Which would be doubly silly as peanuts aren't actually nuts.

… which is why the label makes sense. They may have been contaminated with nuts during production.

I think acting as if peanuts are actually nuts for purposes of communication is much more defensible than acting as if tomatoes are vegetables, in short you are dying on a hill that was paved over long ago.

I agree most people will conflate them, but someone who's allergic to peanuts but not tree nuts (or vice versa), i.e. the people the labels are intended for, are going to care about the difference.

And you think white knighting for managers who call their directs all “fucking morons” is a good look?

... or a world where grown adults pay millions of dollars to watch grown adults fighting like school children.

In fact, what am I even doing in this thread? - close-tab.

That's the biggest confusion to me. Why on earth was this such a big deal? But perhaps Hacker News isn't the best place for that conversation.