• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    A “family size” bag of Doritos is not sized for a family. Or I on my own count as a family.

    “Military Grade” is not the flex that civilians think it is.

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      16 hours ago

      Tbf, a family-sized (now party-sized) bag of Doritos does contain a day’s worth of calories (2250) for a single person. I can’t keep them in the house, they call to me.

      I miss the old military surplus stores. 2/3 of the stuff was cheap crap, but every now and then you’d find something insane. I had this flat periscope, it was designed to go up through a slot on the roof of a tank. You could easily stand on it, and it wouldn’t have broken.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      20 hours ago

      A “family size” bag of Doritos is not sized for a family. Or I on my own count as a family.

      It’s enough for a family because the portion sizes are like 4 chips.

      Military grade

      This one is funny to me because the military commonly goes with the lowest bidder. So I take it to mean that “military grade” is absolute garbage made by the lowest bidder.

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        18 hours ago

        Not only that, but the US Military runs on state-of-the-art logistics. This means that military equipment can, and often is, incredibly high maintenance because you’re never far from a base that always has everything you need to keep it operational. In this environment, there’s no need to make anything super robust and reliable, so… they don’t.

        How state-of-the-art are we talking? Well, let me introduce you to forward-deployed Burger King.

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      A “family size” bag of Doritos is not sized for a family.

      It should be the size of a family.

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      16 hours ago

      Cereal is worse. I used to get regular sized. Then I got family sized. Now I try to hold out for “mega sized” for myself

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        20 hours ago

        “Military grade” means “made by the cheapest contractor available, using sub-par materials, to juuuuuust meet the bare minimum requirements set by the government”.

        It’s like when housing developers advertise that all of their houses are “built to code”. Congrats, building code is the bare minimum requirement for the house to be considered habitable. It needs to be up to code to be able to sell. Someone advertising that a house is “built to code” is saying “we would build this worse if we were legally allowed to do so, but the law says we weren’t allowed to cut any more corners and still pass an inspection.”