I'll clarify my own take separate from the discussion of the original subreddit: I don't think an advertising person posted this to Lemmy, I think an advertising person made the original photo, shared it on probably Facebook, got enough organic interaction for other people to start sharing it with good intentions and without much thought as to whether it actually happened or not, and OP saw and posted it here after it filtered out to the wider internet.
I can see how someone would say that what I described is brainwashing with extra steps, but I think of it more as an exploitation by marketers who know that people don't usually expend more critical thinking on ultimately harmless pictures shared online.
I dunno, it's a hard thing to be militant about, because it's always a personal read.
When I was working for a summer camp watching over preteens, they had a game night in the cabin with Apples to Apples (a Cards Against Humanity for kids (which I believe predates CAH but more people are likely to know that then apples to apples)). One of them was getting frustrated that their answers weren't getting picked, and I decided at the time to mention something along the lines of "well, maybe he likes less serious answers and likes more sarcastic ones".
They latched on, and from that moment forward all they could talk about was how variously much they either liked or didn't like sarcasm, and would ask every round whether the judge for the round "was sarcastic or not".
I wouldn't be surprised if the same filtered parroting is what you're against, and if so I would agree and also say that I do think that the call-out is appropriate on this post. I don't want to put words in your mouth though, so if I'm off-base I'll be happy to stand corrected.
Hailcorporate is supposed to be a way of calling out marketing posts disguised as real events.
Considering the note was signed "your neighbor" and outlines a set of events that would be incredibly unlikely in real life, and there's a specific brand called out to "stop this from happening to you"...
I'm not OP and I'm not the person you were replying to, and maybe this makes me a cynic, but since it doesn't matter either way for this post I'd say the advice to protect your catalytic converter is good advice and I'm going to intentionally avoid the named brand on the likelihood that they tried to guerilla market and have people spread their ad for them which is what I see.
God, if this ends up with the steam deck 2 powering a standalone index 2 with redesigned knuckles 2 that can be used standalone as a Steam Controller 2...
It's a fantasy, absolutely. The controller part especially probably wouldn't work. But... I can dream.
As I understand it, sushi in this context is specifically made to be a single bite.
I want to say it's some reason a long the lines of "it was masterfully creafted in such a way that the only best experience is to eat the whole thing at once, and to do otherwise is to insinuate a lack of respect", with the disclaimer that I don't actually know if that's what it is.
I can tell you where she is or how fast she is going, if either of those two data points are helpful.
Hey, yeah! Him and his friend... I think the station commander's son?
A thousand to several million, you say...
Sorry, all out. Just traded my last datum for a hundred gross self-sealing stem bolts.
I didn't get much sleep, so the tone of my posts today has been fairly aggressive.
For the purposes of making myself entirely clear, because it seems like I'm being misinterpreted, I'll tone down the typical internet rudeness-for-rudeness and plainly state my feelings about this directly. If you disagree with them at that point, that's understandable, but right now you say that you believe that I believe things that I don't believe, and my entire point in continuing to reply is that I want to make it clear what I've been saying from the beginning:
- Dosage makes the poison. I don't support capsaicin being labelled a poison. That's a bad label that is wrong.
- I don't care to reaffirm the actions of a stupid legislature out of touch with the job they were elected to do. They made a bad decision that is wrong.
- The doctors who looked at multiple people who ate this "challenge level" spicy food said that the problems they reported match symptoms that would normally indicate a poisoning. They did not say they were poisoned. As I said up top, an analogy would be to say that while COVID isn't literally the flu, it does share many of the same symptoms. The doctors said a correct thing that people have turned into an incorrect statement by assuming the doctors were saying that they were literally poisoned, which is an unfortunate side-effect of the need for accuracy and precision of language in more scientific fields.
If the doctors had literally said "spicy is poison", they would have been wrong and dumb. They didn't. If any politician has said that "spicy is poison", they're wrong and dumb. If any news sites have said that "spicy is poison", they're dumb and wrong.
I don't want to continue to send messages with the intention of clapping back or being an ass, and I'm genuinely happy to continue the discussion in a way that doesn't make both of us into assholes going forward, if there are more points of my position you'd like me to clarify or would like to continue to talk about, but if things are gonna keep being weirdly insulting for no good reason, then Imma dip.
No, what I'm saying is that if you drink a gallon of vodka you'd have alcohol poisoning. If you drink a bathtub of water you'd have water poisoning, a real thing. If you eat a shit ton of concentrated capsaicin... You'd have...?
My take is that the people who were treated were treated for symptoms of poisoning, and that pretending they weren't is a stupid, petty, and useless line to fixate on. They were exhibiting symptoms of poisoning. They weren't poisoned in the traditional sense that immediately comes to mind when you hear the word and imagine the action, but what happened to them was the same stuff that would happen to someone who was. We can all move on now.
The problem is that the ban is a fucking stupid idea as compared to better labelling and/or age controls.
Being an asshole is a bad look, but even worse when you're a confidently incorrect one.
If that kilo of cheese were artificially somehow shrunk down to a single serving and marketed to cheese enthusiasts as "the cheesy challenge"... Maybe?
You would still have some kind of poisoning if you're lactose intolerant, importantly.
I think my own point is that someone showing symptoms of poisoning in this context is valid, even if banning a super-spicy food is a heavy-handed reaction to what would probably be better solved with better labelling and in an extreme case age restriction.
*flails arms* I am become death, destroyer of worlds! YAAAAAAAAAY!
To the doctor treating a patient, they don't care about the legal definition. A poisoned patient is a poisoned patient.
Additionally, "causing symptoms of" a thing is a very different statement from "causing". Covid causes symptoms of the flu, for example.