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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Stuff like this isn’t usually packed strictly by weight. It’s packed by “volume that probably weighs about the right amount based on average density”. In most places there is a legally allowed +/- % to enable manufacturers to churn out slop as quickly and efficiently as possible. They’re supposed to have a QA department that makes sure it averages out over a large number of packages, but in practice who knows. Regulators are usually too busy / understaffed / underfunded to police that kind of shit proactively anyway, and even if they do get caught, the fine is probably less than the savings they’d get from shorting customers en masse. The manufacturer will absolutely have done the math on that.

    So fuckit, more power to him.