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  • Americans warned of grocery prices shock

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  • If that's what you were saying re: USAID cancellation eventually raising food prices, you have quite a few leaps of logic in there.

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    Welcome ex-Redditors!

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  • If you go on there concern trolling and trying to start shit, I bet you will get banned.

    But, fun fact, communists actually are not a fan of fascists.

  • Americans warned of grocery prices shock

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  • No, I'm still not really sure what you're trying to say. Your original post was about the price to consumers.

    And as for the relationship between farmers and distributors, that really depends on the specifics of the purchasing agreements they enter into.

  • Being an adult

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  • That's the part where it gets really interesting. The right mindset when approaching those tasks means doing the research to do the job professionally, yourself. You meet that threshold, and actually start going through and reworking what was already done - you start to notice all the little shortcuts and weird decisions and bodge jobs that the professionals in the past did. And now, armed with the knowledge and basic tools to do the job - you're not talking about $200 to pay a plumber to come out and fix one leaky elbow on your pipes - you know how to isolate it, drain it, cut it, deburr it, flux it, solder it, and clean it up, for like $3.00 in parts (and for what I said specifically, a minimum of maybe $50 in tools - cutter, blowtorch/propane, deburring tool, flux brush, emery cloth). For example. And for what could be a $5000 job, you can do it yourself for maybe $1000 in materials.

    There are actual methods that the professionals have developed to be certain they did the job correctly - you just have to learn them.

  • Americans warned of grocery prices shock

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  • It depends on the market. If producing less food with the same resources costs more, prices will rise–especially on large commercial farms, which dominate the U.S. agricultural sector.

    The part you quoted from what I said was in reference to an agricultural buyer being lost. There are other reasons to anticipate the costs of inputs increasing, but I'm going through analyzing factor by factor (descending analysis) and all of a sudden we're jumping back up to the top to talk about something else.

    Re: grocery chains (not USAID) and futures contracts - not sure how this ties in either, we're talking about USAID, which AFAIK does procurement through a bidding process for direct purchases, not via futures.

  • Americans warned of grocery prices shock

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  • I'm not sure what your main point is here. I was responding to you grouping together a labor shortage and a demand shock as - from what it sounded like - a reason to expect high prices. But demand shocks lower prices on the consumer side of food production, as opposed to raising them, because the food at that point exists, and whoever has it needs to sell it, more desperately than they were before.

  • Americans warned of grocery prices shock

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  • True, well, I mean, take the effects I described and apply them to the respective agricultural sectors. We will very likely see price increases in fresh produce and some price decrease in corn, soy, wheat, dairy, etc. (I say "some" because the actual global demand for food hasn't decreased, rather, the purchasing power has been decreased because some subsidization has been lost due to USAID absence).

  • Being an adult

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  • It's all doable with some basic tools and a little bit of willingness to endure suffering, that's my point. And for the more specialized ones, wading through documentation and codes enough to do a job correctly (can't emphasize that enough). Framing, roofing, plumbing, electric, siding, insulation. Can save a fortune and know exactly how well the job was done.

  • Being an adult

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  • Try fixing something major, with dramatic improvements to your quality of life.

  • Americans warned of grocery prices shock

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  • Reminder, losing a large purchasing segment decreases demand, which lowers prices until the market adjusts. I.e., it frees up agricultural output that they have to sell, which they'll lower prices to make sell to other buyers (domestically or internationally).

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  • Ocasio-Cortez says if you feel burnt out by the news lately, that’s ‘exactly’ what Trump wants

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  • Obligatory downvote for turncoat AOC. Two party narrative reinforcement in full effect.

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  • In the past week I caught a 7 day ban for "misinformation" (x3, then for reposting a link to the mod logs, "skirting the rules", "repeated offenses" etc.) from /c/WorldNews for accusing Democrats of being complicit in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. An actual fact - tens of billions of dollars in arms sent to an ongoing genocide/ethnic cleansing by Biden. No problems like that on lemmy.ml. That really says it all for me. Lemmy's basically just a fediverse reddit, with the same mod structure - if mods abuse their power, and admins don't keep them in check, it's time to ditch the instance.

    By the way, Lemmy itself was created by Dessalines, the admin of lemmy.ml. Who I collaborated with briefly on building some of the UI that you're using right now to read this. Very thorough guy.

  • A new government memo feels like it’s straight out of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

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  • List em.

  • Trump says Palestinians have ‘no alternative’ but to leave Gaza

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  • Your statement is a logical contradiction. The Iron Dome does not activate when the projected path of the rocket does not appear to target civilians

    It does, actually, it performs a triage when it can't handle a large number of simultaneous projectiles, and of COURSE it's designed to intercept missiles sent to military targets. What a bizarre claim. You are flat out making things up to support your argument, for god knows what reason.

    Y’all were doing so well being sympathetic

    I'm not Palestinian. I'm an impartial observer of what's happening, just one who cares more than most of you, enough to sort through disinformation...

    subject of your vote for Trump

    Just flat out lying now. I'm done here.

  • Trump says Palestinians have ‘no alternative’ but to leave Gaza

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  • Yes, thank you. I can understand deleting like, flat-eartherism or something, but when your worldview is something you've really lazily assembled, and you disagree with somebody but don't really have anything to disprove it, you belong nowhere near that delete button. I'm seriously disappointed to see this reddit mod behavior on Lemmy.

  • 'Stop Playing Nice,' Says AOC as Senate Dems Help Approve Yet Another Trump Nominee

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  • The moral compromises we're talking about are literally giving up on solving problems preemptively. You're talking about making plans for the future, designing new things from scratch, you have every tool in the world at your disposal, a blank canvas, and you take a huge paintbrush and dip it into a whole house-sized can of black paint and just start smearing it everywhere.

  • Trump says Palestinians have ‘no alternative’ but to leave Gaza

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  • It is in fact not invalid. Hamas's rockets have been untargeted with next to zero actual civilian casualties, the purpose is to financially exhaust the "Iron Dome" system. And it's completely dishonest to frame it as "starting" a war, when the Occupied Palestinian territories, including Gaza, are under "Israeli" occupation per the definitions under international law (don't give me that "they took out their settlements in 2005" crap either).

  • Trump says Palestinians have ‘no alternative’ but to leave Gaza

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  • The point of the original comparison was to draw attention to how you're equating the militant groups involved with Oct. 7 (Hamas, PIJ) with the ENTIRE Palestinian people, which includes not only people under Hamas rule, in the West Bank, and in the international Palestinian diaspora. Was that not clear? The genocidal demonization of an ETHNIC GROUP based on cherry-picked incidents was the problematic thinking I was drawing attention to. The analogy does also apply in general to militant uprisings by an oppressed people against their oppressors, with the caveats that I already mentioned.

    You tried to rationalize Gaza as a ghetto being invaded by the SS and that’s why they had to attack civilians and take civilian hostages on Oct 7th.

    I very literally not did say that, and made a point to say attacking civilians is illegal under international law. I REALLY dislike people inferring things from my comments that are not there.