Toast

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[–] Toast@lemmy.film 1 points 11 months ago

This is the best thing I've seen online today. Really. Well done

[–] Toast@lemmy.film 1 points 11 months ago

No hamburger sandwich?

[–] Toast@lemmy.film 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

by injecting the steel chamber with vapors that represent specific environments. (It’s called the CLOUD chamber, for Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets.)

It's a chamber they use to make clouds. Couldn't they just call it the Cloud Chamber, without resorting to the most awkward, contrived acronym I've ever seen?

[–] Toast@lemmy.film 3 points 1 year ago

This would help so much. Not only would greatly increasing the number of representatives lead to fairer representation - it would decrease lobbyist power in the House (harder to buy a critical number of members when there are so many representatives).

[–] Toast@lemmy.film 9 points 1 year ago

Senator Menendez - we'll have to wait just a little to see how well the investment turns out

[–] Toast@lemmy.film 8 points 1 year ago

ARAB - All Republicans Are Bastards

[–] Toast@lemmy.film 52 points 1 year ago
[–] Toast@lemmy.film 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Says the human

[–] Toast@lemmy.film 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kerry Breen is a news editor and reporter for CBS News. Her reporting focuses on current events, breaking news and substance use.

[–] Toast@lemmy.film 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right, but 'steak' does mean a little more than that. It also would indicate a particular kind of cut of meat, which would generally indicate minimal connective tissue, tenderness, location, etc. Now, you could say "well, all that is irrelevant to this discussion", but to an extent is really is relevant. We are talking about how word meanings are being changed and how that influences consumer choice. Imagine if we started to see companies using the word 'vegetarian ' in a way that simply meant 'containing vegetables', regardless of meat content. Already terms like 'organic' are nearly meaningless in some markets. This sort of thing happens.

Imagine a company creating a half-meat and half-plant based burger and calling the product 'Vegan Beef'. Who could be confused, some might argue here, about this product? - it has 'beef' right in the name.

Strict guidelines can also protect consumers.

To return to the original point, the term 'steak' in a food context has already become nearly meaningless (or at least has so many conflicting meanings that it has lost most of its usefulness). 'Milk' is heading that way. 'Organic' is without much meaning in the US. Would you like 'meat-free' labels allowed on foods that had absolutely no muscle-tissue content, but did contain animal organ, bone, and fat content?

[–] Toast@lemmy.film 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you sure you don't already have something like this? My android is a couple years old, but has always let me charge to only 85%

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