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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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    They only did this because they are sitting on a bunch of inventory they can’t sell, so they used it for marketing, check out LegalEagle on youtube he has a 20 minute video on the lawsuit they are facing, they agreed a contract to have a custom factory line built then backed off when sales plummeted

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      You’re not concerned about the multi million dollar Bitcoin scam or just didn’t know? Dudes up to all sort of shady shit

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      The man has also been involved in numerous scams.

      I’m obviously not his demographic, but my wife (a teacher) says that there are loads of kids 10 and upwards that love Logan Paul and KSI. I think the suicide forest thing predates many of them, or they just don’t know/care about it.

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    These people lost everything. Maybe we should monetize a video about sending a truckload of bibles and coyote urine! We’re super awesome, y’all!

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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.

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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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      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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      I broke down and bought a pack of Prime

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

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    Alt headline:

    Multi-millionaire donates tax write off of $12,652, adds, “These cattle better be taking photos of this shit and sharing while mentioning the brand or I’m not fucking doing it!”

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      You know they are sending thousands of bottles of whatever flavor didn’t test well that has been sitting in a warehouse, too.

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      More like

      Multi-millionaire tries to pass off marketing as a tax write-off

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      Just because it’s (potentially) a tax write off doesn’t mean they gain any money. It means that they either lose slightly less money or that they can donate more for the same amount, depending on how you see it.

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        Technically they don’t gain money no, but they get:

        1. To move or dispose of product, making sales look better
        2. Free marketing, both in people having the drinks and to say “look we did a charity”
        3. To pay their taxes with effectively free money, because they take the product that they made for pennies, and count it as a “donation” at full price. Meaning that all the “profit” they would have made on markup goes straight to paying the taxes instead of making the money and paying taxes on the money they already made.

        It’s why a company donating their product is always better for them than a regular person donating cash. They are effectively still making money it’s just this time they are making money specifically to pay off their taxes.

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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.

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    I would rather drown myself than drinking that cat piss.

    Also they don’t even do it out of charity. Prime, being as dogshit as it is, is selling terribly. So they are giving it away instead of having to spend money getting rid of it. Would not expect nothing else from scammer logan and soulless KSI

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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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      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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          Much of the world does, unfortunately. Our bodies crave sugar because we needed the energy to do our hunting back when the species evolved… but we didn’t need or have access to a lot of it. Still, we crave it. And companies that make processed food are almost certainly aware of that fact since they employ food scientists and psychologists. They take advantage of it.

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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 they unloaded the the truck in a random parking.