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A lot of gluten free labeling seems ridiculous but it's important if you actually have celiac disease. Even stuff like plain vegetables can end up with gluten on them if they do something like use wheat flour to prevent things from sticking together on the packaging line, and things that seem like plain meats can have glazes that contain gluten.
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Apparently some paper straws aren't safe for people with celiac disease.
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Oct 20, 2020 22:08
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One of my friends daughters went full vegan because she has celiac really bad and apparently vegan options have waaaay lower odds of surprise gluten like that.
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InediblePenguin posted:
I always have the same nitpick about the term "organic". Like, oh great, this cucumber is made out of organic molecules? As opposed to inorganic ones like rocks and metals? Excellent, that sounds like it tastes much better, thanks.
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Oct 21, 2020 11:50
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Triarii posted:I always have the same nitpick about the term "organic". Like, oh great, this cucumber is made out of organic molecules? As opposed to inorganic ones like rocks and metals? Excellent, that sounds like it tastes much better, thanks. "Organic" labels in the US are a joke anyway, and pretty much just exist to double the price of the same products.
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Oct 21, 2020 13:02
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Iron Crowned posted:"Organic" labels in the US are a joke anyway, and pretty much just exist to double the price of the same products.
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Oct 21, 2020 13:40
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WHY don't they sell coffee crisp in the US
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Marie Callender microwave meals have had various stickers on them saying poo poo like "now with 33% MORE" and "now with EXTRA FLAVOR" for decades and none of it means anything and nobody's ever done anything about it because advertising execs somehow managed to con brands into thinking that poo poo works instead of just being annoying Edit: Brands banking on baby's first psychological trickery to sell their product is my pet peeve. poo poo like pricing things at ".99" and pretending a smaller package is a totally new product and so on. Attempting to manipulate people into buying your product through psychological deceit should be illegal. In some saner countries than the US it already is. CJacobs has a new favorite as of 16:57 on Oct 22, 2020 |
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Oct 22, 2020 16:47
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CJacobs posted:Attempting to manipulate people into buying your product through psychological deceit should be illegal.
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Oct 22, 2020 17:15
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i think most products should be generically packaged
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Oct 22, 2020 17:23
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Tiggum posted:That's basically impossible to regulate. You can make specific tactics illegal but unless you're going to mandate that all products be sold in uniform packaging and not advertise (like with cigarettes) there's always going to be room for psychological trickery. You're right, some of it will have to be phased out of society like the ".99" thing, but you act as if it's impossible for a committee or commission to exist to check for fairness in advertising. edit: Pretending like it's an unfeasible task is part of the problem. "Why change it when it'd be just so darn difficult?" The reason why is because brands deserve zero space in your head and zero control over society. An advertising company shouldn't have the right to call you ugly, or imply you will fall behind socially without their product, or spend half the commercial listing the negative effects of medicine being hocked (or sell medicine on TV at all what is that poo poo what the hell). That ability should be taken away from them yesterday, and with strict adherence. It's been getting worse for decades and it will continue to get worse from an ethical standpoint until someone drives a millions-of-dollars-in-fines-shaped nail into it to keep it in place. CJacobs has a new favorite as of 17:54 on Oct 22, 2020 |
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Oct 22, 2020 17:40
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I'm all for all products being packaged like in Repo Man
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Oct 22, 2020 17:50
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FreudianSlippers posted:I'm all for all products being packaged like in Repo Man gently caress yeah. You can no longer call your product "Lemonade Drink" unless it has actual lemons in it. You'd better call it "Lemon-Flavored Artificial Soft Drink" or face the consequences buster.
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CJacobs posted:You're right, some of it will have to be phased out of society like the ".99" thing, but you act as if it's impossible for a committee or commission to exist to check for fairness in advertising.
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How about you don't go right for the strawman for once and actually engage in a discussion? There is a very big difference between manipulation and exploitation. You're thinking more about the former I feel. Advertisement without exploitation is absolutely possible- it'd be mainly about getting rid of cynicism in my opinion. See the push in recent years for more body positivity in clothing or underwear ads. Yes you could consider that a different type of exploitation because it's essentially using social progress as a vehicle to claim that the company actually cares about such a thing (they do not) but the difference is that you're not shamed into the idea of buying the product. Intentionally exploiting physical weaknesses, fears, and insecurity is what I'm mostly talking about eliminating. edit: And yes, the ".99" thing counts as that, because the goal is to trick you into believing you are getting a better deal when you aren't. It's a lie. CJacobs has a new favorite as of 18:15 on Oct 22, 2020 |
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Oct 22, 2020 18:10
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CJacobs posted:Advertisement without exploitation is absolutely possible
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Unironically here for forcing every brand to turn into no-name
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Oct 22, 2020 18:17
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All hot dogs are now Bar S Hot Dogs
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Yellow brand is objectively better than brown brand
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Oct 22, 2020 18:42
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:gluten free bacon Skittles are fat free!
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FreudianSlippers posted:I'm all for all products being packaged like in Repo Man I hope he gives them time to settle before he opens those.
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Oct 23, 2020 04:01
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calendars/teaching materials etc where the first day of the week is sunday its monday
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Shibawanko posted:calendars/teaching materials etc where the first day of the week is sunday ARE there week/month calendars that display weeks as other than Sunday - Saturday? I don't think I've ever seen one in the wild.
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docbeard posted:ARE there week/month calendars that display weeks as other than Sunday - Saturday? I don't think I've ever seen one in the wild. I got a Star Wars calendar for Christmas last year that does Monday-Sunday, it took like 3 months to get used to it.
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Oct 23, 2020 13:38
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The calendar on my Aussie Windows 10 install is Mon - Sun. The one on my ipad and iphone is Sun - Sat by default for Australia but you can change it to start any day of the week you want. Maybe I should start my week on a Thursday.
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Oct 23, 2020 13:43
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I don’t understand why christians have their sabbath on Sunday but so many of them start their weeks that day. On the first day, God was really hungover in the limitless void. On the second day, God said “Let there be light”...
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Oct 23, 2020 14:10
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I hate it when people don’t even try to flatten boxes before putting them in the recycling bin. Even halfassedly stomping on them would be something. I almost had to carry my recyling back home yesterday because someone did this 
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Oct 24, 2020 00:35
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Hats in restaurants make me go all Tony soprano. Just so classless. But rather than go over to them and pant angrily until they take it off, I just stay at my table and pant angrily at my wife and nothing happens??
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Oct 24, 2020 00:54
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I keep seeing people putting the dollar sign after the number: like 20$ instead of $20. Small thing but it really annoys me. You've been seeing prices everywhere, all the time, your whole life. How does your brain completely ignore a lifetime of information and put the dollar sign at the end?
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Wile E. Toyota posted:I keep seeing people putting the dollar sign after the number: like 20$ instead of $20. Small thing but it really annoys me. You've been seeing prices everywhere, all the time, your whole life. How does your brain completely ignore a lifetime of information and put the dollar sign at the end? This is how it is in some languages that aren't English
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Oct 24, 2020 03:57
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Wile E. Toyota posted:I keep seeing people putting the dollar sign after the number: like 20$ instead of $20. Small thing but it really annoys me. You've been seeing prices everywhere, all the time, your whole life. How does your brain completely ignore a lifetime of information and put the dollar sign at the end? Same but opposite with percentages. They're written wrong at least %10 of the time.
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I hate standard english capitalization rules and think they’re ugly. I refuse to use them online. “Kingdom of England” is a proper noun, fine. “I hosed the english king,” lowercase.
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Killingyouguy! posted:This is how it is in some languages that aren't English 20$ feels better even as a native English speaker because you don't say dollars 20.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I hate standard english capitalization rules and think they’re ugly. I refuse to use them online. Wow, you hosed him lowercase? That's hard core. Best I could do was gently caress the QUEEN all caps :P
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Oct 24, 2020 08:01
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i dont think months and days of the week should be capitalized
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Oct 24, 2020 08:01
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docbeard posted:ARE there week/month calendars that display weeks as other than Sunday - Saturday? I don't think I've ever seen one in the wild.
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Wile E. Toyota posted:I keep seeing people putting the dollar sign after the number: like 20$ instead of $20. Small thing but it really annoys me. You've been seeing prices everywhere, all the time, your whole life. How does your brain completely ignore a lifetime of information and put the dollar sign at the end? Yeah as a non-american I would write 20$, because that's both how we say it and also how we write it for our currency. Do you know if there's a reason you put it before?
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Oct 24, 2020 09:51
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saturday and sunday are called the weekend. god rested on sunday because he was all tired from making the world. sunday is clearly the last day for a bunch of reasons, who would even think of making it the first
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Oct 24, 2020 11:55
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Yeah well I poo poo myself on a thursday and I dont see anyone rearranging the week around my business
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Shibawanko posted:saturday and sunday are called the weekend. god rested on sunday because he was all tired from making the world. sunday is clearly the last day for a bunch of reasons, who would even think of making it the first hmm are there any people in the world do you think who have sabbath on Saturday
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