Remember when gas was cheap because the entire country ground to a halt due to Trump mismanaging COVID? Those sure were the days…

Honestly, if Trump did this it would completely change my view of him. Jokingly gnawing on a baby turkey leg is a very human thing to do, and I just could never see Trump doing it.

I really wish this article had more information, but the way it’s written is very vague and potentially rage-baiting. The only fact stated about the incident is:

Students at Clack Middle School were allegedly told by a staff member that they would begin tracking menstrual cycles for female students.

The word “they” in that sentence is unacceptably vague for a news article. Who is “they”? Is it the school and/or staff members? Because that’s justifiably bullshit and rage worthy.

Or does “they” mean the individual student? If a health teacher is teaching students how to use a period tracker, then that’s an entirely different story.

All in all, this is pretty lazy reporting that makes me think of how Fox News and its imitators get away with riling people up by completely misinterpreting a situation. With that being said, maybe this is a genuine case of a school doing something abhorrent. In which case, the journalist needs to do a better job providing the details rather than just one vague statement.

Aww but I thought I was special.

Yeah if you look at that GitHub link in the other comment, it mentions that a Lemmy variable was renamed in the latest release. So there’s nothing that we, as users, can do. It needs a code change.

Edit: Didn’t see your other comments. Looks like you already understood the issue.

Ah that explains it. Thanks!

There are videos of people reacting to hearing Megadeth’s Holy Wars… the Punishment Due for the first time. I enjoy the song, but I first heard it when I was probably like 10 and don’t really remember the first time. Would be fun to hear it with a fresh pair of ears.

Example reaction video: https://youtu.be/sh8wxc4tctE

That was a really fun book to listen to. He narrates the second one as well, but it didn’t capture lightning in a bottle the same way.

Probably shouldn’t mention that if you get asked about how you got started at your kid’s school career day.

Could just round to “3 dollars”

Boss makes $3.44, I make a cent. Sharpen the guillotines, cause I can’t pay my rent.

Hitachi Magic Wand?

Yeah you’re right. I stuck to the old askreddit rule of not adding clarifying text and put it in my comment instead. That kind of gets buried though. My bad.

I like that name. Deformulation definitely implies that the change was not made for the benefit of the consumer.

Well said. Skimpflation describes exactly what I’m talking about. It’s subtle, because they’re banking on the fact that people won’t notice immediately and then will gradually accept the new recipe. Probably the same reason that people remember Cadbury Cream Eggs being better when they were kids - and a million other tiny things.

“Hey boss, we took the fish out of our fish sticks like you asked.”

“Great job, Johnson. Slap a “Great new taste” sticker on it and call it a day.”

I think it’s different enough from shrinkflation that it needs its own name. My gripe specifically was with Naked Juice, where if it was just being sold in a smaller bottle, I would buy more. But the recipe has actually changed to a point where I don’t want to drink it at all now, because it’s just not the same.

From an article linked above, my emphasis added, this is different because consumers are less able to protect themselves from it by being informed:

“We have long observed shrinkflation and bad value for money maxi packs,” Laura Clays, spokesperson for consumer protection organisation Test Achats, told The Brussels Times. “However, these tactics were mainly dubious from a financial point of view. This is still unacceptable, but consumers were able to protect themselves by keeping an eye on the price per unit.”

She stressed that in the case of “cheapflation”, the consumer is left more or less powerless. “This tactic is really about what people are ingesting, which is even more sneaky. While this will likely not have major health effects, eating less fishy fish sticks is definitely not a healthier meal option, so that’s not ideal.”

Yeah. I was having trouble finding exactly what I was looking for by googling “Naked Juice watered-down”. I did find something else that suggested specifically what I was seeing with Naked Juice described as Applejuiceification. But that doesn’t seem as versatile to describe other food products.

“Cheapflation” sounds exactly like what I was thinking of. https://www.brusselstimes.com/1021212/not-so-fishy-fish-sticks-what-is-cheapflation-and-what-to-pay-attention-to

In Albert Heijn’s fish sticks, the fish content dropped from 75% to 55%.

Eeewwww

That’s what I originally thought, but I’ve only seen that term for tech stuff. Wikipedia describes it as “a pattern in which online products and services decline in quality”.