Tuesday, March 4, 2025

1129: Hey, Online Retailers!

 Why are you making things harder to access the market for yourselves and also for those who make products to earn living and could need any exposure telling people that they make real thing of value but your star rating forcing on reviews disables that? Why not at least allow the first, like for example 30,  reviews to be without a rating?  

1128: White vs dark oat fiber

  This is about post 1122. I want to mention that the oat fiber I used until it ran out lately was very white, and I have not yet found such white oat fiber. It was a bag of a brand called Naturtonix I bought several years before I started using it regularly, and this brand seems to be no longer available. The issue is with the additional soluble fiber those brownish oat fiber available in the market could have. There is also a difference in taste. That one tasted like paper while I feel like I can even snack on those brownish oat fiber. Also, that one had it written clearly that it is the fiber from just the hull, not just "oat fiber" like what I can find in the market now.    

Sunday, March 2, 2025

1127: "Soccer" vs "Football"

  One may go along with calling world's football as "soccer" here and let the people here keep "football" for their "football". But the fact is that what things are called often play big role in going back to the concepts behind them. As done in the preceding post, I can connect and drive enough to build soccer from calling it "football". But how much of American "football" can be connected to and driven from calling it "football"? Frankly speaking the connection is so week (or even contradictory) that calling it by this name feels like an unheard of crazy meaningless application of a word.