A review for Death Stranding:
Having played Death Stranding myself
Yep.
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do you think. sokka taught zuko how to kiss? not in like a romantic way but in like a, "bro you've never kissed anyone? do you wanna know what its like? i'll show you how. haha it's no biggie it's actually super fun. what else are friends for, amirite?" kinda way.
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This, from last week, is one of the best stories you’ll ever read about how regulation works:
Congress passed legislation intended to make life better for people allergic to sesame seeds. Instead, it made things worse.
The bill, passed with overwhelming bipartisan support and signed into law by President Biden in 2021, requires manufacturers to label sesame on their products starting this year.
In response, some companies began adding sesame to products that hadn’t included it in the past—saying it was safer to add sesame and label it, rather than certify they had eliminated all traces of it.
People with sesame allergies say the result is fewer sesame-free food options, as well as new and unexpected risks from sesame in foods they used to eat without worry.
The issue is that it is hard to eliminate trace amounts of sesame, and the law now requires food manufacturers to label sesame as an allergen. Not putting sesame on the label effectively constitutes a promise that there is no sesame in the product, and if there is a little bit then you get in trouble:
Advising that the product “may contain” sesame on the label isn’t a practical solution since a trace amount of sesame detected could trigger a recall, the bakers group said. The Food and Drug Administration considers “may contain” a voluntary advisory that isn’t a substitute for good manufacturing practices meant to ensure that a product is allergen-free, and finding an undeclared allergen could be grounds for ordering a recall.
But if you say that the product definitely contains sesame, then you are immunized from trouble. So you just chuck some sesame into everything, change the labels, and you’re fine. It is easier to make sure that there is sesame than that there isn’t, so that’s what companies do.
Everything is like this? There are huge areas of regulation where the most straightforward approach is to look at the giant book of rules and say “no thank you, I want out of this entirely.” Making non-sesame food products is a heavily regulated business with huge risks if you mess up; making sesame-based food products just lets you escape from that regulatory regime, so you might as well throw in some sesame.
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cluster b culture is someone online called you attractive and your brain has decided oh This is my new fp and i will be obsessed with the small snippets of personality i see from this person i havent even ever talked to outside of a post and get unreasonably upset and anxious if they dont like enough of my posts
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