I signed up for the “ad free experience” on Amazon.
Picked a movie, popup says “this feature is not available ad free”. Cancelled
How is this legal? Oh yeah, Bezos was on the stage clapping with the other robber barons.
I gave up sailing the high seas during the golden age of streaming. Unfortunately it has already come to an end with the majority of streaming services including ads for their highest tier.
I have wasted so much of my life on watching commercials, I refuse to waste anymore.
I have wasted so much of my life on watching commercials, I refuse to waste anymore.
This, 100% this.
Every streaming I have I pay the few extra bucks for ad free. Keep that fucking garbage out of my house.
“Ribbed for her pleasure”
Indestructible or tough dog toys. My boy will have that in pieces, 15 minutes or less guaranteed
Indestructible toys are a catch 22, anyways. I found a couple of toys my old bud couldn’t destroy but he got bored of them very quickly. All of the satisfaction comes from the destruction.
We just started getting him soccer balls from 5 Below. Cheap enough and big enough to last a little longer.
Get him a stick
When he break it. He now have 2 stick
When he have too many stick.
Go get new stick. It free.
My fucking big goofy dumball of a dog will continuously get sticks stuck in his mouth from trying to chew of them vertical instead of horizontal and its bad. He’ll walk up all happy and just drip blood on my lap with his mouth stuck open. One time we came inside and didn’t realize until like 30 minutes later that he had a big twig stuck in there, he was happy as can be .
I love that dog and he loves sticks
You’re dog has fuckered up eyes
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Only two things ever last in my house. Beef femors and nylahide chewable. Everything has a lifespan of minutes.
Same with my dog but hes not interested in the nylon or femurs, probably because he can’t figure out how to tear them apart.
Same. They dislike them at first but they get bored with them quickly. I don’t mind them shredding toys as long as they don’t eat them.
A “family size” bag of Doritos is not sized for a family. Or I on my own count as a family.
“Military Grade” is not the flex that civilians think it is.
A “family size” bag of Doritos is not sized for a family.
It should be the size of a family.
if it were liquefied
Tbf, a family-sized (now party-sized) bag of Doritos does contain a day’s worth of calories (2250) for a single person. I can’t keep them in the house, they call to me.
I miss the old military surplus stores. 2/3 of the stuff was cheap crap, but every now and then you’d find something insane. I had this flat periscope, it was designed to go up through a slot on the roof of a tank. You could easily stand on it, and it wouldn’t have broken.
Cereal is worse. I used to get regular sized. Then I got family sized. Now I try to hold out for “mega sized” for myself
A “family size” bag of Doritos is not sized for a family. Or I on my own count as a family.
It’s enough for a family because the portion sizes are like 4 chips.
Military grade
This one is funny to me because the military commonly goes with the lowest bidder. So I take it to mean that “military grade” is absolute garbage made by the lowest bidder.
Not only that, but the US Military runs on state-of-the-art logistics. This means that military equipment can, and often is, incredibly high maintenance because you’re never far from a base that always has everything you need to keep it operational. In this environment, there’s no need to make anything super robust and reliable, so… they don’t.
How state-of-the-art are we talking? Well, let me introduce you to forward-deployed Burger King.
When I see “military grade”, I think “use it once to blow somethink up”
“Military grade” means “made by the cheapest contractor available, using sub-par materials, to juuuuuust meet the bare minimum requirements set by the government”.
It’s like when housing developers advertise that all of their houses are “built to code”. Congrats, building code is the bare minimum requirement for the house to be considered habitable. It needs to be up to code to be able to sell. Someone advertising that a house is “built to code” is saying “we would build this worse if we were legally allowed to do so, but the law says we weren’t allowed to cut any more corners and still pass an inspection.”
I have been conditioned to think of “Free & Clear” as having no coloring or nasty scents added and then I come across this and was duped
Flavored dish soap is kinda wild in general. Yes, I want the things I eat and drink off of to all taste vaguely of chemical lemons.
The default should be plain soaps and plain dish detergent. Some are so potent that the scent sticks to the dishes even after washing, and unfortunately, the food too. Especially that dawn spray soap.
This is such bullshit manipulative marketing, similar to when companies will put out an ad saying something like “ONLY $1.99/MONTH” in large, bold letters and then below it have tiny fine print saying “for the first month, then $420.69/month”.
“Free of dyes. Soft pear scent.”. Boom. Done. Not only is it short, but it’s clear and accurate. Almost nobody cares if it’s “clear” as long as it’s dye-free.
that’s fucking infuriating
How whip cream is keto because the serving size is 1/2 teaspoon (5mL) and it’s less than 1 calorie (1kcal).
LOL
Keto != Low calorie.
Generally it just means low carb as a marketing term. As a diet it’s an asinine amount of fat and whipped cream fits that bill. Especially if you can find low sugar whipped cream.
A lot of Keto “friendly” food have like 1g or 2g of carb, and a part from what you mentioned of the serving sized being unrealistic small, even if it wasn’t, they add up, if you consume a variety of this during the day you gonna exceed the maximum carb really easily.
“Safe and secure” when it comes to digital transactions. Everything is logged, stored, and saved somewhere where they very often have absolutely fuck all in terms of security and then all that shit is hacked or leaked or otherwise compromised. But its okay, because the government will force them to give you 1 whole year of another bullshit service that does absolutely fucking nothing to protect your data or identity.
“New and improved”. How is it both?
I don’t see an issue with this, things can be an improvement over their previous version and they would be new on release.
Yes! Yes! At most this means a minor modification of what exists.
If the innovations are truly enough to make it so different, its always marketed as a different product
Not so much a lie but jumping on the bandwagon. A lot of traditional products that never had gluten in them to begin with now show “Gluten Free!” on the label, as if they did something good for you rather than simply redesigning a product label.
Oh yes, so many products claim this pointlessly.
Gluten free beer, corn chips, ketchup, fruit snacks, dairy products, etc.
beer usually has grain. it’s reasonable to demand the mash bill.
Unless you are hypersensitive to gluten, gluten free beer is nonsensical. A slice of bread contains 124,000 ppm of gluten. Lagers have 63 ppm, stouts 360 ppm, and ales can have up to 3,000 ppm. So even an ale has roughly 3% of the gluten a single slice of bread has.
87% of beer sold in the US is a lager. That is .0005% of a slice of bread’s gluten.
Someone already mentioned the shared facilities thing that can lead to cross contamination. Another reason is: gluten-containing products aren’t intuitive. Soy sauce, malt vinegar, a lot of sauces and seasonings, most canned soups(where I live,) and some cheeses contain gluten.
I feel like in that case it’s more like “We now double-check this food wasn’t made in the same area as foods with gluten”. Cross-contamination can be a pita for celiacs
Companies have gotten better about that over the years, but “gluten-free” products are still sometimes made on shared equipment with wheat which means it’s unsafe for celiacs. My SO is a celiac who only buys foods that are either certified gluten-free or labeled gluten-free and not made on shared equipment.
I honestly do not trust those labels without proof
“Organic” produce, like there could possibly be another kind
Organic means grown without lab made pesticides and fertilizers.
This is not generally true. Organic farmer can use what most would consider synthetic pesticides. These are not technically synthetic because they are derived in a lab from organic material like petroleum.
Does it though
If the farm is NOP certified then that’s what it means and products will be labeled “USDA Organic.”
However the FDA doesn’t regulate the word “organic” so anyone can just slap the word on a product and call it a day.
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“Dust-free” cat litter.
Anything you can think of if there isn’t a law that says they can’t. One big one for me is expiration dates. Aside from, say, milk, they really don’t mean much.
Former head chef who’s worked in restaurants and production kitchens here. I made food for both immediate consumption, and package and sale. Food safety regulations will differ by location, as I once worked where three different regional health authorities ovelapped, but this is generally false.
In a commercial kitchens we weren’t allowed to sell expired food. The “Best Before” date is different, since it’s related to taste/texture, determined through structured testing, best educated guesses and/or personal tasting.
We kept dated boxes of products to taste ourselves every month, but also sent products to a lab to determine if the ingredients degraded or grew enough bacteria in different storage conditions to make it dangerous to consume. One caveat is when product quality degrades faster than it becomes a health risk, sometimes by years. Or, in the case of hard candy, probably never. In that case, companies might pick the longest range of time the product’s been tested — and that’s why you might see expiry dates on things that shouldn’t go bad.
Best before dates are guidelines, expiry dates are rules.
Nice comment! TIL
I aim to teach, not to shame. I had a few cooks who thought the same thing.
“No preservatives” - Sugar is a preservative. Salt is a preservative. Vinegar is a preservative. Lemon juice is a preservative.
“Sugar-free” - but they add alternative sweeteners that have a range of other health issues associated with them.
“Cholesterol-free” - I once saw this on a juice container and had a laugh.
What people don’t realise is that with food formulation, what you take out, you have to put something back in to replace it. A low/no sugar product will likely be higher in something else like fat to make it a palatable product… So labels make claims on some things, but will purposely not mention the others.
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“Nitrate free! *except for that found naturally in the shitload of powdered celery we put in there”
And “low sodium”. They replace sodium chloride with potassium chloride instead.
Cholesterol-free is such a bullshit label anyway because dietary cholesterol doesn’t do anything special to your own cholesterol. You are not a chicken and the egg yolk will not go directly to your bloodstream. Your blood has human cholesterol that you made yourself from the rest of the sugars and fats you ate, digested, converted, stored, and reeconverted.
Let me introduce you to “Gluten Free”. On a sausage.
I give “gluten free” a pass because it’s not always obvious. Some people do have very severe reactions and some products do, unsuspectingly, contain gluten in the form of filler content or for some other mechanical use. Sausage is specifically known to use wheat product as filler and binder. Same for deli meats and veggie burgers. Some places will even throw breadcrumbs into their ground beef for burgers to fake it’s tenderness, so it crumbles like a meatloaf would.
Then there’s seasonings. Potato chips are made from potatoes, right? But not all chips are potato chips. You’d hope a gluten-issue person would be able to identify pita chips or bagged crackers from the chips selection would have gluten, but it turns out, despite being a corn chip, Dorito dust can affect gluten sensitivities. Soy sauce and malt vinegar are issues, and seasoning mixes use flour to help distribution
Oh, and processing aids. That’s another kettle of fish. Same with things that are added and then taken out, or vice versa, as long as they are the same amounts, they don’t have to be on the label unless it’s an allergen. (Australia)
I’m always wary of places that cook or bake their own food, especially home businesses. They don’t have the money to pay an accredited food lab to do their labels and testing for them. I’ve done my share of food label auditing, and I’ve seen some pretty shocking things.
Sausage is specifically known to use wheat product as filler and binder.
That is actually illegal in my country.
Whereabouts are you?
“Our roll of toilet paper is equivalent to 234 rolls of our competitor’s toilet paper!!!1”
- as compared to one standard economy roll last produced in 1967
