CA Prop 65. Literally every building in California will give you cancer, apparently.
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halcyoncmdr @lemmy.world - 3mon
It could be effective, but opponents couldn't kill the initiative, so they made it ineffective by ensuring the threshold was set so low that essentially everything qualifies.
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SpaceNoodle @lemmy.world - 3mon
And the proponents were apparently too stupid to see through their nasty trick, and now everybody's time is wasted.
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jam12705 @lemmy.world - 3mon
See those 51% signs, in Texas those are required in bars who make more than 51% revenue from alcohol sales. Means you cannot conceal carry a firearm.
Photos was taken inside the Dallas International Airport
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Blaster M - 3mon
Warning: Coffee is hot
Thanks, McDonalds
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halcyoncmdr @lemmy.world - 3mon
The most effective marketing bullshit that's been achieved in the modern world is the misinformation McDonald's put out about that incident to try and discredit their active negligence. Making people think that the hot coffee lawsuit was frivolous.
The coffee was so hot, 190F that can cause 3rd degree burns in less than 3 seconds... which is exactly what happened. The woman had 3rd degree burns over 16% of her body. The car wasn't even in motion, the lid popped off the cup. She was only seeking restitution for her medical bills, $20k but the company refused, hence the lawsuit.
McDonald's had been holding their coffee at unsafe temperatures so they didn't need to toss it and brew new coffee as often, saving tiny amounts in the process, because coffee is not expensive, especially the crappy coffee they used in those quantities. They had been warned over 700 recorded times (so who knows how many in reality including those unrecorded) that holding the coffee at those temperatures was a safety issue, and they actively chose to ignore that to save pennies.
The jury found the company 80% liable and awarded $200,000 in compensatory damages and an additional $2.7 million in punitive damages because of McDonald's negligence.
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drre @feddit.org - 3mon
thank you for the write up! it's really sad that so few know the true story
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Blaster M - 3mon
Exactly. Thanks to McDonalds, we have to have this warning label on coffee.
FreshParsnip in shittyasklemmy
What is the most useless warning label?
CA Prop 65. Literally every building in California will give you cancer, apparently.
It could be effective, but opponents couldn't kill the initiative, so they made it ineffective by ensuring the threshold was set so low that essentially everything qualifies.
And the proponents were apparently too stupid to see through their nasty trick, and now everybody's time is wasted.
See those 51% signs, in Texas those are required in bars who make more than 51% revenue from alcohol sales. Means you cannot conceal carry a firearm.
Photos was taken inside the Dallas International Airport
Warning: Coffee is hot
Thanks, McDonalds
The most effective marketing bullshit that's been achieved in the modern world is the misinformation McDonald's put out about that incident to try and discredit their active negligence. Making people think that the hot coffee lawsuit was frivolous.
The coffee was so hot, 190F that can cause 3rd degree burns in less than 3 seconds... which is exactly what happened. The woman had 3rd degree burns over 16% of her body. The car wasn't even in motion, the lid popped off the cup. She was only seeking restitution for her medical bills, $20k but the company refused, hence the lawsuit.
McDonald's had been holding their coffee at unsafe temperatures so they didn't need to toss it and brew new coffee as often, saving tiny amounts in the process, because coffee is not expensive, especially the crappy coffee they used in those quantities. They had been warned over 700 recorded times (so who knows how many in reality including those unrecorded) that holding the coffee at those temperatures was a safety issue, and they actively chose to ignore that to save pennies.
The jury found the company 80% liable and awarded $200,000 in compensatory damages and an additional $2.7 million in punitive damages because of McDonald's negligence.
thank you for the write up! it's really sad that so few know the true story
Exactly. Thanks to McDonalds, we have to have this warning label on coffee.
the warning label on a Colorado River Toad