Hmf. A second Russian? What are the odds.

This is good practice for Ukraine. I’m glad he has courageously taken the first step towards being a reformed war criminal. /s

Yes, but also large financial donations, private grants and government grants.

Not everything with it is labeled sugarfree or zero sugar or even low calorie. You wouldn’t expect it in juice boxes and yet they are pretty hit or miss. Unless I read every label on everything I purchase it wanders into my house now and again…

I’ve definitely been hoodwinked enough times into eating it that it is starting to feel like a pretty non-consensual thing.

I’m still not eating it. It tastes terrible or makes my mouth go numb depending on the type. There is a serious hole in the market to be filled by quick low calorie snack foods that are shelf stable and don’t involve sugar alternatives. Most stuff is just too sweet any way.

It’s truly disappointing to see that, as an American, this is what France is now. French troops saved my grandpa (AA) back in WWII when they were a more racially progressive country than the USA and I always looked up to them for that. Black POWs would often be mysteriously “killed in the camps” right before being rescued by American troops, but the French troops found him first.

I’m glad many are rioting over this. That is the France I know.

Plastic definitely had a pretty good PR team in the beginning there. “Don’t use metal cans, the chemicals the leach into water kills fish”. “Switch to plastic drink bottles, glass is dangerous to wildlife if it ends up in the ocean”