• ImplyingImplications
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    Here are the worst offenders.

    Paper towels and toilet paper, Breakfast cereals, Candy, snack foods like chips and cheetos

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      You know what HASN’T been affected by shrinkflation? That wall of text explaining the concept of things we already know.

      I’d like to make a sarcastic joke about what the rest of that bullshit was, but I couldn’t be bothered to read 8 full scrolls of nonsense before I got to “the worst offenders”. Literally the whole point of the article, and I have to scroll past an essay, and a nag about my adblock. You make me click “I’ll disable it next time”. YOU make me lie. I would happily click a text that said “I’ll never disable my ad blocker. Go choke on a buffet of dicks until you die, you absolute leech on society!”

      Sadly, that wasn’t an option. It’s truthful though.

      • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
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        You should install an adblocker, such as uBlock Origin on Firefox or Rethink DNS for device-wide adblocking. Browsing the internet isn’t any more painful for me on my phone than my laptop.

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      1 month ago

      paper towels and toilet paper are basically ground zero for these shenanigans.

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    That chart in there is not necessarily accurate, because it’s “per 100 count,” and doesn’t consider that the individual sheets may be differently sized.

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    “…affected…”

    Get the fuck outta here with that bullshit.

    adjective

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    a

    **: **having or showing an attitude or mode of behavior that is not natural or genuinely felt **: **given to or marked by affectation

    b

    **: **assumed artificially or falsely **: **pretended

    Neither definition applies. The items are not being affected. Shrinkflation is an outright deceitful practice, not an affectation.