The craziest thing about this chart is that the price hike all goes back to when food producers realized they could use COVID to artificially inflate prices and people would just keep paying it because they have to eat and then nobody ever stopped them or held them accountable.
🌪 A data center under construction in Indiana cut power the county’s outdoor tornado warning sirens just as severe weather rolled through the area, infuriating residents.
One commenter's take on the latest data center fiasco: "Wow, a new way for data centers to kill us"
@PopBase The Grammys have been doing this segregation nonsense for years. Geography is not a genre. Grammys were hoping to get a performance out of these guys to generate ratings and hype, and ice them out of general categories while still dangling the possibility of a consolation prize.
i learned ants really have no concept of us as humans because of their limited eyesight and how big we are to them. they see us as moving shadows, or wind, or like obstacles and landscape (i imagine mountains). makes me wonder what’s in front of me right now that’s too large for me to comprehend.
Upton Sinclair is also responsible for something else that passes without notice in our lives: the way we use shirt collars to talk about class.
About fifteen years after publishing The Jungle, Sinclair wrote "The Brass Check," which was a muckraking expose on American newsrooms. In it, he described the office clerks upstairs as wearing white collar dress shirts, while the people in the mailroom below as wearing blue collar button-ups. This taxonomic shorthand — white collar vs blue collar — would become a popular way for writers to sidestep the uncomfortable discussion of class throughout the 20th century.
Sinclair suggested that the ability to wear a white dress shirt allowed office clerks and middle managers to see themselves as socially distinct from laborers, even if they shared similar interests. An excerpt:
"It is a fact with which every union workingman is familiar, that his most bitter despisers are the petty underlings of the business world, the poor office-clerks, who are often the worst exploited of proletarians, but who, because they are allowed to wear a white collar and to work in the office with the boss, regard themselves as members of the capitalist class."
Of course, there were other dynamics at the time, such as race, but this taxonomic device (white collar, blue collar) continues to be popular today, especially in a post-industrial economy.
JUST IN🚨: In a historic environmental turnaround, Costa Rica has doubled its rainforest canopy over the last few decades, making it the very first tropical nation to fully reverse deforestation.
everyday this admin passes a new Eat Shit and Die bill and the only response we get out of congress is "damn that's crazy, yall be easy tho" as they send more money to Israel
more than one hundred years ago a young man named Upton Sinclair, living in a small cabin about two miles from this house, on Rosedale Rd., Princeton, wrote a novel exposing the unspeakably filthy conditions of meat-packing in Chicago, titled "The Jungle." President Teddy Roosevelt read the novel, his stomach (which was considerable) was turned, he called Sinclair to the White House, & soon thereafter laws were passed to regulate (to some degree) the meat-packing industry.
Today we don't have a US president who can read, let alone read an entire novel; we have a US president who has deregulated industries that provide food & medicine for us, to our detriment.