“This is you as an old man. I’m ugly and dead alone.”
“This is you as an old man. I’m ugly and dead alone.”
Is there an app? I use Voyager and Sync for Lemmy.
At this point, I’d also just say Ender 3 printers. You can get them for a hundred bucks now. They’re not as fancy as the newer 3d printers with auto-leveling, remote printing, dual extruders, etc. But they get the job done just fine.
Sapiens and Homo Deus are both such good books. Lots of little anecdotes like that we’re just so fascinating.
I feel like that’s good advice for reasonably intelligent people. But it’s kind of a slippery slope, especially for people that are dumb as shit. For example, my neighbor became a hard antivaxxer during COVID.
She mistrusted everything that was actually science, assuming that she since she didn’t understand what qualified professionals were saying, they must be wrong. But if someone could make a simple (even if incredibly wrong) argument on YouTube, she’d eat that shit up.
I just did the math and that’s the equivalent to a little more that 3 and a half Chipotle burritos. I can’t imagine trying to flush that down my toilet.
Godspeed
The Lemmy no poop challenge memes were when I realized this was where I belonged.
Y’all need to pay some Kerbal Space Program. It’ll teach you more about orbital mechanics than a physics degree and a job at NASA (according to XKCD). The only problem is, once you have this knowledge, a lot of sci fi becomes annoying.
There are videos of people reacting to hearing Megadeth’s Holy Wars… the Punishment Due for the first time. I enjoy the song, but I first heard it when I was probably like 10 and don’t really remember the first time. Would be fun to hear it with a fresh pair of ears.
Example reaction video: https://youtu.be/sh8wxc4tctE
That was a really fun book to listen to. He narrates the second one as well, but it didn’t capture lightning in a bottle the same way.
Probably shouldn’t mention that if you get asked about how you got started at your kid’s school career day.
Damn that was impressive! Also, I’ll have to let my little brother know that if he keeps beating his meat so much he might accidentally cook it.
Yeah you’re right. I stuck to the old askreddit rule of not adding clarifying text and put it in my comment instead. That kind of gets buried though. My bad.
I like that name. Deformulation definitely implies that the change was not made for the benefit of the consumer.
Well said. Skimpflation describes exactly what I’m talking about. It’s subtle, because they’re banking on the fact that people won’t notice immediately and then will gradually accept the new recipe. Probably the same reason that people remember Cadbury Cream Eggs being better when they were kids - and a million other tiny things.
“Hey boss, we took the fish out of our fish sticks like you asked.”
“Great job, Johnson. Slap a “Great new taste” sticker on it and call it a day.”
I think it’s different enough from shrinkflation that it needs its own name. My gripe specifically was with Naked Juice, where if it was just being sold in a smaller bottle, I would buy more. But the recipe has actually changed to a point where I don’t want to drink it at all now, because it’s just not the same.
From an article linked above, my emphasis added, this is different because consumers are less able to protect themselves from it by being informed:
“We have long observed shrinkflation and bad value for money maxi packs,” Laura Clays, spokesperson for consumer protection organisation Test Achats, told The Brussels Times. “However, these tactics were mainly dubious from a financial point of view. This is still unacceptable, but consumers were able to protect themselves by keeping an eye on the price per unit.”
She stressed that in the case of “cheapflation”, the consumer is left more or less powerless. “This tactic is really about what people are ingesting, which is even more sneaky. While this will likely not have major health effects, eating less fishy fish sticks is definitely not a healthier meal option, so that’s not ideal.”
Yeah. I was having trouble finding exactly what I was looking for by googling “Naked Juice watered-down”. I did find something else that suggested specifically what I was seeing with Naked Juice described as Applejuiceification. But that doesn’t seem as versatile to describe other food products.
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