Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula

Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula by mikepurvis on Thursday October 31, 2024 @10:15AM (#42007147)

Indeed, panicking about everything little thing like this is a psychological nightmare— it leads to the same mental fatigue as the infinite list of item known to the State of California to cause cancer.

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Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula by wwweston on Thursday October 31, 2024 @12:01PM (#42008194)

Why, exactly, would those California notifications cause even mild anxiety (let alone "a psychological nightmare") if you know as you claim that they are merely "panicking about everything little thing"?

If you're certain they're trivial concerns, then they should be easy to dismiss.

If the problem is that you're not sure if they're trivial -- or which are and which aren't -- then what we've uncovered is the shortcomings of a policy oriented primarily around notifications. You'd want judgments made by people with toxicology qualifications whose job it is to focus on questions like this. Which was the point of the comment you're responding to.

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Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula by smallerfish on Thursday October 31, 2024 @10:55AM (#42007558)

And yet the State of California helps drive regulation forward; e.g. the case of Red 3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq9dhQIoDw8). CA may err too much on the cry wolf end of the scale, but it's serving a vital function.

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Re:Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula by bigstrat2003 on Thursday October 31, 2024 @11:11AM (#42007711)

The state of California is a joke.

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