• FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world
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    I was filling up my gas tank the other day and I just stopped because I decided that that was enough money spent on gasoline for the day. The tank wasnt full. I wasnt out of money. I understand that it means i will have to find a gas pump sooner eventually. But, man, it made sense in the moment.

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    Rocket Mortgage had this truly nasty commercial that showed some schlub walking towards his house with three bags of groceries while the voiceover says that it used to be six bags. Then the guy’s house starts talking to him, reminding him that he has a tiny bit of equity in the house and he can get a second mortgage to pay for groceries. Then the guy starts dancing happily.

    Just astonishing that a corporation can sell borrowing money for food as a good thing. Rocket Mortgage’s owner Dan Gilbert also owns my favorite NBA team (Cleveland Cavaliers); I would be happy that they’re getting the shit kicked out of them by the Knicks if it weren’t for the fact that the Knicks’ owner is just as big of a scumbag. At least Gilbert doesn’t pretend to be a blues musician.

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    I’m a single man 43, when Donny was reelected my weekly grocery bill was about $80. As of march my groceries have cost me well over $170 and as of last week it is close to $200. So much winning we might get tired of all the winning.

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      And I dont think the other shoe has dropped yet. It takes time for shocks to wring out of the global transit network. Fertilizer is made from petrol these days, and farmers need to plan its order out months in advance. I fully expect things to get much worse to the point im learning to ferment and preserve things. Its not of urgency now, but having these skills before I may need them seems like a prudent use of time.

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    So glad that PEDOnald the Pumpkinhead is focused on:

    1. Covering up the Epstein files
    2. Distracting from the Epstein files
    3. Starting wars and raising prices for everyone
    4. Kidnapping foreign leaders
    5. Plotting to steal resources (such as from Greenland and Venezuela)
    6. Disappearing gardners
    7. Babbling about “men in women’s sports”
    8. Still fixated on better men and trying to trash-talk them because he has small dick energy (Biden, Obama)
    9. Engaging in obscene levels of fraud and corruption that will possibly set up himself and his crime family to be bankers to the world and deal himself so much money that it would embarrass Putin and make his crime family the richest in the world - https://www.unftr.com/trump-stablecoin (Stablecoin/USD1/GENIUS and Clarity Act)
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      Man, with how dumpy has acted over the last decade, his dick must be fucking microscopic. I don’t know enough about him to say how he acted before 2016, but I’m sure it was still small dick energy

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      staged like 3 shootings recently, to distract from the epstein files, also now the iran war hasnt been resolved, he needs the press to stop reporting that too.

      3-9 is basically distracting the epstein files. something new always comes up about epstein, he needs a distraction again.

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    I used to buy a lot more. The combination of getting laid off and only finding a shit job that pays shit (thanks AI) and inflation are the big factors.

    Capitalists can go fuck themselves. If they want people to buy they need to pay us.

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      Same her. I just swapped out everything to chicken/pork and even pork is climbing in price now. It’s fucking ridiculous out there.

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      Me either I might by a pack of ground beef a week. Where I am it is nearly 6 us dollars a pound which translates to about 12 ish dollars for my family for one meal component. Chicken is not a lot better at around 4 dollars a pound.

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        The shitty chicken they sell you is at that price??? In Spain we are paying 6ish€/kg. And without bleach.

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        at one point I kinda wanted to give up pork but its both more affordable and lower on the environmental impact.

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    It’s only 61 percent because 38% have started stealing groceries. The remaining 1% steals from all the others, like it always has.

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    Only 61%? My weekly grocery bill has gone from $100 to $150 on average. That’s with cutting back by no longer buying snacks or nice cuts of meat.

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    What will be the total effect on the US economy after the Orange Shit Show concludes? On the other hand, does this mean fewer animals will be slaughtered to feed obese AmeriKans?

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      It won’t dent animal food production. It will probably produce more food waste though. The corps will probably remain just as profitable, at the least

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        The only thing that would dent animal food production in the US is if the billionaires develop a taste for human flesh. It’s possible they already have.