I'm not a native English speaker, so I suspect you are right. However, I'm not finding anything here to support your definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product
> In marketing, a product is an object, or system, or service made available for consumer use as of the consumer demand; it is anything that can be offered to a market to satisfy the desire or need of a customer.
Many individual manga are scanlated by commission, or the patreon model for entire groups. Weird no one else mentioned that. Lots of scummyness in that area, where individuals republish other groups and sell it.
In some cases, pirate sites do have a cost to be able to fund operations and maintain quality, but one way or another, the customer pays something to someone (even if it's just access to internet via their ISP) and receives a product. So yes.
Not the question you asked but to make it clear, I don't mind paying for things. I've had a Crunchyroll premium account for years and I have a whole bookshelf filled with official translations. But sometimes they come years later and you want to actually discuss the series that's going on right now with fellow fans, just like you would for an English book. Or you want to be able to read it at all (see: alphapolis).
Long ago, I downloaded a fansubbed anime series. My sister is interested in anime as a genre and has been interested in watching that series. When I asked her recently why she hadn't already watched it, she said "because it's not on crunchyroll".
In the pirate ecosystem, you can watch what you want to watch. The "legitimate" ecosystem seems to breed learned helplessness.
The worse part is when you see translation rights being bought and then the translator never following through to the end even if I put my money into it. I feel that's why I'm mostly ambiguous to the whole situation on what could be done better. I just know I would not be exposed enough without the pirates.
When it comes to Oatly... It tastes good, but that's because it contains plenty of sugars. You'll notice the difference when you make your own oat milk from oats. It's tastes quite terrible actually.
Oatly adds enzymes to break down the starches to sugar.
So does cow milk. 7g* of added sugar in a cup of Oatly, about 8g of various sugars in a cup of milk. Oatly add the sugar to more closely simulate the flavour of milk, but it tastes about as sweet... and both are way too sweet if you ask me.
*The nutrition profile is a bit more complicated as I think they add enzymes to break down starches in the oats, so you end up with more sugar even though it's not technically "added".
Oatly's primary sugar, maltose, has 2.3 times the blood sugar impact as lactose, the primary sugar in cow's milk. Maltose has a glycemic index of 105, compared to 46 for lactose.[1]
Oatly (and most other oat milks) do NOT "add" any sugar! The sugar in oat milk comes from the starch naturally present in the oats, which is broken down into sugars by amylase enzymes during the production process.
(AFAIK the "added sugars" wording on US Oatly labels is due to a technicality of US labelling laws. It's doesn't say that on European labels.)
> "When it comes to Oatly... It tastes good, but that's because it contains plenty of sugars."
Absolutely, but that's also true of cows milk. The sugars in oat milk are a bit simpler (primarily maltose rather than lactose), which gives a lower glycemic index, but the total sugar content isn't much different.
Either way, if you compare them to something like fruit juice or full-sugar soft drinks, the sugar content is still pretty low.
Even with the slightly lower glycemic index for maltose due to the soluble fiber content, I get more or less the same result for Oatly’s blood sugar impact: a glycemic index of 77 (previously 79) and a glycemic load of 18.4 (previously 19.0) for a 12 oz portion; still about the same blood sugar impact as a 12 oz cola, which has a glycemic index of 63 and glycemic load of 20.8.
Oatly original has 7g of sugar - 1 cup of whole cows milk has 12 g of sugar. So it is still significantly less sugar than cow's milk. I drink planet oat milk, and that only has 4g of sugar and tastes good to me.
Oatly's primary sugar, maltose, has 2.3 times the blood sugar impact as lactose, the primary sugar in cow's milk. Maltose has a glycemic index of 105, compared to 46 for lactose.[1]
Ok, but if Oatly is 100% maltose, it has only a slightly higher glycemic index than cow's milk. But the aforementioned planet oat is still lower(assuming it is 100% maltose)
I double-checked the amount of sugar in milk and in my area, Netherlands, all milk (whole or not) contains less than 5g of sugar per 100g. While Oatly has indeed about 7g per 100g. So it's quite the opposite, oatly has significantly more sugar with higher glycemic index.
The US nutrition label lists sugars per serving, which is 240ml. So according to the US rules it's 7g sugar per 240ml, not per 100g (or 100ml).
The US Oatly label lists "Total Carbohydrate 16 g, Includes 7 g added sugars" per 240ml.
The UK Oatly label lists "Carbohydrate: 6.6 g, of which sugars: 4.0 g" per 100ml. Pretty sure the Netherlands product and label is the same as the UK one.
Is that not a good thing? Starches break down into sugars in the body anyway and presumably have similar deleterious effects on the liver. May as well enjoy tasting them.
It is not, timing matters. It takes some time for starches to break into sugar therefore the release of sugars is not spiking. Glycemic index was created to show a difference between good and bad carbs.
> but in order to get a 'complete' desktop experience you kinda have to opt-in to GNOME/KDE which are trying to do the same things as Apple or Microsoft, aesthetically speaking.
This is so true and that's why I deep inside mourn the end of this UI era.
My recommendation to anyone having difficulties getting started or finding interesting people: try to find a small instance that suits your interests.
Mastodon got so much better for me when I left the generalist instances. I now see my instance as a micro community with the ability to connect to a greater community.
Each instance has a local (instance) timeline and a federated timeline in addition to one's own personal timeline. The local timeline only shows posts from accounts on that instance. The federated timeline shows posts from all accounts followed by at least one user on the instance.
So these two timelines can be dramatically different and they're a big factor in account discoverability and the "feel" of an instance.
Of course you can go out and follow ~anyone from ~anywhere, and that's the Fediverse's killer feature, but the more local content matters too.
Because there is no algorithm news feed, finding new people to follow across the whole fediverse can be a challenge. If you instead find an instance that aligns with your interests, you can easily find other people on the same instance by looking at the Local feed.
Also it is not 100% true that every post bubbles to every instance because instance admins can blacklist other instances.
> Are the Scandinavians so bored that they find the dashcam of a train amusing?
Or so at peace with life (knowing that we can get free healthcare and education if or when we need it) that we can find beauty in simple things, like moose migrating. ;-)
Product? Are they sellings these files?