“But if it is too expensive — unlike fuel, Benny — you can eat chicken, pork, salmon, eggs."
“Let them eat salmon.” LOL.
So there are alternative proteins. That’s a free market situation. But there is no alternative to the petro-state. Doing less driving is communism.
It’s in response to an assumption that’s described here, but not included here.
Are you living in Canada? Maybe no one has to bother to persuade you to pass up the Mrs. Butterworth.
Did you know, if you use uBlock origin, you can add these to your “My Filters” custom filter list:
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||instagram.com^
And you’ll never accidentally surf to one of those again?
If you consider liquor bottles, you will have to admit that the looks of the bottle must be a big part of the marketing and appeal. A lot of people in that business obviously consider it important that their bottles are distinctive.
And maybe it’s at least a little bit that way for syrup, too. If you’re asking people to pony up extra money for real maple syrup, maybe it makes sense to distinguish the bottle with extra cozy-homey-old-timey signifiers.
All that said, the brands of maple syrup I’ve been buying don’t have a vestigial jug handles. Many of them don’t.
Meta’s content moderation system stepped in … on the grounds that it violated a rule on promoting “social topics…”
Advertising is social by its very nature and I can’t imagine any sort of serious ad that wouldn’t fall under that “social” umbrella.
An ad that suggested “Stay home and do nothing” would still be a case of one human being reaching out to another human being.
I know my reasoning isn’t going to make Meta crumble, but I do want to make it clear how dishonest and craven this is.
If you use Firefox for Android, you can install the uBlock ad blocker, which can reduce the load on your device substantially.
There are “True cost of driving” calculators to help understand this. Some of them are really involved. This one suggested to me that even my small, old hatchback costs something like $0.40 per mile, including depreciation, maintenance, fuel and so on.
One thing that most of us don’t have a gut feeling for: Even at $4-6 per gallon, fuel is usually not the biggest cost involved. That’s a lousy situation, because it means we don’t react to the real costs. “Market forces” can’t work if most of us don’t feel their pressures because we’re looking in the wrong places.
If you don’t feel like dealing with a complicated calculator, you can check how big a deduction the IRS allows for a mile of business use driving. This year it’s around $0.70.
It’s like he’s designing the kids’ playset version first
On the one hand, throwing people in prison for long sentences isn’t an approach that’s been working to create a well-adjusted society, is it? I don’t want everyone locked up for years for every little thing.
On the other hand, what are the odds you and I could engage in this kind of unhinged, wonton criminal behavior and get a sweetheart deal like this? Breaking into a car, then using the stuff you found in the car to steal money from the same person? None of that was an accident. “Attempted” identity theft? WTF?
I don’t think ordinary citizens should be required to know the law in lawyer-like detail when they travel.
I think in the broad strokes, you’re probably right about his legal situation, but it suuuuuucks and it’s not what I think of when I hear the word “freedom,” for sure.
I wonder how our very fine president would feel if CNN wanted to talk to everyone at the UN except him. And if the other networks did the same.