Just have your weapons only target weaponized robots. You might only make some billions instead of many billions, but you could stay within your moral code.
The chips were sold individually, and their seasoning included two of the hottest peppers in the world: the Carolina Reaper and the Naga Viper.
Each chip was packaged in a coffin-shaped container with a skull on the front.
This is about the most wasteful product I’ve ever encountered. You wrap one chip in plastic to keep it fresh and then throw cardboard around it with tons of empty space and then ship those on trucks?! What the fuck.
I support killing this product on its environmental harm whether it’s implicated in the teen’s death or not.
Eh. It is no different than a lot of snack packages. Wrap each serving/couple servings in plastic and then put it in a bag or a box. It is egregious because it is a single chip. But that is one “serving” of the chip.
Of all the things wrong with these kinds of products, the packaging seems fine. Plastic for freshness, cardboard for durability.
That said, it very much brings to mind the futurama gag where the cookies and the creme are all individually wrapped to eat oreos. But this is not that.
One of my favorite bits from Futurama is when Fry is using some “make your own Oreo cookie” device that has individually wrapped cookies and individually wrapped cream, so he’d open each one, toss the plastic, smush them together just to take them apart like some people do with Oreos.
Hilarious and horrifying because you just know we have products like that today lol
Tbf I would assume there’s not much volume being sold, considering it’s definitely at most a serving being packaged. Afaik nobody is out there buying a handful of these to eat as a snack.
EDIT: based on the other comments, it seems like the average consumer buys at most one of these in their lifetime, haha.
Yeah, this sounds like a case where if they packaged it like other chips, it would just mean instead of throwing out a small amount of plastic per chip eaten, you’re throwing out a chip bag worth of plastic along with most of the other chips after you and maybe some friends take one.
It’s like buying the bigger size that’s slightly more expensive only to realize it would have been cheaper to buy the smaller one because the extra stuff got thrown out after it went bad plus there’s extra packaging, even if the value per unit is worse.
On a ‘plastic per calories’ scale this is very wasteful indeed. But actually it is not just a chip, its more of an activity being sold. Other activities are much worse resource-wise. Some people go skydiving, others eat a chip at home.
Yeah, it’s not actually a food. Nobody eats these for the taste or calories. It’s purely for the experience of the challenge and the packaging is understandably part of that experience. It’s still wasteful, but it’s the kind of society we live in. Packaging works. If they could sell as well with less waste, I’m sure they would. The packaging is a calculated attempt at maximizing the experience, especially under the assumption that it’s going to spread by viral videos.
the charges were recommended by the grand jury, and justified, but never levied. but there are no indictments coming from the prosecutor. these were three of the individuals who absolutely committed criminal acts in furtherance of election tampering, and who aren't going to be held accountable, which is why it's a missed opportunity. we know they did the dirt, they're guilty as fuck, but they're not going to go to trial. that's howso.
Those aren’t the stereotypes that comes to mind for the worst Florida has to offer. More like old retired Boomers and upper middle class culture warriors who thought DeSantis’ Covid denial was a great idea. But I didn’t take a census or anything.
I thought this was a repost of an article earlier this summer. It is not. The Guardian seems to be one of the few journalist organizations determined to keep climate change in the headlines, and I appreciate that.
Oh no see he prevented Moscow nuking Ukraine by doing this. What a hero! /s
I can’t believe we live in this society of appeasers. Him and the Republicans. I remember a time when Republicans accused Democrats of not being able to stand up to dictators, and now they are full throttle.
he took sides and engaged in a military conflict, there's no other way to see it.. he doesn't have that authority, no matter what technology his little company controls..
Instead he merely did it to a strong US ally to benefit a long-time US adversary. An adversary we have practically as many sanctions on as is feasible before it becomes a declaration of war.
I don't know what crime this is. Logan Act violation? But at this point Starlink is being used as a strategic asset in a US ally's war and should be seized by the US government as a military asset.
I’m sure that DOD lawyers are taring through the contract they signed with him. But, since the dumb SOB admitted to it, if the contract doesn’t have a provision to let him do this they can sue him under carriage laws. Ending with the government taking away his operating license and siezing his operating network. The DOD has been wanting to create their own such network in any case.
It was built with taxpayer money and is critical to US national security. Now it’s being used to help the enemy in war. We absolutely should nationalize it.
No, we should stop filling up our orbit with an insane number of junk satellites…
There’s better ways to provide internet to isolated areas, and just the starlink satellites on their own is effecting a lot of shit. And it’s going to get worse as time goes by and they all break
I was under the impression that Starlink satellites are orbiting too low to meaningfully contribute to Kessler syndrome, since their orbital decay time is 5 years. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like starlink either, I just don’t know of any long term consequences
So what you’re saying is taxpayers are already on the hook for when the cheap shit breaks since Musk is king of government subsidies. So why wouldn’t we nationalize it so we get the benefits too.
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