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I miss the days when, no matter how slow your internet was, if you paused any video and let it buffer long enough, you could watch it uninterrupted

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sm-baby
Anonymous asked:

giving u $5 in exchange for the promise of a tbh who says sth like "i promise i am eating a real meal" (so that i can send it to friends who r worried about my eating habits lol)

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i wonder if this is all a plot for elon to inflate the views of his own tweets

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chongoblog

I actually suspected this considering my suspicion for why I think he implemented it in the first place

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modordracena

If a character (in a high stress situation with minimal information) makes a different decision than you would (a viewer with no stress and more information) —

That is not a plot hole. Thank you.

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This is the hot coffee case all over again isn’t it

No it isn't. The hot coffee case involved an elderly woman getting 3rd degree burns (where your skin is cooked off of your body) because a McDonalds served coffee at just about boiling, despite having many complaints about burns in the past. Also, the woman suing only asked for medical costs, the jury slapped a huge punitive judgement on top of that.

Yeah that’s what I mean. Like is this case really what’s happening in this headline or a corporate smear campaign

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notafain

The TL;DR (i read the the thing on classaction.org)

  • Kraft says their single serve cups are ready in 3.5 minutes total. True, it take 3.5 minutes to microwave the cup, but there's more prep time and the instructions call for more ingredients, such as water. There's also the additional time it take to stir in the cheese powder. So in actuality, it could take closer to 5-6 minutes (estimating here).
  • Because Kraft is selling the speed and convenience of the single serve, it's sold at a premium (11 bucks for an 8 pack, excluding tax, which yowza!), which is much higher than similar products that, in reality, would take as much time to prepare as the Velveeta.
  • Like I can't speak for everyone but I see those Velveeta cups at the grocery store and they're more expensive than even the other Kraft single serves, and you just know it's not because of the Velveeta powder.
  • This is a class action lawsuit. The plaintiff isn't getting all 5 million, it'll go to everyone who is *COPD with chronic bronchitis ad voice* entitled to financial compensation.
  • The firm representing the plaintiff specializes in cases like this, which also includes cases such as Frito-Lay lying about not using real lime in their "hint of lime" Tostito chips (so they can charge more), Kellogg lying about how much fruit they (don't) put in their fruit pop-tarts in spite of the advertising (so they can charge more), the use of synthetic vanilla in premium goods claiming to have real vanilla (so they can charge more), and, oh yeah, arsenic in baby food.
  • If you're wondering why this matters, consider that this isn't a MRE. It needs prep, not just in time but in additional ingredients, which would be damned inconvenient at best if, say, you didn't have access to water. This, and the time issue, is, in a very real sense, false advertising. It stands to reason that Kraft made a decent profit off this false advertising.
  • In a similar vein (see: "hint of lime" chips not having lime but a vaguely defined "natural flavoring"), it's about truth in the advertised product, and that the company knew it was lying to its customers. Like if Special K isn't putting real blueberries in its cereal (just pineapple and blue dye), but advertising the cereal as having those blueberries, what happens if a kid allergic to pineapple, or allergic to the dye used, eats the cereal and has a reaction? What if there's no water to make the damn macaroni and cheese?
  • Cases like this give the more serious cases (ARSENIC. BABY FOOD.) more of a legal foothold.
  • You can't really say "burn corporations to the ground" or "lol kill jeff bezos" and in that same breath call the plaintiff a stupid Karen or whatever for calling out the obvious bullshit Kraft is pulling here. Those single serve cups are freaking expensive for what you get and are sold at a markup because they promise a convenience that they don't actually deliver on.
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highlybread

WHY DID I ONLY RECENTLY LEARN ABOUT THE SALT LICK TEST?!?!

I swear, learning how to easily tell if you are deficient in salt has been Groundbreaking in learning how to care for my body.

For the uninitiated, if you feel dizzy or weirdly tired, or you cant seem to hydrate properly, no matter how much water you drink, you may easily be lacking salt.

Yes salt! The thing everyone tells you to try and minimize as much as possible. You are likely not getting enough, and there is an easy way to test it:

Go into you kitchen and grab some plain salt, flaky or fine preferably, since rough salt has less surface area, but it still works, just slower.

Grab a pinch of it and just drop it on your tongue, and let it dissolve on it. What does it taste like? This is just salt. Does it taste kinda mild? Slightly savoury even and actually quite good? Could you easily go for another pinch, just for the taste? You probably should, cause that's your body telling you i Wants More Salt, it Neeeds it!

Do that a couple times over the next few hours, letting your body adjust in the meantime, until it suddenly tastes Too Salty. The same amount of salt, suddenlt tasting quite different, too salty, unpleasant, bad. Thats a sign that you no longer need more salt.

For me it took like two days from barely tasting the salt, to feeling much better and suddenly not wanting more salt.

This has recently helped me so much, why was i not taught this super simple but useful way to check in with my bodily needs?

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howlandscowl

Signs of low salt can also include nausea, headache, and muscle weakness. Seizures can also happen, but being aware these other symptoms can be signs of low salt and taking corrective action makes that less likely to happen. Also, over-hydrating yourself can cause low salt, but were going into summer so stay hydrated, but eat salt!

Reduced salt levels was the first side-effect they warned me off with my new meds. Its not something you want to fuck around and find out about.

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traegorn

The only people who need to ACTUALLY worry about having too much salt in their diet are folks with high blood pressure, because it can temporarily spike it.

And even those people still need salt to live.

Salt is required for survival. Make sure you get enough salt.

If you routinely get dizzy spells and water and/or salt fixes it, that could mean you have POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardic syndrome) which I had before covid, but which I've heard can actually be caused by covid.

POTS is a disorder of the autonomic nervous system which makes it hard for your body to regulate your heart rate and blood pressure when you change positions. So it tends to hit when you stand or bend over. Salt treats POTS by stabilizing your blood pressure.

My cardiologist makes jokes about how POTS patients are his only patients who he tells to eat more salt. My mate tried to get him to tell us we should eat less sausage and he said no actually sausage is fine cause it's salty.

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potsiefaerie

Yep, all of this - if I eat ramen and it doesn't taste salty, I pour a bunch more in.

I got told a lot as a teen with "slightly low blood pressure" to eat more salt, but post diagnosis with pots, my new doctor actually elaborated and uh. They didn't mean like "hey maybe try 2500mg" they meant try 5000-8000mg of sodium. But also I needed to increase my potassium because those need to be at a proper ratio.

Yep! My cardiologist basically told me I wasn't likely to be able to over do it and just to listen to my body and if I wanted more salt I could and should have it, and if I was feeling off then literally just eating salt out of the salt shaker is also fine.

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