I would probably be a bit more excited if it didn’t start coming out during a time of widespread disinformation and anti-intellectualism.

I just come here to share animal facts and similar things, and the amount of reasonably realistic AI images and poorly compiled “fact sheets”, and recently also passable videos of non-real animals is very disappointing. It waters down basic facts as it blends in to more and more things.

Stuff like that is the lowest level of bad in the grand scheme of things. I don’t even like to think of the intentionally malicious ways we’ll see it be used. It’s a going to be the robocaller of the future, but not just spamming our landlines, but everything. I think I could live without it.

I didn’t recall ever seeing those, but I wasn’t into cheez flavor as a kid. My little brother was though. They look fun though, like little stroopwafles, but savory.

The nostalgia taste many times can overpower the actual taste! Looking at you, Elio’s slices! 😆

The cookies have the same taste as regular cookies now, it was pretty much just amazing to 8 year old me, or however old I was, that cookies could have multiple fillings and a face! It just seemed so intricate and impossible at the time. So that excitement I don’t think could be recaptured now.

But those other 2, you nailed it with visceral! I feel the salt scratching my tongue and the unique concave and teardrop shape of the chips and I can exact chewiness of those fruit snacks these 30ish years later.

The fruit snacks I think would legit still be good today. The chips, perhaps. There are a lot of good chips these days. But I’m surprised no one ever brought those things back, if not just to use the actual skins. What have they been doing with all the skin all these years?!

These are the things I miss most snack-wise from childhood. Especially those Fruit Wrinkles. They had the best flavor and texture of any fruit snacks ever.

I forgot about Mentadent! I used it for so long! I held on to the dispenser base for a long time hoping one day it would come back, but I threw in the towel at some point.

Good article, thank you for sharing.

It reminded me of the recent resurgence of people finally saying why is the onus of recycling on the individual consumer rather than those producing the trash to begin with. We can only change so much by voting, and only so often. There are (were?) whole departments and branches of government that were supposed to prevent a group of maniacs from taking over as their sole responsibility. Meanwhile they were all as asleep at the helm as the guard monitoring Epstein’s cell.

I block most meme based communities because they overpower the rest of what I like, but I’ve been picking up bits of the events from context.

Does this center around the one individual using, shall we say, a very distinct set of pronouns that a lot of people took issue with?

I kind of enjoyed that person in a social commentary way, but I can see why people more directly effected by pronoun usage may have taken issue and blahaj changing their rules due to it, but if that is what is causing this big schism, that’s a pretty wild thing that all is this is the result. I’m interested in the opinions on both sides, but it’s one of these things I’m afraid to ask due to polarization like this. I have genuine curiosity but I can totally see how someone could trollishly go after the same info.