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slavicafire

I would not have all these worries had I been born a goat

houseofseekers

Being a goat also has its inherent drawbacks

name one, I’ll wait.

hey um im rly sorry but i saved ur boyfriend in the wrong format and now his save file is corrupted. so he’s evil and weird now. sorry

normal-horoscopes

I'm about to enter monk mode

normal-horoscopes

HUAH

normal-horoscopes

[The hair on the top of my head violently explodes off my body, resulting in a perfect TONSURE]

catchymemes

biodegrade

me after a quiet day in: Time for a quiet night in

scumtrout

fun fact about aging: you don’t perceive yourself as being older but you perceive young people as being younger. today I was in a zoom meeting with a bunch of young men and I kept thinking ‘who put beards on these children’.

randomslasher

Correct. High school kids are WAY younger than I was when I was in high school. So are college kids. When I was in high school and college we were full grown adults. But now that I’m almost 40 the high school and college age kids are actually babies. It’s crazy how that happens.

sandersstudies

I remember when I was in middle school I would hear my dad calling college students and 20-something employees “kid,” as in “oh yeah this kid that just started in marketing is really talented,” or “the Johnsons’ son is a really nice kid” talking about like a 22-year-old and at the time I was like “what haha those aren’t kids those are clearly adults”

And now I’m a 24-year-old who sees my 18-year-old coworker as a baby and I’m like ah. I think I am coming to an understanding.

what-even-is-thiss

Everyone on planet earth currently is the oldest and most mature that they’ve ever been. And they always will be.

grecoromanyaoi

sorry, i mythologized your boyfriend. yeah i took him and a few other boyfriends and merged them together with local folklore and mystic elements into one legendary figure. he's going to be really hard to pin down historically. sorry about that. I can make you his consort in some stories if that helps.

guooey

This is so important to me..

skittybot

roastietoasty

@hellooooisitmeyourelookingfor

slashmarks

there’s a big difference between “food waste” as in “farmers destroy tons of food to avoid exceeding quotas” or “supermarkets throw away this much edible food because it doesn’t sell”

and “food waste” as in “it is not actually within the capacity of humans to perfectly predict and track household food consumption, so a certain amount of food per household inevitably goes bad and has to be thrown out every year”

transexualizer-deactivated20170

the idea that food waste is the product of thoughtless consumers rather than corporate greed is really insidious

jellyfishdirigible

Tesco’s egg production contracts require every egg to be inspected, and any with uneven or misshapen shells must be destroyed. Then they have to be candled and any with double or uneven yolks have to be destroyed. They can’t be sold elsewhere or even given away, because that would be competition against Tesco. Every time an egg farmer with a contract to supply Tesco gets new layers they have to factor up to a year of destroyed eggs into the cost of every bird, because new layers produce a lot of irregular eggs that Tesco won’t accept.

The same Tesco that runs international ad campaigns telling consumers to just plan their meals better to reduce food waste. The same Tesco that runs international ad campaigns telling its customers to just embrace “ugly food” to reduce food waste.

roach-works

not to suck boot for major suppliers, but i have to point out that this is how an industrial-sized food transport network has to run things in order not to poison their fucking user base / customers.

like, the noncompete thing where the eggs can’t even be given away is bullshit. but the thing where the eggs have to be destroyed isn’t as horrible as it seems, at first. because: eggs with irregular shells aren’t going to travel the same as regular eggs. eggs that break in transit spill white and yolk all over the cartons, gluing down the neighboring eggs, making them more likely to fracture. minute cracks in an eggshell let in bacteria. yolk and white splashed all over attracts bugs and bacteria. a whole carton or a whole pallet might have to be thrown out because of one or two broken eggs in transit– and if it’s not, there’s no way for some trucker or grocery store handler to know if they’re putting eggs in the freezer that are now past the safe threshold for consumption.

if you eat local food, you can get it fresher, and be sure that irregular food is still safe to eat. if you go to the grocery store and your egg traveled forty hours to get there, you need that egg to be regular, to have traveled a smooth and predictable path, to have held up in transit the way all the other eggs did. mass food production relies on a lot of calculations: the size of the food, how it’s packaged, how it’s protected and with what padding, what temperature it needs to stay at, how fast the trucks go, how much jostling it can take, how big of a stack it can rest in.

you know ‘a few bad apples spoil the barrel’, right? if you let rotten food ship with good food, the rot spreads fast. it all rots.

outliers that throw that math off have to be discarded, not because capitalists don’t care about food waste–every discarded egg is an egg they don’t get to sell! of course they want to sell the eggs!– but because when it comes to shipping food across an entire country, you risk everything when you play fast and loose with food that spoils in transit.

if you hate this, buy local, and push for laws that allow for the local distribution of discarded food.

queeranarchism

I would say ‘if you hate this, fight capitalism’, because most products would be local if it wasn’t more profitable to do this extremely wasteful mass production shit.

At present local produce is often prohibitly expensive. It shouldn’t be. It should logically be cheaper. But big suppliers can squeeze farmers with massive contracts, get weird tax breaks ans subsidies, and do tons of other shit to create a world in which their wasteful mass produced shit is cheaper. Local farmers end up catering to the high income ‘ethical consumer’ yuppie market because that’s how they can survive. As a result, I often can’t afford their products

So like, sure, buy local too if you can afford it, but consumer choices alone aren’t going to fix a systematic problem.