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There was that tweet from a few years ago about how so many old ladies on their death bed would confess to killing their husbands.
I’m starting to piece it all together.
Accidental home deaths plummet when divorce rates rise.
Wait, seriously? Do you have a source? Sounds like one of those spurious correlations to me.
You’ll be hard pressed to find causation unless you find a gaggle of grandmas confessing.
There’s a lot of herbology lore and stories. Maybe it’s all made up. But even today we find people poisoning their spouses and everyone’s reaction is always “why not just leave?”. So extrapolate that out and it seems reasonable.
I kind of feel like if I had enough wits about me, I would confess to a bunch of random shit on my deathbed just to go out on a positive note.
I will never understand how anyone could come to thinking aspic was a good idea.
Kraft Heinz (makers of JELL-O) propaganda.
Literally, the reason food went to shit in the '50s was because that’s when all the shelf-stable and processed “convenience foods” that had been invented for WWII started getting heavily marketed to the public.
I mean… you have to imagine a world without refrigeration. Now it’s ubiquitous, we have it everywhere, you can even get portable battery-powered refrigeration boxes. But at the time, cold meant icebox… literally a box that you put a big block of ice in to keep other stuff cold.
You say “food went to shit” but all those things were a real change to the previous millennia of salted meats and pickled vegetables because there was no other way to keep food edible until the next harvest. It was new and interesting.
It was also tied up in modernist space-age utopian ideals about freeing housewives from drudgery and whatnot, and from that perspective, it wasn’t a bad thing.
But in retrospect (especially 2020s retrospect, seeing how corporations coopt and enshittify everything), the extent to which it was driven by cynical, gimmicky marketing is pretty darn repulsive. Think about how we have an entire generational set of “traditions” that are basically fake, invented by marketers:
- green bean casserole became a thing to sell Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom Soup and French’s Crispy Fried Onions.
- Betty Crocker was never a real person, but rather the persona of General Mills’ marketing department.
- Fuckin’ Santa Claus as we picture him in the US is basically a genericized Coca-Cola trademark.
Basically, every recipe from the '50s, if it says “one can of X” or “one box of Y” instead of having proper quantity measurements, was created as a ploy to sell those convenience foods and there’s something deeply cynical about that.
I dunno, maybe I just find it extra eerie because I understand it as the harbinger of the new gilded-age cyberpunk dystopia that we’ve created since then.
Yea, cause cooking for your family is so oppressive.
Being forced to have a family and to have the specific role of cooking for them based on your gender is yes.
No one is forcing anyone to have family lol
Oh I must’ve been mistaken, I was under the impression that several states have banned abortion
I was under the impression that having sex was a choice? By both parties? Taking birth control or vasectomies? If you don’t want a kid, take the appropriate precautions or be abstinent. It’s not a hard concept to grasp that the main function of sex is to reproduce lol especially since 95% of abortions are elective.
Do I agree that it should be banned? No.
Do I think it’s not a priority because 95% of it is elective? Yes.