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Re: California bans 'sell by' labels, hoping to cut food waste

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Post by Cider9986 » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 2:19 AM UTC

randycupertino wrote: post #70

Cider9986 wrote: post #7

>With 395,608 regulatory restrictions, California is the most heavily regulated state in the nation, according to the report. On average, states have 135,000 regulatory restrictions in administrative rules, with California's regulations more than doubling the national average. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2020-11-03/... I wonder how many they've added in 5 years. Do all these laws improve peoples…

> Do all these laws improve peoples lives? The salary requirement for job postings has been AWESOME. Saves so much time and you can see if your company is paying market rates, realize if you are underpaid etc. Definitely made my life better. Other states are following suit! Employers hate it, haha. California, Colorado, NY, Illinois, Washington, Maryland, Minnesota and Hawaii all have this law now.

Glad to hear it.

Another common-sense law I want is a holiday for elections so that more people can vote.

Re: California bans 'sell by' labels, hoping to cut food waste

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Post by SilasX » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 5:56 AM UTC

paleotrope wrote: post #58

SilasX wrote: post #18

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Agreed. In this case, a better title would be "California replaces 'Sell by' Labels with 'Use by', Hoping to Cut Food Waste" Still a simplification, but doesn't horribly mislead you into thinking it's a reckless policy.

How does this change affect food waste by consumers?

For the reason the article gives: products would be labeled with the thing that actually matters for safely maximizing producing usage -- how long it's safe to actually use the product ("use by") -- rather than a cruder heuristic about when you should sell it, or vague language about when it's "best".

Re: California bans 'sell by' labels, hoping to cut food waste

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Post by hackeraccount » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 1:07 PM UTC

andybak wrote: post #44

solenoid0937 wrote: post #36

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N=1 but I make a good amount of money and left California for a zero tax state. I feel like the quality of life is similar between the two. I don't feel like I was getting anything for the 13%+ extra taxes I was paying in California. Nearly every California program has a huge amount of wastage. Take: - High speed rail - 10x the cost of comparable European programs, still haven't built anything. Deadlocked by regulati…

> I don't feel like I was getting anything for the 13%+ extra taxes I was paying in California. Some people might argue that it's not meant to be about what you personally get back. Social contract and all that... I get your other points but this part was phrased in an unfortunate way.

Just because I'm buying something for someone other then myself it doesn't follow that I don't care how the money is spent. If my tax dollars are wasted it's no comfort to tell myself that the money would have been spent by someone else for someone else in any case.

Re: California bans 'sell by' labels, hoping to cut food waste

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Post by yencabulator » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 9:28 PM UTC

slowmovintarget wrote: post #62

roenxi wrote: post #41

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They're sitting at the centre of a web of software services that coordinate some unreasonable amount of the internet. They've definitely done something right, California might be hosting one of the most impressive economic clusters outside of China. But that doesn't tell us much about the relationship between that thing and their regulations. The regulations might be supporting the thing, or the thing might be so suc…

"Past performance is no indicator of future success." They did something right fifty years ago. Now? No. They're doing nearly everything wrong. Top-two elections coupled with rigged ballots so voters can't really choose, and no one can prove anything (and it's against the law to try). Government program after government program that fails to solve basic problems because the money seems to up and disappear, and when t…

> 187,084 homeless in California in 2024.

California has a significantly better climate to be homeless in, so you'd want a bus ticket from Minnesota or whatever to there too if you were homeless.