Wait, I had eggs for breakfast and lunch today. How is this possible?
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So long as we all still agree to call their poop "scat", I am okay with this.
I wonder why Twix didn't catch on as a mockunominal for that social media platform. Mars or whoever owns the brand missed an opportunity. On the other hand, I haven't had one in a long time, but I recall Twix being a particularly delicious treat, so perhaps it is best that name not be besmirched.
In the biological sciences world, this is known as "you are what you eat". My impression is that this place has always kinda been the most popular alternative destination for redditors (exes or otherwise).
Yes, but at what cost. Oh, $1500USD more than the flip phone. I mean, that's like totally affordable.
I don't even have ADHD but this photo is very, very relatable. At this very moment, I should be cleaning but I'd rather be playing vidja games, and yet here I am looking at Lemmy and writing a comment.
Same way we test everything else on animals. It all starts with the mice.
I grew up in a home with heavy smokers, so I really had no chance at all as a kid. I have childhood memories of being in a smoke filled car with windows rolled up. Didn't even have to crack the windows because there were ashtrays built into the cars of that era. And then if the windows were open or cracked, there was another danger. I lost count of how many times I had ashes fly back into the back of the car directly into my eyes and mouth, or the lovely feeling of a burning "cherry" searing into my forehead.
Purely due to circumstance, the price of eggs became an easy, overly simplified economic indicator, and via massive amounts of misinformation/disinformation, somehow an indicator of the Biden administration's efficacy. Eggs were essentially the stand-in for all the complicated and politically inconvenient stuff that willfully ignorant folks don't understand, prefer not to think about, or simply want to deny.
Willfully ignorant people know that grocery prices in general were being affected by inflation, but understanding the causes and recognizing that it was a global phenomenon was not something they were willing to engage in because it was an easy way to demonize and blame Biden.
In my personal experience, when prices spiked last time, these were the people who claimed that eggs were the bulk of their diet because it was the only protein they could afford to eat anymore. That was never true for most, but that's what they claimed as they lamented how they could no longer afford to eat. They also liked to mention the prices of the highest price tier eggs (name brand, organic, fancy stuff, free range, etc) and try to pass that off as the going rate for eggs, despite the fact that they never bought those "premium" eggs prior to the price hike and that the "cheaper" eggs cost significantly less. Also, now that it's happening under their preferred presidential administration, suddenly they are much less vocal (almost completely silent) about the price of eggs. But if forced into a discussion about the topic, they suddenly appear to understand and advocate for the idea that it's caused by factors outside of the president's control. Funny how that works, huh?
On the flip side, most of the folks who are currently bringing up the egg prices are doing so in a satirical sense (even if it's covertly satirical), fully aware that Trump isn't in control of the egg prices. It's just a good way to further demonstrate his supporters' own hypocrisy. Also, it's sort of giving the willfully ignorant people a taste of their own medicine. Probably not terrible effective from that standpoint, but cathartic for the people currently doling it out.
I live in the southeastern USA. Weathermen are semi-accurate from May through September. The rest of the time, they lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie.
I take the hot hairy ones quite seriously. Especially the ginger ones.
I know I can Kagi or duckduckgo it or whatever you people are using these days, but what is PixelFed and what's it an alternative to? News aggregators aside, I don't social media so I'm not sure if it's a tiktok or instagram or whatsapp or faceplace.
It's a meme pic, so I'm just wildly gesticulating and making giant assumptions here: I doubt it's the "mushroom" fruiting body that's doing anything in this research. It's almost certainly the mycelium or we're dealing with something like slime molds or yeast which don't produce mushrooms at all.
Yes I made this comment without reading the rest of the thread or hunting down the story. Sue me.
As I recently lamented in another thread, I've had to give up on Taco Bell. I've given it a couple of tries post-Covid and it's no longer good, no longer cheap, and no longer fast based on my recent-ish, terrible experiences. I don't eat at fast food places often, so I definitely don't claim to be an expert here, but of the fast food places I've eaten at in the past 5 or so years, Taco Bell has declined the worst, by far.
Also, I learned how to make my own crunch wraps at home
with black jack and hookers. I mean with higher quality ingredients tailored to my and my family's preferences. It's not difficult, just a little time consuming. Still not something I'd eat regularly, but nice to have once in awhile now that Taco Bell fails so hard.Look at the privilege showing through, able to afford eggs for more than one meal a day in the USA.
Bottom comment is, too.
Of all the critters that people feed live "bugs" (i.e "bugs") to, snakes are one of the least likely.
Food items like live crickets are usually fed to animals like lizards (probably most common example), frogs and other amphibians, fish, birds, predatory invertebrates (like spiders and scorpions), etc.
In the case of pinhead crickets, those are usually purchased (in large quantities) by people breeding insect eating species since the young are too small for anything larger than the youngest and tiniest food items or for people with a large collection of animals like poison dart frogs that need very small, fairly fragile food items.
As for the debate of local pick-up versus online orders, there are pros and cons to each, and different people have different situations and needs. At the end of the day, in my part of the world, pretty much all the places I'd go to pick up crickets locally are just getting them shipped in from large scale cricket breeders anyway, so if you need a bulk order of 1000+, it's likely cheaper and easier just to order them online and have them shipped. Also important to note, these aren't just random crickets someone collected in their back yard, these are a specific cultivated species that's been grown in relatively sanitary conditions so that they aren't carrying harmful parasites and disease or covered in dangerous pesticides and chemicals.