And just to highlight this for OP’s question: “How come there wasn’t a protest like that when they made even worse decisions?”
A lot of users jumped ship to fedi or gave up altogether.
Basically, everyone who would protest have left.
Oh, I was being advised about a “Mediterranean diet” back in the early 2000s for my epilepsy. But mass adoption at this level - like, “Protein Chocolate Milk” - bro, do you know how much protein is already in chocolate milk, before you add more? - is absolutely grifters gathering around a new fad, and RFK and the current admin is nothing if not on the grifter train, or “economics and politics” if you want to call it that. The GLP-1 note from others is actually a good point as well.
The US secretary of health, RFK Jr., pushes an uptake in protein as part of his “MAHA” - “Make America Healthy Again” - messaging. See example tote bags for an event here.
It’s the reason you can buy protein poptarts.
Talk to a doctor or nurse - the ease with which insurance requests went through for at least a month afterward was comical.
I’m not sure about how things are now though, maybe more pie is needed
I take the bus regularly, it’s fine. Heard this shit all my life, then lost my license due to epilepsy and thought “oh crap.” Turns out it’s fine and actually a great way to dodge giving a shit about where I park.
…the same way it played out in the movie?
GC, but Skies of Arcadia: Legends got me good as a kid
You’re right that prescriptivism is fundamentally nonsense, but it’s been more than a decade and I still put airquotes on “pizza” when referring to it around Pittsburgh, because I don’t want to mislead visiting relatives
Hell, it’s true just traveling across the US. Try “Phildadelphia Cheeseteak” a few hours’ drive out of Philly. They’ll ask if you want marinara.
Also not a lawyer, but once a journalist, and one thing we were made aware of in college was that streets were public property, and anything done on them (or even done from the view of them - e.g., in your house but visible from the street*) was considered public. So unfortunately even if the city hadn’t signed it, if someone recorded you on the street doing it, they could keep it on their servers and/or publish it to the world without worry.
* - I meant to ask but never found out if this meant getting drunk in your house in view of the street is public drunkenness.