Leather? You want to kill a cow just so you can walk around? A few days barefoot and you’ll grow your own self-replenishing leather. If you really must waste resources on your feet, I recommend cutting up an old, used tire. Same techniques as leather footwear, but re-use rather than murder.
Spawning my own enclave of ‘glitter bat’ users.
I’m gonna say that I don’t really care if the KGB “convinced” a private citizen to take out an ad. Seriously: if some dude stopped me on the street and offered me $1M to buy $100k of AdSense saying NATO started the war in Ukraine, I’d probably do that. Who really cares what I, or some 80s real-estate schmuck, pastes on the side of walls? Trump never made any secret of being an anything-for-money person.
I’d expect to get fired. I’d expect it to be disqualifying for public office. So, to me, the thing that’s actually disturbing is how many of our political leaders & how much of the public at large is willing to go along with and even celebrate the propaganda for free. Betray their stated ideals for free.
People will accept either intelligence or stupidity. They will pay for a flattering sycophant.
Room temperature above 24°C, no blanket. Above 26°C, I don’t even need a sheet, but I’ll usually keep it, because cold air from the A/C sometimes disturbs me.
I know plenty of people who insist on cooling their room at night so that they can be comfortable under a blanket.
I’m used to ‘Packaged in the USA’ labeling on Made in [somewhere else] products. ‘Designed’…same-same, definitely since NAFTA, maybe before. The bible verses are new to me.
If something were to happen, and you couldn’t make rent, you might get evicted, which would be inconvenient.
If something were to happen, and you couldn’t make the mortgage, the bank might lose money, which is unconscionable.
Genocide is not a good solution to high food prices.
Sausage has the extra benefit that it’s already seasoned, so you don’t have to add extra.
I think they mean Navy SEALs, not pinnipeds.
While only ~10% of corn is human food (including corn syrup), the rest is about evenly split between ethanol production and animal feed (~45% each). https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/corn-and-other-feed-grains/feed-grains-sector-at-a-glance
I mean, ethanol for fuel isn’t great, and it represents most of the new corn consumption over the last 20 years, but an enormous amount of US corn goes to pigs and cattle.
Everyone wants more than they have. Labor wants to be paid more this year than last, producers want to get paid more this year than last. In the money treadmill of the economy, that means everyone raises prices to pay for the rising prices.
It comes from excess production or profits. Labor creates more value than it gets paid; businesses charge more than their products cost; banks loan more money than they hold. There’s just extra money floating around competing to buy finite resources. The extra money accumulates over time, which makes money itself less valuable.