I don’t feel like it does make sense for all of those different sizes except the largest being one serving. Especially when the largest is more than twice as big as the smallest.

That’s really funny, I just finished posting almost the same thing about serving sizes to someone else in this comment chain but put it in another way. I agree with you 100%.

I know very little about actual Swedish culture, but I do love the Law of Jante in neighboring Denmark and Norway.

It can be summed up as: “You are not to think you’re anyone special, or that you’re better than us.”

Americans could use a little Law of Jante.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante

Standardizing ‘serving size’ would help too.

The ‘serving size’ of an 7.5-ounce can of Coke is… one can.

The ‘serving size’ of a 12-ounce can of Coke is… one can.

The ‘serving size’ of a 16-ounce bottle of Coke is… one bottle

The ‘serving size’ of a 20-ounce bottle of Coke is… one bottle.

The ‘serving size’ of a 2 liter bottle of Coke is… about six.

No wonder everyone ignores that phrase.

I’m told that if they didn’t eat avocado toast and put $20 in their savings account every week from the day they turned 18, all of those homeless people could afford houses by now.

I’m not deflecting at all. I’m talking about what I do to make a change in the world and make it a better place.

Refusing to use a Mac in an Mac-dominated industry affects nothing other than my bank balance.

As an official Old™, you lost me at Pokemon.

It’s definitely complicated. And I also think it would depend on the context of my death. If I were in a lot of pain or discomfort, I don’t think it would matter to me whether or not I was fully conscious.

I shared this in another thread about Milton, but I just looked and it’s actually gotten worse since I shared it.

This is from The Weather Channel:

It was only a 12 foot maximum surge last night.

The average tsunami is less than 10 feet.

This is not tenable in the long term.

If that’s the case, then the gang thing is probably unlikely.

But I do think that the whole ‘police gang’ thing needs more scrutiny because there is no way L.A. is the only county with such things.

Absolutely. With some things, the physical shrinkage is not going to change portion size. But chips and soda were specifically mentioned.

You’re living in a world where people say that sort of thing in all seriousness.

Okay? Well what you think it suggests is not what I said.

I can’t help it if you decide I didn’t say the thing I literally said. I meant what I said. I wasn’t trying to trick you.

Do you think I’m rich or something? I’m not. I’ve never been rich.

You’re treating this like supporting fucking Nestle or something. This is an order of magnitude lower than that. Yes, Apple is a shitty company. You really think it’s such a shitty company that I should have been willing to be paid less money rather than use their products out of some principled stand? That’s ludicrous. I’m not some sort of Apple ambassador. I’m not going around telling people to buy Apple products for any reason other than the one I gave- that you want certain media jobs.

However, unlike you apparently, I also don’t think someone’s choice of computer is really all that impactful in the world compared to, I don’t know, almost any other form of legitimate activism.

I’d wager I have done a hell of a lot more good volunteering at food banks and other services for the poor and homeless than you have by refusing to buy a Mac.

On the one hand, shrinkflation is a fucking awful thing to do to consumers.

On the other hand, I wish people would see the fact that they’re eating fewer chips and drinking less sugary soda has a silver lining.

Maybe keep the physical shrink and shrink the price too?

There was no summer holiday for the Putins this year?

I figure that’s fair since I can’t understand what they’re singing most of the time when they sing in that growly metal voice.

I’m literally not jumping to conclusions since I said it was “almost as likely” which means it isn’t even the most likely explanation.

But you must admit it’s odd that the LASD is apparently the only police department in the country with gangs.

Due to his dementia, my dad went from being a professor emeritus who was still writing books to someone in a nursing home, barely able to do 20-piece jigsaw puzzles within a very short time. And if he knew what was going to happen and could have been offered euthanasia, I would hope he would have taken it as an option. It was such an undignified way to die.

And the dementia care facility was a very long drive away (90 minutes for me, an hour for my mom), so we weren’t even with him when he died.

You’re living in a world where a large number of American voters believe that 8chan was a legitimate source of secret government leaks.