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It's probably more mundane than that. Let's say Mars sells the bars to distributors for 20 cents and it costs 10 cents a bar to make and package. A pound of milk chocolate costs $5…

I forget when it was required to list ingredients. But I'd also imagine the regulations were more relaxed, you could list "Milk chocolate product" and have it pass.

“You have a fever because of the ghosts in your bones”

The number of Walmart workers on some form of government assistance is significant. Significant enough that Walmart couldn't operate without them. Not to mention, Walmart manages t…

I would say a corporation's taxes should, at the very least, cover the tax burden generated from not paying their employees enough to make a living wage. So if their employees are …

> You'll see this often in the social democracies of Scandinavia, like Sweden or Denmark. These are countries with strong welfare states, and yet, the corporate tax rates are often…

Name one that is not "one's a policy and the other is not".

What's the actual difference, because you haven't actually supplied one. You've just said "They're different. One is a thing, and one is a criticism of a thing". So, does the criti…

It's not. Peak homicide recently was in 2022 and it was 280 deaths for the year. While not great, it's not "dodging bullets every day". New Orleans is also experiencing their lowes…

No, D2F only matters if you're trying to optimize stroke between two hot-swappable participants. And then it's really if an angle allowed by Base to Floor (B2F) and Length (L) is c…

I think that's one thing people truly forget when they ask "Why can't we do things like this anymore?" AT&T paid people to fuck around. Claude Shannon, father of Information Theory…

Most of those things were invented by a company granted a government monopoly on communications and not allowed to directly profit off of any of those advances. AT&T threw money at…

If incidences of cancer of any type are 1 in 100,000 for the population at large, then generally any slice of that population will have similar odds. Which includes people with can…

Because lobbying is essentially just the process of petitioning the government. Mostly. It's buying dinners so you can talk with a Representative or Senator one-on-one. It's travel…

Than what? It's 21oz compared to the 7oz regular size and 12.4oz "Pantry Size". It's like $5-$6 for the box. That's been true at both the local grocery and WalMart.

I'll admit that I tend to implicitly trust that the larger boxes on the shelves contain more. I haven't checked the price-per-unit in a bit. Granted, my closest grocery is not a Wa…

And I don't disagree, but the posting of the article feels more like bait of a sort. But I've noticed that if you mention anything that could be seen as slightly critical of LLMs, …

I think the biggest pushback this article will get here is the date. Although all he's saying is basically, "It's a tool, not a silver bullet". But the article is 3 years old and p…

Do you know how often is the score keeping system replaced or requires repairs? You could potentially have a decent side gig replacing scoring systems for a fraction of others

Not just the UK, labor is usually the dominant cost of anything. Our house flooded about half a foot a year or two ago. I had to replace all the baseboards. The damage was assessed…

Not just no, but fuck no. Intimacy does not scale. No single entity can intimately care about even hundreds of people. So these chatbots are the property of an entity that does not…

He was looking for a sugar baby?

Oh man, the past was fucking wild, because you would do this. You'd just show up to the theater and look at what was playing. Or, if you were close to a store, you'd go and buy a n…

I think you're being accused of being a sockpuppet.

Proud 2.2%er But I also have had it installed via Crossover at some points to check out a Windows-only game. Which I just realize also skews the statistic because Crossover basical…