I mean, it’s a little bit of a funny example when “but child porn” is often the argument for removing all digital freedom.

So now you can be a cyberpunk black market tech peddler for real?

There are devices now that have a SoC that’s completely locked down at the factory, although maybe none are 3D printers. It deserves more attention as the massive threat to digital freedom that it is.

Yes. They should require a certain number of significant digits, as opposed to just the nearest integer. Although someone’s saying that they actually let you round down from as many as 5 to 0, which is insane if true.

WTF. Like, sure, if you say “no decimal calories needed” it would make sense at the time, and could lead to this by accident. But that’s just silly.

They have some of the best accessibility regulations in the world.

Canada, at least, follows the US convention on this one. IIRC serving sizes are set by the government, though, if that’s any different.

The downside there is that if it’s, like, Marmite, you’ll never ever eat 100g in one sitting. So, you have to do a bunch of math to figure out how much salt is in the actual smear you’re using.

Their customers would take bars that cost the same and are imperceptibly smaller. Or, at least, would take it better than a price hike, I’d expect. Then, the Karens would come out.

Translation:

we have made a number of updates to our bar sizes and pack formats to reflect consumer demand

People don’t by Mars because it’s a top-tier, gucci product.

alongside considering wider external factors such as manufacturing costs and the price of cocoa

And if we stayed the same size, it’d be really expensive, because among other things the global climate no longer supports chocolate production.

TBF none of it is a lie. That’s as close as corporate-speak comes to “yup we did that”.

Food products, probably. In clothes or cars, for example, you can’t just make things smaller. With clothes, it seems more like skimpflation - some items definitely had thinner-feeling fabric right after COVID, although it got better again. With cars, they just raise the price, so that’s inflation.

If costs go up you have to do one of the three. You’re probably not getting angry phone calls because your Mars bar went down in size by 1g, but might if it’s more expensive or tastes like shit, so that’s the advantage there.

Lots of things are, decent and not.

The whole idea plastic waste is bad doesn’t seem to have made it over to Asia.

Same vibe as the parkinglot princess pickup truck.

For the children. You have to think of the children.

/s but also actually what they say.

It would make it pretty hard to do some kinds of research for a living, though. You’d basically get a small number of open source nerds and their free time fully in charge of, like, curing cancer. There are third options, but that’s why IP was invented in the first place.

What kind of token rate do you get if you try to run them in swap space?

They were wrong, and they know it, but also nobody’s allowed to say that. Ditto for a bunch of other Mao policies.

And is only going to get more exploitative.

Oh shit, if you came to see this as an actual loved one, adding a paywall would be legal kidnapping for ransom.

It should be said that while that exists (try dating while quadriplegic), there’s a lot more people out there who actually could find someone, but think they can’t.

Still, China likes to ban things almost for it’s own sake, and this is an example.