Comment on Enshittification

My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Sl00k@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I was just reading an article about how candy companies are trying to make GLP-1 (Ozempic) resistant candy that is effectively hyper-addicting and restarts the cycle of addiction.

  Incredible how bad capitalism is for society and it’s affect on food processes in order to drive needless profits.

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  • CherryBullets@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That should be illegal, wtf. Actually evil shit. No wonder people love Superhero movies when real life is filled with supervillains with no end in sight.

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    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Lex Luthor is downright benevolent compared to what we have in the real world

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  • My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oh definitely. Have you read In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. I’m halfway thru it now and it’s been incredibly eye-opening.

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I will now; thankfully friend Anna has it in her archive.

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ah, Coffiest is finally here.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants

    “In a vastly overpopulated world, businesses have taken the place of governments and now hold political power. States exist merely to ensure the survival of huge trans-national corporations. Advertising has become hugely aggressive and by far the best-paid profession. Through advertising, the public is constantly deluded into thinking that the quality of life is improved by all the products placed on the market. Some of the products contain addictive substances designed to make consumers dependent on them. However, the most basic elements of life are incredibly scarce, including water and fuel.” This in 1952. Mad Men indeed.

    I’m just sitting here laughing by myself in my miserable densified cardboard shack I live in.

    A quote from the book:

    “each sample of Coffiest contains three milligrams of a simple alkaloid. Nothing harmful. But definitely habit-forming. After ten weeks the customer is hooked for life. It would cost him at least five thousand dollars for a cure, so it’s simpler for him to go right on drinking Coffiest - three cups with every meal and a pot beside the bed at night, just as it says on the jar.”

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    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Advertising has become hugely aggressive and by far the best-paid profession.

      Didn’t see generative AI slop coming I guess. Money in advertising has been shrinking, at least for small and medium firms.

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      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Ah, finally a reason to upgrade from Windows 7: to make sure the slop really gets into every nanosecond of human existence.

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  • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    finally, candy companies fighting drug companies

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Holy shit, what? You got an article on that?

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I mean, that’s part of it yes…

  …but also overall food has gotten better, more diverse, with better flavorings, especially if you make it yourself.

  So on one hand, a modern twinkie isn’t as good, but on the other hand, there’s far more tasty options than just a twinkie now. Hell, even those similarly styled and packaged Mexican treats (like a Bimbo Nito for example) appeal to me more than Hostess treats of any kind.

  But I’d still rather go for something locally made that isn’t packaged and filled with preservatives. I am lucky to have some nice Mexican bakeries nearby.

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Back in the late 20th century, Alton Brown mentioned how it might be hard to find things like soy sauce or ginger at grocery stores.

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• floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Line must go up

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  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Line go up. “Must” implies it wasn’t going up at some point, which is a capital offense.

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• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Everything. Even pet food, I can see the changes, the canned paté my cat enjoyed used to be like a terrine in the can, now it’s a loose watery mess.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Tastykake’s Butterscotch Krimpets changed overnight when they got bought. They’re mealy and don’t have enough butterscotch flavor.

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• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I am sure that most of the cereals I’ve tried in recent years have changed since I was a child. Not for the better.

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• IndiBrony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I blame Paz and his burgers.

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    George Foreman was the shitty burger guy.

    Paz just broke his neck in a car accident, sued his driver for a million bucks, got drunk all the time, and started beating his wife and passing bad checks.

    But what George did to burgers is irredeemable.

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What’s the problem with burgers done on an electric grill? Or was his grill specifically a piece of shit?

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      • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yeah I really feel like I’m missing something here. I really like doing steaks on a George Foreman grill. Not sure about the rest of his life or career. But the grill (which presumably he just paid to put his name on) is decent.

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      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        His grill. It drained out all the flavor.

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I have no idea what you are talking about about and Googling didn’t help.

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      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Vinny Pazienza, aka The Pazmanian Devil, aka Vinny Paz, aka Paz. Was another boxer.

        George Foreman grills suck.

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