Yup. The baker isn’t the one that owns the bakery. They don’t own the mills. They don’t own the farms.

Instead, what’s happened is one mega corporation has bought most of the bakeries, they set prices to the maximum level possible and have backroom negotiations with mills that an independent baker can’t get in the room to make. The mills do the same thing with the farms. And the farms are all consolidating into few owners who get to run on almost no employees (It doesn’t take a lot to run a modern farm). Further, the mega farms and mills end up driving small time farmers out of business because the mills won’t cut deals with small time farmers like they will with the megafarmers.

At every layer, there is some MBA asshole idiot justifying his parasitic existence because he thinks nobody else is as smart as him (even though he likely got the business because of his daddy or his wife’s daddy). He hordes the excess funds but builds himself a nice big house.

Yeah, there was a huge gap in the experience of a white person and a PoC. Further, the 70s was right on the cusp of stagflation. Not unlike what we feel today.

Layers, layers everywhere

1000%

Man, if it were just this then banks would be pretty stable.

The problem is banks don’t just lend and receive money, they invest. And they invest in everything. And they take super risky bets.

This is what caused the banking collapse of 2008 and what caused the death of SVB and a few other banks.

Your bank doesn’t just hold your money and debt, if you rent it almost certainly owns a peice of the company managing your property. It owns crypto assets. It has shares of startups. And it uses those assets to get more money to create more debt.

Dobb Frank was created to stop some of this, but unfortunately it’s been effectively repealed already.

Lmao, everyone can read this thread including yourself. Try again.

Then how can you claim the statement is a lie?

Right, because it makes Israel look bad. Anything that makes them look bad is a lie right?

Oh? What’s the official number? Perhaps you can report how many children Israel has counted.

“I mean, sure Israel is murdering thousands of children, expelling people from their homes, bombing a sovereign nation unprovoked, and Israel is bulldozing homes to make way for new settlements. But other nations do bad stuff too so this is obviously antisemitic”

What’s antisemitic is conflating the actions of Israel with Jewish people. Jews aren’t inherently fascist and fascist Jews aren’t all Jews.

This is also fucking disgusting as antisemitism is a real thing. Trying to conflate it with Israel critique makes people take antisemitism less seriously which is also dangerous.

They can’t even stick to their own rhetoric. Dem commentators calling Trump Hitler and then going out golfing with him is everything wrong with the party and media.

I fear 2028 is going to be Dems deciding that they were just too “woke” and running Liz Cheney for president.

Easiest mac and cheese recipe that is both cheap and nearly perfect

https://www.seriouseats.com/ingredient-stovetop-mac-and-cheese-recipe

Ingredients:

• mac
• cheese
• evaporated milk

Easily beats kraft for flavor. Not QUITE as cheap but pretty damn close. Same cooking time, lower effort.

Not really. It was ok but not great pizza.

Yup, they deliberately ran it into the ground. They took out loans against Kmart to buy Sears and sold Sears and Kmart properties off to give themselves money via stock buybacks.

And what’s worse, because it worked, you can see similar actions happening to other major retail outlets. Target, in particular, seems to be following directly in the footsteps of Kmart.

Agreed, very well done.

I lived above a pizza shop at one point. Was not an issue.

In my state (Idaho) it’s because a good number of the legislators are landlords.

They don’t give a fuck that half their apartments are Airbnbs, they prefer it that way.

usr does mean user. It was the place for user managed stuff originally. The home directory used to be a sub directory of the usr directory.

The meaning and purpose of unix directories has very organically evolved. Heck, it’s still evolving. For example, the new .config directory in the home directory.

Ad hominem: check.

Don’t expect any rational choices here.

Perhaps don’t cry about rationality if all you have in your brain is logical fallacies.

Here’s a quote from the site you cherry picked

Some people may choose to go vegan, for some it may be because they do not believe in farmed animal practices and animal exploitation, for others it may be due to environmental concerns. Whatever the reason The Vegan Society is here to support everyone on their vegan journey.

Gee, looks like the vegan society also recognizes some people become vegan because of climate change… Or maybe you are going to redefine more terms so you can win your argument.

Or maybe you are pulling a definition not commonly accepted by the community or English speakers. No, that can’t be right, you are obviously smarter than I am. After all, you are a rational person that’d never engage in strawman attacks.