• Courtney (she/her/they) @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    20 hours ago

    It was my understanding that no, it did not have splinters, but that someone began marketing it as “splinter free” in the same way I could begin advertising my cereal brand as “asbestos free” and while I’m not outright SAYING the competition contains asbestos, it’s implied. And if anyone reads it and chooses my brand because of their assumption, that’s just a bonus and not at all my fault.

    Using paper specifically for use with toilets was first written about around 1500 years ago, but the casual way it was written about tells me that it was commonly used for some time before that. If I had a guess, probably for at least 150 years, but China has been making paper for almost 2,000 years, so who knows when someone first tried it on their ass.

    If normal paper was splinter free, it stands to reason that toilet paper, which must be thinner and less rough by necessity, would also have been splinter free.

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      17 hours ago

      Also you can’t even make these claims in countries with sensible advertising restrictions. Advertising that your product does not violate the law is illegal here for instance.

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        17 hours ago

        Advertising that your product does not violate the law is illegal

        I sense a paradox incoming…

        So, if I advertise that my product doesn’t violate the law, that’s illegal. Which means it does violate the law, so … no longer illegal?

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              13 hours ago

              Advertising that your product is legal is illegal, to know if the product is legal you check the certification marks on the product/product container (ex: CE)

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                  My government suck ass in a lot of things, but they are pretty good with regulations (if they make them), it wouldn’t be too irrealistic for Italy to make something like this (just look at the regulations for buildings…), idk if they added something like that too but I hope they did

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          Your product wouldn’t violate the law but your advertisement would.