Ridley Scott also chose to apply what I call the “small penis theory of history” to Napoleon, psychologising his conquests as a direct result of sexual dysfunction and his inability to control his wife Josephine. Just a shitshow all round.
@BrettKrieger12 Everyone knows Palmer is a chud, the guy created vr headsets to watch hentai (my speculation), but you didn’t have to put him on blast like that. He’s just jestergooning
In America, a warehouse store. A fully roasted chicken costs five dollars, the raw chicken beside it costs seven, and I stood between them like a man between two truths.
Golden. Hot. Seasoned. Spinning in glory under the lights, in a line of its brothers. Four dollars and ninety-nine cents.
I checked the raw birds. Seven dollars. Pale. Cold. You must do everything yourself.
This is not commerce. Commerce does not move backward. Somewhere in this building, mathematics lies defeated.
I asked the man at the counter. "How is the cooked bird cheaper than the raw bird?"
"Been five bucks forever. They keep it that way."
"But the store loses."
"Yep. On purpose."
On purpose. I held my receipt with both hands.
In my land, a lord who lowered the price of rice in a hard winter was remembered for generations. They built him a small shrine. This store does it every day, with chicken, and tells no one.
A woman behind me grew tired of my reverence. "It's just a chicken, sir."
It is not just a chicken. It is a wound the merchant takes on purpose, so that anyone, on any day, with five dollars, eats like a lord. The bird is the message. The price is the vow.
I will confess: I bought two. I did not need two. The second was not hunger. It was gratitude, and it was delicious.
Some prices are not prices. They are promises.
I return every week now. I take one bird. I bow toward the deli, briefly, so as not to alarm the staff. They have begun nodding back.
The vow holds. The bird turns. Five dollars.
Long may it spin.
@EmpireEnjoyer3@romanhelmetguy Elon should expand blackwater as a thank you to the country that has brought him so much, and then expand executive outcomes as a nod to his South African heritage. Then he can create space divisions for both, wherein he can conquer the stars using spacex rockets.
@ellafella5@Rw_Appalachia Despite their advanced technologies, they lack artistic creativity in certain realms. They really love cool agartha edits, so they’re looking to claim the rights to “all the things she said” and hire ten schizo edit posters, of which they have none at the moment.