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Enemies

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- I started driving in the 90s. I remember my favorite local gas station closing because their gas pumps could only go up to $0.999
  
  I'm from Australia and remember when gas hit $1/litre in the 90s. The pumps could handle it, but the signs only had space for three digits (cents and tenths of a cent) so petrol stations (as we call them in Australia) had a hand-painted "1" at the start of the price, until they could upgrade the signs.
- And for the billions and billions of dollars given to Telco companies, we should all have under $10 a month gigabit symmetrical connections to our house […]
  One of the biggest thefts from the American people?
  (Just one of, of course)
Lemme share something with you people.
Eggs are still stupid cheap, today. However, there are too many greedy people between the producer and people that need them for eating.
My everyday job has me go around to places most will not go and one day I discovered an egg farm, somewhat off the beaten path, that sells directly. Only requirement is that they sell a minimum of thirty eggs (a tray).
I made a few questions and now I'm bringing eggs weekly from there, invoiced to me by weight. No size distinction but most eggs are L size. Roughly speaking, each egg is 0,1667€, with VAT already included. The same egg in supermarkets is sold anywhere between 6 to 11 cents more expensive.
That's too much.
- Eggs in the supermarket near me are anywhere from $4.99 to $12.99 for 12.
  Eggs from farmers near me are $4 for 12.
  Easy to guess where I buy my eggs.
  
  The 4.99 at the supermarket because it's not worth the extra time to swing by the farmers?
- More like W size
  
  Come again?
Wow, this comment thread is like I'm back in reddit! Does this mean lemmy's made the big time, that now we're getting disinformation and bots? 🤩
- Already have both
- Instance based issues
- Bots are much easier on Lemmy compared to Reddit, so I'm surprised we don't see a huge number of them.
  
  Not enough market share yet...
Just saw $6.99 eggs today.
- If you're getting fancy eggs. The mass produced eggs are like $2.99.
  
  In a high cost-of-living area too?
  $7.42 at Wal-Mart in Northern California omg wtf (that’s for the fake cage free, that discount store doesn’t even have the pasture raised at all)
- I buy from a Mennonite farmer.
  $3/doz, often laid same day....CAD...sure sucks to be me, egg-wise.
  
  But fuck can they run...
  
  Unwashed eggs?!? Gross
  Just kidding, I'm actually extremely jealous, those eggs taste so much better (and are probably way safer at this point)
- They're $3 in Wegmans. You need a better egg guy.
  
  What's your location?
  
  It's 3 hours to the nearest Wegman's.
You guys don't throw cow manure at your traitorous neighbour's freshly white washed house walls?
- I haven't before, but I might now. There's plenty of dairies around here...
- Cow manure is also too expensive for that.
  
  What do you mean? It comes free with the cow.
Raid the grocery store dumpster for expired eggs, even better and free
- Not a totally terrible idea if you want the eggs for vandalism.
Germany still going strong with 1'99€ for 12
Okay boomer, back to Facebook with ya.

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