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veen  ·  9 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Have you been able to get the UPF book already from the library? I’m curious whether you think it’s garbage or not, it also has a part about the GRAS loophole being bad (like every industry self-regulation of safety inevitably is).

kleinbl00  ·  9 days ago  ·  link  ·  

yeah but I gave it back because I couldn't hang

it's not the book's fault I'm just in need of some escapism

This book is so shit

mk  ·  9 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Or global warming. All the kids got fat because they stopped smoking too, I guess.

Devac  ·  9 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Please, the cause of global warming is a continued decrease in the already endangered pirate population.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/PiratesVsTemp%28en%29.svg

(god I hate every aspect of that graph, tho)

kleinbl00  ·  9 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That is some felony chartcrime for sure.

FT Alphaville highlighted this one a few months back:

Devac  ·  9 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I thought that if finance weenies had one thing in those overpaid gel-smeared heads, it'd be pie charts...

kleinbl00  ·  9 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Technically it was ABC News Australia. They took it down after everyone howled at their lunacy.