• IndiBrony@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Friends was in a supermarket the other day. He bought an item labelled “Liquid Death”.

    What the product actually was is something he never buys because he never needs it, but because of the fantastically insane name of the product he said he just had to buy it!

    That product? The one named Liquid Death?

    Do you want to know what it was?

    It was a 12 pack of 500ml cans of water

    This kind of marketing works, kids. Something so unexpected you just have to buy it!

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      2 months ago

      Liquid Death isn’t bottled, it’s canned. They’re whole gimmick is “death to plastic” which is a little ironic considering that aluminum cans have a plastic lining.

      Still, it’s a great product. They’ve eliminated 99.9% of the plastic, so I think the slogan still works.

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          Yeah! All aluminum cans have a thin plastic lining. So do soup cans. They’re still both better than plastic packaging, but it just shows how difficult it is to completely remove plastic from your life.

          I drink a lot of beverages that come in aluminum cans so I am reaaaally hoping that they have less microplastic risk than 100% plastic packaging does.

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      IIRC liquid death also has some very good policies.

      And it was originally created because drinking water isn’t cool, and musicians in bands wanted something to drink that looked like energy drinks or alcohol while staying hydrated. They mentioned bands filling empty monster cans with water as an inspiration.

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        Only in America does the coolness of drinking water ever factor into anything, coca cola successfully brainwashed the entire country lol

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      I would never buy bottled water either, but I do have an unopened can of liquid death standing around because it’s such a fantastic can. Guests do ask me about it, or pick it up, sometimes. It’s always disappointing to them and that’s what I feed on.

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      Between that and the “100% Grass” half-and-half next to it…I gotta check out the dairy case at my dispensary. Usually they just have ice cream.

      THC infused coffee creamer would make for the best hippie speedball.

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      It already is freakier than that. It’s tit juice created via the industrial mass rape of billions of cows worldwide, that are kept in cramped and dirty conditions and seperated from their offspring at birth, so their tit juice can be harvested for profit and human consumption.

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          Dairy and meat consumption on the scale humanity is currently consuming is very new.

          The industrial mass rape of billions of animals and horrifyingly massive numbers of livestock animals now on earth, is not a ‘natural’ thing either.

          Wild mammals make up only 4% of mammal biomass on earth now, 62% is livestock and 34% is humans.

          Just because your ancestors had no other means of survival but to consume animals and their excretions, does not mean that it is healthy, natural, or wise for to be breeding and consuming livestock at the scale people are now.

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            actually it’s scaled with humanity. literally, more humans, more livestock.

            I’m not going to argue the industrial practices aren’t unsustainable and harmful, but we’ve been doing it for thousands of years.

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    Twist, it is just regular milk, because milk is already freaky and fucked up.

    Next time you drink milk, just imagine suckling on an animal breast. For most of you that would be disgusting (for some of you, please don’t imagine it)