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seananmcguire
brightlotusmoon

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McDonald's dollar menu is a myth. The chain is getting called out for not having a single item that costs $1.
McDonald's no longer offers $1 items on its $1 $2 $3 Dollar Menu, Insider found
Business Insider

I had to stop eating wheat in 2018, so I genuinely stopped for a minute and thought "this can't be true."

But I found sources verifying the numbers and now I'm going through a bunch of common items and their comparative prices.

Eggs in 2018: $1.76 ($2.26 when adjusted for inflation)

Eggs in 2024: $2.99 on average

Egg Prices Adjusted for Inflation | US Inflation Calculator
In March, the average price of one dozen Grade A eggs was $2.992, representing a 0.13% decrease from the February price of $2.996, data rele
US Inflation Calculator | Easily calculate how the buying power of the U.S. dollar has changed from 1913 to 2023. Get inflation rates and U.
Egg Prices Adjusted for Inflation | US Inflation Calculator
In March, the average price of one dozen Grade A eggs was $2.992, representing a 0.13% decrease from the February price of $2.996, data rele
US Inflation Calculator | Easily calculate how the buying power of the U.S. dollar has changed from 1913 to 2023. Get inflation rates and U.

Boneless chicken breast per pound in 2018: $3.14/pound

Boneless chicken breast per pound in 2024: $4.10/pound

United States Consumer Price: Average: Chicken Breast, Boneless | Economic Indicators | CEIC
United States Consumer Price: Average: Chicken Breast, Boneless data was reported at 3.047 USD/lb in Oct 2018. This records an increase from
ceicdata.com


Average Price: Chicken Breast, Boneless (Cost per Pound/453.6 Grams) in U.S. City Average
All whole or half boneless, skinless chicken breasts. Includes organic, non-organic, fresh, and frozen, as well as other descriptive claims.
fred.stlouisfed.org

Childcare in 2018: up to $10,408/year on average

Childcare in 2024: up to $14,760/year on average

The US and the High Cost of Child Care: 2018
A review of child care as a sound return on investment and our recommendations for supporting families & child care providers.
Child Care Aware® of America
https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/3957809/COCreport2018_1.pdf
cdn2.hubspot.net


Child Care Costs by State 2024
worldpopulationreview.com

Rent for 2bd housing in 2018: about $1250/month on average

Rent for 2bd housing in 2024: about $2000/month on average

Here's what rents did in all 50 states in 2018 - HousingWire
As we’ve now officially crossed over to 2019, we can take a full look back at what happened in the multifamily industry in the year that jus
HousingWire
April 2024 Rent Report
National rents remained positive in March, with the median price for an apartment rising by just over three-quarters of a percentage point.
Rent. Research

Many of these are BIG jumps for just six years, and inflation really doesn't account for all of it. Even as aware as I am that things cost more now than they used to, it was jarring to see how MUCH more.

grison-in-space

For an extra headfuck, this happened just after my salary doubled when I got my postdoc job. It was, uh, enraging.

saiyanqueenreads

The longer you've been alive, and the further back you can remember the cost of things, the more enraging it is to see price tags right now in 2024.

Cereal
Eggs
Chicken Thighs
Soda
Cat Food
Rent
Insurance
Oil Changes
Gas
Car Washes
Movie Tickets
Concert Tickets
Bras

EVERYTHING has skyrocketed up in price in the last 4 years to be sure, but they were steadily creeping up and up and up even before that. Less quality, less quantity, more money.... for the CEO and the shareholders.

brightlotusmoon

It recently hit me (like a brick) how I've lived through multiple decades of our economy having never actually being good for people trying to live affordable lives.

My mother is doing her best to maintain her sense of humor. She was a child in the 1950s. My father was a child in the 1940s. My husband was a toddler in the 1970s. The four of us have had really really interesting conversations about living in and through the world.

prismatic-bell

When I was a kid a loaf of GOOD bread was 89 cents.


That was in 2000, by the way. Not that long ago.

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seananmcguire
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YES YES I NEED THIS SIGN IN EVERY SINGLE PARK PLEASE

This is my daily struggle, I had so many arguments with people with off-leash dogs (in a mandatory leash area!!!). Thanks to this behavior I'm struggling with Kim being anxious/aggressive with other females as she often gets involved in unpleased interactions with free females while on leash. And every single time that I ask for the dog to be at least recalled, I'm being called names and insulted of course.

Also 9 out of 10 their dog isn't really that friendly at all.

the-haiku-bot

Also 9 out of

10 their dog isn’t really

that friendly at all.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

quetzal-pretzel

ID: the text on a sign reads:

“ “IT’S OKAY MY DOG IS FRIENDLY!”

NO! NO! IT’S NOT OKAY!

Just because your dog is friendly doesn’t mean other dogs are, some may be nervous, reactive, fearful, in training, or owned by people who want to be left alone.

NEVER LET YOUR DOG RUN UP TO ANOTHER DOG

RESPECT OTHERS AND THEIR NEED FOR SPACE

IF YOU HAVE NO VOICE CONTROL OVER YOUR DOG KEEP THEM ON A LEASH.”

/End ID

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robertreich
robertreich

The Case Against RFK Jr.

RFK Junior is not who you think he is.

It pains me to say it, but he is a dangerous nutcase.

He claims to want to heal America, but his vision for our future is tainted by his endorsements of hateful conspiracy theories – and the fact that he is being funded in large part by donors aligned with Donald Trump.

It’s time to lift the curtain on a campaign based on false, irresponsible, and self-contradictory claims.

RFK Junior repeatedly promoted a right-wing conspiracy theory that chemicals in the water are turning people gay or transgender.

He suggested COVID-19 was a bioweapon, mysteriously designed to spare Jewish people.

[RFK Jr.: “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”]

He’s spent years spreading anti-vaxx lies.

And in his 2021 book, RFK Junior alleged, with no plausible evidence, that Dr. Fauci performed genocidal experiments, sabotaged treatments for AIDS, and conspired with Bill Gates to suppress information about COVID-19.

These are not the words of someone who is serious about leading – let alone healing – this country.

As someone who once worked for his father, RFK, and admired his uncle, JFK, I’m disturbed to see RFK Junior speak this way.

RFK Senior would never have suggested that a deadly virus was targeted at certain races. And as president, JFK signed the Vaccination Assistance Act in order to, “achieve as quickly as possible the protection of the population, especially of all preschool children.”

If not for his illustrious name – and role as a potential spoiler – RFK Junior would be just another crackpot in the growing pool of fringe politicians.

It’s no coincidence that he shares top backers with the likes of Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene — or that Trump allies Roger Stone and Steve Bannon encouraged him to run in the first place.

But the Kennedy brand is political gold, and it could pull away just enough sympathetic voters to tip the race toward Trump.

Democracy won by a whisker in 2020. Just 44,000 votes in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin decided the outcome. If RFK Junior — or any third-party candidate — peels off just a fraction of the vote from Biden, while Trump’s base stays with him, they will deliver a victory to Trump.

If Junior had any respect for the principles his father fought and ultimately died for, he would withdraw his candidacy. Immediately.

Source: youtube.com
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metamorphesque

Facing The Facts: Resources on the Armenian Genocide

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Eye Witnesses

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saisaixchan
mangedog

twitter post by @sewershroom, 10th April 2024: a screenshot of part of a form, asking the question "Select all body parts you have today". Checkboxes allow you to select multiple answers, which are: breasts, cervix, uterus, ovaries, vagina, penis, prostate, and testes. Breasts, penis, prostate and testes have been checked. reply by @nbouscal: "people often say “isn’t agab language useful for medicine” when i argue against using it, and unironically, no, something like this is far more useful. agab is about the past, but the doctor is treating you in the present. they need to know hormone balance and what parts you have"ALT

this is a way better model... you'll still get transphobic & intersexist drs of course but i prefer this to male / female or even having separate questions for gender & sex.

[we can't see the full form, but i'd suggest having a "something else" option and dominant hormone question too.]

queen-simia

as a cis woman who's had a hysterectomy and partial oophorectomy, this would be helpful for me, too! it'd be pointless to try to diagnose me for disorders that affect organs I don't have anymore, after all.

being inclusive helps us ALL. 💖

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seananmcguire
blackheartbiohazards

🔹 Saying that it's okay to write or read about dark and taboo topics but only when they're portrayed in a certain way is still censorship.

🔹 Wanting to ban or forbid media that you believe portrays a negative topic in a positive light, by glorifying, romanticizing, or fetishizing it is still censorship.

🔹 There is no objective metric to decide if a story is portraying a negative topic the 'right' way.

🔹 Just because a piece of fiction doesn't explicitly condemn or portray an evil action in a bad light in the text doesn't mean the author thinks its good or is trying to persuade the audience that it is good.

🔹 Survivors of trauma will not always write fiction about their trauma in a way that seems 'right' or 'normal' to you.

🔹 Banning fiction because it portrays dark, taboo topics in a way you consider gross or disgusting is still censorship.

blackheartbiohazards

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[Tags reading, "#I've said it before and I'll say it again #I create art for adults #and as an adult I expect you to already know that hurting people is wrong #I'm not gonna hold you're hand through that like you're a toddler #"hurting people is wrong" is something you should have learned in kindergarten #not at 24 from an m-rated dark romance novel"]

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