Xatolos

Xatolos, 17 hours ago

Stepsister: Huh, it’s not the only thing micro…

Xatolos, 3 days ago

Doubt it. Would be a repeat of when Trump got COVID, where he kept saying it was nothing while getting massive medical help to recover from it.

Xatolos, 4 days ago

It is a bad thing as it happened just at a transitional period in chargers. If it was just another USB A connector, then it wouldn’t have been an issue. But we are now in the transition of USB C chargers and most people don’t have a “box of them”.

Newer devices are advertising that they have ever faster charging options, but these need the newer USB C connectors to reach these advertised speeds, which as I mentioned, most people don’t already have. So you are stuck buying another thing to use what they were advertised as having.

Xatolos, 7 days ago

Online gaming for certain games. Proton doesn’t work with some online DRMs.

Xatolos, 11 days ago

Market size has also gone up. 30 years ago and selling a million copies is mind-blowing. Today it’s on the lower end of big game launch. Lower profit per unit, but many more units sold which really helps balance out the difference.

Xatolos, 19 days ago

Violation of the Geneva Convention.

Xatolos, 20 days ago

It’s even worse than that. The makers aren’t even sure what was in their product to begin with.

Zahn says the kokum butter shouldn’t be an issue anyway: The company has since replaced it with cocoa butter, which does have GRAS certification. Initially, he told the Post the cocoa butter version was what he submitted for the awards, but after this story was published he said he determined that it was in fact the kokum butter version. (According to Weiner, Climax submitted an ingredient list that included kokum.)

So it might have been labeled with having kokum butter, it might not. Who knows? Seems to depends what answer is needed at the time.

Also,

Climax, it turns out, wasn’t just a finalist — it was set to win the award, a fact that all parties are asked to keep confidential until the official ceremony in Portland, Ore., but was revealed in an email the foundation sent to Climax in January.

If I’m reading this correctly, out of all the contestants, only they knew they won. Makes it a further stretch that it was a dairy company that “out” them as they wouldn’t have known that the vegan cheese won.

My guess for the change about GRAS was it most likely was assumed everyone would only submit GRAS items, and since someone broke that non-spoken rule then they had to make it a clarified rule. It is something you’d just assume everyone made sure their food was most or less FDA approved (which is a logical assumption).

The Washington Post article is much clearer about this whole issue (which is linked to in this badly written Boingbonk article.)

Xatolos, 20 days ago

WebMD isn’t the FDA, neither are the millions who eat it.

Only the FDA can say if something is GRAS or not. No one else matters in this context. And this contest wants to follow the FDA guidelines.

Xatolos, 22 days ago

https://reddthat.com/pictrs/image/589d2af3-96f4-44d1-9d2b-9d7c76afe045.png

Xatolos, 19 days ago

But then all the home skooled Republicans would complain that it’s against their parental rights to have to deal with public edukation and their children’s might end up hearing about those evil "A-B-3"s.

“It’s ‘always’ been this way and I don’t think we should change” (even if it hasn’t always been this way)

Xatolos, 23 days ago

We don’t believe in controlling you and your games. Here, you won’t be locked out of titles you paid for, or constantly asked to prove you own them - this is DRM-free gaming.

From the GOG website.

You’ll need to show some proof for that claim.

Xatolos, 26 days ago

So the choice is vote for Biden who has acknowledged and stated that the violence in Gaza needs to stop. Or vote for Trump who declared that Gaza should be blown to hell.

Sorry, who was kissing Israel’s ass?

Xatolos, 26 days ago

Don’t worry, if these kinds of people can get Trump in regardless of the will of the people, Trump will pardon them for this crime.