Unfortunately, I now have to have doubts about any Japanese longevity associations after many centenarians were found to have been secretly dead. Families were collecting the death benefits and pretending the person was still alive.
> Unless it passes some unknown threshold where it suddenly becomes good enough to suddenly be really popular, they’re still trying to prove relevance.
Depends on what you mean by relevance, 20 million Quest units have been sold which is more than Wii U lifetime sales (13.5 million), and about equals lifetime Gamecube sales and current Xbox Series S/X sales.
I'm sure it's not meeting expectations given how much they have subsidized them and how much they've spent on the metaverse, but I'm not sure I'd say the Quest itself is irrelevant. There's clearly an appetite for it.
The time notification reminds me of a screenless "watch" 10 years ago. It would buzz every 5 minutes as a supposed aid in perceiving the passage of time for various tasks.
Pizza Hut apparently still runs the Book It program, where students earn a free personal pan pizza for meeting a reading goal[1]. There's a lot of nostalgia I have for 90's Pizza Hut in part because of that program. That and the PS1 demo disc they gave out once.
Doesn't look like anything new. AFAIK erythritol is the best of the sugar alcohols and potentially the safest of the sugar substitutes.
Another option that needs to be studied a bit more but seems safe so far is allulose, which is nice for baking since it will actually brown and doesn't have the cooling effect erythritol has.
I subjectively like using allulose, but I don't know the research/theory well. Does it fit into the same "nonmetabolized carbohydrates" category as sucralose?
Garmin Fenix/Forerunner/Instinct meets all of these, though at a significantly higher cost than the pebble. It's worth it for me because I'm into the fitness tracking but hard to justify otherwise.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_diet