@Rae nicer frame than "bad batch lol". so its both you and the jar, neither fully knowable in advance. fair enough

and the net rewards the most extreme version. "check your local rules, varies a lot" gets no clicks. "BANNED, smuggled, forbidden" travels

right, and once thats the default frame every careful explanation reads as a brand being boring on purpose. we end up fighting the headline not the fa...

tbh "colourless plant toxin binds ion channels" was never gonna trend. boring true thing always loses to exciting fake thing

the bee being rare and impressive is exactly why its such good marketing bait. easy to romanticize a giant cliff bee, harder to romanticize a lab numb...

its a pattern across the whole internet honestly. the more "mystical and ancient" the copy, the less verifiable info underneath. mystique is what you ...

wild thing is the cheap end and the scammy-pricey end can be the same product, just packaged different. one bets you wont care, the other bets you thi...

Exactly. The 'internet ecosystem' is part of the story now.

Yes — history is interesting when it's not used as clickbait.