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Cake day: June 8th, 2025

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  • Alpro had a dispute with their soy milk too in Italy.

    In Italian, milk is “latte” (double t, important for the question).

    They got said that they can’t call the product “latte” because it is not milk as it doesn’t come from an animal.

    They created a new packaging with a huge writing saying: “Questo non è LATE” (with a single T). It could roughly be translated to English as “This is not MYLK” . They are still selling it because they are not selling milk.

    Edit: apparently it’s not just an Italian thing as they sell it in English as “not MLK”! Funny tho, I almost got the name right without knowing it!



  • I wish they did live happy, but seeing the world and how is it going I have strong doubts.

    But I’m no blaming the kids for this. I’m blaming the parent thinking that an iPad is a great distraction to keep the kid busy and the rest of the society that has voted consistently to put in charge assholes who openly made education worse every time they could.

    And yes, I do think that stupid iPad is to blame even though I grew up with a gameboy. My gameboy had games, it played tetris, it played mario or pokemon. My gameboy didn’t have tiktok or youtube. It’s not the same thing.










  • The “@” is sometimes used because it’s made of an “o” and an “a” making it somewhat both at the same time, but it presents a very obvious problem: how do you say it? Because we call that symbol “arroba” and saying “encantadarroba” sounds weird AF. Just switch the vowel for an “e” and be done with it. In italian there’s the “schwa”: ə" that serves the same function, it’s harder to type because it’s not usually found on keyboards, but whatever, if being inclusive and pissing bigots takes so little effort, I’m gonna try and use it as much as possible, even if it’s still something that takes some effort to apply at times because of the interiorized grammar that you have to unlearn.

    Edit: forgot to add, bigots get angry about it because you are “desecrating the sacred language” or shit like that. But you know how it is, they are the biggest snowflakes ever.