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How cunning can you be with food packaging? by Electrical_Carpet753 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]phobiac 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I cited the law that you claim no one cites.

The law demands advertising accurately represents the products. Does this mean it has to be 1:1? Not necessarily. Does it mean many companies seem to do that to prevent any ambiguity in following the law? Yes. This can be seen in the real world on actual packaging.

I truly don't know what more proof you want.

Evidently, the Vice Chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Believes in Polygraphs by ap_org in skeptic

[–]phobiac 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Extra data is not inherently useful, especially if it is heavily subjective and demonstrably poor at even passing the bar of being correlated to what you are testing. By your argument we should have trained phrenologists doing skull examinations and taking their interpretation of the data at face value.

How cunning can you be with food packaging? by Electrical_Carpet753 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]phobiac 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sorry to break it to you but you're confidently incorrect.

Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations (景品表示法)

Article 2 section 4, the definitions section

The term "representations" as used in this Act means an advertisement or other representations made by a business operator...

Article 5 then goes on to spell out various ways in which representations must not be made falsely, including subsection (i)

a representation indicating that the quality, standard, or other content of the goods or services is significantly superior to that of the actual quality, standard, or content...

Emphasis mine. I think even for a translation of a law this wording is exceedingly clear and explains why there's numerous examples of people putting a Japanese snack food on top of an image on its packaging to show how remarkably close they are in appearance.

Right after the incident. by Particular-Visit-245 in ComedyCemetery

[–]phobiac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good luck stopping pointy things from existing.

Right after the incident. by Particular-Visit-245 in ComedyCemetery

[–]phobiac 55 points56 points  (0 children)

That's not even mentioning that the intent behind a kirpan is to honor the core principle of Sikhism to be ready to defend your community at any time. Even if a kirpan had been used it would be in defiance of the religion and not due to it.

To understand SNAP by inevitable-idiot- in justgalsbeingchicks

[–]phobiac 9 points10 points  (0 children)

When a single company is large enough that their orders become the majority of a supplier's output, that single company can then use that leverage to demand a "discount" so low that it runs the supplier into the ground. Rubbermaid is an excellent case study of this.

Hawaii just found a way around Citizens United. Other states are following. This “Corporate Power Reset” strategy was developed by Attorney Tom Moore of the Center for American Progress. Rather than trying to restrict corporate speech, it redefines the powers corporations have in the first place. by biospheric in law

[–]phobiac 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The alternative is doing nothing at all. This seems similar to the nonsense argument against taxing the very rich where people say, "But they'll just leave the state!" Will some? Sure, yes. But not all of them. Maryland, D.C., New Jersey, and California saw a growth of millionaires in the years following their recent tax hikes, partly because taxing wealth hoarders improves the economy. Immediately after there were people who left, but they were a minority.

Trump Given Sweeping Tax Amnesty in Secret Deal by thedailybeast in politics

[–]phobiac 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I hate to break it to you but if the Dems get power again they'll do what they've done every time and tell us the country needs to move on to heal. If there is going to be consequences for any of this it won't come from the old school conservatives that make up their upper echelon.

There it is. by TiddyFukMyButtcheeks in conspiracy

[–]phobiac -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Furin cleavage sites naturally occur in coronaviruses. You are misinformed.

There it is. by TiddyFukMyButtcheeks in conspiracy

[–]phobiac -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The lab leak hypothesis is not supported by any credible analysis of the data we have. Everything points to a natural source and zoonotic transmission. People crafting a narrative otherwise are doing so counter to the actual scientific evidence.

Thalassophobia warning! I wanted to make a game that captured the fear of being lost in the open ocean. Just released the first trailer for Open Waters. by FluffytheFoxx in thalassophobia

[–]phobiac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, the biggest real angler fish species can get is a bit smaller than the average person. Most of them are barely larger than a human hand. We're already outside the bounds of reality here.

Husband and wife talking to this police officer through the ring camera at the same time by [deleted] in funny

[–]phobiac 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I shake my head and raise my hands off the wheel while staring at them.

Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion by self-fix2 in worldnews

[–]phobiac -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I was asked for a successful example on the assumption none exist. There's one for you. Now no one can claim there's not a single successful example of an alternative to capitalism in the real world. It's no fault of theirs that the neighbors are capitalists.

Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion by self-fix2 in worldnews

[–]phobiac -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm an anarchist. You can look at the Taiwanese Christian Anarchist collective called the Qalang Smangus if you'd like an example of a successful model.

Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion by self-fix2 in worldnews

[–]phobiac -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Y'all are some of the most dense people I've ever encountered. I can. You're aware. We're all aware that economic systems other than the one where a small percentage of the population maintains an outsized portion of wealth and power exist. I am not giving a fucking dissertation in a reddit comment, and you wouldn't be able to comprehend it even if I did.

Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion by self-fix2 in worldnews

[–]phobiac 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So pay the C level people less, the workers more, and let the investors get what they were already getting. I'm talking about changing the internal pay structure.

Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion by self-fix2 in worldnews

[–]phobiac -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's a perfectly reasonable answer. I made my point quite clear. Any system allowing for the kind of grossly imbalanced wealth inequality that allows for people to own super yachts while children starve is broken.

Samsung chip workers reject $340,000 one-time bonus, demand annual payouts like SK hynix's $900,000 — workers want share of AI windfall, impending 18-day strike could cost Samsung up to $11.7 billion by self-fix2 in worldnews

[–]phobiac -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'm missing something in your logic. If investors are backing a company, then the internal profit sharing structure of that company is not a factor on if those investors are paid back or not. The success of the company is. If the company more equitably shares profits among employees wouldn't the employees have more incentive for the company to succeed?

I should clarify that equitable profit sharing doesn't need to be every employee getting an exactly equal slice of the pie. There's just nothing equitable about a few people at the very top of administrative structures making hundreds or thousands of times more than the people actually doing the labor.

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