It could be 100% pork and 0% beef. If that’s vegan than I’ll reconsider my opinion of vegan.
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My friend invited me to a seminar for a MLM scheme involving getting people to sign up for sub-prime loans. I didn’t know what the product was before I showed up, and I didn’t think I was actually going to find a worthwhile career from a company that relied on people’s friends to show up to a conference room in an… Read more

Florida law makes it super easy to sue people for bullshit reasons, the state of Florida actively encourages people to come to it for jurisdiction shopping purposes. Yet another reason to hate Florida.
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I heard he also filed suit over Denny’s vegan, ‘Moon Over My Planty’ misbranding.  Read more

Interesting. I knew that they didn’t bother cooking their impossible burgers on separate surfaces from their regular burgers, but I think that’s only because I had read it in articles. If BK doesn’t make that pretty clear and conspicuous in their advertising, especially given the “100% Whopper, 0% beef” slogan, they… Read more

Alexa, show me why people hate vegans.
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This person is not your friend.
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I usually say, “Sorry, those parties aren’t really my jam, but I’ll let you know if I need something after all!” Even with friends who really aren’t very pushy, I feel like a leech trying their products and not buying anything.  Read more

“I’d love to, but I’d rather... Read more

Option 3: Don’t spend any money on MLM schemes, and instead buy your tea-towel stocking stuffers here: https://www.radicalteatowel.com/

My SIL got sucked into selling Matilda Jane clothes for a year. It was very stressful and she only ever broke even. Now I, a grown woman, have some good options for dressing up at Halloween as a kindergartener. Even if you can stomach a pyramid scheme party, no one wins. Read more

it working.  Read more

I want my food to arrive in a manner that I can just start eating. If I have to rearrange the plate in any major way you’ve failed. Read more

I stopped drinking milk a long time ago because I grew up in dairy country and got tired of the subsidized people with nice cars and undocumented laborers crying crocodile tears about their hard lives. The recent articles have just been non-dairy whipped topping. Read more

Hi Kate! Chemist here. Please please PLEASE forgive the following and just consider it aimed at comment-readers if it’s stuff you already know or is too basic for you.

I read the paper you included from the group in Pakistan about UV measurement of caffeine. It’s a fine enough paper, but has some drawbacks that I think… Read more

Stop, stop! My eyes can only roll so hard! Read more

In the UK, these beers are not required to state their caffeine content. I assume that this is because a) it is so low that, in the quantities sold, it is of no consequence: b) unlike colas, these beverages are not being sold to, or bought for children; and c) if you’re drinking enough in one session for the caffeine… Read more

That seems a bit much when i’m already pouring milk stout over my morning cereal. Read more

Same compost bin is on Amzon for “only” $89. Read more