VikingHippie

Seldom have I been more happy to already not like any of a company's products! What a bunch of idiotic antedeluvian moralizing hyperauthoritarian assholes!

Planet factory, you say? Do they do custom jobs like Magrathea? I'll have one made entirely of spongecake!

usually without being arrested by the police

That's the good part, though. Problematic drug use is a health problem and should be treated as such rather than a criminal and moral one.

And that's not even mentioning what often happens when cops interact with members of any marginalized group..

his look doesn't match that voice at all

Looks have nothing to do with what your vocal chords can do.

For example, this is the magnificent Geoff Castellucci, one of the best bass singers on YouTube, if not the world of rhythmic music.

His bottom note is a B0! That's so low that you feel it more than hear it if your headset or speakers have decent bass reproduction and settings!

Dayum! She had a busy afternoon!

Unfortunately, for all his posturing as the principled resistance, he's a centrist who's more than willing to work with the fascists to get woefully inadequate versions of bills passed when possible.

Also, one of his top campaign contributers 2019-2024 (including already raised contributions to his next re-election campaign, I guess 🤷) is Bain Capital. Yes, THE Bain Capital where Mitt Romney destroyed companies for a living.

Almost 70% of his campaign funds in the same period came from large individual contributions (aka rich people and corporations) and 0% from donations under $200. Not a single one of the latter.

Source for Campaign funding data: Open Secrets

Dr* Kurt Cobain even wrote about it in his thesis** known as Territorial Pissings

*not really

**ditto

You said it yourself: for a living.

Growing food with a main goal of profits in a private enterprise rather than just sustenance or profit through government grants without private market interference has a lot of downsides, including to farmers themselves.

For example, optimisation for profit means a lot of waste:

• Perfectly healthful produce with aesthetic faults has to be left to rot on the ground as it won't sell and nobody's going to collect it for those that need it but can't afford to pay the "market price"

• If you have an exclusive deal with a grocery store or other intermediary, the excess of an unexpectedly good crop yield will likewise in most cases have to be destroyed because the buyer can't receive all of it and you're not allowed to sell to their competitors.

• Likewise, any excess of a particular good harvest across a crop will also be destroyed to avoid losing money on the market value of the crop dropping due to increased supply.

All of this while a few megacorps sit between farmers and consumers paying the same or less to farmers and charging much more of consumers while the cost of living and business expenses of farmers keep rising, making it harder and harder to make ends meet if you're not the aforementioned megacorps.

And that's not even mentioning all the issues of long hours and some of the worst working conditions of any industry, all to save a buck or two to stave off bankruptcy and eventually starvation for a little longer while the megacorps and their billionaire owners and executives gobble up almost all the value of what you produce.

At the buffet?

Look at mister Superego over here thinking social constructs are immutable laws of existence 🙄