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Oh goodie, so now we’ve reached the point where you’re trying to flood the argument with so much meaningless gibberish that you hope it’ll fool someone into thinking that you’re making point somewhere in that mess. I don’t care that you have creamer in your coffee, dude. I don’t really even care that you think a meat thermometer can accurately measure the temperature of liquids. Sure, you can take a tiny sip of 185° coffee. Whatever.

The facts of the matter are that 185° is hotter than any other chain serves their coffee, they received multiple health code violations for it, serving it at even slightly lower temperatures dramatically reduces the possibility of getting severe burns, McDonald’s knew all this, lied about why they were doing it, ordered their employees to keep getting health code violations anyway, settled with other people out of court before this case for upwards of $500,000 because it was such a small expense for them, only offered this lady $800 for some bizarre reason, the judge actually reduced the settlement to $640,000 before it was actually paid out, and she ended up spending all that money on a live in nurse because she was in so much pain and barely capable of walking for the rest of her life. We do not base our regulations on the assumption that no one will spill any coffee ever. That is an insane thing to assume.

Have fun giving up your only defense against corporate negligence though. I’m sure that could never possibly backfire.

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SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Have fun defending personal injury lawyers so you never think about having a healthcare system would mean people wouldn’t have to sue to get their medical bills paid. Could you imagine a world where people wouldn’t need lawyers to sue to get medical bills paid?

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- yozul@beehaw.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You don’t have to give up your ability to defend yourself in the world that actually exists to fight for a better one. That’s childish thinking.
  
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  - SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Going along with narratives pushed by people fighting for only their own self interest simply because it ticks the right boxes (contrarian, corporation bad, media bad) isn’t going to make the world a better place. Especially if you’re going on about things that makes it clear you’re out of touch with reality.
    
    I drink coffee hotter than that every day. Why do you think McDonald’s was serving hot coffee instead of luke-warm coffee? Did you consider why the working class people they serve coffee to during the day might want it that way? Are you so out of touch you can’t understand why the working class would want coffee hotter than the pumpkin spice mocha frapa whatever that a cute barrista writes your name on your cup of at the fancy coffee shop you go to?
    
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    yozul@beehaw.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    We don’t want coffee that hot. That’s the fucking lie, stooge. McDonald’s own market research shows that the overwhelming majority of their customers drink their coffee immediately in their car. Serving it burnt to crap and too hot to drink quickly is actively terrible for the vast majority of their customers, which is why even McDonald’s doesn’t actually serve coffee that hot anymore. They stopped doing that over a decade ago.
    
    Do you really expect me to believe some corporate ass-kisser that makes lawyer jokes like they think they’re being insightful actually knows anything about doing a honest days work. We don’t have time to casually sit around the office sipping coffee all day. We have to slam that shit and get to work, yuppie.
    
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