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Quite informative, and a laundry list of flavor names/chemicals that sound far more dangerous than they taste. Interesting find is vinegar, which might have offered a small germ-fighting benefit and given Coca Cola the 'medical' qualities it initially sold for...

The ingredients he uses are not necessarily what CC uses, but they're just a way to replicate the flavor profile. Notably he lacks the coca extract so he has to make up for it.

I think that the cocaine was the origin of its medical debut.

Cola nut also contains caffeine, so quite an energy drink between the two.

It was a reformulation from a popular drink where wine was infused with coca leaves and kola nuts, popular with Pope Leo XIII who appeared on poster advertisements for it. (and many others)

Georgia passed prohibition and coca-cola was an invention to replace the now banned beverages.


Is that tonic wine? Like buckfast?

Same kind of thing as Buckfast, long out of production but somebody tried to revive it a decade ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin_Mariani

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mariani_pope.jpg


I was surprised to see nausea meds for kids that's phosphoric acid and sugar...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose/fructose/phosphoric_ac...


I thought it was well known that Coca Cola contained phosphoric acid. It's one of the reasons why it's so bad for your teeth.

It's explicitly listed as an ingredient, even.

Forgive my ignorance, but how many times a day does the news come on in Germany? In the US it's nearly constant...


With "german 8 pm news" they mean the main edition of the television news on the first channel which exists since 1952. there can be 20 editions per day.

the main edition is so influencial, the evening programm (prime time) on many other german television channels starts at 8:15 pm. in the 90s they tried to start the main program at 8 pm, but the people only switched to the channels at 8:15 pm, when the main edition was finished. so they reverted their schedule after a month.

> At 20:00 each evening, Das Erste (The First), Germany's oldest public television network, airs the country's most-watched news broadcast, the main edition of the Tagesschau, which is also simulcast on most of its other specialist and regional channels (The Third). The conclusion of the bulletin 15 minutes later marks the beginning of prime time, as it has since the 1950s. In consequence, most other channels—public and private alike—also choose to start their prime time at 20:15. In the 1990s, the commercial channel Sat.1 suffered a significant loss of audience share when it tried moving the start of its prime time to 20:00.

via: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_time#Germany


Very! I saw the distant galaxies spin.


www.awebsiteyouwillnevergoto.org


No doubt that's her motive, and it'll probably happen sooner than you imagine. I do not think her music will stand the test of time like the Beatles, however.


Upvote for Porkbun, who clearly doesn't do this type of 'selling searches', as I have 2 or 3 domains in my 'register someday' list at PorkBun, and they remain unregistered years later...


I think most folk would gladly shorten their lifespan by decades for a million dollars today - the ultimate sacrifice for future generational wealth? Not that a million gets you anything substantial anymore...


Ya the issue is you shorten your lifespan up front by playing from a young age, but only have a small chance of actually getting the generational wealth. Typically, this a sacrifice your parents make for you on your behalf because they sign you up before you really know the downsides and by the time you can know the downsides, you've got your head too many times to be able to figure out the downsides.


Ding! This exactly. Not every web page is best expressed in Markdown (or text for that matter). I post galleries of photos, weird web experiments, tutorials with inline photos, and other odd stuff that never fits in this 'automate my .md files to www' workflows everyone seems to love.

Write the html once, and it's good forever, really. Everything can be permalinked with authority. No reason to 're-render' your site again and again because you want to change the user interface - both of those are handled by CSS and JS.

You need to edit? Load up your FTP editor and work on the html file live, like a leet hacker! ...but I do succumb to using S3 due to its low monthly cost for hosting my 13gb 'personal' website. Too many hosted audio files...


They're making it a forced upgrade so they can charge more for email accounts. +$2/user/month is what they want for Gemini.


I had this very issue. My old computers don't support the 4K monitor I bought (or at least, at a respectable resolution, and not stretched 1080p)


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