[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 64 points 10 months ago

The thing is, he's not the one who hired her.

He was one of 10 listed producers on that film, and was not the hiring director.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 66 points 11 months ago

because they suck at driving or were driving too fast.

They ran a red light just before the crash, and other officers refused to use a breathalyzer on them. No blood samples were taken either.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 66 points 11 months ago

Ignoring a court order can lead to jail time. Not enough for being part of an attempted coup, but I'll take any of these assholes getting any time in jail at this point.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 65 points 11 months ago

400mg of caffeine is the daily maximum dose recommended by several health organizations. And that's for healthy adults. Keep in mind that one charged lemonade had more caffeine than a full can of Red Bull, and a full can of Monster combined. It also contained a lot of taurine which increases the effect of caffeine.

The charged lemonade does not taste caffeinated, and there were basically no warnings about it in store. The marketing and in store branding made it seem like a sort of Gatorade, i.e. an electrolyte drink.

It was also sold next to the fruit juices and such. Which would imply less caffeine.

It was also part of the unlimited sips program, providing free refills. Drinking two or three would cause a healthy adult to start having heart palpitations, and those who are at risk would go into cardiac arrest after one (which is what happened with the first death)


Since the first death, Panera has reduced the amount of caffeine in the lemonade, and many stores have started putting it behind the counter rather than out in the open. They've also added warnings about the caffeine content of the drinks, but still don't warn about the compounding effects of taurine.

These lawsuits are likely going to be settled out of court, because Panera did fuck up here, and they also don't want the bad press of multiple deaths linked to their overly caffeinated drink.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 67 points 11 months ago

Not all bigots are secretly gay. Some are just hate filled assholes. Most are hate filled assholes.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 70 points 1 year ago

Apparently someone did, and then the response was that tampons are low enough weight that the packaging to send them was the majority of the weight, even when sending 100, so they sent 100.

They also developed a zero-g makeup kit because they thought that female astronauts would want that. It had eyeliner, lip gloss, foundation, and blush. All specially selected to not generate dust.

The makeup kit never actually flew, likely because someone asked an actual woman if she would ever want that shit in space.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 64 points 1 year ago

NASA is obsessed with redundancy, especially when the weight allowance lets them run away with it.

Add that to the fact that most of the engineers were men, and had literally no clue about how many tampons are needed for a normal woman on earth, and you end up with 100 being sent up for a two-week mission.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 72 points 1 year ago

Here's a simple fact, there are Chinese nuclear plants that are releasing more tritium into the ocean during normal operations than Fukushima is, or ever will.

Another simple fact, all the tritium released worldwide is basically negligible when you look at the diffusion rates in ocean water.

I've got no clue what China is really wanting with the seafood ban, but it's not to punish Japan for releasing Fukushima water.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 70 points 1 year ago

See, this shit wouldn't throw me. As a DM I love improve in my plot lines. Hell, I often don't plan things out past laying out the world and enemy motivations.

Sure my big bad has goals, but they have to work for them just as much as anyone else does. One of the most fun (for me) campaigns I ever ran was where the big bad conducted a ritual off screen, and botched the roll. He ended up killing himself.

The party knew that he had been planning a ritual of some sort and had gone into seclusion. They had decided to dismantle his organization before tracking him down.

So weeks of fighting and taking out little hidden cells of the cult, they finally find info about where the big bad was doing his ritual. Only to find a mangled rotting corpse and a closed hell portal.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 69 points 1 year ago

The Lochner Era might have been worse than the pre-civil war era.

To know that the Lochner Era was like, just imagine this court in 10-years.

The Supreme Court during the Lochner era has been described as "play[ing] a judicially activist but politically conservative role".[5] The Court sometimes invalidated state and federal legislation that inhibited business or otherwise limited the free market, including minimum wage laws, federal (but not state) child labor laws, regulations of banking, insurance and transportation industries.[5] The Lochner era ended when the Court's tendency to invalidate labor and market regulations came into direct conflict with Congress's regulatory efforts in the New Deal.

The Lochner court struck down laws that would have lessened the impact of the 1929 stock market crash, and also struck down efforts to shorten the depression.

FDR flat out said that if they didn't knock it off, he would appoint as many justices as needed to undo the damage.

This current bill is maybe not the way to do it. Just add a few more seats (13 Total, to match the number of appeals circuits), and then maybe name the Federalist Society a hate group and ineligible for federal service in any capacity.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 73 points 1 year ago

The difference is that this actually is safe.

See, the radiation released is actually lower than the background radiation of standard ocean water, because the ocean is full of naturally occurring uranium oxide. It's water-soluble.

Anyway, the tritium in the discharge water is diluted so much that it will be a non-issue. This just gets headlines because people are kind of stupid when it comes to the scary radiation word, as if you weren't bathing in ionizing radiation right this very second from all the natural sources around you.

You have gamma from cosmic rays, alpha and beta emitters in the soil, and a dozen other sources of radiation around you.

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 67 points 1 year ago

They ditched the "don't be evil" years ago. Now it's "As many ads as possible".

I hear that they can cover up to 80% of a user's visual field without inducing seizures.

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