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punishedsaints

anachronic-cobra

I cannot emphasize enough how exactly accurate this is to working in production

targetedknowledge

prokopetz

"It doesn't help your credibility to exaggerate, most employers wouldn't literally work you to death" like, I used to work in distribution. If booking a truck driver for back to back shifts until they fall asleep at the wheel, crash, and die counts as being worked to death, I have personally met employers who've worked employees to death and gotten away with a slap on the wrist. It may not be universal, but it's a hell of a lot more common than a lot of us would prefer to think.

backofthebookshelf

The FAA had to explicitly make rules about how long pilots have to have off between shifts, and how far away from their home you can pin their home airport, because it doesn't mean shit that someone has 10 hours between shifts if they have a 2 hour commute each way. They had to make these rules because multiple passenger airplanes crashed because the pilots were exhausted from tight scheduling. Employers won't just work you to death, they'll take a hundred random customers with you.

lordgolden

Happy belated Workers’ Memorial Day, celebrated April 28th

chipper-smol

i wonder how much healing that one xkcd comic did to the internet with saying “you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000″ when encountering a person who hasn’t been exposed to a popular or well known thing

chipper-smol

you’re so right

somethingusefulfromflorida

toddsolondz

the concept of an emotionally neglected undersupervised middle schooler holds so much more weight now than it did in 1989 because in current canon tim would have been born anywhere between like 2002-2005 scrolling the worst websites you can even imagine.

toddsolondz

tim drake (11 year old with undiagnosed ocd) who just spent hours scrolling right wing forums because he was bored and wanted to see how people’s minds worked and now he’s scared that it’s starting to infect his mind and make him evil: dad do you think i’m a bad person?

jack drake on facetime, only half listening because he’s checking his email mid-call: sure

charlesoberonn

The default length of pasta is designed to fit on a supermarket shelf, not to be the best length for cooking/eating.

Feel free to break it to any length you want (don't let the Italians know I said this)

charlesoberonn

Make sure I fit in the pot at least.

lilyyy63

Shorter pasta could definitely fit on a store shelf. Longer pasta however...

Free yourself of corporate interests and demand comically and inconviently long pasta

charlesoberonn

Pasta so long it can't fit in your car and you gotta tie it to the roof. Pasta so long you gotta cook it outside because your ceiling is too low.

clumsysprings

I think space filling pasta would be the best of all worlds. Easy to fit on shelves, long, and fits in the pot without breaking!

Good luck manufacturing it, but I think it could be done by extrusion and chopping, but I don't know if it'd be spaghetti still

charlesoberonn

Something like this?

relevant-wikipedia-articles

robotblues

the brothers Area

friend-crow

birds-in-posts

Kelp gull (Larus dominicanus)

userfish

genuinely crying laughing

sharas

raccoon-go-bweh

French govt is ditching Windows for Linux and holding mock funerals.

purplekoop

not to dwell on "The Game Last Night" but it's fascinating how Jimmy Beast seems to actively and uncritically want to be a diabolical torment nexus operator but is too genuinely incompetent to have any success or intrigue not reliant on the infinite money glitch of ad revenue from an audience of literal children

purplekoop

The most striking conclusion to me still is The Man Of The Beast outright asking actual competent video creators the question of "how do you create fandom". For one because it's an interesting question on its own that I could meander about for a while, analyzing what patterns in a creative work are compelling enough to create that specific means of collaborative engagement. For two because it's just incredibly funny to have it laid so bare that he just. Lacks The Sauce. there's literally Nothing to The Empire Of The Beast other than getting lucky from the infinite money glitch and the most shallow branding possible to stabilize the money glitch's feedback loop enough to somehow put ugly bulging plastic blue tigers on Target shelves because. the channel's pfp is a tiger. I guess.

purplekoop

fate is often cruel in dispensing its fortunes but it's genuinely (perhaps mercifully) mind-numbing how me and literally millions (if not billions) of other people could think of creative or thought-provoking or in any sense meaningful ways to use that money, even just entirely for commercial self-interested creative works, and all that the chode less charismatic than the least funny "funny" kid in your high school computer class could think to do with that money is

this.

purplekoop

it's not anger really. closer to pity

a-book-of-creatures

My beautiful daughter Monosodium Glutamate who has done nothing wrong in her life

hi-im-kaybee

msg is the trans women of spices

sistahscifi

Dr. Gladys West. 1930 to 2026.

Born on a Virginia farm during the Jim Crow era, Dr West became one of only four Black employees at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in 1956 and the second Black woman ever hired there.

The mathematician's calculations quietly became the backbone of GPS technology used by billions of people every single day. The world has navigated by her work for decades before it learned her name. That's the kind of legacy that doesn't need a spotlight to be real. It just is.

We honor Dr. West and the long line of Black women who built the future while the world looked the other way🤎

Rest in power, Dr. West. We see you now.

lizardsfromspace

People still doing "do you think voting can fix this" memes when the answer to the question "when did voting last end an authoritarian regime" is "two days ago"

three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat

Super secret sauce on how to end an authoritarian regime by voting:

you have to actually vote

even if you don't really like the guy you're voting for

Source: I was there

dragon-in-a-fez

ever wandered around in an open world video game and noticed there are no children? no elderly people? no fat people? no one using a wheelchair? no one with a guide dog? this is supposed to feel like a living world and there's so much of life that's just not there

dragon-in-a-fez

lots of people in the notes being like "open world games don't have kids/wheelchair users because if they did the players could kill them!" and I am unrolling my papyrus scroll with my curated reading list on the topic of "oppressed groups being imagined as symbols of innocence and vulnerability that must not be harmed in public instead of acknowledged as real people who are often suffering abuse in private, and why that is bad"

dragon-in-a-fez

like yeah I'm aware that our culture would go collectively apeshit over kid NPCs being shot up in GTA. I'm also aware that that very same culture is broadly fine with parents beating their actual real life kids, and that most people, even most people who would never hit their own kids, think other real life kids getting hit is not their business to be enraged about. so maybe like. there's something weird going on there.

dinolich

Pre-bonfire night zine making with friends. Here’s one I made about my cat.

libraford

When I moved out of my parents house, my mom gave me this cookbook so could save some money. The idea is that each of tge dishes in here costs less than $4, which was the typical daily food stamp budget in 2015. In addition to recipes, the book also has some solid advice on meal planning and waste reduction.

Ten years later, minimum wage is still the same.

Lets see how this Obama-era cook book stands up to 2025 prices.

(To be clear- this is not a criticism of the author, who did a lot of research and math for this.)

We are going to shop for the Half-Veggie Burger today, which in 2015 money was 90c per serving, 7.20 total.

For clarity of purpose, this is Central Ohio, and I will be shopping at Kroger. The book does not specify where she was shopping.

libraford

Alright! Lets do this!

So. One of the challenges is that its so much cheaper per unit if you buy in bulk. This is great for families like the one I grew up in (2 adults, 2 kids, chest freezer) but a little harder for my small family (2 adults, no kids, budget fridge in my rental house).

So I had to think about some things.

Bell pepper at 99c plus buns at 1.79 = 2.78

Divided by 8 = .34

I had to think about the beans. Dry beans have to be soaked before they can be cooked ( ive gotten sick from someone not soaking their beans first). I am a fan of paying the ADHD tax up front to get canned beans for myself.

Each can is something like.... a cup and a bit. So I would have to get three of them. 3 cups of lentils i think might be 3/4 the bag.

.89 × 3 = 2.67 ÷8 = .33

1.69 ×.75= 1.26, ÷8 = .16

Now meat.

Beef is expensive, there is no getting around this. If i had a bigger freezer, I would be getting this monster.

Which portions out at 5.66 a pound. But, because I'm being practical about my lifestyle, I chose the smaller roll at 6.99/lb.

16.99 upfront cost, 5.66 ÷8 = .70

6.99 ÷ 8 = .87

And now eggs, which... I lucked the hell out with a flash sale.

Which they normally sell at 2.69.

Which makes this hard to quantify because you cant always expect eggs to be inexpensive, especially as we get into colder months.

So I will give totals for both what I bought versus what a typical price range might be.

1.49 ÷ 12 = .12 ÷8 = .02

2.69 ÷ 12 = .22 ÷ 8 =.03

Now let's add it up to different totals.

The first total is the big roll of beef with bag lentils but regular price eggs.

Upfront cost:

24.15 (but remember that the eggs, meat, and lentils can be used in more recipes.)

Cost per burger:

1.23

Now my adhd tax beans, practical amount of beef, and very lucky eggs.

13.93 up front cost.

1.56 per burger.

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So a 20-40 cent increase per serving doesnt sound bad. We are still under $4. But 20c per meal can get a little hairy over the course of a year.

Food prices are an interesting subject because they do fluctuate and its not always even how prices increase. Tariffs do things. Weather does things. Bird flu does things. Local markets can get weird on their own.

But this does affect everyone, and its something thats been on my mind since January. And with the possibility of losing SNAP next month, I think it was good for me to look at the reality of the situation.

Anyways- I do suggest this book. Prices may be out of date, but the recipes are really good.

Here is the rest of the recipe for y'all to try.