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BigMacHole , in Kids Are Working in America’s Meatpacking Plants

Those kids are earning a Honest Living!

-Republicans who think Drag Queens are DESTROYING our Youth!

some_guy , in Police: Man stole new car from Lansdale Library, drives to police station to ask for drugs back

Christopher Jordan Ganzel, 24, of an apartment on the 20th block of Poplar Street, was charged Aug. 21 with felony theft by unlawful taking, felony receiving stolen property and misdemeanor unauthorized use of a car, according to court documents.

Felony theft and felony receiving shouldn’t be allowed. It’s one theft that got three charges, but it’s these two in concert that really rub me the wrong way. This is why innocent people plead out.

Ashelyn ,

In principle, I get the idea: that you can’t have someone else steal something for you and then get off the hook because you weren’t the one who stole it. That said, I feel like the laws should be written in a way that precludes someone being charged with both for the same offense, or in a way that delegates the fault such that “taking” and “receiving” add up to the consequences of a single theft charge.

Of course, the US is a Prison State so it’s unlikely one wasn’t added simply to pad out sentence lengths or leverage plea deals.

tpihkal ,

They usually charge people with as many things as they can and the smaller offenses get dropped (often as part of a plea deal).

some_guy ,

If you tried to introduce legislation to correct the problem you’d have DAs coming out of the woodwork saying how this would make it impossible to secure plea deals and that would be terrible because they already have too many cases to prosecute. The whole thing would be dead on arrival as a result.

cygnus , in [news] Jeremy Corbyn and the Independent Alliance of MPs call for full arms embargo on Israel
@cygnus@lemmy.ca avatar

Corbyn? What a surprise! I’ll just leave this here: www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-54730425

SoupBrick ,

A surprise, but a welcome one. At least at face value, the position is much better than the stance of the current and potential leaders of the US.

tunetardis , in The wine industry is worried that gen Z and millennials are turning away from the grape, citing cost, health risks and alternatives such as mocktails and marijuana

mocktails and marijuana

I’m liking this as a potential album name.

otter ,

First track: “Djinn & Juice”

Th3BFG , in Stephen King gives blunt three-word response after discovering Florida banned 23 of his books in schools

“Man who supports genocide says, what the fuck. More at 7”

Crikeste ,

To be fair, that’s pretty much every American. They’re all blood thirsty monsters. Just watch them come to tell me I’m a Nazi for not supporting a second holocaust lmfao

seth ,

This would be the same as saying pretty much all Palestinians are bloodthirsty monsters who support Hamas, or pretty much all Israelis are bloodthirsty monsters who support the eradication of Palestine. Do you not see that? Do you really think your statement is reasonable or considered, or are you just trolling?

RIPandTERROR ,
@RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works avatar

Jawohl, mein Führer 🙄

Daxtron2 ,

Wide sweeping generalizations of an entire population is quite literally the problem.

rickyrigatoni ,

I’m American and the only thing I want to holocaust is these goddamn mosquitos.

Dkarma ,

Everythings genocide with you ppl. Get a clue and realize America is extremely pro Israel. You’re in the cast minority and nothing will change no matter how hard you demonize Democrats you’re just going to end up with trump who’ll be worse.

glimse , in The wine industry is worried that gen Z and millennials are turning away from the grape, citing cost, health risks and alternatives such as mocktails and marijuana

“Alcohol is finally getting the rep it deserves.”

Yes. Hell yeah. I hate how alcohol gets pushed as a “cool” thing to do when it’s so destructive. If anything, getting wasted should be looked down on, not celebrated.

otter ,

It always has been, whenever marketing isn’t involved. Hell, for example: not only does the US have nearly every single major holiday now orbit drinking as a core element, but long-standing racist tropes do too. It’s a whole thing, this “bread & circuses” they’ve got us plebs distracted by…

TheAlbatross , in Why egg prices are becoming expensive again - Food Dive

I’ll buy the flu and demand angle when I see the egg suppliers post losses.

Fuck those greedy shits.

oxjox OP ,
@oxjox@lemmy.ml avatar

I’ll buy the flu and demand angle when I see the egg suppliers post losses.

So you’re rejecting verifiable and well known facts to appease your feelings? Cool.

This is called inflation. Every company ever has done this. Prices are increased explicitly to reduce demand. If they were to lower the prices and take a loss when there’s already no supply, they’d go out of business. Every company adjusts the price of their goods based on demand.

If you’re not happy about it, don’t buy the product. Or, buy products that are already priced at the value they offer. I’ve been paying over $5 for eggs for over ten years. The prices have not changed. Paying a dollar for a dozen eggs is absolutely ridiculous. Finding out that people were pissed because an egg was costing in excess of a dime or two is something I’m still struggling to come to terms with.

If you want to go on about corporate greed in agriculture, you should be looking at the beef and pork producers. The entire industry is a literal organized crime ring run by four companies using a shared database of sales and profits to push prices up in unison.

TachyonTele ,

August egg sales were up more than 5% compared to 2023, and producers sold 237 million eggs in the most recent four-week period. “We haven’t seen that number since the first year of COVID,” he said, when sales soared as consumers stocked up on staples including eggs and toilet paper.

Are these those verifiable and well known facts to appease your feelings? Cool.

oxjox OP ,
@oxjox@lemmy.ml avatar

Yes. I don’t understand your question. Are you not aware of what facts are?

TachyonTele ,

Ok good, then we agree they’re seeing record profits and should not be raising prices.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar
oxjox OP ,
@oxjox@lemmy.ml avatar

Kinda. That’s an additional problem caused by resellers. This topic is about farmers and whole sale prices and consumer demand. What you’ve linked to is not inflation but corporate greed.

“On milk and eggs, retail inflation has been significantly higher than cost inflation,” Groff wrote.

Two different subjects.

burgersc12 ,

Corporate greed is one of the leading causes of what we refer to as “inflation” i.e. prices going up. You can’t really seperate the two

scala , in Why egg prices are becoming expensive again - Food Dive

Buy Just Egg. Plant based. No disease. No slaughter.

TheWeirdestCunt ,

do you think you have to kill chickens to collect their eggs?

njaard ,

Yes, they have to do something with the male chicks

teft ,
@teft@lemmy.world avatar

I believe this is how male chicks are handled on an industrial scale:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/32aa038a-3b2a-4063-8694-0dd2cc46eb6d.gif

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

They use them for breeding. You need both to breed you know.

Evkob ,
@Evkob@lemmy.ca avatar

You don’t need even near the amount of male hatchlings that get produced for reproductive purposes. The vast majority of male chicks on egg farms get ground up.

Also, from an animal rights standpoint, “hey we don’t kill all of them, we need some males in order to subjugate their offspring to cruel conditions!” is more of an argument against egg farming than for it.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I mean from an animal rights standpoint, I’d say focus on the factory farming of eggs over what might happen to chicks.

Evkob ,
@Evkob@lemmy.ca avatar

What happens to chicks is an intrinsic part of egg farming, though.

P1nkman ,

It’s why I have my own chickens. When they don’t lay eggs, we let them live until they die or get sick. Fun fact: a chicken can eat up to 80 ticks an hour! And their poop is excellent manure for apples and pears.

ravhall ,

Tell me you know nothing about commercial poultry without… etc.

ElcaineVolta ,
@ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org avatar

obviously yes, did you not know that? they also sear their beaks off with hot metal to keep them from pecking each other in their horrifically cramped conditions, the egg industry is insanely cruel.

JoYo ,
@JoYo@lemmy.ml avatar

in a post about slaughtering millions of birds because of a disease outbreak you are just asking questions about slaughter? ya lost?

i_dont_want_to ,

I like doing flaxseed and hot water for baking! Works great in pancakes and banana bread.

ElcaineVolta ,
@ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org avatar

hell yea, flax eggs are dope

HubertManne ,

Im all over this once its cheaper but egg prices will still have to go up quite a ways.

TachyonTele ,

Ah yes, everyone’s favorite breakfast: scrambled and sunny side up… eggplant.

itsgroundhogdayagain , in The wine industry is worried that gen Z and millennials are turning away from the grape, citing cost, health risks and alternatives such as mocktails and marijuana

The good news is their vineyards are dying from climate change so they won’t have to worry about sales.

Rentlar , in The wine industry is worried that gen Z and millennials are turning away from the grape, citing cost, health risks and alternatives such as mocktails and marijuana

It’s a 3 trick pony - red, white and rosé… sure you could probably differentiate $10 wine with $250 wine with the latter generally tasting better, but the baseline range of flavours is the same. Beer is great since you can drink a lot and get a milder buzz, whiskey and spirits get you drunk more instantly, where wine is an in-between that isn’t very appealing. Beer/Cider/Seltzer/Hard Soda types of drinks and Spirits have a great range of flavours in comparison to wine too.

If wineries and breweries want people drinking more, they have to invest in trains (lol), so that they can serve their product on them and we won’t have to worry about drunk drivers.

valek879 ,

You are completely wrong about it being a 3 trick pony. There is tons of variety in wine beyond the color. But I’m not actually here to argue that because I completely agree with your last point. The thing that most often keeps me from drinking is the need to drive home at the end of the night. I don’t want to kill someone and I didn’t want to lose my job (I drive for work) because I went out to drink. So I drink at home which is not a healthy way to drink. So I don’t drink regularly.

If I didn’t have to drive to work I’d walk more which would put me on the ground, passing more bars and restaurants with the option to pop in for a pint and a bite to eat. Then hop on a tram or underground or light rail and head home full and happy. But we can’t have nice things like that in the US because oil rules or politics.

Rentlar ,

Yeah it’s not like I hate wine either, and characterizing as 3 types I agree is a massive oversimplification. It’s just it has fewer elements that interest me to go out of my way for it compared to craft beer and spirits.

crystalmerchant , in Stephen King gives blunt three-word response after discovering Florida banned 23 of his books in schools

“I love you”

sandalbucket , in The Accelerationists’ App: How Telegram Became the “Center of Gravity” for a New Breed of Domestic Terrorists

Durov gets arrested in france and suddenly the telegram slander kicks into high gear. It gets a hit piece every once in a while for sure, but the last few days have been on a different level.

You know who else uses telegram? My family, to send vacation pics to each other.

You know what other technology bad guys use? Email.

vegeta , in Ginni Thomas Privately Praised Group Working Against Supreme Court Reform: “Thank You So, So, So Much”

“According to Shackelford, Thomas wrote in all caps: “YOU GUYS HAVE FILLED THE SAILS OF MANY JUDGES. CAN I JUST TELL YOU, THANK YOU SO, SO, SO MUCH.””

Sails? I think she misspelled pockets.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ad1d2338-6a1a-4ca4-8ac6-0d5edb79b19a.gif

dogslayeggs , in The wine industry is worried that gen Z and millennials are turning away from the grape, citing cost, health risks and alternatives such as mocktails and marijuana

As an extremely avid wine drinker (and beer and cocktails), I’m good with this. That shit is too expensive. I just got back from tasting in Burgundy, and the range of prices is wild. One bottle from a specific vineyard costs literally $40,000, but a bottle from grapes 15 feet away costs $250. A bottle from a different producer from the exact same vineyard as the $250 bottle might charge $1000.

Can I tell the difference between a $50 bottle and a $250 bottle? Usually. But is it WORTH the difference? Usually not (but sometimes it is). There’s no chance I could tell enough of a difference between a $250 bottle and a $1000 bottle to make it worth it, regardless of me being unable to afford the more expensive one. I was actually afraid I was going to spoil myself from cheaper wine with this trip to Burgundy, but I ended up finding I’m happy with the wines I can afford and have easy access to.

Anyway, I’d be happy for the price of wine to come down.

otter ,

I hope you enjoyed your trip in other ways, considering the whole theme park song & dance is part of the show going back millennia : wine has always been exclusionary, elitist hype first.

dogslayeggs ,

I did. The trip was a blast. The restaurants are great, and the area is beautiful.

Atsur , in German far-right party wins a state election for the first time since the Nazis

Get in loser, we’re fighting Nazis again

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