Wednesday, June 2, 2021

High-end meat seller Belcampo has allegedly "been mislabeling products for more than a year at its Santa Monica and West Third Street locations"

Eater:

Initially, the company called the sourcing problem an “isolated incident” and promised to investigate the extent of the mislabeling in its stores.

However, Reiner and five other sources that have communicated with Eater, including past and present employees as well as two of the companies involved with supplying wholesale meat to Belcampo restaurants and stores, say the issue is deeper than Fernald or Belcampo has admitted. According to the current and former Belcampo employees, intentional product relabeling and a lack of transparency about the source of its products have been open knowledge at the company for months, not just in Santa Monica but also its West Third Street location.

Reps for Belcampo and Anya Fernald declined repeated requests for comment on specific questions raised in this story. Instead, the company sent a general statement to Eater that reads in part: “Outside of the quality of our product, nothing is more important to Belcampo than the trust of our customers. To that end, we have launched a comprehensive audit

Here's why a keyboard app called "Paste" became the number one iPhone app in the USA

According to Gizmodo, it's basically an app that makes it easy for people to cut and paste text and then spam an inside joke on Tiktok:

Don’t think too hard about it, it is what it is.

As it turns out, the tool that they’re using to spam their pals is the Paste Keyboard. On TikTok, right now, there are entire tutorials laying out how to use the app. There’s a fair share of YouTube tutorials, too. Having downloaded the app myself, I can confirm that it makes spamming walls of text at people really easy. Instead of combing through forums (or your notepad app of choice) every time you want to pull up that obscure spam to send your friends, the keyboard just saves it for you. All you need to do is pull it up, tap the Pasta you want, and you have an entire wall of text, ready to go.

Today's funny posts





Custom figure of the ballerina from The Cabin in the Woods; Martial arts on roller skates; Asgardians




















Complicated button; Troubling flyer; Star Wars rant












Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Instagram feed for a therapy horse that comforts patients at a French hospital





Prizes for getting vaccinated in West Virginia include custom rifles

CNN:
"We're going to give away two full, four-year scholarships to kids that are age-eligible from 12 to 25." 
[West Virginia's governor] said the giveaway would also include two new custom outfitted trucks, 25 weekend getaways to state parks, five lifetime hunting and fishing licenses, five custom hunting rifles, and five custom hunting shotguns.

"And also on Father's Day, we are going to make one of you a millionaire"