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nobel prize

ok go on.

economist

bye

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It always makes me laugh because it’s not even a real Nobel prize

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incredibly true statement

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Literally. It’s given out by a different organization than the Nobel prize.

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Not that the Nobel Peace Prize or the Nobel Prize in Literature isn’t political horse shit half the time…

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31 points

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We did it. The price of food went from “not cheap” to “holy shit” and its still at “holy shit”. We won.

Now everybody needs to stop asking for those fucking raises.

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A chicken burrito at Taco Johns costs 7 fucking dollars.

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i saw the smallest boxes of the same type of cereal i used to eat as a kid at the grocery store today. $3.99 for a 7.9 oz box of count chocula which was on sale. Pretty sure when I was a kid the boxes were at least twice that size, probably more, and were cheaper by at least $1

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I’m just glad we didn’t give everybody raises. These economists clearly were right when they said if everybody got a raise inflation would be insane.

Instead we just had massive inflation at the same wages so everybody is fucked.

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It’s still wild here in Europe too, cooking oil went from 2 to 6 dollars for a liter and only went down to like 5 recently. I haven’t deep fried a single goddman thing in 3 years

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Wow, great news for off-grid homesteaders living in the middle of fucking nowhere and literally no one else

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47 points

Laughs in price of agricultural inputs

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Literally a Babylon Bee article…

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I recently saw the phrase ‘food insecurity’ and while I’ve heard it before, I never realized how weird of a phrase it was. It’s poverty, food insecurity is the definition of poverty. But because people have phones or something it doesn’t count as poverty?

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I never realized how weird of a phrase it was.

I never googled “food insecurity” because I could imagine what the definition was. But check out the third sentence on the health.gov page. Emphasis mine.

Food Insecurity - Healthy People 2030

Food insecurity is defined as a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food. In 2020, 13.8 million households were food insecure at some time during the year. Food insecurity does not necessarily cause hunger, but hunger is a possible outcome of food insecurity.

And look at the phrasing - “13.8 million households”. How many people is that?

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Libs love terms that they can use to make something they don’t want to think about more abstract. In this case - they can avoid having to use sentences like this…

  • They don’t get enough to eat.
  • They don’t have enough to eat.
  • Sometimes they don’t have enough to eat.

And libs don’t want to seem cruel and dismissive so they would like to avoid…

  • Sometimes they are forced to skip meals because they don’t have enough money.
  • Sometimes they go hungry because they don’t have enough money.

Enter “food insecurity”. Voilà!

  • They suffer from food insecurity.

No mention of troublesome words like eat, meals, money, hungry or god forbid hunger.

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I think they mean that a person is food insecure if they have to consistently worry about where their next meals will come from, even if they do end up eating every meal.

As much as I hate liberals, the more lib thing to do would be to strictly define the hunger stat to something like “missed more than 3 meals in a row in the last month” or some shit to keep the stats down.

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It sounds more like a disease that unlucky or careless people might contract than a very societal rot foisted on the most vulnerable from the sheer greed of the least vulnerable.

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