they’re gonna violate food safety standards we’ve never even heard of
Yep. Barely a week later.
[id: first photo: Tweet from @Dextero saying: “Mr Beast, KSI and Logan Paul are releasing ‘Lunchly’ a Lunchables competitor. It will feature Prime, Feastables chocolate and a variation of food.” Dated 16th September 2024.
Second photo: screenshot from Forbes, headline “Mr Beast’s ‘Lunchly’ Mold Controversy Explained”, byline: “Lunchly was created by Youtubers MrBeast, KSI and Logan Paul, but the packaged meal has been said to contain moldy cheese, with some creators exposing the contents on camera.” Dated 25th October 2024]
Early-voting turnout in Texas is off to a hot start. 🔥 More than 840,000 people have cast their ballots in person statewide, almost 100,000 more than 2020!
On top of that, the number of registered voters in Texas grew more than 10% between 2020 and 2024.
Early-voting turnout in Texas is off to a hot start. 🔥 More than 840,000 people have cast their ballots in person statewide, almost 100,000 more than 2020!
On top of that, the number of registered voters in Texas grew more than 10% between 2020 and 2024.
Okay, don’t get me wrong here. I LOVE Jurassic Park. I love seeing their dinosaurs. But after watching Prehistoric Planet, and going back to look at this…
And then looking at this…
Notice how much healthier the second set looks? Their lips cover their teeth, they actually have fat on their bodies, their skin doesn’t wrinkle like they’re dehydrated. You can’t see every single tendon and muscle move because you aren’t supposed to. Dinosaurs are animals, not reptilian body-builders.
THIS is the kind of change I want to see in how we create realistic depictions of not only dinosaurs, but all prehistoric creatures. Paleoart has always had a huge issue with shrink-wrapping and making these animals look terrifying instead of making them look like, well, animals.
Well done, BBC.
STOP BACKYARD BREEDING YOUR DINOSAURS
Get your Tyrannosaurs from responsible, DKC registered breeders! Anyone who says your rex should be skinny or ‘thats just how they are’ is lying to you.
I know there’s the funny ha ha of a capitalist’s worst nightmare of a product being too durable you don’t need to replace it, but the situation is actually quite interesting to look into
A lot of articles tend to point towards a lack of “relevance” but ultimately that’s not what is happening.
One of Tupperware’s biggest hurdles is availability, not demand. They previously relied on independent sellers, down to individual independent sellers, like the Tupperware Parties of yore (people, usually women seeking financial independence from the 50s onward, would hold events to sell Tupperware to other suburban women – similar to Avon). 2022 was the first year Tupperware could be found in places like Target. At All. Their exclusivity and middle(wo)men decreased their reach as the parties became less and less of a thing.
The next issue for Tupperware is in manufacturing. It only has a single US plant (which it now closed) and struggled post-(early)covid to pay for rising costs of plastic and transportation of materials.
THEN Tupperware got fucked by investors trying to make bank first on their success and then also on their failure as they got swept into “meme stock” betting, where inexperienced traders gamble on stock around jokes/irony.
So ultimately, Tupperware has failed to get with the times as it has always relied on suburban lady sales while countless imitation products hit shelves in places where working class people shop for cheaper and sometimes comparable products, the cost to make a good product went up and as Tupperware struggled, investors and gamblers who are addicted to Line Going Up cashed in on betting on their failure rather than success, and because Tupperware is so synonymous with plastic food storage, IP gremlins are more than delighted to crash and burn a company to get it on the cheap and turn it around to make the numbers go back up again.
Rather than a “oh the woe of durability” story, or lament that a product is not used anymore, this is an excellent microcosm of the vulturistic nature of capitalism.
How dare you read the article and add nuance to this headline upon which I may project my grossly uninformed postulations of Our Society and consumer behavior.
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