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Comment IIRC, it was stoneyfield (Score 1) 183

I think we all agree- for precisely the reason you experienced- that clear labeling is important. I did some quick googling and couldn't find anything like you described (Yogurt in big letters, cashew in small) but if such a thing does exist- it should absolutely be crushed by regulatory agencies for being patently unsafe. I mean frankly, it doesn't even make sense for such a thing to exist. Those who buy cashew yogurt alternative (as I've only ever seen it labeled) are looking specifically FOR that. I certainly hope you didn't invent an anecdote to make your point.

Unfortunately 100% true story. FWIW, it was only puking and crying...no urgent care visit or epi pen...just a gross night with a sad kid and me feeling like a huge ass. I can't find the package either. This was over 2 years ago, so either it's discontinued or not online? My local chain, Market Basket also doesn't have ordering online. I think it was stoneyfield or one of the major brands, but am not confident...it was in a pouch and misplaced with the regular dairy yogurt pouches.

In fairness...if you were looking for it, you would see it. They weren't trying to fraud the customer. Their design just has much bigger yogurt than non-dairy label. No malice on their part, just accidentally bad graphic design. I bought it at the grocery store and my wife missed it as well...she gave it to my daughter.

If you're a parent, you're probably aware. You're in the store, kids are asking to add everything in the cart...usually sugar cereal, candy or something unhealthy with kid-targeted packaging...you have to tell them no 20x and feel like a grumpy jerk stealing their joy. In the case, it was just yogurt...I saw her grab it from the yogurt section and didn't think yogurt wouldn't be dairy.

This is definitely not a cause of mine...just when the EU got their panties in a bunch I thought...yeah...kinda makes sense...probably not in the top 20 of problems facing the EU...but hey, good for them for being able to walk and chew gum at the same time.

Comment Re:No misinformation means misinformation (Score 1) 71

Don't feed the trolls. He's trying to drain moderation points away so that the asshole that posted first about how the evil bad government is censoring misinformation can get their post modded up.

Never mind the fact that we all know it was anti-vaxxers and people claiming Biden stole the election falsely that YouTube pulled off their site and that they only did it because a lot of those people were putting YouTube at risk of being sued for liable by vaccine companies and the companies that build election equipment, with Trump in the White House YouTube isn't afraid of that anymore so they are more than happy to let people push anti-vax lies and more right-wing propaganda.

All of this is completely irrelevant since all we can do is hope Trump doesn't win a third term so we can start fixing the mess these psychopaths and lunatics have created.

Comment Don't read the comments here (Score 0) 33

Cuz if you do you're going to find about half of the old farts that still post around here are on the side of the billionaires.

No I don't know how they got that stupid. I mean yeah I'm sure they ate a lot of lead paint when they were kids but still you would think they would be bright enough to know the billionaires aren't their friends.

Comment This is driven by corporate greed (Score 1) 33

And billionaire lust for power.

In America the Democrat party are freckless administrators. It's frustrating that they aren't more effective at solving problems but that doesn't mean they are in the pocket of the billionaires the way the Republicans are.

Obama for example is only worth about $12 million and Biden I think topped out around 21 million. Meanwhile Donald Trump got a 2 billion dollar bribe from Qatar and a couple more billion from Saudi Arabia not to mention the billions he's getting in the form of crypto bribes.

That's just one example. The Republican party is a wholly owned subsidiary of about 2,000 American billionaires. They're the ones pushing this shit so yeah this is partisan.

You can pretend that's not the case to make yourself feel better but it's not going to protect your privacy or save you from what's coming.

Comment Yeah but the Mayo clinic says (Score -1, Flamebait) 71

Trump fucking kids increased cancer by 1 million percent.

See if you can make up bullshit so can I. The difference is Trump really does fuck kids whereas Vancouver general hospital never said anything you're talking about and vaccines don't cause cancer. For fuck sakes we literally have a vaccine that stops cancer albeit one specific type.

Are you christian? If you are I'm just curious which layer of hell are you going to? Or does your particular sect of Christianity think it's just one generally shared hell that guys like you burn in? Because denying children the vaccines that save their lives is definitely something that's going to get you into hell. Jesus was pretty fucking clear that it is much more difficult to get into heaven than it is to get into hell. And while the Bible certainly isn't uni vocal I think Jesus telling you not to be a dick and kill kids is definitely something consistent.

Comment No misinformation means misinformation (Score 2, Informative) 71

Vaccines work and Trump lost 2020, well I don't want to say fair and square because Trump cheated his balls off in 2020 and still lost but his loss was legitimate. It's just that the cheating wasn't enough then.

Do you really think the billionaires are going to take care of you when you have outlived your usefulness following the next election?

Trump is on track for a third term. You have to know what that means for American politics and democracy.

How much longer do you think Trump is going to cater to your whims? How much wealthier would he be if he took your house and your 401k and you're savings? Do you think a guy with 28 credible rape accusations wouldn't do that?

I know you're planning on dying before Trump comes for you but what if you don't? What if you not only outlive your usefulness but you outlive the savings Trump doesn't manage to steal from you?

I know damn well you've asked yourself that question but you've never said it out loud. You certainly don't like to think about it. What's going to happen when guys like me are no longer protecting you. Because we can't do it anymore because we lost and you won.

When my side, the side on the side of democracy, when we lose once and for all what's really going to happen to you?

I think you know and I think that's why you post the kind of drek you do. It's blustered to cover up your fear. Fear of what you've created and fear of it coming for you before you're safely in the ground rotting.

Comment Capitulating to Trump (Score 1, Flamebait) 71

Everyone knows damn well that Trump and the heritage foundation running America right now are basically Mafia thugs that will come after you if you don't do exactly what they say when they say it.

It's exactly the same kind of government by Mafia the Russians have.

Just like with Hitler complying doesn't really work. They always come back for more. But in America today everything is about this quarter and if you're thinking really far into the future next quarter. So everybody is just hoping to keep Trump from using the Department of Justice to attack them.

I know there are shitload of goons on this forum who are just squealing with Glee watching this happen.

Go pick out your favorite flavor of cat food because that's what you're going to be living off of in 5 years.

You know damn well you are not really part of the club. You are not Trump's equal or his friend. And when he's done with you he's going to come for your property too.

Maybe my side will save you from yourself yet again. But maybe we won't this time. Maybe this time my side is going to lose completely. And deep down in the place you never ever ever like to think about you know damn well what's going to happen if that comes to pass.

Fancy feast? Friskies? Maybe if you're really well off during Trump's third term you can afford Sheba. But I think you should probably have a dry option as a backup.

Comment That won't work (Score 1, Insightful) 33

These laws are being passed everywhere. They are template laws. A large and powerful group, funded by billionaires like Peter thiel, is pushing for this. So the same laws are being passed in every state. Classic think of the children bullshit means they even pass in California and New York.

The real problem I think is that at the end of the day most voters are not going to prioritize privacy over social issues and moral panics.

So if you get behind somebody that supports privacy rights that's all well and good but there's a guy running against that politician who is running on ooga booga gay people or scary or your kids are going to be turned into trans drag queens or Mortal Kombat is going to turn them into frothing lunatics or whatever the hell the current moral panic is.

What you need is people who don't give a flying rat's ass how other people live their lives as long as it doesn't affect them so that we can all focus on actual issues that affect our economic security and our privacy.

The trouble is that well, good fucking luck with that. If I could wave a magic wand and give everybody a hundred IQ points that would solve that but I don't have said magic wand. And there is a huge anti-intellectualism push with a strong attack on higher education AKA college going on right now. So people are not likely to get smarter.

Comment Buyer beware is not a smart strategy. (Score 1) 183

But if she has that kind of allergy then correct me if I'm wrong but even small amounts can trigger it. Meaning you pretty much have to check everything for the phrase about being processed on equipment that process is tree nuts...

"Buyer beware" is not a sustainable strategy. We have labels for reasons and they shouldn't mislead or extend the definition too far. Parents of young children are overextended and it's really unreasonable to expect them to be checking every single item for bait and switches like this. It's like if Target sold a Paw Patrol Sex Toy...a Zuma-shaped dildo...in the toy aisle. Look, if you want to shove silicone molded to look like your favorite paw patrol character in someone's orifice..sounds like a fun night!!!...but keep the sex toys in the sex toys section and clearly label them. Don't call them "Paw Patrol Toy" and then in small print "(for date night)"

Appreciate the concern and with her, it's fairly mild. Her mouth started burning and she puked....everything was OK...not as scary as it sounds. However, if you have kids, you'll know...you just can't be that hypervigilant. Even with my glasses, I can't read every line on most labels....and neither can any young person without a magnifying glass, let alone older adults or the visually impaired. So for people with extreme allergies, yes...they need to do as you said & carry an epi pen everywhere.

But the bigger issue is that we're labeling food with inappropriate labels...Americans are largely fine with it...because the food is typically segregated and so expensive the pricetag alone tells us to avoid fake cheese, before we can taste how horrid it is.

...and European farmers are sick of it. They take more pride in their meat and cheese products and don't want forgeries to be able to use their terms. Is this in my top 100 concerns?...not at all...but I see their point and agree with them. I'm not furious about this, honestly. Annoyed, yes...I'd definitely vote to ban plant-based companies from using established meat names.

As someone who actually relies on controlling what I eat very precisely to keep from looking like a man who earns a living sitting in front of a computer all day, nutrition matters to me. These fake foods are almost always objectively inferior to the foods they're substituting, nutrition-wise. I sympathize with people who have allergies...and say want something in their coffee. However, I am of the opinion that plant-based food is largely like replacing fruit juice with soda...a far inferior and less healthy substitution....and it seems the EU agrees with me.

Comment spotted the non-parent. (Score 1) 183

That sucks that happened to your kid but I'm not impressed by your claims of victimhood here, nor by your outrage that people are daring to make food that you don't approve of.

If your kid has significant food allergies you shouldn't just be assuming things are fine for them without reading the ingredients or you will just end up with more of what you got.

Say "I don't have kids" without saying you don't have kids. First of all, fuck off...no parent can read 100% everything that their children consume, let alone a parent of 2 managing their kids in a grocery store. That's not a realistic standard. Convince someone to procreate with you and you'll see how abysmally stupid of a comment you just made.

If you want to eat mashed cashews....sell it as mashed cashews, don't call it STRAWBERRY YOGURT in large print and "cashew-based" in small print. I shouldn't need perfect eyesight to determine if someone's food product actually is what it says it is. Am I personally outraged?...no...irritated, sure...but mostly at the store for misplacing the item.

However, if the EU wants to say "fuck off...yogurt is from milk and beef is from cows and burgers are from beef"...then that's their right and it makes common sense to me. I wish we had that here, but it's not even in my top 100 of concerns.

Again, I'll put TOFU in the TOFU section with small print saying it's made from lard. I'll make bread that's 50% bacon and sell it as "beyond bread."...does that make sense to you?

Comment Re:Don't expect too much (Score 1) 20

The problem with those integrated graphics is if they are any good intel only ever puts them onto the really expensive chips.

It makes it completely pointless because you're getting at best the performance of a RX 2050 in a $1,200 laptop. You could easily find a laptop at the same price point with discrete graphics and a low end integrated graphic solution on die for when you want to save power.

As an example if I want an arc 140v based laptop it's going to set me back at least $1,100 and I can get an RTX 4050 based laptop for the same price or even a bit cheaper if I'm willing to compromise on the CPU bit and the 4050 absolutely spanks the 140v.

This isn't an Intel specific problem. You run it at the same problem with amd's 780 m integrated graphics.

I know there are use cases where it makes sense but if you're just looking to play some games on a laptop or do video editing supported by a GPU the integrated graphics aren't worth it when you can easily track down laptop with discrete graphics that way outperform the integrated.

On the plus side if you just gets stuck with a laptop at random you might get lucky and get the better integrated graphics. Like if your parents buy you something for school

Comment You're a twat (Score 1) 71

Again you're just trying to bait a conversation to get away from discussing the actual problem which is that our ruling class is destroying capitalism.

It's just so fucking bizarre. I don't understand why you protect billionaires. Are they actually paying you to do this shit or are you this fucking stupid that you spend your free time protecting Bill Gates and Elon Musk so they can take your money in your property?

Anyway better start picking out your favorite flavor of cat food after the billionaires take everything you own. And make sure you have a dry option picked out as a backup because I doubt somebody like you is going to be able to afford anything as luxurious as Fancy feast.

Comment Regulatory compliance fee (Score -1, Troll) 98

To this day that is on my cell phone providers bill. It sounds like a tax doesn't it? It's not it's just money in the pocket of my cell phone provider with a line item designed to look like a tax so you'll get angry and blame the government.

It never ceases to amaze me how easy it is to trick Americans into believing government bad so that ultra wealthy sleaze balls like Elon Musk can suck down hundreds of billions of dollars of our money directly from the government.

And when you see people looking at those sleaze balls they always do the same thing they demand we cut the government even more! Which of course means we cut services to them while increasing services and subsidies to the sleaze balls.

It turns out that no matter how much you don't like being told what to do because you never grew out of that phase back when you were 12 you can't just do away with the government.

What you can do is refuse to take part in the government so that somebody else gets all the government and you get nothing.

Comment Dude you're responding to a troll (Score 2) 71

Anyone who uses the phrase very wealthy leftist is just trolling your ass. There is no such thing as a very wealthy leftist. A left winger will stop bothering to accumulate wealth long before they become a billionaire.

It's the kind of disingenuous bullshit that is designed to derail conversations like the one I'm having here where I'm bringing up the point that the 6,000 or so billionaires on the planet are planning on destroying capitalism.

Honestly I like to bring it up just because it's fun to shock people with that realization. Not saying that it isn't happening it absolutely is but the idea that capitalism could be destroyed by something other than a socialist Utopia is so far outside your average persons thinking that it can be amusing to see people's reactions.

That said as much as I would like our civilization to do something about that coming dystopia I can't see us being emotionally or intellectually capable of doing it.

It's the Dick Cheney effect. Where somebody does something so fucking crazy nobody can believe it's happening. A tactic pioneered by Dick Cheney. People would report on what that fucker did and you would see people reading the report from a reliable news source thinking that can't be possible because people wouldn't let him do that would they?

It's like how people wonder why the Jewish people didn't fight back against the Nazis without actually knowing the history and that they did fight back and they instantly lost because a handful of dudes with guns can't beat a standing police force let alone a standing military.

It's like cosmic horror it's just so far beyond what human beings are capable of grasping that they just kind of pretend it's not a thing or they go a little crazy like I have.

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