money_loo @ money_loo @lemmy.world

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This is such a douchey fucking phrase, certainly you can find a less obnoxious way to condescend.

Bless your heart.

Why do peacocks have such elaborate feather displays?

…Chandler?

Yeah for real, why can’t they just report on what Taylor swift is up to? /s

Alan Wake 2.

Just started, can’t really judge, but so far so good.

Founded by abolitionists in 1865, The Nation has long believed that independent journalism has the capacity to bring about a more democratic and equitable world.

I imagine people of a certain disposition will do whatever it takes to avoid reading from this site.

🙄

Humanity yet again, ladies and gentlemen.

You’re correct, I updated the post with better info. Thank you for keeping it accurate.

I’m no economist, I apologize, it went like this:

During the 1970s, as Americans sat in long gas lines and watched the economy tank, they faced another crisis: an unprecedented shortage of dairy products. In 1973, dairy prices shot up 30 percent as the price of other foods inflated. When the government tried to intervene, prices fell so low that the dairy industry balked. Then, in 1977, under President Jimmy Carter, the government set a new subsidy policy that poured $2 billion into the dairy industry in just four years.

Suddenly, dairy farmers who had been hurting were flush with cash—and producing as much milk as they could in order to take advantage of government support. The government purchased the milk dairy farmers couldn’t sell and began to process it into cheese, butter and dehydrated milk powder.

So they were struggling due to inflation, and the government was buying their products to prop them up for the time.

Based on these comments, it’s a bit of a clusterfuck out there.

It does, actually.

I hope you stay safe and healthy out there, it’s chaos, my friend.

The infamous "government cheese" was given to the needy in the US not because poor people have a dire need for cheese, but because the government wanted to give a lot of money to wealthy dairy farmers.

Jimmy Carter gave struggling dairy farmers money to encourage dairy production at a time when the costs of these products were rising like crazy.

The government bought a bunch to spur production and decrease costs for the average family. It was literally meant to help poor people the most.

*I must correct myself, the dairy farmers were struggling because previous government interventions had tanked the cost of dairy so low that farms weren’t turning a profit. So the government bought up supply to increase prices to a more sustainable baseline for everyone. I apologize for my mistake and will post links below so people can read some sources and decide for themselves.

They also never intended to give the cheese away at all. They were hoping to eventually sell it in some capacity.

It was only later in the early 80s under Reagan that they decided to give the cheese away, once again, to poor people and the elderly specifically.

And they only did that after a public spectacle was made when Agriculture Secretary John R. Block showed up at a White House event with a five-pound block of greening, moldy cheese and showed it to the press. “We’ve got 60 million of these that the government owns,” he said. “It’s moldy, it’s deteriorating … we can’t find a market for it, we can’t sell it, and we’re looking to try to give some of it away.”

At one point they had so much cheese it was recommended they just dump it all into the ocean because it would be the cheapest thing to do.

But yeah, it was given away mostly because we had a lot of it and we needed to get rid of it somehow.

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/21/999144678/big-government-cheese-classic

https://www.history.com/news/government-cheese-dairy-farmers-reagan

This is humanity, ladies and gentlemen.

Same for CVS.

Walgreens was a no-go.

Wonderful article, highly recommend y’all click through to read this one.

So you admit it was a weak point, too?

Hope I don’t get dragged through the coals but I have to offer a differing opinion for people.

I really didn’t enjoy playing this game. The gun combat felt extremely limited with only two weapons to swap between on the fly.

The abilities were fun and useful and maybe the best part of the gameplay, but not enough to redeem it for me.

The story started out great but really falls flat and felt extremely unsatisfying at the end, to the point I ran around for a few hours thinking I had missed something, until eventually looking it up online to confirm, that yes, that IS where they decided to end it. Felt very incomplete like we were waiting on an extra DLC that never came. (I played the original dlcs, to be clear)

The difficulty spikes were frustrating af. You’d be flying through the game no problem and then suddenly encounter a room where the enemies just took 90% of your health like perfect aim snipers from across the room.

The defensive abilities were key to survival, but it still suffered these issues if you just mistimed a single button press.

I loved the setting but hated the map and backtracking. Seriously, worst map of any game I’ve played recently. If your game is going for 3d Metroid, then at least make the map fucking clear.

Eventually a lot of the areas look a ton alike…

Some of the unkillable enemies were just cheesy.

Figuring out the boss fights sometimes felt more annoying than fun, one particular dlc enemy I think, involving lights was super annoying.

The Maze was one of the best things I’ve ever played/experienced, though. Unfortunately that high of a bar just made the rest of the lows for me feel lower.

All in all I’m glad lots of people like or love it, but for me I’d give it a solid 5 out of 10.

So just a heads up, it may not be for everyone.

The article you didn’t read sources straight from the one responsible.

In a statement hours after the incident, Bowman said he activated the alarm by mistake after having come across a door that was typically open for votes but would not open that day.

“I am embarrassed to admit that I activated the fire alarm, mistakenly thinking it would open the door. I regret this and sincerely apologize for any confusion this caused,” he said at the time.

I mean, he did it by accident in a building entirely separate from the voting. This whole thing is just another case of republicans blowing things way out of proportion for their benefit.

Basically, propaganda.