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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Symptoms usually start 6 hours to 6 days after swallowing the bacteria.

That's quite the window of time. Why such a huge discrepancy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Probably a lack of good information - with only a hundred odd cases and not having had much time to get the facts, I'm betting that's a SWAG (scientific wild ass guess) and we'll have better info the more time has passed.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 13 hours ago

Americans cannot trust their government to keep them safe anymore, it's now a free for all.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

USA is such a shit country, I was absolutely disgusted seeing the eggs are packaged in styrofoam instead of cardboard!
Americans are ruining their country failing to regulate even the most obvious things, because Americans believe regulation is bad, when most of the time, even bad regulation is better than no regulation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'm American and I don't believe any of the things you say I do.

Our politicians sure believe it though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago

Americans believe <> all Americans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Some cartons are still cardboard,or thin plastic. I think most of our lumber goes overseas for furniture and flooring production, last I heard, but that was a long time ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

No reason to use plastic either. Except it's maybe 2 cents cheaper per package.
Using plastic when cardboard is an excellent solution is just pure evil.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

Americans believe regulation is bad

Were taught to and continuously are taught to believe regulation is bad.
Let's not glance over how hard it is (& how much money is poured into this) to convince people that are suffering direct consequences of unregulated & deregulated businesses on daily basis how regulation is bad and only further deregulation, that brought on problems in the first place, will help solve them - at not at a single point even presenting the logic why would that ever work, like even theoretically.

(Even their 'golden era' of some 50~80 years ago everyone for deregulation is so nostalgic about was the era brought upon & maintained by high regulation investments supported by higher top-bracket & profit taxes.)

And it's not like regulation is even bad for economy overall (even financially looking), it's just had for the current businesses in power (and even that only for short term gains). So minority's whims rule undisputed over the majority & ecology.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I’m starting to think most Americans are complete idiots of the worst order.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Amen.

And it’s not like regulation is even bad for economy overall

Exactly, regulation is actually beneficial for the economy, because it stimulates fair competition.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

A fair government will regulate fairly. A corrupt government will regulate corruptly. Unfortunately it's not within living memory of any Americans to have a non-corrupt government, so they hate all regulation since all regulation they are familiar with is corrupt pork barrel politics and industry protectionism. They are, of course, missing the target. The corruption is the problem, not the idea of regulation on its own.

The more innocent bystanders they kill as a consequence of the rampant corruption of their government, the happier they are because they think it means they're killing the corruption. Meanwhile the corruption is having a great time looting the pockets of the dead and dying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh, yes, that totally too, and with competition better products, faster dev of new tech, and an economy guided by the consumers/citizens instead of megacorps.

But I meant more directly too - people ~~bitch~~ are taught to bitch over bureaucracy, reporting, "costs", etc but all that only affects (very short term speaking) individual companies profit margins, not the economy - extra work being done (idk, measuring and reporting salmonella stats, or making salmonella tests or whatever, and agencies that go over the data) is just anther income that gets reinvested into the same economy (instead of getting wealth consecrated, on average). It's not lost, it's not counterproductive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes regulation help protect people from getting ill having accidents and even dying due to lots of stupid preventable shit too.
And of course that also help the economy despite it's only a secondary effect.
Things like fire regulation, car safety and of course health regulation in food.
These are all things that protect us every day, but most people are completely oblivious about all the ways regulation help. And only focus on the potential bit of extra paperwork, and a bit of extra cost, that they are ignorant about is recouped in benefits to all that outweigh the cost multiple times.

What we need is not less regulation, but better regulation!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Exactly.

"Let's have less regulation so it will be simpler!" – I think having more or less of it is so irrelevant that 'why not more'?
(It doesn't hurt the people, the opposite actually.)

Especially when the talking point (almost the opposite of what you said) "we need less regulation but better regulation" is promoted by individuals looking for deregulation for their personal financial gain regardless of consequence to anyone & anything.

Also let's not forget there is a thin line between regulation & corruption bcs with (regulation) corruption the law framework stops working correctly & gets over-complicated for the sake of it, in some cases such laws even protect specific companies & hurt everybody else.

It's not the lawmakers or the public that makes for complicated laws, it's the companies that want very specific things achieved & at best look for compromises adding complexities to regulation.

But by default I believe that with more "regulation" comes more professionals in the specific field & the larger the work force (and their personal agency & personal responsibilities & normal lives) the harder it is to corrupt. People revolt & people generally want to do their jobs good & for good (evidenced by a myriad of public minimal wage workers doing real important shit with all their power).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

Regulation isn't bad, corruption and over reach are.

Example, dumping mercury in the public water supply is bad.

Telling me I can't add sugar to my own water is bad.

Big difference, and the current government will do both

Edit: guys, this isn't a real world analogy , just a simple example to illustrate a stance

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

Dumping mercury should not be permitted & should be heavily persecuted.
(And basically researched out of industries.)

But you adding sugar to your diet (I'll be overreaching & exaggerating with this to keep your example) can affect or stem from more than your own person.

Individually looking it's your health & your health does affect people around you long-term, including healthcare (again, exaggerating - if everyone is fat we now have to redesign hospitals ... + the long term effect of this being normalised, but this is more related to the next point actually).

However there is also a an economic view - sugar is biologically speaking very precious & rare, so humans having it available at next to no cost is fucking with our evolution-moulded minds (our mind tell us when we had enough of just about anything of strategic nutritional importance other than carbs, especially sugars - there is no limit for sugar bcs "you never know when the supply will run out", no limit apart from the speed of begin able to process it I mean). \But it's also insanely profitable in the industries that use it (sugar beverages, spreads, cereals) so it's everywhere & caused serious health issues.

And there is a bunch of other harmful & easy to produce chemicals that we regulate in various ways ("drugs").

I'm not saying you shouldn't be allowed to add sugar to your own water (and we are far from that point anyway), just that regulation is such a live & cultural thing that lawmakers & agencies (regulatory or law-advisers) just have to live with the people & adjust on the fly bcs culture & people change significantly over just a few years.

In this sense I'm proud of the actual way of how EU lawmakers are doing things for the vast majority of time - all is very live, open/transparent, & hands on (and ofc "costly", bcs complex problems require adequate solutions, otherwise it is just senseless cost).

First is the research (year/s), then live market consolations & current practices (year/s), then the draft proposal & a new round of even broader market consolations (sometimes literally mandatory, eg in financial industries, to cover like 3/4 of the market) of all stakeholders (year/s), then the regulation frame adoption (EU, country levels, responsible agencies, market leaders, etc), then after it's all live years of market consultations again to get where the problems are (or where there arent & they can scrap/simplify the approach), what new problems & adaptations emerged, then the proposal for legal framework update, then consultations again (anyone can & must be heard), then the adoption of the v2 laws, and after that the cycle repeats for v3 etc.

This is in contrast with things done on a local level that are hastily done & require quick adoption by the industry (as a consumer I think even this is far better than nothing effective being done - if it's stupid I'll just try to vote them out).
I mostly know about EU regulations that are about to affect me (personally or professionally) years in advance and with about 12 month precision (some complex laws get delayed - or even just the live date if the market couldn't get ready by due date with effort to do so).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Telling me I can’t add sugar to my own water is bad.

I'm not sure what real world thing you made this analogy for? But this is a straw man, because nowhere are you told you can't add sugar to your food.
You may be told you shouldn't, because it's unhealthy. But you can still add sugar even to commercially sold food in amounts that by European standards make it actually illegal to call it food. Making it either cake or candy.
American Fruity loops is an example that is illegal to call food in EU because of too much sugar. Apart from a number of additives that are illegal too in EU. You could still sell it in EU, but not as a breakfast cereal.

You should not be unhappy if sugar is regulated in food you purchase. And you definitely can put more on it at home if you really want candy instead of food. Sweetener is a cheap way for the industry to make something taste batter, despite having extremely low quality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

It was a simple analogy for when it would be overreach. Not a real world thing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

How are those egg prices now, Donnie?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

Poison the eggs, less demand, price go down... Right? Stable genius move.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It would also help if we didn't raise chickens in absolutely disgusting conditions

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Yeah.

And now imagine the sheer power of this single industry that EU countries are getting pressured directly (lobbyists) and indirectly (literal USA politicians) hard to lower our standards just so they could export their torture chicken carcasses here.

They succeeded in a few other industries but with chickens the standards behind food safety are just the right level of complex (mostly bcs it's not just one agency to put pressure on, and not that the regulatory definitions are complex or anything they do being over the top - I do want industries regulated and have regular monitored reports on various things, that's the only way you know the guidelines are followed).