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Zamboni Rodeo posted:Next you'll be telling me that the fact that the word "Kit Kat" is stamped into the chocolate means you're getting robbed of chocolate. Not that I don't have the occasional Kit Kat, they do at least have the redeeming value of chocolate on the outside. But a Time Out is better, since there is Flake in between the crispy bits instead of Mystery Paste of Production Byproduct. Generally speaking, though: mo' chocolate, mo' better. And on the topic of charts, maybe I should find a place to post my Chocolate Guide. Over 215 milk chocolates from around the world. Only milk chocolate, no fillers, additives or extra flavorings. All my opinion.
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MrUnderbridge posted:Not that I don't have the occasional Kit Kat, they do at least have the redeeming value of chocolate on the outside. Kit Kats are great if only for the fact that the filling of Kit Kats is other Kit Kats.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Demand for it in rich countries has kinda hosed over the south americans for whom it’s a staple hasn’t it? nobody really knows it's a popular narrative, and obviously any narrative that encourages white guilt is worth spreading. but it's a simplistic narrative too. there are some benefits to having the price of the crop you grow rise drastically, such as: you can sell it for more money. and that's not exactly the worst thing that can happen to a farmer, even if it means they end up eating more of the kinds of food we eat instead of the kinds of food their ancestors ate. it's pretty hard to say whether the average person in a historically-quinoa-eating region is better or worse off overall. of course it would be a lot better if more of the rich people money went to the actual farmers instead of straight into the pockets of whole foods, but that's the joy of capitalism
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Aramoro posted:Kit Kats are great if only for the fact that the filling of Kit Kats is other Kit Kats. Then where did the first Kit Kat come from? 
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SerialKilldeer posted:Then where did the first Kit Kat come from? There was no first kit kat. There is no last kit kat.
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Kit-kats are a closed circle
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MrUnderbridge posted:À chacon son goût. How about some Underbridge delenda est?!??!? 
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Zamboni Rodeo posted:Next you'll be telling me that the fact that the word "Kit Kat" is stamped into the chocolate means you're getting robbed of chocolate. Or that the space between toblerone peaks is a way to reduce the amount of chocolate people get.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:How about some Underbridge delenda est?!??!? Only if that's how you end all your posts. 
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Besesoth posted:Only if that's how you end all your posts. Oh, no, I just sign my posts.
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Tunicate posted:Or that the space between toblerone peaks is a way to reduce the amount of chocolate people get.  ???? and to stay on topic: 
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Mr. Fix It posted:
Bad marketing because it looks like you lose more than 10%.
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Platystemon posted:Bad marketing because it looks like you lose more than 10%. Good marketing because when they made the gaps small again everybody was happy instead of complaining about the whole thing being 10% smaller
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Tsaedje posted:Good marketing because when they made the gaps small again everybody was happy instead of complaining about the whole thing being 10% smaller So basically it's the candy equivalent of that four square thing car salesman use to get you fixated on the monthly payment while ignoring the total cost of the loan.
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It's the candy equivalent of New Coke/Classic Coke which I'm 1000% convinced was deliberate.
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That seems like standard industry practice for a lot of stuff that counts on being dirt cheap for its marketing. Candy bars will slowly get smaller then return to "A New Bigger! (the original)" size for more money. The dollar menu went away and came back but McDoubles were now in the two-dollar category. I guess it makes more money/counteracts inflation while softening the blow to consumption that a price rise would have.
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I think it generally progresses faster than inflation as there are people crunching numbers to see what kinds of reductions won't get noticed. The one that really comes to mind is McCormick pepper; the tin is always the same size but the amount of pepper you get keeps inching downwards.
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It's the textbook definition of hidden inflation - lowering quantity or quality of an item while keeping the retail price the same. The effect is ultimately the same - you pay more for less (or worse quality).
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ToxicSlurpee posted:I think it generally progresses faster than inflation as there are people crunching numbers to see what kinds of reductions won't get noticed. The one that really comes to mind is McCormick pepper; the tin is always the same size but the amount of pepper you get keeps inching downwards. Or deodorant having less and less actual product, with the change hidden by the label.
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https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1073645547750350851
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what are these.. ,,same powers´´ of which you speak 
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Why is the bottom right corner attacking Reagan with a chameleon tongue?
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It’s a Reagan rocket blasting out of the Ayn planet’s atmosphere
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Demand for it in rich countries has kinda hosed over the south americans for whom it’s a staple hasn’t it? It skyrocketed the standard of living of farmers and doubled the standard of living of the people who didnt. Giffen goods dont really exist outside of theory
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Reagan is the handle of the shovel in the pile of poo poo.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:That seems like standard industry practice for a lot of stuff that counts on being dirt cheap for its marketing. And they've been doing it for a good long time, too. There's a Stephen J. Gould essay "Phyletic Size Decrease in Hershey Bars" (collected in Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes) from 1983 that tracks the price and size of Hershey bars since the 40s, and they show a regular "microdownsizing" at one price until they make a simultaneous size and (greater) price increase to a "now bigger!" bar.
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this is the worst political compass ever
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Hobnob posted:And they've been doing it for a good long time, too. There's a Stephen J. Gould essay "Phyletic Size Decrease in Hershey Bars" (collected in Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes) from 1983 that tracks the price and size of Hershey bars since the 40s, and they show a regular "microdownsizing" at one price until they make a simultaneous size and (greater) price increase to a "now bigger!" bar. A sort of punctuated equilibrium but for candy bars, if you will.
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Accurate, when I think Al Gore I, too, think "worse than Stalin"
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vyelkin posted:Accurate, when I think Al Gore I, too, think "worse than Stalin" but he is worse than stalin..
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Maybe freedom is like temperature in that negative values rank above all possible positive values.
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One thing we can all agree on is that FDR and Stalin were more similar than Hitler and Mussolini
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Gore isn't on the chart yet, his label is waiting to be placed.
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I have the strange feeling this political compass may not be entirely serious
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:One thing we can all agree on is that FDR and Stalin were more similar than Hitler and Mussolini FDR, Hitler and Mussolini are equals - they died in 1945. Stalin, Beria, the Rosenbergs and Hank Williams died in 1953.
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https://twitter.com/HenryKrinkIe/status/1072329780488491008
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I'm pretty sure looking at that chart actuly causes civilian casualties, in the form of major retinal trauma.
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that's why america keeps murdering civilians by the million, they're reading the charts wrong!
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