People forget too that Ogopogo is a HUGE part of the tourist component there, just like Nessie in Scotland.

https://www.tourismkelowna.com/plan/about-kelowna/history/ogopogo/

https://www.tourismkelowna.com/blog/post/the-legend-the-spirit-the-creature-the-history-of-ogopogo/

https://similkameenvalley.com/directory-listings/listing/ogopogo-tours-1/

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g616300-d8672913-Reviews-Ogopogo_Tours-Summerland_Okanagan_Valley_British_Columbia.html

I really want nothing but the best for the region which so closely identified with Ogopogo.

Not a joke, first thing I thought of when I saw Okanagan Lake.

“Okanagan Lake Resort was consumed in the fire.”

Man, I hope Ogopogo is OK!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogopogo

Where does lemmy.one sit? That’s where I made my account because a) it didn’t seem to matter and 2) I was told that lemmy world and lemmy.ml were under stress due to the reddit shenanigans.

Saccharine (Sweet 'n Low) was the big scare back then.

It turned out it did cause cancer… in rats… if you force fed them some crazy amount like 400x normal.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/diet/artificial-sweeteners-fact-sheet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3185898/

“humans would need to drink the equivalent of 800 twelve-ounce diet sodas with saccharin daily to reach the carcinogenic doses that induced rat bladder cancer.”

We need all sorts of new legal definitions now:

🤔🤮🖕💩😆🥰🤢🥲😜😡🤬🥶🤡🥸

There are other sources for this article out there, but this was the best one I could find where the headline specified “Canada”.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/07/business/farmer-contract-thumbs-up-emoji/index.html

Colloquially termed “forever chemicals” because they don’t break down or degrade, just accumulate…