Put simply, they could not retroactively apply new changes to you.
Sounds like they could though?
Jokes aside, this is another in a recent string of "let's pretend our ToS are legally binding documents as fool-proof as the law" actions by major companies because ... well, who's stopping them?
therefore everyone must suffer
You do realize you can walk right up to that counter, point to the good stuff, and they'll just give it to you right?
They didn't just put it behind the counter to be pretty back there.
And guns are still legal after countless school shootings, so don't hold your breath.
Case provides further evidence. We know peppers can lead to serious consequences. Case in point, these chips have warning labels on them already. Don't eat if pregnant, nursing, heart condition, etc.
That last one is the active player here. The kid had an undiagnosed heart condition. It's not his fault, it's not the fault of the chip maker either. It's just a sad happening. Not every sad happening needs to result in legal actions and regulations or ... anything, really. Guns are still legal after all, I don't want to hear fuck-all about banning fruits and vegetables.
I think this is worse, arguably. Don't get me wrong, Wakefield wasn't good. But this is actually worse.
Wakefield wanted to call into question a thing which, at the time, was a relatively small thing: the MMR vaccine. There was no political platform of vaccines back then, it was the fallout from his con years after that created that platform. He wanted to do that so he could sell his own snake oil cure-all for autism. He frankly didn't care about vaccines, he simply knew people were hesitant about shots and overly concerned about normalcy.
So Wakefield really was just a greedy sonuvabitch ready to capitalize on the tremendous effort parents of autistic children are ready to commit for their kids. Bad, but just selfish greed. Not trying to accelerate an already existential crisis for political maga points.
This though, climate change, is already the political platform. This is very clearly an attack on the very institutions of academia themselves. This is trying to discredit the act of collecting data and replicating experiments as real science. And there's frankly a lot to say about that topic today (p<0.05 apocalypse) but this isn't saying any of that. It's simply saying "here's a reason not to trust climate science at all". That's the argument. That's way more dangerous than anti-vax arguments. Thank God this instance was as ineffective as it was.
Silver lining, it took almost ten years for Wakefield to get caught and detracted. This didn't take long to catch at all because the guy who did it was smug about his shitty goal, in typical right winger fashion: he went and published an opinion piece on his own paper, to the surprise of even his co-author.
Somehow? I'm not stopping you. You keep talking about something else - you keep insisting China and America do the same bad things. And I'm correcting you. That's all.
I'm not stopping you from talking about what America has done, in fact I already told you we can talk about it. Four times I said those words, in each individual comment I wrote to you. Every time you made a choice not to and instead chose to double down on your original take, flawed and incorrect though it was. Every time you just insisted I was defending America and I never did.
So talk. You have things to say, say them. Don't do this childish "well fine" act where you pretend I'm controlling what you can and cannot say.
By the way China never murdered and raped the middle east. Just one more example of the point isn't it?
Call me a hypocrite, that's fine. I never cared much what children think of me. Grow up kiddo.
"gamers are doing with a new Bethesda game what they've done with every previous Bethesda game! You won't believe what comes next!"
This has big "I voted the general election in three states and then complained about voting security on Fox News" energy.
"you guys screw me out of thirteen or fourteen more Kickstarter funding rounds and I'll take my business elsewhere!"
- SC funders
Again, we can talk about the terrible shit America has done and still does. I won't deny it. Yes murder is bad. Okay? That's not what you're here arguing though. You wanna try again, no sweat. I'll listen. Will you?
"Anything bad China has done, America has too" is what you said. That is not just factually wrong, it's childish and ignorant and above all lazy. You can't even be arsed to be more than nominally aware of things.
I was very clear about this already, so that you want to keep arguing tells me you're not reading my replies at all or they won't matter anyway, you'll just pound your fists and stomp your feet. Fine. Do that. It's alright. Won't help you, won't get you any closer to a better world, but you'll feel better for a half second. Neat yeah?
I'm gonna point out that it is only complex to not be white. It is not complex to be white. That's a simple determination white society makes, that's all the complexity there is. That determination.
Irish people weren't white, then they were.
Italian people weren't white, then they were.
Latino people weren't white, then they were. They're getting there. See my other comment.
Jews still aren't "white". They're "Jews". Secular Jews get to be white though. "The good ones", they'll say. Hrm.
There's no group mastering over white people making them play by some ever-changing set of made up rules. That's what it is to be not white in America. Literacy tests, citizenship tests, background tests, sundown towns, don't look a white woman in the eye, mind your manners, etc etc etc etc etc etc etc. Those are all things done to minorities that have never been done to white people.
"White" is not a complex thing. Full disclosure, I'm a white guy. First generation Italian American, my dad came off a boat at Ellis Island and his family had to cross America all the way to California to find people who treated them as equals. Italians, they're as complex as Germans and the Dutch. But white? White isn't complex.
Check it out.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB799
This is a bill to amend the existing laws. The amendment is really just about removing hurdles, period. There really aren't added stipulations about who it applies to. They also took the opportunity to make the wording more inclusive of everyone, dropping him/her, etc.
Proud of my state today.