I recently created a Twitter account so I could get notifications about an event. There was a lightning delay, and Twitter was how they were announcing updates every half hour or so.
Now that I have it, the draw to read and like tweets and see what’s going on is almost irresistible. But, it’s like watching a train wreck.
It’s at least 50% cesspool, and full of angry stupid people. For every thoughtful tweet, or funny response, there’s easily 10 hateful or stupid responses.
There’s only one true Twitter fact. If you read it, you’re almost guaranteed to be angrier afterwards than you were before.
If you’ve resisted this long, hold out and resit it longer. You’ll be better off.
If so, I’m positive he wouldn’t think twice before evicting them.
Partly because the man doesn’t ever seem to think once, much less twice.
Partly because he has zero empathy, as is shown when he tries to do something a normal person would do – like visit the site of a horrid hurricane – and ends up throwing paper towels to the crowd as though he’s helping.
And partly because his motto is, “Owe me money? Fuck you, pay me.” Because if there’s ever been a man that can’t miss a meal, it’s that guy. Just don’t be caught bleeding anywhere nearby, or you’ll upset him.
That’s a totally acceptable answer though, to you a loaf of bread costs $10.
You can probably buy bread for that price, or more, in a Whole Foods too.
A big part of the point of the question is to understand how far a typical salary or program or other funding a politician controls will go for those that are dependent on it.
For argument, assume the typical price of a loaf of store brand bread is $4.00. If the answer to the question is $3.50, that’s pretty close but undervalued. If the answer is anywhere up to about $12, that’s all close enough. Above $12, and they’re just out of touch with no idea the value of anything. But, more important, if the answer is BELOW $2, they’re out of touch, have no idea the value, and they think a dollar goes farther than it really does causing them to under fund everything.
This man is spectacularly stupid. Like a whole new reality defining level of stupid. So stupid I’m marveling in the depth of his stupidity.
I never thought a single man could achieve this level of stupid. I still don’t. Donny Hamberders was almost cultivated from birth to be the most ignorant stupid douche on the face of the Earth. People actually raised him in ignorance to help him become this stupid.
Welllll…I do buy my own groceries but I couldn’t tell you what any individual item costs. It’s all just lumped together and it’s not like I’m gonna compare milk prices to decide which to buy.
Pretty much the same here, though I usually do compare prices except for items where we care (we prefer a local milk brand that has policies we like, so we don’t get store brand there, for example).
What I’m not doing usually is comparing prices that I see before me with those I’ve seen at various times in the past, which is what I’d need to be doing for remembering the price to be important. I suppose I could get taken for a ride if my local grocery store suddenly decided to charge an excessive amount for every brand of some particular product, but I can usually cudgel my brain into remembering some sort of appropriate price range.
For the specific example of bread, if I sit and think about it, I come up with not-quite-generic white bread selling for $0.99, store brand for $1.99, and then a variety of somewhat nicer types from $2.99 to…well, north of $5. I’m not even considering those, so I don’t know just how high they go. I usually pick whichever slightly nicer brand is on sale, which translates to $2.50 or $2.
I grew up in the South. To me, Krispy Kreme is what a doughnut is supposed to be like. These heavy, cakey things that came from other places were simply not to my taste at all, though I eventually developed a fondness for old-fashioned/sour-cream doughnuts.
It’s all irrelevant to me these days, admittedly, as I’ve been off doughnuts for about a year now.
It really shows how dangerous it is to be ruled by oligarchs.
Yeah, Trump, for much of this career, had institutions that “knew” him because they had initially invested so much in him they couldn’t cut ties and had to work to keep him afloat. Eventually, when they were able, they finally cut ties and turned into organizations that knew of him. (At which point he couldn’t get loans and turned into a money launderer, in which context those who “knew him” knew they could use him…)
Donuts are thought of more as a treat, but they’re such sugar bombs. I can only eat half of one before i have to stop. I honestly wouldnt think of a donut as breakfast but i grew up in Latin America so my view on it is more aligned to yours.
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In spite of what the cab driver says, Bailey ran a savings and loan.
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An S&L seems (in theory anyway) closer to a credit union than a bank, but IIRC the people in charge used them to do things that banks could not do (which led to a number of “bancs” as opposed to “banks”), and most of them were mismanaged down the crapper by the late 80s/early 90s.
I do all the family shopping, and I wouldn’t have a clue, because I never buy it.
And also, because it’s possible to do all your own grocery shopping and never pay attention to the prices. I’ve done that when times were flush. Grew up in a coupons-and-comparison-shopping squeeze-nickels-til-they-bleed working-class family, and it’s a true luxury to not have to do that. Just go to one store, buy what you want, put it on the card, and go home.
A very middle-class sort of pleasure, but a real pleasure. nonetheless. (-:
