ChatGPT is allowed, but chocolate eggs with toys inside are supposed to be too dangerous? 🤔
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2025
333 points (99.4% liked)
Not The Onion
17548 readers
1170 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
333
I am literally just making this up on the spot and have no evidence for it, but I'm starting to wonder if maybe the real reason for the kinder egg ban was anticompetitive lobbying by Hershey or something like that, and the toy thing was just the excuse.
Wouldn't Kinder Surprise me at all.
The american law prohibiting objects in food predates the kinder eggs by decades. And it's because people use to put all kinds of shit in american food. The law that bans them into is the Food, Drug and Cosmetic act of 1938.
Yeah, people like to mock us about it, but I think it's a reasonable regulation.
Yeah, people like to mock us about it, but I think it’s a reasonable regulation.
It should apparently be amended, though. There is a known case that it accidentally forbids but should not forbid.
Then how did we have toys in cereal boxes and cracker jacks up until much more recently?
Because it's not inside the food itself.
Huh, okay. I'm assuming there was another law that caused those to get yanked as well?
No, GenX and millennial parents just decided they didn't want more plastic trash in the house so it stopped being a useful tool for tricking children into wanting Diabetes-Os.
No godamn idea. I don't have to worry about that law and I don't know what exemption they used. I know it exists, why, and that kinder eggs are prohibited due to this law.
It wasnt the "toy thing" theres a law about putting inedible choking hazards in food. The food drug and cosmetic act of 1938. It bans putting any toy or inedible object in candy unless it is a functional part of the food. So the capsule in the kinder egg isnt ok but the wooden stick in a popsicle, the stick of a lollypop or the ring of a ring pop is.
So, they could put a lollipop-shaped stick into a kinder-egg, to function as a handle? Then the toy could be inside the ball in the end of the handle, so that it wouldn't actually be inside the food, but a part of the handle, which would be a functional part of the food?
Both are dumbasses swallowing anything
In all fairness, the guy was a fuckin' idiot before Jippity tested a latent murder-sim theory it's been puzzling over.
GPT needs another LLM trained on only the stupid things people do and how to avoid doing horrible things to yourself and others to watch over each conversation and intervene.
US versions of Kinder eggs are just a stupid shower thought that was taken too far
60-year-old man who had a "history of studying nutrition in college" decided to try a health experiment: He would eliminate all chlorine from his diet
Oh well, it started before ChatGPT even had a chance to make it worse.
Bromide sedatives vanished from the US market by 1989, after the Food and Drug Administration banned them
So Robert Fucken Kennedy Jr will be all over this one shortly. Expect more psychosis I guess...
He does consume straight methylene blue from the bottle
Methylene blue is an actual antidote for methemoglobinemia which is a blood disorder in which red blood cells become really bad at releasing oxygen. It's usually caused by a reaction to certain drugs like lidocaine or compounds containing nitrites. It looks like methemoglobinemia can be caused by "poppers" (which RFK Jr thinks are the cause of HIV).
Here's an article from the Cleveland Clinic that goes into more detail.
The "poppers" thing is probably why RFK Jr takes methylene blue because he likely thinks its a way to prevent HIV. (For which there is now a pre-exposure prophylaxis shot with a nearly 100% success rate and progress on a vaccine....but it's an mRNA vaccine so RFK is trying to kill it.)
"poppers" (which RFK Jr thinks are the cause of HIV).
Can we just take a moment to recognize that the person in charge of public health for this country thinks poppers cause HIV?
I just.... I just don't know what to say anymore.
If you need to get your heart rate and blood pressure up without doing actual exercise, check out the Behind the Bastards episodes on RFK Jr.
Yeah, I don't think I will lol. I'm aware of a handful of the insane things he's done, and I'd rather not make myself suicidal right in time for the weekend
This one's more likely to result in homicidal rage than suicidal despair. Probably still a bad time.
(For something with a completely opposite effect, I highly recommend K-Pop Demon Hunters. It's so fun and the animation is amazing.)
Holy shit, I did not know there was a HIV vaccine.
It was just announced in Nature a week ago. It's extremely recent news. (Of note, the article talks about how it is successful in instigating a strong immune response, but that doesn't always translate to immunity.)
Well, it's a step up from no HIV vaccine.
The pre-exposure prophylaxis shot is also pretty amazing. The initial clinical trials in Sub-Saharan Africa demonstrated a 0% HIV infection rate for people receiving the shot every 6 months as directed.
That's some great news!
We’re too stupid as a race to survive…
I mean, we have a pretty significant portion of the populace being told almost on the daily that the sooner that they stop breathing, the sooner they get to join the cosmic orgy.
That's the part I don't understand, it specifically isn't even an orgy! So why join???
If things like this keep happening that problem might solve itself.
Can we just skip to the point where LLMs are just a bunch of preapproved answers and legal warnings? Maybe we could then hire experts to answer some of the questions? Organize it like some sort of a message board. Let people search previous questions. Wait...
ExpertsExchange.com?
ExpertSexChange.
Oh! My Goodness. That's certainly unintended. /s
Darwins natural selection.
Just wait until AI "partners" are a thing. Person: Honey, can you cook for me? AI: Sure thing. [proceeds to add highly toxic ingredients into the food]
Hold on, let the AI cook
Yikes. Imagine if he could sue for that.
When being stupid is not enough
I already suffer from psychosis
To be fair, I've already done something similar. In the aughts, thinking Miskatonic U's Library restricted vault can't harm me: I'm already crazy. Then thanks to Bush Administration efforts to consolidate power and persecute minorities, I went and studied the Holocaust, and the process within the German Reich that brought it forth.
And that figures into my current psychotic break, as of November 2024.