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The phrase 'sell by' was never meant for shoppers; it tells a store when to rotate stock, yet shoppers read it as an expiration date and toss good food.

California's fix standardizes the wording. The thread's asterisk: stores can keep 'sell by' dates if they're coded for staff, so a shopper may lose the one clue that stock is old.

Several call it a near-nothing law. A small clarity gain, at best.

A federal law quieted loud broadcast-TV ads back in 2012, but it never touched streaming — so streaming ads stayed loud. California's new law extends the same standard to streamers on July 1.

Industry groups argued that server-side ad insertion and a 'broad range of devices' make consistent loudness hard. The thread's top reply took that apart: loudness is a measured, solved problem at the source. 'Stop trying and fix it. It's your own damn system.'

The bill orders 3D printers sold in California to run compliance software and reject jobs from any pathway designed to evade detection — effectively banning open slicers unless they ship the censorship layer too. The stated goal is stopping untraceable firearms.

The thread's analogy did the demolition: imagine a lathe that refuses to make a baseball bat, or scissors that phone home before cutting. You don't ban the tool to ban the act.

The site separates age verification (a yes/no) from identity verification, and urges mass non-compliance to deny the schemes their needed cooperation. The flip: a commenter notes 50,000 departures out of 2 billion users is a rounding error, so the leverage simply isn't there.

California holds 105 of these cities, New York 41, New Jersey 26. The national typical starter home is still $198,649, so the gap between the headline and the median is the whole story.

A founder who sold his company for eight figures wrote that he can barely afford a condo in Jersey City, and that the homes around him are not even selling. Others doubted the count, noting Zillow never publishes the actual city names.