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NyQuil chicken is not a thing that people are actually doing, just like the "tide pod challenge" or any number of the completely bullshit moral panics that the
by some_random 4y ago
NyQuil chicken is not a thing that people are actually doing, just like the "tide pod challenge" or any number of the completely bullshit moral panics that the news makes up for eyeballs.
- happytoexplain 4y agoWe know that a non-zero number of people did the tide pod challenge, and I know a person who ate nyquil chicken. It's reasonable to make an argument that it's too rare to blame the people spreading it, or that the news overstates it, but why would you make an assertion that is so patently false? This seems like a case where hating news outlets as the default attitude has lead to a wrong assumption.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoCounter question, why would you treat a general statement as a literal one? "not a thing people are doing" is a perfectly true statement even if a non-zero number of people do it, as long as the number is inconsequential.