• istdaslol@feddit.org
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    It’s a win win they can fulfill their contractual minimum orders, that they failed to reach last months and can write these off. Win-Win situation.

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    I broke down and bought a pack of Prime to try recently after seeing it everywhere, even in the hands of people I don’t associate with the whole Logan Paul circus.

    It tasted like piss and chemicals. If you’re at all sensitive to the taste of sucralose, it’s like drinking battery acid. I simply cannot fathom how it is as successful as it is.

    edit: typo

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      Kids, their taste buds are still developing so when they taste it and don’t instantly vomit they think it tastes good. After that their taste buds are permanently shifted towards those types of flavors, making the problem worse. Should be illegal.

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      It’s a nonsense mixture of electrolytes. We mostly sweat out sodium, not potassium. Prime has a lower level of sodium and a higher level of potassium. It just doesn’t make sense.

      And, y’know, it’s just fully a scam. It’s mostly successful because he’s famous. The business seems to be failing in a big way.

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        The higher potassium does make some sense if you consider that most people already get excessive amounts of sodium in their diet and comparitively little potassium. Sodium is in practically everything, potassium not so much.

        I would personally love to find an electrolyte mix with more potassium because I’ve had issues with potassium deficiencies. Of course I’m not about to buy this garbage and I doubt the shitheel selling it put that much thought into it.

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      I broke down and bought a pack of Prime

      You need to work on that. That’s not good.

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      Just a swallow or sip of sucralose I fused drinks can send my to bed in a dark room due to migraines.

      That drink may kill me.

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    Online grift sends in goyslop for the hurricane survivors at least fedi crowd know this is pathetic. I am sure on reddit they LARP as some sort of W.

    Rich man helps da poors! Rheee

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    A truck loaded with water bottles is more useful than Prime bottles, think it a little, for medial reasons some people can’t drink hyper sugar shit.

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      Even worse it’s coconut water. That’s okay in a normal market. But this might be the only “clean” water within a day’s travel in an emergency like this. The problem is there are people with coconut allergies and sensitivities. So for them he’s effectively sent poison. Furthermore, not everyone in a disaster zone needs rehydration all the time. This is why aid organizations don’t even send pre-mixed drinks. It’s the powder packets.

      Literally everything about this is wrong. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn they just unloaded the trailer in a random parking lot inside the declared zone and ran away.

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        Like Atary and the old leyend of the buried cartridges, it’s a possibility the unloaded the the truck in a random parking.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
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      Really, no one should be drinking high sugar drinks. Even stuff like juice should be a once in a while thing. I’m as guilty of it as almost everyone else, I admit. Hard to break that sugar addiction.

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    Gooooddddammit, I actually didn’t mind the PRIME electrolyte powder for when I’m sweating like mad (brought it to Burning Man this year), but Logan goddamn Paul owns it? Fuck I hate that guy

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      FYI they advertise it as “electrolytes” because it’s full of potassium and has next to no sodium, which is the main thing you lose when sweating, and they do that to say it’s sodium free while still having “electrolytes”

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        Right, Gatorade, a long standing “sports drink” has 12% of your DV of sodium or something for the reason you stated. Fuck logan paul and fuck his “get the kids to get their parents to buy this” garbage

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      Oh, is that what this is? Here I was thinking they “shipped Amazon Prime” to people and thought “well that’s bad grammar but… what did they actually ship using Prime?”

      And yeah, fuck that guy.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
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      Wouldn’t it be amazing if there were some sort of fully-indexed global network of computers full of information where you could do something like type the words “Logan Paul” into a text box and instantly get an answer about who that person is?

      Alas…

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      You’re much better off not knowing, imo. Influencers are like Tinker Bell, in that they disappear if there aren’t enough people who believe they exist.

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    I get the lemonade version sometimes and it only has a couple of grams of sugar, iirc. I like it for hikes and things like that. Usually I’ll get the powder packs and put some in my water bottle.

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    I couldn’t find where I saw/heard it, but I swear I saw a blurb about PRIME drinks containing polyfluoroalkyl, which is what allows jackets and tents to repel water…

    I did however find a Consumer Reports article.

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      Eh, if someone comes up with such a comparison it immediately tells that they don’t know what they’re talking about. Like, linseed oil was also used for waterproofing (oilskin), yet it is quite healthy. Other applications/occurences of a substance simply don’t tell you anything about it being good or bad for you.