I wonder whether government testing actually makes a material difference in food/beverage safety.
For example, when I worked for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, I was surprised to discover that the percentage of imported food/beverage actually tested for safety is very low. Like comically, microscopically, unbelievably low.
In the United States, I suspect concerns over reputation and civil litigation do more to keep our food safe than government testing.
Funding for inspection agencies has been cut again and again, and likewise mandated lab testing, on the basis of industry self regulation and the low number of incidents in commercial production. Many sources will be even more rigorous than we could imagine.
I think that incidents elsewhere have often been caused by substituting expensive taxed industrial ethanol for cheap industrial methanol. Which is an insane thing to do but money is money.
Until another mass poisoning occurs we will continue trusting paperwork.
Loved this piece. Especially that it is written in a Gonzo journalism style, including the author as part of the narrative, like a Hunter S. Thompson essay.
I sanity-checked it with two headshots of the same third party and it swung ~2.5 points, so it seems to capture state (lighting/angle/expression) more than trait.
Then I uploaded my own photo and got an unexpectedly high score, which conclusively validates the model and my rigorous n=2 study.
hahaha yeah you mog
but for the first part; yeah it does take into account the angle, expression stuff, and like at first i was not ok with that but then i realised thats fine. cos like obv photos affect how attractive you look to a very high degree, like in some photos you may look like a 10/10 and in some you may look like at 5. so it should reflect that.
He and one other guy coded this together for a few years. Really good reviews on Steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3057670/Pluto/