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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Yeah it’s not just made up by big business, it’s the same as when COVID hit.

    "Oh, our product is going to be 20% more expensive due to supply chain disruptions… Might as well raise the price by 50% and pocket the rest while blaming it all on the supply chain.

    Customers will be mad it’s going up by 20% so they won’t be any more mad if it goes up by 50% instead."


  • Do the eggs just go to waste then or do you need to eat a lot of extra eggs if you can’t sell them for $5/dozen?

    Wouldn’t it make sense to lower the price to what people will pay even if it doesn’t cover the cost of the chickens, but at least reduce the cost of the chickens? If it’s not your main source of income and you have the chickens either way wouldn’t some money be better than no money?





  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldMom hit her with “K”
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    2 months ago

    Because emergencies are so rare. Many adults are quite unprepared for a lot of them as well.

    It’s different if you were to leave like a 1-2 year old in the care of someone but it’s generally okay to leave a 5-10 year old in the care of a 14-15 year old. They mostly just need to feed them and make sure they go to bed.

    Plus it gives the teens responsibility and some extra money to spend and it helps them get prepared for the future. Usually if it’s a super young one the teens tend to have first and courses suitable for young children as well or actual baby sitting certifications from a course of some sort.








  • It’s not necessarily the companies in this case at least not for the tomato sauce.

    It’s deceiving how much sugar is also in natural, unprocessed and healthy foods.

    According to Google there’s about 2.6g of sugar in a 100g tomato, and it takes roughly 2200g of tomato’s to make a jar of sauce the size of a 680g jar of ragu, which according to their nutritional facts has about 43g of sugar in the jar, whereas the raw tomato’s themselves would have contained about 56g of sugar.

    It takes a lot of tomatos to make pasta sauce. Even a little sugar in one tomato adds up quick.


  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldWe're coming for you
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    5 months ago

    Mosquitos aren’t some special niche. Take out mosquitos and something else moves in to replace them, something that doesn’t bite.

    There’s nothing that solely depends on mosquitos, and wouldn’t prefer to eat other things which mosquitos may be suppressing by existing themselves.



  • Eh, maybe it’s different for people that only have to fill their tank every 3-4 weeks. I need to refill at least once per week so it’s rare I save any significant amount of money filling up 2 days before I regularly would.

    I’m also not sure why everyone would have the same price in mind to start immediately filling their tank at the “cheap” price to trigger a 12% increase amongst 8 different chains of gas stations all at the same time.

    Many would be waiting for a few cents more or already pulled the trigger a few cents before.

    I just don’t think gasoline follows most free market supply/demand rules as much as most things.


  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldMAGAts be all ...
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    5 months ago

    Personally I don’t believe that’s the case. Most people fill up when they need to fill up not because it reached a magic price. It’s not like most people have a choice and can say they aren’t going to drive to work this week because gas needs to drop a few more cents before they go fill up.