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I think California does this kind of thing a lot. A while back, they began requiring cancer warning at coffee shops [0]. I'm not in California, but growing up

by jjice 1y ago

I think California does this kind of thing a lot. A while back, they began requiring cancer warning at coffee shops [0]. I'm not in California, but growing up at least, I associated it was goofy small laws like this (along with not so goofy real laws as well). [0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/starbucks-cancer-warning-judge-rules-on-coffee-carcinogen-acrylamide/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/starbucks-cancer-warning-judge-...

dragonwriter 1y ago
Note that your example is not a new “goofy small law”, but an industry losing a lawsuit because of complete failure to present relevant evidence in a lawsuit applying a long-established, big (but maybe still goofy) law to them.
- nomel 1y ago
  With the result being a goofy warning on something benign. The practical result, that helps no-one (probably harms, with desensitization of cancer warnings through obvious government driven misapplication/ineptitude), is what makes it a goofy law.
  - hakoda 1y ago
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