It’s not the chlorine, for goodness sake, it’s the disease it hides. Are you not listening? Chlorine wash after death is the only sanitary thing that ever happened to these poor mistreated disease-ridden lame birds. We don’t accept chlorine washed chicken because there’s no easy way to test whether it’s diseased meat or healthy meat.

The difference is that the chlorine disperses throughout the water and genuinely kills the bacteria, whereas the chlorine wash for chicken only sanitises the surface of the diseased chicken’s skin and any needle pushed through it. It does nothing to the meat and merely hides bacteria from detection.

America doesn’t have animal welfare rules anything like like the UK and EU have, and their chickens are usually kept in cramped conditions and bathe in their own filth all day long. It’s not very uncommon for their bellies to be actually rotting.

Chlorine washes the evidence away.

It’s not the chlorine that’s the problem, it’s the disease it masks from testing.

The problem with chlorine washed chicken is NOT the chlorine, it’s the diseased underside of battery chickens who spend all day wading in their own filth and with endemic salmonella which passes tests for disease and bacteria because the chlorine sanitises the outermost layer and any needle that passes through it without killing the source of the problem at all. Americans get food poisoning FAR more often than Europeans, and the disgusting conditions the animals are kept in is a big part of the problem.

But also he was anti mask during covid, so not exactly anti-Republican.

Wow, you’re so edgey.

I worry that your point is even worse than I thought.

I think you’re quite a few decades out of date with that opinion. The Chinese government is very worried about population decline now.

Of course not - treason and inconsistency!

Pictures that don’t change size when you pinch zoom the page.

Science.

You were high when you wrote this question, weren’t you.

Literally, if you take away the time and lyrics, what’s left is the karaoke backing track, and it’s a big part of why you feel the way you feel when you listen to the song, but the words and the tune are too.

A pattern of notes is a tune. A pattern of words is a poem. A pattern of vibes is a … what?

There isn’t a word for this, because there isn’t an effective way to record or communicate it without the words and/or music, so there’s need to talk about it without referring to the words and/or music that inspired it.

Yeah, amazon used to be cheaper than other places. Now if they are, it’s only by pennies. The enshitification process continues. Hope your Benelux place thrives on good service.

Yeah. Monopoly corporations are awful.

Yesterday was some houseware. There wasn’t anything Chinese in the listing, but it was the same sponsored wrong products again and again and again and again and again and again. I get more Chinese stuff when I look for electrical items, but sometimes the Chinese stuff works out for me.

I clicked through to their browse all products page, and it was a thing of organised beauty.

Someone wrote the code that puts the same listing four times per page.

Northern Europeans doing it well as usual.

When I look for electronic stuff, that’s exactly what happens. It turns out some of it is good, some of it is awful, but there’s absolutely no way to tell.

That’s a good idea. I should do the same. They’re really annoying anyway.