WTF Sh*t's F*cked Up and Bullsh*t - a "Who Cares" thread for news

[Ellie]

I refuse to become Shrimp Scampede.

Terasi once caused me to fly.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

...Oh.

FDA warns public not to eat possibly radioactive shrimp sold at Walmart

The FDA is warning the public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination with Cesium-137.

abcnews.go.com

Great. So now, when I go grocery shopping, I need to bring a Geiger counter!

 

[Kokoro Fasching]

Great. So now, when I go grocery shopping, I need to bring a Geiger counter!

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807837756489.html

Don't go shopping without it. Best way to pick up extra radioactives at low cost.

 

[Essence Lumin]

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807837756489.html

Don't go shopping without it. Best way to pick up extra radioactives at low cost.

While you are shopping be sure to spend an extra dollar for a Simulation Instant Noodles Keychain On The Phone Mini Snacks Pendant Bag

 

[Free]

Looks like there's even more radioactive shrimp on the barbie.

Even More Shrimp Just Got Recalled Because of Radiation, at More Grocery Stores

Another company is recalling its bags of frozen shrimp due to possible radioactive contamination, the FDA says.

futurism.com

 

[detrius]

...Oh.

FDA warns public not to eat possibly radioactive shrimp sold at Walmart

The FDA is warning the public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination with Cesium-137.

abcnews.go.com

Fukushima shrimp?

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Nah - the exact reasons aren't known for sure yet, but right now it appears that some shipping company may have decided to use cargo containers that weren't properly decontaminated to move the shrimp.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Cracker Barrel changed its restaurant chain logo yesterday and today they have changed it back because of a backlash from right-wing arglbargles who insist that the new logo is offensively "woke" for some darn reason. Woke enough that some of them are like "I'm never stepping foot in one again!"

Here's the old and new logos:

SO WOKE

 

[Veritable Quandry]

If people were still setting foot in Cracker Barrel they would not have had to change the logo.

 

[Essence Lumin]

If people were still setting foot in Cracker Barrel they would not have had to change the logo.

I've never been in one. I see from their store locator there is one four miles from here not that I would go there.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Their buisness model has been that every location must be visible from a freeway. Travellers make up most of their customers.

 

[Noodles]

While you are shopping be sure to spend an extra dollar for a Simulation Instant Noodles Keychain On The Phone Mini Snacks Pendant Bag

I need them.

NEED

 

[Noodles]

Cracker Barrel changed its restaurant chain logo yesterday and today they have changed it back because of a backlash from right-wing arglbargles who insist that the new logo is offensively "woke" for some darn reason. Woke enough that some of them are like "I'm never stepping foot in one again!"

Here's the old and new logos:

SO WOKE

Supposedly the "woke" is also aboit chsnging the insides ofntheir stores to look less rustic. But they are also bringing back some menu items tbst have funny Southern names.

But also they are changing the peg games on ebery tabke to say something like, "Better luck next time try again" instead of "You are dumb", when you lose.

I got in a "discussion" on a Facebook post aboit this, because I can't help myself. I was polite and playing dumb. Like "What does that mean, woke?" trying to the person to realize its dumb. They sughest cracker barrel was changing a working product to appeal to "leftist ideals".

So I persisted, asking what those ideals were that were bad. And pointing out that Cracker Barrel has been losing money for years now so clearly the product was not working.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Cracker Barrel Hype(rreality)

Simulation and Simulacrum in America

www.unpopularfront.news

A Baudrillardian reading:

Now, most well-adjusted adults would probably look at this and say, “This is all totally ridiculous,” but the United States is not made up of well-adjusted adults; it’s made up of Americans. It may seem patently absurd, but I think this entire “controversy” tells us a lot about the mentality of the American right and the state of the national culture.

Cracker Barrel, of course, is not a real old country store or restaurant; It’s a replica of an old country store, an institution which had already gone the way of the dodo by the time the chain was founded in 1969. Conceivably, people could be nostalgic for the old stores in the early days of Cracker Barrel, but by now, people are nostalgic for the nostalgia, for the experience of going to a Cracker Barrel itself. As the Bulwark blog writes, it’s “a Xerox of a Xerox.”

There’s a fancy theoretical term for this: “simulacrum.” I’m, of course, referring to the work of the late Jean Baudrillard and his 1981 book Simulacra and Simulation. You may recognize it from The Matrix, where the cover briefly appears to make the movie look smarter than it is, despite having very little to do with what happens.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Nostalgia is such a cynical corporate scam.

Like 15 years or so ago McDonald's was finally shamed into dropping its shameless marketing to hook children, and this year they started selling a $13 happy meal for the now-adult kids they hooked, who are buying it because nostalgia.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Nostalgia certainly isn't what it used to be.

 

[Noodles]

Nostalgia is such a cynical corporate scam.

Like 15 years or so ago McDonald's was finally shamed into dropping its shameless marketing to hook children, and this year they started selling a $13 happy meal for the now-adult kids they hooked, who are buying it because nostalgia.

Look.

I buy them because sometimes they have McNugget Buddies themed around some artist I have never heard of and one is a Grandma Buddy and thats amusing.

 

[Noodles]

The Cracker Barrel Hype(rreality)

Simulation and Simulacrum in America

www.unpopularfront.news

A Baudrillardian reading:

The rralmirony of the whole Cracker Barrel nostalgia thing, is you can probably find the actual old timey experience they are packaging and selling, out there is some small non chain restaurant.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The rralmirony of the whole Cracker Barrel nostalgia thing, is you can probably find the actual old timey experience they are packaging and selling, out there is some small non chain restaurant.

As I understand Baudrillard, though (and it's years since I was young and foolish enough to read him, and I doubt I understood him properly then) the point about the simulacrum is it's more "real" than what it's supposed to represent.

For example, in a soccer match a player is foul-tackled may fall to the ground in considerable pain.

However, rather than reacting as they might normally do in such circumstances (perhaps in a kick-about with friends), the player, in order to attract the referee's attention (and that of the crowd) to communicate "That was a foul! Show them the red card!"), even though they may personally be particularly stoic or undemonstrative, or have a high pain threshold, operatically enacts writhing on the ground in agony, simulating "being in agony after a foul" by behaving as the referee (and the audience) have come to expect players to act when they're victims of foul tackles.

How does everyone know how to expect a player to act in those circumstances? From watching how people behave in soccer games.

And thus we're in the realm of the hyperreal, where the simulacrum is more real than that which it simulates.

 

[Free]

So you think Cracker Barrel is nothing but fake nostalgia, a mock simulation of reality? Hey, let's talk about Olive Garden...