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do not underestimate a woman

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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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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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rad-polls
Anonymous asked:

What's your opinion on using person's preferred pronouns?

  • If he/she asks me to I'll use them
  • Only in his/hers presence, I don't care otherwise
  • I don't care/whatever feels natural
  • I use the pronouns that line with his/hers biological sex

Thanks for the question, anon!

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I'll do it for women. My job is not to belittle them. If a woman is dsyphoric and perfers to be called he thats fine. My heart breaks but i wont make their life harder. But I won't participate in a man's fetish. A man is not a woman.

secret other option: i avoid them completely. first bc i refuse to either get called transphobic or pretend i believe something i dont and second i dont really need to be involved with someone like that and neither am i keen on talking about them lol

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insectfem

i feel like i really don't understand what it's always sunny in philadelphia is about

fr i saw a cew funny memes from the show on here and gave it a try and it was just dull & misogynistic and that in the most unfunny way possible. i get its a sitcom but most sitcoms have at least SOME actual plot

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I don't know if I'm missing something, but the whole "don't demonize [mental illness]" never made sense to me when that mental illness is characterized by being awful to fellow human beings. Like, if you're a psychopath or sociopath or narcissist then your symptoms are largely about how you abuse and hurt other people, aren't they? So it feels like a weird form of gaslighting to say that these are perfectly neutral mental illnesses to have and people should be okay interacting with people who posses them. I'm more than willing to be told I'm wrong, but I've always been really confused by that.

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People who support the attacks on Gaza seem free to say the most depraved and racist things possible about Arabs, Muslims, and Palestinians without facing any consequences whatsoever. [...] The proliferation of dehumanizing language about Muslims and Palestinians has had violent consequences: there has been a rise in anti-Arab and anti-Muslim hate crimes across the US, including reported offenses on college campuses. There has also been a rise in antisemitism: a very real problem that shouldn’t be minimized or tolerated. What also shouldn’t be tolerated are the dangerous attempts by pro-Israel extremists to label any remotely pro-Palestinian speech, or any criticism of Israel’s actions, as automatically antisemitic. Conflating the actions of the Israeli state with the Jewish people is dangerous and wrong, and yet this is precisely what many pro-Israel voices are doing in an attempt to suppress any support of Palestine. And this strategy is working. In the current climate, a US politician can call for Gaza to be “nuked” without being censured. Dare to do so much as wear a keffiyeh (a traditional Palestinian scarf) on a college campus, however, and pro-Israel voices will go on primetime television and accuse you of being a Nazi. Jonathan Greenblatt, the executive director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), recently told Morning Joe (and faced no pushback from the hosts) that wearing a keffiyeh was the same as wearing a swastika. [...] What’s left out of these nonstop discussions of campus safety is this: there isn’t a single safe campus left in Gaza. Israel, with the unconditional aid of the US, has destroyed almost every kindergarten, school, and university in Gaza. It has killed at least 100 Palestinian academics. It has decimated every cultural institution. There are over 13,000 dead children in Gaza who will never have the opportunity of an education. You should not be able to talk about campus safety without mentioning the fact that, thanks to US-backed Israeli air strikes, every campus in Gaza is now a graveyard.

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So we aren't antisemites as long as we look the other way whenever Israelis do something horrifying.

Good to know.

I will wear the "Antisemite" label with fucking pride.

Thank you for clarifying. I can see from your notes that you are clearly *not* an antisemite.

quick tell me what the holocaust and nazism actually are. i would bet my entire two buttcheeks you will fail at that if you cannot israel a nazi regime.

its like people who are online 24/7 have forgotten how to critique bad things without comparing it to or outright calling it nazism.

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tributary

i’m willing to believe some people are genuinely idiots who don’t know that 90%+ of polish jews were killed in the holocaust (and made up half of all poles killed in wwii), but. it’s almost like this shit helps nothing and no one

“When my father was a young man in Vilna, every wall in Europe said, ‘Jews go home to Palestine.’ Fifty years later, when he went back to Europe on a visit, the walls all screamed, ‘Jews get out of Palestine.’”

-amos oz, a tale of love and darkness

almost like people perceive “don’t live here or here either or here either or here either” as “don’t live”. almost like i/p doesn’t boil down to “jews living in a place”

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if woman means sex to men and society, femaleness becomes pornography. it then becomes necessary for the good of the public that little girls be put in dresses, forced to cover their shoulders, heads or knees in a church or mosque. mothers banned from public breastfeeding. female features, like cellulite, periods, body hair, become offensive. affairs for privacy.

the fact that men see women as primarily sex first and not as people shows in every facet of society. that a woman cannot befriend, think, dress, behave or speak without it being interpreted as sexual. how we dress as women and girls is always about our sexual character and never ourselves or our self-expression. are we married, of mature mating age, innocent, feminine and sexually chaste, sluts, lesbians? this is what clothes on women are discussed as. women’s clothes and bodies aren’t allowed to be as neutral as men’s are. there simply isn’t all those politics surrounding maleness or men’s fashion.

our clothes are political because our bodies are political. our femaleness must be masked, regulated, categorized publicly, and unmasked privately. because men think of us pornographically, in their world, the world which we live in, femaleness can only mean porn, never humanity or simple womanhood. it is offensive, must remain private and only allowed to be about men’s sexual excitement.

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The most embarrassing thing In my life is whenever I see people and they ask what I’ve been up to . Literally nothing ever . Im like ohh you know this and that …. The usual ..

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im feeling kinda sickly (not really sick but just slightly unwell like my immune system is being put to the test hard af rn) pls give me some tips on how to get better more quickly (overnight esp.)

normally id just call in sick at work but tomorrow isnt like a regular work day. tomorrow im technically working and paid accordingly but were volunteering instead (organized from my workplace so everyone who wanted to join this specific project out of a couple is volunteering tmrw) and i really dont want to call in sick for that when im not like SICK sick but just kinda ugh feeling

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id rather die than debase myself like this

you cant read this without picturing a slightly bearded men in sensible shoes and a lady with polished rectangular glasses staring you down across a minimalist office desk while giving you their most disingenuous smile

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nuanced opinion - i wouldnt say its okay but it is funny and it doesnt make me angry when a man calls another man a whore/slut/bitch in a satirical way, for something misogynistic he said and acting in a way/saying things in a way that gets women called slurs.

like for example a man saying a woman is slutty in a comment when his profile picture is a shirtless thirsttrap of himself and another man calling him a whore would def make me chuckle

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