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Cake day: July 12th, 2024

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  • Yeah because the economy is totally great right now and finding work that pays the bills is super easy!

    — things said by people who are out of touch

    Even when the economy was good, it took months to find new employment if you have to have any sort of standard (like minimum income above the minimum wage threshold). Most people right now can’t afford to be out of work for months.

    Maybe your area was good, maybe your skill set is in demand, maybe you have zero standards or requirements to support your family, whatever it is, your experience is not at all the standard, and it’s much more likely you just have survivor bias. That’s when you say “it was easy for me, it should be easy for everyone!” While everyone else is struggling.


  • Which is wild considering the spice trades of the… (according to the internet, prehistory through modernity, so that’s a thing…)

    I have to assume that 1950s housewives were so thoroughly drugged up that they couldn’t tell the difference…

    I know that they made everything in jello/aspic because gelatin was formerly a luxury, like sugar and basically any spices, so they went a bit batshit when they got cheap access…