, but there's not much evidence diet soda is any less healthy than tea.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Diet soda contains sweeteners that are suspected to cause cancer. Granted, you'd have to drink a couple of liters of diet soda a day before you need to be seriously concerned, but tea has one big advantage: It contains as much sugar or sweeteners as you add to it, so there's that.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    suspected to cause cancer

    Except there's been a ton of reasearch on it and the best/worst they can come up with is "results are inconclusive".

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I am not discussing if soda of any kind is more unhealthy than tea or not. You can drink as much soda as you want. Just don't bullshit yourself or anybody else. You only have one argument: "I like soda, don't take away my soda from me." It is not a good argument but it is all you've got.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Wait a minute are you telling me that their isn't a sugar fairy dumping copious amounts of sugar into my tea when I turn around?!?

    Please tell me it ain't so. Then I might actually have to take accountability for my actions and I can't do that.

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