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Science of Cooking

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We're focused on cooking and the science behind how it changes our food. Some chemistry, a little biology, whatever it takes to explore a critical aspect of everyday life.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Indeed, profit is the only motive and everything else is an accident. People attribute positive effects to capitalism in the same way horoscopes work.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Sure capitalism might breed efficiency and innovation, well except for when it breeds monopolies, and price fixing rackets, and wage theft, and outsourcing, and enshittification, and horrible pollution, and anti unionization propaganda, and... Wait I forget what point I was going to make.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It very efficiently gets someone else rich!