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kemurikusa

remedialaction

“The US military would desert if ordered to fire on citizens” is a form of Stockholm Syndrome and needs to be broken.

just-another-american

They’re literally conditioned to follow orders, if they refuse they get a dishonorable discharge and have their entire life destroyed.

Oh they will shoot you. Sure there may be a very small portion that will refuse, but you’ll never hear of them.

the-davest-of-uncles

What a pile of horseshit. If you’ve never worn the uniform…and it’s obvious you haven’t…you have no idea about the military.

storyofmyparadise-deactivated20

The US military fire upon its own citizens? Never.

remedialaction

This one still hasn’t broken it, sad.

storyofmyparadise-deactivated20

Bet you haven’t served in the military. Nice try.

remedialaction

Six years, and was an Army brat.

storyofmyparadise-deactivated20

Well, now we all know YOU would’ve killed American civilians if given the chance.

Oh & fuck you for thinking I have a terrible mental condition just because you have this fucked up notion that American soldiers are dumb enough to kill their own people.

Interesting how many military soldiers I’ve met & they all have loyalty to their country.

I’m done wasting my time on someone as pathetic as you.

remedialaction

licoricefern

what does it say about us as a culture that most of our microwaves have a dedicated popcorn button

cognito-ergo-hazard

i dont know but whatever it says, its magnified by literally every bag of popcorn saying “don’t use the popcorn button”

prokopetz

Funnily enough, there’s an answer for that.

In brief, the “popcorn” button was initially introduced by fancy high-end microwaves that used an integrated humidity sensor to tell when your popcorn was done; microwaveable popcorn vents steam as it cooks, so by monitoring the amount of steam in the cooking chamber, you can get pretty close to perfectly popped popcorn every time (though it’s generally only pretty close, since different brands of microwaveable popcorn have different moisture content).

As the feature became popular, manufacturers of cheap microwaves started adding a button labelled “popcorn” as well, in order to imply that they offer this feature. These “popcorn” buttons simply run the microwave for a fixed amount of time that the manufacturer figures is close enough to the printed cooking time of most commercial brands.

In practice, of course, the fixed-time “popcorn” button usually just sets your popcorn on fire. To make matters worse, owing to America’s permissive advertising laws, microwave manufacturers are allowed to make all sorts of misleading-but-technically-true statements in their packaging and instruction manuals, rendering it nearly impossible to tell whether a given model of microwave has a real humidity-sensing “popcorn” button or a fake fixed-time “popcorn” button before buying it.

In summary: the “popcorn” button that your microwave popcorn instructs you not to use exists because American microwave manufacturers are using a misleadingly labelled button in order to imply that their product has a feature that it does not in fact have, in a way that can potentially trick people into burning their houses down, for advertising purposes. This is perfectly legal.

So: what does that say about our culture?