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Reese's Pieces have no chocolate in them. The peanuts had their oil pressed out and a cheaper fat put back in.
Sugar is first, then partially defatted peanuts, then hydrogenated palm kernel and soybean oil, then corn syrup solids. Everything after that is 2% or less, and it's the dyes, the glaze, some vanillin and a little milk. There's no cocoa anywhere.
Partially defatted just means the peanuts went through a press. The peanut oil comes out one side and gets sold as peanut oil. What's left is a dry peanut flour, and that's what the center is made from, because flour holds a shape in a panning drum and doesn't go rancid. Then they put fat back in, and the fat they picked is hydrogenated palm kernel oil, which is solid at room temperature and costs less than peanut oil. You can see the swap on the panel. 38 pieces have 6 g of fat and all 6 are saturated. Peanut oil is mostly unsaturated, so that number isn't the peanut.
The shell is sugar with 4 dyes and a coat of shellac.
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This may be the single best post I've ever seen
Is there a way they could make a Goreleess - No Gore Clayface version? I’m just not built like that. Never been my bag I don’t watch gore or horror ever. NEVA EVA
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By the end of 2026, no millennials will be in their 20’s anymore - the entire generation will be between 30 & 45 years old ⏳
Game changer of an album and a 🔥vinyl to add to the collection for sure
Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood returns on striking blood-red, liquid-filled vinyl. Revisit classics like “Slippin’” and “No Love 4 Me” in a collectible edition vinyl worthy of its name. Limited pressing. 1,700 units worldwide.
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You can see everything is @nathanfielder Opus of filming ppl and how he pushes their buttons or lets them implode right in front of him. I think both are at play in his film & it’s definitely WAY overhyped and way too long, I’d cut 20 minutes but it’s good & thought provoking
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If you've ever wondered why smart TVs are so cheap, this is why.
@log4j rooted his Samsung and found an always-on hot mic, automatic content recognition, geolocation, network mapping, ad targeting and user profiling, shared with Samsung's "400 partners".
A lot of it can be blocked in <15 min, wrote a basic guide below.
What your TV is doing
The main culprit is ACR (automatic content recognition). Your TV screenshots what's on screen, fingerprints it, and sends it home to build your ad profile. Samsung does it every 500ms, LG every 10ms [1].
What is insane: it happens on connected devices too.
Plug in your laptop, your console, your work machine, and your TV can fingerprint that via HDMI [1].
He also found that if your Samsung doesn't have a mic, it'll look for one from a connected soundbar or bluetooth device.
teapawt.net/log4j/status/211376224…
It's on by default, and you likely agreed to it on the setup screen you clicked through in 10 seconds.
Step 1: Turn off ACR
Samsung: Terms & Privacy → Viewing Information Services
LG: Live Plus
Vizio: Viewing Data
Roku: "Use info from TV inputs"
Sony/Google TV: Samba Interactive TV
Menus vary by model, but those are the names to look for. While you're in there, opt out of interest-based ads, reset your advertising ID, decline every optional privacy agreement, turn off voice recognition, and delete apps you never open.
Step 2: Give smart devices their own network
Put the TV, cameras, speakers and vacuum on your router's guest/IoT network. The logic is simple: these devices rarely get patched. If one gets compromised (getting drastically more frequent with AI), it shouldn't be able to see your other devices or home network.
Step 3: Block trackers for the whole house with DNS-level filtering
NextDNS (cloud-based) is easy and has a solid free plan. Pi-hole is a little bit more work if you prefer self hosting. For simplicity we'll focus on the former.
1. Sign up at nextdns.io (free tier is plenty)
2. Privacy tab: add a blocklist (OISD is a good bet) and turn on Native Tracking Protection for Samsung, LG, Roku, Amazon (see attached image)
3. Setup tab: copy your endpoint
4. Paste it into your router's DNS settings as DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS (or use the IPs + "Link IP" if your router only does plain DNS)
5. Bonus: block outbound port 53 except to your router. Some devices hardcode their own DNS to get around you
Then open the NextDNS logs and watch how often your TV phones home. It's eye-opening. If an app or update breaks, find the domain in the logs and allowlist it.
Why they do this
TV prices are down 97% since 2000 [2]. Most of that is better manufacturing and brutal competition. But once margins on the hardware hit zero, the cost moved to you.
In Q3 2024, Vizio lost $6.7M selling TVs and made $115.8M in gross profit from ads and viewing data [3]. They've said on earnings calls that they keep TV prices low to grow the audience they sell to advertisers. Walmart bought them in 2024.
This isn't a conspiracy theory either. Vizio paid $2.2M to the FTC in 2017 for tracking 11 million TVs without consent. Last December, Texas sued Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense and TCL over ACR. Samsung and LG have since agreed to stop collecting that data without explicit consent [4].
TL;DR
1. ACR off
2. Ads + voice off
3. Smart devices on their own network
4. NextDNS filtering on the router
Sources:
[1] ACR study: arxiv.org/abs/2409.06203
[2] Cost of US consumer goods: aei.org/economics/chart-of-t…
[3] Vizio Q3 2024: sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…
[4] Texas v. Samsung: texasattorneygeneral.gov/new…
He gotta be using some on the fly AI word Generator TYPE shit to keep his flow so fluid BUT that still don’t account for his insane mental reflexes to rhyme and connect words and context. He’s got to have at MINIMUM 10,000 hrs in Off the top freestyle acumen EASILY
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 When MJ hit over 100 million likes and 1 million followers he dropped a crazy rhyme… featuring @loozecannon1 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 this man is on a GENERATIONAL run!!!
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Common took Erykah Badu to J Dilla's Detroit basement, wall-to-wall records. Dilla told her to pick one. She pulled Tarika Blue, fell for "Dreamflower" and chose the part.
Dilla taught her to sample it on his MPC and added drums. That became "Didn't Cha Know"
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FULL LEBRON JAMES AUDIO:
"Ain't nothing soft from the midwest, I don't know what the f-ck you talking about,
I'm not from the west coast. I'm from Ohio baby, I'm not a midwest kid, I'ma Ohio baby. F-ck is you talking about."
