The trend is actually shifting the other way. A lot of the bakeries and catering places around here won’t do it, and I haven’t really seen a wedding with a pretty cake that tasted like shit in years.

Which kinda doubles down on the “looks good on TV” thing. The whole shift in home baking towards the technical and…

Poured. Why would a factory making tons of these be rolling out sheets, punching out circles and carefully lining them up? It’s inefficient.

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Honestly it was a bigger problem than that. Trump’s pushing of the whole subject and the Warp Speed project had the whole rest of the world looking side eyed at any American Vaccine. To the point that Biden and Harris were smeared as “anti-vax” during the election, because they took the stance of insisting that any…

I know that. Obviously I know that. Nothing in my comment disputes that or indicates I don’t know that. The scare quotes are because that’s a really gross choice of words.

I know exactly what you meant, because I am not an idiot. But since you can’t apparently read or understand plain English. Or respond in good…

Yeah it’s awesome when people suffer and die.

It’s great when they infect kids and medical professionals and teachers.

It’s cool when people are turned away from emergency rooms, or die waiting on ICU beds.

They were only hurting themselves when a new strain took hold that’s better at getting around vaccines. That…

I haven’t seen anything indicating that the journal is trash (and I check that sort of shit). It does not seem to be a prominent or in any way authoritative place though. Publication there doesn’t seem to carry any weight, but it isn’t an obvious sign of bullshit either. It’s just one of thousands of bog standard…

“Just asking questions” right?

Fondant is basically playdoh but sweeter/not salty.

You joke. But Breitbart and some other right wing venues have been pushing that exact line. 

You’re usually fooling yourself when you assume the otherside doesn’t believe what they say they believe.

Rising anti-vax elements in right wing movements have been a problem for years, as has alt-med generally. Trump was associated with them long before the Pandemic. And the dude confirmably took Hydroxychloroquine.…

Well you seem to have opted for posting an out of context conclusion from a bad study instead of following the money trail.

The debunking of these studies has been out there and widely reported for months. Seldom as specifically as SBM gets to it, but 30 seconds of googling would have told you neither the study, nor…

I honestly doubt too many of these cakes are getting eaten at all. Even in cases where a cake is “for” some one.

A lot of the key things in making a cake like this are pretty unpleasant to eat. Decorator fondant (also called rolled fondant) is basically culinary spackle, gum paste tastes like chalk with sugar crystals…

Trump and the right wing press did dub them the “Trump Vaccines” initially. In fact when Pfizer was the first to make it towards actual release Trump even tried to take credit for it.

Which lead the company to push back publicly. As they hadn’t taken any “Warp Speed Money”. Stating that the vaccine was developed in…

Nah. They were screwed on that in the beginning. Trump was talking non-stop about the beautiful vaccines and warp speed in the lead up. Often enough using it as an excuse to do nothing otherwise, or claiming it would arrive much earlier than it did.

But his base was already heavily inflected with anti-vax ideas, to…

Science Based Medicine did a whole series on Ivermectin and COVID, tracing the rise of the claims through the same politically associated interest groups that pushed Hydroxychloroquine and directly addressing a lot of the studies.

These two parts of the series directly address the Bryant et al paper.

Yeah and all 4 of them got sick. Means all 4 of them were already infected and they probably got a hell of a lot of other people in that restaurant sick.

It’s not even just smart phones. You’ve the proliferation of security cameras, and cameras in general. Hell your car is often lowjacked by the bank to make repossession easier if you stop paying, or even voluntarily for your insurance company. I highly doubt this guy is running VPNs and what have on his computer.…

Oh also. Restaurants use straws.

Particularly when it comes to impractical jar cups.

There’s no vast conspiracy here.

Yeah. Who is credited when and where is determined by Union rules and contracts. Including often enough including timing. They probably can not just list “the other ones” later for the shits of it. And the main cast could very well have a requirement that their names show up close to one another.

Besides these credits…