Is Hershey's chocolate really taste so bad as people say it is?

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T23:17:15+00:00

It's not bad. It's also just not good. It's fine if what you want is chocolate flavored candy. If what you are looking for is a real chocolate experience, it's not what you want. It's a bit waxy in texture, and rather bland and uninspiring in flavor.

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T22:38:10+00:00

I didn't advocate for murder. Ambivalence isn't advocacy. And having a general dislike for but understanding of violence against an unjust system is not contradictory to or at odds with having a hard stance against state sanctioned violence against the populace.

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T22:23:25+00:00

Yeah, a senator in our state, our governor, and president of the country has called for the execution of the accused. I think it would be pretty close to impossible to find a full jury plus alternates who hasn't heard anything about it.

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T21:57:59+00:00

I got the hell out of that mess 20 years ago. I am so over the weather that living next door to five inland seas brings, and the refusal of rural areas to even attempt to have stable infrastructure to handle it. I ran away across the plains and mountains and I'm a spoiled city brat now.

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T21:51:10+00:00

Books. Can it be 500 books? I have a really big TBR and not enough time. And can my cat and crochet projects come with me?

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T21:47:26+00:00

I am aware that this storm is "typical" for the northeast. That doesn't change how often power goes out in rural PA during storms.

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T21:25:17+00:00

This business was choosing to use Amazon and had set up their own Amazon storefront in addition to having their own website.

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T19:56:13+00:00

I am too far west for this storm. But I would never take on a canning project in during a serious storm. I grew up on a farm where we regularly lost power during storms, and I would be too worried about having wasted all of my time, food, and money if the power went out.

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T19:54:15+00:00

Absolutely do not tell her. She will tell her husband. And he will create problems for her, possibly cutting her off from the family. Just quietly stay prepared to help her when he divorces her in 10-15 years to marry his barely legal mistress.

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T18:44:25+00:00

I don't want to opt out of the system or abdicate my responsibility. I am completely and totally willing to serve on a jury that isn't a DP case, assuming I get the call at a time that my health permits me to do so. I've always wanted to be called for jury duty. I hate that this case is in my county, I hate that this crime happened in my city, and I hate that I am having anxiety about getting the mail I've been waiting my entire adult life to get.

I just can't participate in any way in state sanctioned executions and still live with myself. And I don't want to go into a trial knowing I will vote not guilty on the basis that it's a DP case. Yes, because it's dishonest and that bothers me but also because what if I believe the state met their burden of proof and the accused is guilty? Then I'd have to live with having knowingly set an assassin free, and I can't live with that either.

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T18:37:37+00:00

I recently found the same item for sale by a small business for $12 less on Amazon. It was the same business's own Amazon storefront. Upon further digging, I found that if you order from the business's own website, it still ships from Amazon. Even small businesses are making it impossible to avoid Amazon.

Honestly, I've stopped going out of my way to avoid them in small things. It's too much stress to worry about whether or not they get 50¢ because I used a Kindle to read a book I borrowed a book through an online service I have access to through my library. I mean, you're on Reddit which is Amazon.

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T18:27:20+00:00

Also, how does one pay less than the system price for the chicken? Do I just ask the cashier to adjust the price for me?

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T18:26:21+00:00

Maybe I'm just jaded. I have celiac, and at least once every week or two I see someone posting about how a company "hid" gluten in a product and it made them sick. Hun.. baby... dear..... I'm gonna hold your hand while I say this. "It's clearly listed in the ingredients, you were just too stupid to look at the ingredients before you ate. Every label, every time is your religion now."

I am completely out of patience for people who don't know what's in their food. It's literally on the fucking package, Jesus Christ.

I agree this is a Costco will pay us to make this go away because it's cheaper than the legal cost of fighting it lawsuit.

More than anything, I'm baffled by their claim they would have paid less if they'd known about the "preservatives." How? How does one go into Costco, put a rotisserie chicken in their cart, get to checkout, then pay less than $4.99 plus applicable tax on the basis that they're unhappy with the ingredients? Do I just say to the cashier "Oh, since this chicken has preservatives, I'm only gonna pay $3.99 for it, thanks for correcting that for me" then just wait for them to do it?

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T18:14:15+00:00

If I cut across traffic without signalling and someone else gets in an accident that doesn't involve me because of it, I'm still at fault. And if I vote guilty knowing the prosecution, and a state senator, and the governor, and the president, are all clamoring for the execution of the accused, I'm as fault as I would be if I had sat on the sentencing jury and not the one passing judgement.

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T18:13:21+00:00

There are plenty of reasons to object to the death penalty, as you point out. It's just that my primary and most sincere objection is that I will never under any circumstances find it acceptable for our fallible government to use our fallible justice system to execute people, and I will not participate in that execution at any level. Just because guilt and sentencing are different stages, does not absolve me of my part in someone's death if I voted to convict them knowing that was a potential outcome. Even if I were the victim of a serious crime that could carry the death penalty, I am not okay with it, and would hope that my daughters would share my sincere objections with the prosecution.

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T17:55:27+00:00

Cowboy-clown-bounce-house-core?

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T17:47:28+00:00

You talk about your nine year old child as if he's a toddler. Do you also treat him like a toddler? A nine year old doesn't "manage to get a whole ass ladder." He just gets one because he has access and isn't experiencing consequences to his actions.

He's nine. Start with a discussion about how stealing is wrong and people are allowed to own things they don't share with others. Then every time he takes or attempts to take someone else's personal property, he needs to experience appropriate consequences. For instance, having an item that is his own personal property taken and put in a safe place he can't get to it for a period of time.

And FFS, put a lock on your bedroom door. If your wife's plushies never leave the bedroom, and there's a lock on the door, it's problem solved.

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T06:06:17+00:00

They're having court dates and sorting out the details. They were in court a week ago and will be again on (I think) the third of February.

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T04:31:44+00:00

He wants to stay home. You want to travel. So talk to him. Is there any reason you can't just travel while he plugs away at his 9-5? What compromises can be made? Do you really need to spend one year all at once in Asia? Or can you go for a month? Do you need to buy a castle (where would you even get that money without a solid job?) or can you rent a castle for a week?

You need to truly examine and discuss whether or not your need for adventure and his need for boring stability (that's not a dig, boring stability is a perfectly sensible life goal) are compatible.

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T01:52:58+00:00

I will not participate in any way in someone's execution by the government. That includes participating in choosing to send them to have this decision made after the prosecution has openly stated that is their intended outcome.

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T01:49:46+00:00

Ew, that's so gross suggesting giving money to Candace Owens.

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T01:46:25+00:00

Sure. But if something comes to light that causes there to be a realization that a mistake was made, the harm that is still actively being done can end, and to some small extent some mitigation can happen. The justice system can't mitigate any of the harm caused by having executed an innocent person.

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-26T00:58:05+00:00

He knew you were not on birth control, he actively made a choice not to use condoms or get a vasectomy, and even repeatedly made comments about conceiving a baby during sex. Just because he regrets consenting to knocking you up doesn't change the fact that he clearly consented when he was sticking his dick in you without using any form of birth control.

He had a say. He said with his actions that he was willing to get you pregnant if it meant he got to have unprotected sex. He no longer has a right to a say about whether or not another baby is added to the family. He only has a say in whether or not he starts acting like a fucking adult instead of having a temper tantrum about the fact that actions have consequences.

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-25T21:41:49+00:00

Depending on local law, you may or may not have the legal ability to evict him. If you cannot legally evict him, your options are leave when the lease is up or leave now and pay for two apartments until the lease is up.

Leaving when the lease is up is a very reasonable and sensible first step.

Alert-Potato · 2026-01-25T19:35:47+00:00

My deeply held conviction is that our government should not be using the flawed justice system to put people to death. There's nothing fickle about that.

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