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Is this satire? Does merely seeing a picture of a cantaloup on a shelf harm your psyche? Sure, if it's a model holding them up to her chest saying "come get my melons" i can understand that might qualify. But i don't see how "joe's has cantaloup again" would make you feel literally anything unless you already wanted cantaloupe, in which case the notification was beneficial in _allieving_ a negative emotion and not creating one.

I admit that the line gets very fuzzy at a certain point but i think we can agree that the extremes are different things.





Semi-satire. Three quarters.

It kinda depends on how much of a craving item it is. Fruits and veg, no worries ;)




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