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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • AFAIK bread was quite a bit more expensive in the past, since baking involved getting up hours in advance to start a fire inside the massive earthen oven, not to mention that all the other parts of making flour were also way more difficult than they are now…

    I think it might be comparable to meat these days? Something that everyone eats, but at the same time most people on some level realize that it’s actually pretty fucking expensive and they should eat less of it, but it’s just so normalized and tastes good so they just keep eating it every day.

    (And for reference meat in the past would have been much more of a luxury, not in that people were vegetarians or anything but they’d just have less meat in every meal and they wouldn’t turn their nose at organs and “low quality” stuff like we do.)




  • i think what makes it so unnerving to me is that i don’t see it just being caused by a lack of education, because if you can write then surely you can also read, and thus surely you can read normal text which exists everywhere and can’t be missed

    the kind of bad writing that lack of education causes is more just bad grammar and boneappleteas (writing unknown phrases as the closest matching words you do know, so “bon appetit” turns into “bone apple tea”), with maybe some sloppy punctuation usage but not outright













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    2 days ago

    i love how inflation is just always magically a reason for companies to charge arbitrarily large sums for their products, how the hell do you people think people are supposed to afford things?

    seriously, if everything just constantly increases in cost, how precisely do you envision the economy functioning?