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• Food too expensive? It’s time for public grocery storesbriarpatchmagazine.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a reminder that one out of three calories produced in the US gets thrown away because of shit like this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Naaah. That’s typical anarcho-capitalist/Republican crap - we have to do (insert bad thing here) because of those eeeeevil laws and those eeeeevil lawyers, and if we didn’t have laws and lawyers, we could just do the right thing without fear of lawsuits!

  Bull fucking shit.

  There is no more risk of food poisoning from these cookies at the end of the business day then there is at the beginning of the business day when they went out for sale.

  Management isn’t throwing those cookies away from fear of food poisoning.

  They’re throwing those cookies away because they would rather waste food than let people have free cookies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a reminder that one out of three calories produced in the US gets thrown away because of shit like this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  then you’d be more principled than most people if you never gave in to the temptation (conscious or subconscious) to make too many.

  I would love to see if there are studies about that. Because, frankly, I doubt it.

  Capitalists believe that labor will steal from the company whenever possible, because they think labor is morally inferior to capital - after all, if they were good, hardworking, well-educated people, they wouldn’t be working minimum wage food service jobs, right?

  American “Christians” believe that poor people are poor because they are more sinful than rich people, so fundie outfits like Jesus Chicken here believe that poor people will steal whenever given the opportunity.

  But that’s not actually how human beings work.

  The average human being does believe that wasting food is wrong. The average human being does believe that stealing is wrong. The average human being does follow explicit and implicit social norms (like being a good steward of their employer’s resources) without threats of punishment.

  And frankly, when employees aren’t good stewards of their employer’s resources, it’s because the employer has been a bad steward of their employees first. Good companies earn the loyalty of their employees. Bad companies get the same treatment they give.

  The only way I would be tempted to make more cookies than necessary as a Chick-fil-A worker is if I or my coworkers were paid so little that we were literally going hungry - because if Chick-fil-A pays so badly that it’s workers don’t have enough to eat, fuck em.

  But the idea that I would be tempted to steal or waste resources just because I had the opportunity, so I might as well? No. That’s capitalist logic - if you see an opportunity for profit, you take it, whether you need it or not, whether it’s morally right or not. But actual human beings have values beyond profit maximization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a reminder that one out of three calories produced in the US gets thrown away because of shit like this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the United States, food waste is estimated at between 30-40 percent of the food supply.

• Just a reminder that one out of three calories produced in the US gets thrown away because of shit like thisslrpnk.net ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think there is no proper social media platform to express oneself.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There should be multiple independent steps of verifying if someone should get banned and in what way. And probably integrate a good test for joining the community so that it’s more likely for people to be rational from the start (that way you don’t even have to look at so many potential flags).

  How much would you pay to join a community with that level of protection for user rights? Like the old subscription based forums, some of which are still floating around the internet?

  Because “multiple independent steps of verifying” is, frankly, going to be a lot of frustrating, thankless, and redundant work for moderators. I mean, we know how to safeguard people’s rights through legalistic processes. Courts do it all the time. It’s called due process. And due process is frequently a slow, complicated, and expensive pain in the ass for everyone involved. And I think very few people would want to do that work for free.

  (Conveniently, this would also serve as a good test for joining such a community - people are more likely to follow the rules and act like decent human beings if a subscription they paid for is riding on it, and it would price out AI and spambots in the process.)

• Bread from seagrass? Cultivating grains in the ocean could be an elegant solution to rising seas.www.anthropocenemagazine.org ↗
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• From sea monkeys to Great Salt Lake gold | With science-based management and real-time data, Utah’s brine shrimp fishery balances the economy and ecologygrist.org ↗
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• Towards Food Sovereignty | The food sovereignty movement affirms that food is a basic human right—as opposed to a commodity. But how do we get there?www.resilience.org ↗
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• The Consumer Power Myth | if we want to actually choose what we eat, we must de-commodify our foodwww.resilience.org ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to fix my pants so I don't look like I have a boner when I sit down?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s what happens when you wear pants too big for you - the extra material has to go somewhere.

  I know it’s not intuitive, but taking in the waist - actually reducing the waist instead of just cinching it with a belt - can help with crotch bulge. You take it in in the back, so that the front is pulled tighter and lays flatter; some excess material is removed, and the rest ends up in the back where it’s not as noticeable.

  www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Jeans-Tighter

  I’d suggest practicing on a pair of jeans you don’t really mind putting holes in first - I totally screwed up the first time I tried 😆

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On trees...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine dead trees were flammable, even back then. And oxygen levels were 15% higher. Can you imagine the forest fires?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're still on Lemmy...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is why groups that aren’t targeted should be out there making it safer for targeted groups. Strength in numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're still on Lemmy...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a big fan of IRL, personally.