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i fucking hate it when a movie or a tv show does some shit where a character has a shitty dad and another character tells them to forgive him because. "it's your dad". that means nothing. more people should be killing their fathers.

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Thomas Lynde lay more on the lounge nowadays than he had been used to do, but Mrs. Rachel, who was so sharp at noticing anything beyond her own household, had not as yet noticed this. 

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Johto Gardens

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davy is a character who just does not stick the landing for me. He's too much of a hellion and what is supposed to be charming just irritates me. I wouldn't necessarily change his character, but he needs a better foil. Poor Dora is dismissed and basically absent from the text. I know we have Paul as the closest in text foil, but Paul is also too absent. Maybe this does happen and I'm forgetting, but imo a satisfying ending to Davy's arc would be him actually being humiliated for once rather than "gee golly I didn't know [insert horrible thing] was s'bad!" Davy needed to be Davied

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this is how you know Twitter is officially cooked

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on november 19, 2024 the united states food and drug administration (FDA) published a warning letter written earlier in the month to tom's of maine for being fucking disgusting and not adequately responding to accusations of being fucking disgusting. the FDA found black mold-like substances growing around production equipment as well as water contaminated with disease-causing bacteria.

that contaminated water was used both for cleaning equipment and as an ingredient in toothpaste.

here are some snippets from the FDA letter.

Your firm produced (b)(4) water and used it as a component in your OTC drug products and as a final rinse after equipment cleaning. A. You recovered Pseudomonas aeruginosa in multiple (b)(4) water samples, from June 2021 to October 2022. This water was used to manufacture Tom’s Simply White Clean Mint Paste, batch (b)(4), and for the final rinse of numerous equipment cleaning processes. None of these incidents were investigated to assess product impact and water system performance. B. You also reported multiple incidents where too numerous to count (TNTC) Ralstonia insidiosa was recovered from water points of use. Your investigations included testing of new samples collected at least 4 days after the initial sampling. Batches manufactured after these incidents were released based on the microbial testing of the finished OTC product despite the quality of the water used as a component or to clean the equipment. C. You recovered gram-negative cocco-bacilli Paracoccus yeei in your OTC finished product, Wicked Cool! Anticavity Toothpaste, batch 3025UST11B. Your investigation concluded, without sufficient justification, that the growth was due to sample contamination. The batch was released based on retest results.

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Your complaint procedure is inadequate because not all quality related issues are investigated.

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For example, approximately 400 complaints related to odor, color, and taste in your toothpaste products, including those for children, were not investigated. These complaints are not investigated because your procedure requires an investigation only if a trend is identified.

and they ignored HUNDREDS OF COMPLAINTS, AT LEAST. including in products meant for children!

and most importantly, despite how many details are in the FDA warning letter, it explicitly states the list of violations is not comprehensive. this is not everything tom's of maine has fucked up, ignored, or blatantly tried to sweep under the rug.

you can find the whole FDA warning letter here.

you may note in the CBS article that tom's of maine basically said they investigated themselves and found nothing wrong using their own investigation process. considering their investigation process itself is under scrutiny by the FDA, take their response with a grain of salt.

if you use tom's of maine toothpaste, you might want to consider using something else, especially if your immune system is not the best. the FDA letter is pretty damning. these are choices that were made on purpose to prioritize profit over safety. I am definitely going to think twice before buying anything from them from now on.

tom's of maine is owned by colgate-palmolive.

this is not a recall. tom's of maine products potentially made using contaminated water, including those aimed at children, remain on shelves.

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stop… making… her… a… MOM FIGURE !!! *my psychic powers throw everything across the room*

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do non french speakers appreciate that danco switched from the informal "tu" to the formal "vous" and called de gerlache "mon commandant"...............

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i wouldnt be so mad about the rpftourney if i believed that many people cared about jesus/judas but i know they don’t. i bet most of them haven’t even seen jesus christ superstar. they’re just voting for it bc their sense of humor hasn’t changed since 2014 and they think it’s sooo funny that there’s rpf about jesus. well jesus wouldn’t think rpf is funny he would think it’s beautiful and awesome. and he would vote mclennon

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snoopy of the day

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Best RPF Ship - Round 6 Match 2

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