smeg

joined 10 months ago
[–] smeg 32 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Unfortunately, this strategy didn't work to prevent my kid from having the same milk allergy that I do. In fact, it's worse.

Not fatal or anything. His lips become bright red, swelling slightly and peel later, he obviously gets days of the shits, and if it's repeated exposure he will get rashes all over. And we're talking some small amount of milk powder or unexpected butter deep in the ingredients of a baked good - if he actually consumed something like real milk, butter, or cheese, it would be much worse.

Goat cheese seems fine. It's something about the cow milk proteins.

For me, it's just a serious case of the shits when it's the real deal. I guess my millennial upbringing of a glass of milk daily conditioned some small amount of tolerance.

[–] smeg 16 points 1 month ago

"Don't discourage our highly addictive product"

[–] smeg 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ideally located in Germany, subject to German law and regulation, German taxes, and German national security interests, right?

[–] smeg 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Easily mistaken for a dumpster.

[–] smeg 12 points 1 month ago

Right, the constituents of the state are being deprived of Constitutional representation. Filing the suit is the correct course toward rectifying this, not making a press statement.

[–] smeg 2 points 1 month ago

Not terribly far these days. Nearly all of my travel is by walking or cycling.

Although over the next week, I will be travelling by train a few times to a city 30km away and back. And then to a city 500km away and back. But those are very tourist trips.

[–] smeg 12 points 1 month ago

Also, China requires foreign companies to basically hand over all IP rights to the local entity as a default.

They don't need to take over the business - they have everything they need to replace the foreign ownership at a moment's notice.

[–] smeg 62 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Dumb ploy in favor of the meat lobby. Consumers aren't confused, they clearly know it's a different product than meat. Stores put it in a separate section. We have hundreds of products with non-literal names to help consumers understand what they are trying to be.

The reality is that meat agriculture is bad for the environment, bad for public health (both individual health and for how it spreads disease), and is less shelf stable. It isn't going anywhere, though, so stop trying to put barriers in front of better choices.

[–] smeg 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ergo Proxy

Mostly a cheat, though, because the music is Radiohead.

[–] smeg 38 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Trying to solve the problem he caused, but with half as much money as he gave away to Argentina for similar economic blunders. Other countries get more aid from Trump than America - I thought that was a Democratic fault??

[–] smeg 5 points 1 month ago

LazyLibrarian is fantastic for ebooks. Basically useless for audiobooks. I've found the entire *arr stack seems ill suited for audiobooks.

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