• @Etterra
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    95 months ago

    Great now I’ll have to worry about my soda lighting on fire.

    • @ieatpwns
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      15 months ago

      Nah it’s a fire retardant so you’ll be fine if anything you can use your soda to put out fires

  • @NABDad
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    85 months ago

    Ok, without reading the article, let me see if I can guess what it says.

    The population of the US exists to serve the needs of the 1% and no threat to the population matters unless the damage impacts their profits.

    Am I close?

    • @stoly
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      95 months ago

      Worse: basically the rest of the world already banned it and a lot of other toxic stuff that is in our food.

      • @NABDad
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        75 months ago

        I think my guess includes that by default. Unless the toxic stuff in our food is costing the 1% money, in which case it would be odd that they permit it.

      • @[email protected]
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        45 months ago

        And the US food companies have known this was coming for a loooong time. The biggest names already changed ahead of time.

        • @Crismus
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          15 months ago

          Mountain Dew has held out the longest.

          • HubertManne
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            15 months ago

            not really. generics did. mountain dew is the most well known because its the only citrus soda with such a high profile. It basically was a big thing for stabilizing citrus based ones.

  • Don_Dickle
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    5 months ago

    Um so when I grab a mountain dew at the store I am consuming a flame retardants? So does that mean I can douse myself in soda and run into a burning building?

    • @Eylrid
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      185 months ago

      Water is also a soda additive and flame retardant

      • @[email protected]
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        105 months ago

        It’s also an industrial solvent!

        Not to minimize the fact that BVO is known to be toxic and should have been banned years ago, but yes I hate when they make stupid comparisons like that

          • @[email protected]
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            25 months ago

            I feel like you’ve missed a golden opportunity it to make “dickle” into a suggestive verb. Like “Pickle Patrol 2: Debbie Gets Dickle’d”

    • @NABDad
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      35 months ago

      Mountain Dew stopped including BVO in 2019. So you’ve been in the clear for at least 4 years.

      • @Crismus
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        25 months ago

        It has had it here in Colorado still.

    • @scutiger
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      15 months ago

      Bromine is used in flame retardants AND in brominated vegetable oil. Like chlorine is used to clean your pool water and as a component of table salt.