Life's great mysteries (things that make NO sense)

[gleem]

Sometimes you see a news article that grabs your attention mainly because it makes a statement where you say wait, what? “I don’t get it.” Much of these are political, but luckily, there are still some left for this thread

I read an article about the FDA’s having different regulations for red dye No. 3, not allowed in cosmetics but allowed in food. That made no sense. Sometimes there are good reasons for seemingly weird news since you just don’t have enough information or background about it. The FDA has different divisions, e.g., cosmetics and food, and that seems to be the root cause of the issue See https://www.consumerreports.org/hea...metics-but-still-allowed-in-food-a3467381365/

Recently Elon Musk disbanded the Supercharger department of Tesla. OK but why, isn’t the Supercharger system the gold standard for EV charging? Musk says that he did this because he wants to concentrate on reliability, and expand existing facilities but expand the network more slowly. But why the whole department?

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[gleem]

Regarding red dye No. 3, It has finally been banned in foods in the US by the FDA.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/ot...n&cvid=f2b28083f50b498aafb2be4e08d1614c&ei=11

 

[phinds]

I seem to recall that some form of red dye was banned in the USA many years ago, but I don't remember if it had a number attached to it.

EDIT: a quick search turned up

• Banned: Red No. 2 (1976)
• Restricted: Red No. 3 (1990)

 

[gleem]

I seem to recall that some form of red dye was banned in the USA many years ago, but I don't remember if it had a number attached to it.

see post 351

 

[phinds]

see post 351

yes, that's what started this discussion about red dye. What's your point?

 

[gleem]

What's your point?

I thought you might have been thinking of its banning in cosmetics.

 

[WWGD]

IIRC it was often found in the list of ingredients in candies.

 

[DaveC426913]

And how could anybody forget when Red Dye No.5 was found in Red Razberry Zingers!

 

[phinds]

I thought you might have been thinking of its banning in cosmetics.

Yeah, that was the
Restricted: Red No. 3 (1990)

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I wonder how much different history would be if nobody drank alcohol.

Makes no sense: Leaders making crucial decisions while drinking. I wonder how many wars might have been avoided.

 

[phinds]

I wonder how much different history would be if nobody drank alcohol.

It would be WAY more bloody, especially in Ireland and Scotland

 

[Ivan Seeking]

It would be WAY more bloody, especially in Ireland and Scotland

Way more? Maybe all the booze helps drive the wars. Booze makes many people aggressive and violent.

If everyone smoked weed instead of drinking booze, would they bother or remember to show up for wars?

 

[collinsmark]

I wonder how much different history would be if nobody drank alcohol.

I've given this some thought, I and think the world, and even mankind's physical evolution, would be significantly/measurably different. Maybe not wildly different, but measurable.

And I'm speaking physical evolution, aside from the obvious cultural evolution.

I posit that the cultivation of alcoholic beverages may be one of the most profound, man-made influences on human evolution: up there with fire.

My speculation is based on the alcohol's eons-long running application to human reproductive habits.

(This is all speculation, of course.)

 

[BillTre]

I've given this some thought, I and think the world, and even mankind's physical evolution, would be significantly/measurably different. Maybe not wildly different, but measurable.

And I'm speaking physical evolution, aside from the obvious cultural evolution.

I posit that the cultivation of alcoholic beverages may be one of the most profound, man-made influences on human evolution: up there with fire.

My speculation is based on the alcohol's eons-long running application to human reproductive habits.

(This is all speculation, of course.)

There is also issues of water supply, disease control, and nutrition.

 

[gleem]

I wonder how much different history would be if nobody drank alcohol.

Makes no sense: Leaders making crucial decisions while drinking. I wonder how many wars might have been avoided.

Hitler did not drink much if at all taking only low alcoholic beer occasionally. The Third Reich frowned on excessive drinking.

From the article

A sober Reich? Alcohol and tobacco use in Nazi Germany​

Abstract​

Alcohol and tobacco use did not fit well with National Socialist aesthetics. However, these substances were not proscribed in Nazi Germany in spite of the heavy penalties for excessive use: Alcoholics were sterilized, and smoking by children was a criminal offense. This article argues that the great demand of the German people for these products prevented the authoritarian regime from alcohol and tobacco prohibition but measures were taken by the Nazis to reduce tobacco and alcohol consumption in the next generation.