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Fun fact: US has so weak food counterfeit laws and enforcement it has become the dumping ground for low quality oil or even mixed, making it an allergy hazard. If you haven’t gone out of your way to ensure you are getting the real deal, and paid a premium for it, you probably have never tasted genuine extra virgin olive oil. https://www.mashed.com/281801/the-real-reason-your-olive-oil-is-probably-fake/

The Settlers games have not been Settlers games after the fourth one. Except of course the remake, but that also was a very long time ago.

Half as Interesting explained how it ended up like this. https://piped.video/watch?v=_Bq-6GeRhys

TL;DW; Amazon tried to offload vetting of the third party vendors to the patent and trademark office by requiring their brands are registered, but the vendors ended up generating nonsense brand names that automatically pass because there are too many applications and the names aren’t obviously going to conflict with existing ones.

That is exactly what happened with third pound burgers.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fractions/

That’s the difference, they hoard wealth and not currency. The value of assets do not go down when currency loses its value with inflation.

Wealthy have little to no cash that would lose value with inflation, they just buy everything on credit and have their wealth tied to assets and investments that probably gain value at least at the pace of inflation.

Yes, I do. A lot. Starting from elementary school when a class mate had a really weird pronunciation of Harry Potter.

Some of my embarrassing memories aren’t even something I did, but something I cringed hard at when I saw or heard it. Sometimes I am so afraid someone else is going to embarrass themself I have to block my ears so I don’t hear it.

“smart” devices aka Internet asbestos

Bono estente

I have become so clumsy with the wires, it was less wasteful for me to buy wireless earbuds with wire only between them. The modern codecs are high quality and I only use them outside, so the nuance would be anyway lost.

Smart speakers I do not have. I feel weird talking to devices and I would have to do it in English because they support my native language poorly if at all. I’m not sure if they even are officially available here.

Everything unnecessarily connected to the Internet should have this on them, because they have very little security auditing and all support is dropped very early on the lifetime of the appliance. https://kissa.depili.fi/internet_asbestos_52x32_cmyk.pdf

I have had some people refuse to even try Baba Is You, because it looks ugly.

I had The Hex a few years even installed, so I have tried it, but only after getting familiar with the style of Daniel Mullins’ games with Inscryption I pushed far enough to get interested. Still very clunky, but worth it.

There’s also a complete patapon fan game called Pataroad

https://piped.video/watch?v=SZynlk9jweU

My first language course

As it should be

Once an idea is passed to event a single other person it has spread.

This was getting popular

https://sopuli.xyz/post/1210362

But the it was posted and screenshotted on Twitter to be posted back here and everything went downhill

https://lemmy.ml/post/1938518

Demotivational posters and rage comics were varied from get go and didn’t have a single viral hit sparking them.

Not really Richard Dawkins’ original definition of the term when he created it was on the lines of

A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

One of the earliest memes was just to photoshop “All Your Base Is Belong To Us” on everything.

4chan used to be the meme factory where ideas were copied and mutated before they broke out to the wider internet to go viral.

I don’t speak french, but I know how annoying it is when people leave out diacritics and make other mistakes they could have avoided just using a minute to verify.