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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

It's all down to personal responsibility with these assholes. And with labeling in this country, it's even worse. It's not even about the (poor) literacy here. It's all of the technicalities you have to figure out.

Nutrition facts don't help a much as they should because the proportions they list are unrealistic and the information requires a lot of understanding outside of the basics. Ingredient lists use euphemisms to get around telling you what you're consuming ('evaporated cane juice' is just sugar).

Coca-Cola won a lawsuit over Vitamin Water, the ruling stating that it doesn't have to be healthy.

So we live in a country where corporations are people, allowed to lie, and have a profit incentive to hide the truth. They also have the time and resources to make and find loopholes to get around regulations.

And god forbid you find a workaround as a consumer. They'll close the loop and then try to sue into oblivion if you find a way to reliably navigate the system.

But yeah, it's a random person's fault that they ate a chip and died.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

The laws are meaningless. If you’re important enough you can have the courts interpret a law in two opposite ways depending on what you want.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago
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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

thankfully

These cryptofascist fucks can't keep the mask on when they giggle, can they? scared-fash

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

side-eye-1 I like hot chip and whiskey

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Do safety labels mean anything in a country with rampant illiteracy?

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

at least 90% of yanks deserve the wall. Which is really depressing without the red scare most of you would be decent commrades but then again I am from Germany and at least 95% of Germans deserve the wall (not saying that as an anti German because fuck those guys).

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Socialism is when you want to ban hotchips.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

They would gladly put any of us to death. I think it’s only fair to preempt that.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Were they not labled as "18+" as they are here? Why the heck did a kid eat them, then?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

He was 14.

At 14, I guarantee you did stupid shit. And at 14, I'm sure you didn't expect the grocery store to sell you food with fatal amounts of capsaicin in it.

It was a dumb idea, sure, but he was a fucking child and likely didn't think it would be legitimately dangerous.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

no child has ever ignored an age warning for any reason

that's why there are no kids on social media

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