hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
8hr ago
The US army purchases brand name products packaged in black and white boxes with no logos, solely the name of the product, and receives a slight discount(from, I'm sure, a marked up price) for doing so.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
The poor wouldn't starve even if foodstamps was abolished; they might eat shitty diets, but even the literal homeless do not starve, and you kinda need a kitchen to make use of foodstamps.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
Has hellofresh ever been profitable? AIUI none of those mealkitbox services have been.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
In practice the only way to do this is with block grants through a rum millet system; you know that the fat violent addicts have to be given access to the hall of mirrors.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
Correct, people don't know how to cook, but you're way overrating how good of a cook most women were in 1950 or whenever. When America was much poorer a high percentage of the population just ate unappetizing food. If you were stuck eating whatever you and your wife could throw together, you ate it regardless of quality.
As a society, we've decided that noone should have to eat unappetizing but cheap food. School lunches don't serve those weird rectangular pizzas anymore. Workplace and college cafeterias have professional chefs. Those box services have no stigma(and also no profit); hellofresh and factor and the like come off as responsible coded in a way that TV dinners used to be seen as an occasional extravagance that was only acceptable if you had kids to feed and a lot of overtime or something. The lower middle class does not eat rice and beans at home(or vegetables of any kind); they eat fast food, frozen dinners, pizza, etc- just like the welfare dependent poor. 'Having to eat bland food' is the lot of the world's poor historically, but it's an indignity that, in America, is reserved solely for prisoners.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
I mean, couldn't Trump get RFK to remove the prescription gate?
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
Spanish regularly pronounces the letters 'th' as 't'.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
See also 'litterboxes in schools'.
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
It's probably not new there, it's just a random fad resurgence.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
Again, thé superbowl commercials are a much bigger deal for all that.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
There are real, actual differences between how self described liberals and conservatives, but not republicans and democrats, raise their children. Corporal punishment in the home, censorship, etc are all more common among one than the other. Likewise there’s differences in rates of visiting elderly (grand)parents, in rates of religious change(both conversion and apostasy), in length of courtship before marriage, etc. I don’t think I need to spell out how they run.
Now, notably that isn’t a Republican/democrat difference, or even really a red tribe/blue tribe difference- thé red tribe is better modeled as ‘the set of people who think conservatism is high status’ than as ‘the set of people who are conservative’, and republicans are just ‘people who prefer Trump to the optimates’. But ‘conservatives’ are a real thing.
hydroacetylene
14hr ago
To be even more fair, she may well be selling her whole cart at 50% to spend the money on drugs.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
$800/mo seems like a lot to spend on groceries for three people.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
Yes, I can remember government cheese(rural Louisiana was a middle income country well within living memory).
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
When I’ve tried to game out UBI in practice, it’s looked a lot like this, where Amazon and Walmart turn into giant government contractors and welfare is paid in scrip to fund super corrupt qpq consumer spending.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
In addition to the childhood nutrition issue, thé Anglo underclass does not know what to do with rice and beans. They would just starve if you handed them dry goods.
‘Three hot meals a day from the canteen’, sûre, that could be worked with.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
Food stamps is almost literally meant for poor people with dependent children. The government should eliminate the marriage penalty, but it’s not really intended for adult hard cases.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
I mostly see food stamps users buying food in quantities that are clearly supporting a family, not an individual, and usually what I consider a quite reasonable grocery cart(potato chips to pack in your lunch don’t seem that out of line when you’ve got tons of other food in there). This is difficult to resent.
Granted, I shop mostly at Aldi, which has a different clientele(that is, people who cook at least a little bit and are at least mildly cost-conscious). Is it possible that restricting junk from food stamps is desirable? Sûre, but I think you’re significantly underrating the actual difficulty in doing this without banning eg canned green beans on accident. Likewise I don’t have a huge problem with saying ‘no steak on food stamps’- sûre, if the taxpayers are paying for your luxuries then we’re paying too much, thats fair. But I think the government attempting to actually enact this rule would probably ban Salisbury steaks, chicken fried steaks, etc, and then Walmart would figure out how to reclassify ribeyes.
hydroacetylene
15hr ago
The Super Bowl halftime show is not a big deal, particularly- the commercials are actually a bigger deal in mainstream culture- thé halftime show is intended as a sop to get a demographic which doesn’t normally watch a whole football game to pay attention(in the past this was often women but bad bunny was definitely aimed at an ethnic group that likes a different sport).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
The pattern was well established before India and thé Islamic world became consolidated, and east Asia also went through significant fragmentation during the era.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
So the USA didn't technically 'lose' Vietnam- it extracted a promise from North Vietnam not to invade the south if the US withdrew. They reneged on this promise as soon as the US troops were out of country, but South Vietnam actually won that round, so the US then didn't intervene when they tried again after South Vietnam removed its most capable general for political reasons.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Bit of a nitpick but the composition of town militias was mostly not merchants- it tended to be heavy on skilled tradesmen producing the things merchants traded and on medium sized farmers, not so much on merchants themselves, and use the urban poor as grunts in bulk(rowers weren't mostly galley slaves; they tended to be random poor people offered above average wages).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
What does decadence mean? I mean that unironically; nobody in this thread bothers to define it.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
who were the last warriors not to get their arses kicked by soldiers?
Probably the Mapudungu, who maintained independence from modernizing Latin American states on the pampas slightly longer than the Sioux or Commanche did vs the USA.
Exactly my point; private charity in a society as wealthy as the US is more than capable of preventing people from literally starving to death.
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