Because 90% of consumers don’t give a fuck what’s in their food. They buy whatever is on the shelf and eat it without a second thought. And the government doesn’t regulate such things much, so the EU version of something has 5 ingredients and the US version has 20 and most of those 90% never read the list.

The next 5% would like to eat better but are burned out. It’s fucking hard, because every other ‘natural’ ‘healthy’ product is the same shit just a little bit less son. I’m in this group. I can’t tell you how many times I buy something that looks natural and healthy only to realize it’s the same chemical shit just in a different ‘healthy looking’ package.
I don’t drink soda though. Probably 95% of what I drink is water, the rest is some variant of coffee or tea.

The last 5% are the ones who really pay attention- who still check every ingredient, who spend a bunch of time cooking regularly, who buy mostly organic products or natural foods (which are significantly more expensive). Most of these people don’t drink soda anyway no matter how it’s sweetened so soda companies don’t bother with them.

Right, suspicious. Suspicious doesn’t mean guilty, that’s not enough to convict someone in court.

Okay that’s fair.

Also the Super Size Me guy did the mcdonalds mold test- the burgers all decayed, the fries didn’t decay at all.

Taking a bus isn’t a crime. And if you don’t have the files on the computer, or the backpack full of evidence, all you have is a guy who’s acting a little suspicious and looks like the guy in the video.

I’m saying he was smart enough to do this, and to evade authorities for 3 days, but dumb enough to be caught with a backpack full of evidence and the files on his computer. I’m not sure that adds up in my opinion.

and not even good for you

Dude, soda isn’t ‘not good’ for you. It’s fucking toxic. Corn sugar makes you fat and screws up your metabolism, added caffeine is addictive, and the rest is just an artificial chemical bath that rots you from the inside out.

There was a lawsuit a while back, a dude sued claiming he found a dead mouse in his can of soda. Pepsi’s defense was that in the amount of time between when that particular can was bottled and when he drank it, the soda would have completely dissolved the mouse. They won the lawsuit.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/2012/01/pepsi-says-mountain-dew-can-dissolve-mouse-carcasses/333399/

And that’s what you are drinking…

Play it out with your mind.

Police arrest a guy who matches the picture but without the backpack full of evidence have no proof that he is the guy. After 3 days his lawyer demands they let him go. End of story.

Which would have been a fantastic idea. Hang out at that place, ideally have a few weeks of groceries stocked up, so you can just hang out there and watch TV and not have to leave or be seen. Then you basically don’t leave for a few weeks, at which point a lot of the hoopla will have blown over and your surveillance photo won’t be on every TV screen.

Or if he wants more distance, get rid of the freaking evidence. Makes no sense that he would have such a good escape plan, and yet not have thought through what might happen if someone recognized him a.

I’m not saying he’s dumb for eating. I’m saying he’s dumb for walking around days later with a ‘convict me kit’ on his back. That’s what doesn’t make sense to me.

But here’s what doesn’t make sense to me. The guy is fucking smart, smart enough that he can literally shoot someone in broad daylight and escape the city. And then he turns up in a fucking McDonald’s with a backpack full of evidence. Those two things do not jive together. If he was that smart, the gun (or more specifically, all the parts that make up the gun disassembled) and everything else he had with him, including clothing would be in random trash cans and dumpsters all over the state by the time they caught him. Or burned. You aren’t smart enough to evade the entire American law enforcement apparatus for over a day, while also being dumb enough to walk around in public with a slam dunk conviction in your bag. Unless you want to be caught.

Point is, the whole thing stinks a bit to me.

If only that was a legal cause of action…

What’s there to sue for? Companies shut down product lines and brands all the time.

Except the Democrats have basically just announced they are going to do nothing because their efforts wouldn’t go anywhere. So better off not trying.

That’s why I said, different approaches.

My approach is targeted at somebody who just wants to get clean as quickly as possible, and the machine can help them do that faster and with less effort than a manual shower.

If you are going for luxury, or if you need help doing it like an elderly person, then the sit-down submerging spa is absolutely the way to go.

How so?

I think there’s two different approaches to this. This chair is obviously designed as a luxury experience, as the process takes a full 15 minutes.
My idea is designed for efficiency, to reduce the amount of time it takes to bathe in the morning without reducing cleanliness.

Interesting idea. Seriously over-engineered though.

If you want a ‘human washer’ you don’t need a $350k fancy chair with heart rate monitors. Just take a page out of the automatic car wash.

Human stands in a stall. Shower allows human washing of hair and face. Then just hold arms out making a diamond in front of you (think TSA body scanner position, but with arms forward instead of upward) and a 360° robotic sprayer starts at the neck and goes down spraying soapy water, then back up again with a slight up angle to get the groin and armpits. Shower comes back on to de-shampoo hair, then the same 360 robot does two passes with clean water to rinse everything off.

If you get fancy with machine vision and body position sensors, the 360 wand could flip 90° to do the hair and would be angled backward a bit so it doesn’t get water or soap in your face.

You could build this for a lot less than $350k. And instead of $1500 worth of body sensors you have a $50 waterproof emergency stop button.

Amazon is a total mess.

If you want a quality item but don’t know what brand you want, it’s near unusable. All the results are random Chinese vendors with what look like random names, half of them are rebadging the same noname Temu-quality crap.

It’s gotten to the point where I Google for product recommendations or look at YouTube (keeping in mind that 90% of them are sponsored ‘unbiased reviews’ of the product in question) rather than searching Amazon.

Of course then you get the brand name stuff sold by random grey market resellers for $5 below Amazon’s price so they claim the buy box and you get a product where the mfr won’t honor the warranty.

This is exactly it. Back before Black Friday was a household name that appeared in advertisements, there were some real good deals to be had, especially if you were willing to go before noon. That’s where you got rushes of people banging down doors at 6:00 a.m. for the very best deals, but there were plenty throughout the day.

Then Cyber Monday became a thing. Then it became Black Friday week.
And in the process it lost all meaning. It’s no longer anything special, it’s the same deals you get on many other major holidays.

So I just don’t bother anymore. Like I’ll grab something if there’s a good deal but I don’t put much special attention into it anymore because there’s no point.

Never said they were my friend. They might have been once, in the ‘Don’t be evil’ era, but that era is long past.

They are however somewhat more interested in open standards than Apple. Android for example uses OGG a bunch under the hood.

The article suggests this was a more secret room, not the sort of thing any random person could join.

Nobody knows what to do with it because it’s proprietary and requires a license. If it was not encumbered, windows would ship with a decoder built-in for free and nobody would have a problem. If Apple devices didn’t use it by default, no one would have a problem because they just wouldn’t use it for anything ever.

If Apple got sick of paying the fee, they could switch to AVIF or JPEG XL or anything else. It wouldn’t be hard, just bake native support into the next OS of everything, and have the next iPhone take pictures in that format by default. The rest of the world will catch up right quick.

Actually come to think of it I’m kind of surprised Google doesn’t do that. Make the native Android camera shoot in AVIF by default…