@CryptoCyberia All the formely cheap cuts of meat are expensive now too, and nothing ever goes back down. Supply and demand my ass there's price fixing afoot.
@xah_lee I remember when covid 19 was first spreading, the news about how it entered Italy incidentally exposed the fact Chinese factories and worker populations were cutout wholesale and transplanted into Milan and N. Italy. Prestigious "Made in Italy" may as well be Made in China anyway
I finally got around to rewatching Blue Velvet and have to say it registered as completely normal and utterly sensical.
Been maybe tens years since I formed my memory, the standard "freaky but good"