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by nullhack 1406 days ago
Perhaps "Tesla Autopilot" can be the first Marketing Lie to vanish from the list: "Almond Milk", "Veggie Patties", "RNA Vaccine"...

And the plethora of USA Liar Laws such as the "Patriot Act", "Inflation Reduction" bill...

Until then, we live in a country owned by Marketers and Lobbyists, and Elon Musk can call his AI cars Self-Driving* as long as he likes

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If you think the language around "Almond Milk" needs to vanish, you may be the victim of recent big dairy marketing efforts, yourself. Plant based milks have been a thing in cultures around the globe for thousands of years: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nut-milks-are-milk-sa...
>Perhaps "Tesla Autopilot" can be the first Marketing Lie to vanish from the list: "Almond Milk", "Veggie Patties", "RNA Vaccine"...

I don't care about Autopilot and instead want to comment on some of the rest of your list. What are you going on about?? Veggie Patty is not a marketing lie in the slightest. It's a patty. It's made of plants. That's about as straight-forward as possible. The mRNA vaccines do in fact make use of mRNA; no lie there. Almond milk is a fine name. It's milk from an almond in the dictionary definition of the word. Really struggling to understand what you're getting at here...

Okay I'll bite, how are black beans/soybeans/seitan, formed and fried, then served on a bun a conspiracy theory?