I can't determine if "chicken boolean" was a typo or an in-joke.
Came here just to make sure it wasn't only me
Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages
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Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages
#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know an absolute ton of small businesses owners. Every single one of them has tried to renegotiate or get forbearance on rent this week. They have had 0% success and the only response is really that rent is due on the first. There will be a massive commercial real estate crisis soon.
I don’t know what it is, but it seems commercial landlords would rather have an empty property than accept market rent in a down market. I saw a lot of that in the last recession. I suspect that the managers of REITs and partnerships that own most commercial property worry that accepting lower rent would make it harder for them to delude their investors into thinking their property values haven’t tanked. “We appraise…
I think it's sometimes because they see the value of future higher rent after a void is worth more, in straight up cash value, than accepting lower rent with a long term commitment.
I've seen it for years: Empty shop buildings, a glut of local businesses wanting to rent them, but they are kept empty until some chain willing to pay double turns up a year later. For the landlord, it's worth waiting if that will be the outcome.
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#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm curious if anyone has numbers on how much a homemade sourdough loaf costs on average. My experience is that flour is quite expensive (and currently not available in UK shops). I've also noticed a spike in electricity costs since we've started baking regularly. (Difficult to calculate exactly) My guess is that baking your own is a bit cheaper than going to some artisanal baker, but a lot more expensive than a stan…
I'm pretty sure you would be correct. The cost (assuming you have at least a minimal amount of equipment--including an oven obviously) is basically the flour (which, as you say, can be hard to find right now). A 5 pound bag of flour is normally around $4-$5 in the US, and a large boule (5 cups of flour) takes about 600 grams (~1.5 pounds) of flour, so maybe $1.50. The other ingredients in a basic loaf are negligible…
Grocery Outlet's store brand of bread has been $1.59 a loaf for a long time. White or whole wheat.
Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages
#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
Flour and yeast were one of the first things to go. As was regular bread. Either all the bread machines were dug out of the closets or those bread recipes from Pinterest are getting put to work.
I normally buy a premium brand bread, and right now all I can get is generic store brand white bread....
At a Sunnyvale Safeway yesterday, there was a full wall of breads spanning multiple brands and grains. I paid $1.49 for a loaf of their own multigrain bread (e-coupon price).
Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages
#265"These recipes will be based on Potatoes, Milk, Flour, Eggs, and Kale. (Honorable mention to Pinto Beans and Carrots)" Been a week since I saw any of those in shops, and can't recall the last time I saw kale. As always the cheap staple foods and tins are the first to go in panic buying and you just know that all the stuff we usual meh at and lob into the food bank box's are the exact stuff people are now stocking and…
Where are you living? I’m in Seattle, which, as far as covid-19 impact goes, is easily at-or-near the top of the list of impacted cities. I have not seen a shortage of anything aside from Clorox wipes in any of the groceries around me. It’s surprising to me reading about such shortages, especially in less impacted cities. Maybe the panic factor is higher for those who aren’t directly in the midst of it?
Seattle is not easily at-or-near the top of the list of impacted cities. I have no idea why you think this, you need to take a look at the coronavirus map for an idea of how wrong you are.
Top 10? No.
Top 25? No.
Top 50? Sure.
Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages
#266I left home at 15 and some adults who worked together let me move in with them and be their maid. I paid $150 a month in rent and got $10 a month to live on. I worked out how to live off Milo (a Jamaican malt supplement), Chips Ahoy cookies (1/2 a cookie a day for a treat) and dumpster dived vegetables (mostly cabbages and carrots). I lived like this for years, when I got my first real jobs I made sure to save at lea…
Interesting story!
Side note - i am Australian, have traveled the world and I find it funny in many countries (particularly Asia), everyone thinks Milo is from their own country. They are suprised when I tell them it's Australian and hilarity ensues when they looked it up online.
Oh and don't feel bad cause Aussies have loads of brands too that we thought were local but are actually from overseas. For the longest time, i thought Maggi noodles was from Asia but its actually Swiss!
Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages
#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think "Fox News" is being used here as code for right-wing propaganda, masquerading as journalism. And that the type of right-wing propaganda is that associated with the word "scrounger" in the UK, which is code for "poverty isn't real, it's fakers and stupid people wasting their copious money, people make themselves poor (so we don't have to care)". Represented in this case by someone saying poor people buy new ca…
Ok, so no sources, just biases about an opposing ideology that can only be filled with evil and irrational people (because if they were good people they would align with you) MIGHT think. Got it.
I'm describing how the phrase "Fox News propaganda" is used as a codephrase by many for a perceived ideology and messaging.
Not what I think of Fox.
I don't have a stake in that game; I'm not in the USA and don't watch any of the channels there.
You don't have to agree, but you did specifically ask why Fox was mentioned in the parent comment, and your question sounded similar to those by people who don't understand English well and deserve a simple explanation of a perplexing phrase. I attempted to provide my best guess to help you.
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#268I’ll also suggest nuts. Plenty of fat, and lots of varieties. Personally, a handful of salted peanuts, pistachios, walnuts, or almonds. According to the package, 1 oz (28 g) of walnuts are 180 calories, and 18 g of fat. Very filling.
I love nuts, but I personally don't find them filling, but more so satisfying. I usually have a hand full (~1 oz) of almonds or peanuts in the morning for breakfast, and I have noticed I'm a lot less hungry immediately after than when I used to eat a sugary granola bar. I'm no nutritionist, but I guess it's something about carbs causing us to want more carbs, so keeping everything fatty helps reduce that bodily crave…
Blood sugar spike and crash.
Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages
#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
Market prices keep items on the shelf, and also incentivizes increased production, and redirecting supplies to where demand is highest. Price fixing incentivizes hoarding and empty shelves.
> redirecting supplies to where demand is highest Which is what the gp said. > they'll be on the shelves so rich people can still have them Complaining about word choice is a tradition around here, I know.
> Which is what the gp said.
They didn't say that at all, they said something completely different, thereby proving that they don't understand the point.
Not raising prices at all evidently leads to empty shelves. Nobody can buy any eggs, except for the first lucky person that can get all the eggs at a bargain and then waste them without significant financial loss. In the case of toilet paper, there isn't even a loss - you were going to buy it anyway.
As prices rise, demand goes down. The hoarders buy less, or at least pay handsomely for the privilege, which is more fair. Nobody will raise prices until there is no demand whatsoever ($100 eggs), just for the sake of stocked shelves.
This system works strictly better, it's just that people don't understand it. That's why supermarkets don't raise prices. They can blame empty shelves on "a few idiots" (who aren't really idiots) and avoid complaints for price gouging, which could cause severe regulatory fallout.
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#270Earlier quoted context omitted.
The variance for muscle density is considerably smaller than the variance in shoe size. https://itis.swiss/virtual-population/tissue-properties/data... In this case the average alone is representative of the population without any additional qualifications. Please don’t drink and drive.
Be nice to be able to click thru and see the scale of those studies as many have very few studies and without knowing the size and scale of data, I'm still open minded and SMD variations from what I have read, vary upon a greater scale. Though handy site and will only become more handy with more data sets, but being able to click-thru to and see those studies would go a long way as not all studies are equal in qualit…
You can satisfy your scepticism, the list of all publications used to generate the database (with complete reference) is included in the full download.