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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

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Post by ForHackernews »

gridlockd wrote: post #131
ForHackernews wrote: post #76

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yeah, much better to have £100/dozen eggs. That way, at least they'll be on the shelves so rich people can still have them.

Nobody is going to buy eggs for a hundred pounds, unless they're literally at the brink of starvation, in which case they're worth that much . However, let's just say eggs are five times as expensive: You're going to think twice about buying a whole shelf of them "just in case". Rich people are going to get their eggs either way.

> Rich people are going to get their eggs either way.

This bootlicking fatalism is the real problem, imho.

Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages

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Post by gridlockd »

ForHackernews wrote: post #271
gridlockd wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody is going to buy eggs for a hundred pounds, unless they're literally at the brink of starvation, in which case they're worth that much . However, let's just say eggs are five times as expensive: You're going to think twice about buying a whole shelf of them "just in case". Rich people are going to get their eggs either way.

> Rich people are going to get their eggs either way. This bootlicking fatalism is the real problem, imho.

Clearly, the biggest sorrow of the socialist is not that the people are starving, but that the rich aren't starving alongside them.

Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages

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Post by blaser-waffle »

_bxg1 wrote: post #205
stellar678 wrote: post #191

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California literally has the National Guard supporting food banks across the state right now: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/21/coronavirus-governor-... I agree with your overall sentiment that we would benefit right now from inspirational leadership with strong messages of solidarity. But at the same time, it's not all doom and gloom. There's a lot of good happening as well.

California is and always has been an outlier when it comes to using government resources to help and protect people.

California is an outlier in most ways viz-a-viz the US.

Population is ~40M, which is more than Canada (~38M) or Australia (~28M). If California was an independent country it would be something like the 9th largest economy in the world. It's a massively productive farming region on top of having the high-end of US technology, and has other national or international-tier industries like Hollywood.

If I want a barometer for the US, tell me how Ohio is doing.

Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages

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Post by blaser-waffle »

jb3689 wrote: post #155
syshum wrote: post #47

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Flour and Sugar are also gone here. Bread is limited supply

I find it funny that we can find plenty of bread but flour is a completely different story. I'm a little surprised the demand - I recognize how useful flour is, but I'm surprised so many people actually feel confident enough to do anything with it (not that baking is that uncommon, but I only know a few people who know how to stuff like bake bread). On the other hand I guess it is the perfect time learn

> I recognize how useful flour is, but I'm surprised so many people actually feel confident enough to do anything with it (not that baking is that uncommon, but I only know a few people who know how to stuff like bake bread).

No offense but you sound incredibly sheltered. No one did any cooking in your house growing up? Most of the uses of raw flour are incredibly basic, straightforward recipes.

Literally add water, some kind of fat or oil, and maybe a leavener to flour and you're in business. Cakes, pastry, bread, roti, whatever. Use it as coating for fried chicken, or to thicken a stew. Make flour tortillas, or yorkshire puddings, or muffins, or all verities of noodles. Hard tack will last forever, if you hate yourself but want to store something for years.

The learning curve is trivial -- my mom made me roll out biscuits when I was 11 -- and flour will last forever as long as it stays dry and bug-free. Old flour isn't as tasty as the freshly ground, but you can still make a fine loaf of bread at home with 8+ month old flour; source: made a high hydration loaf last night.

Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages

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Post by blaser-waffle »

gridlockd wrote: post #272
ForHackernews wrote: post #271

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> Rich people are going to get their eggs either way. This bootlicking fatalism is the real problem, imho.

Clearly, the biggest sorrow of the socialist is not that the people are starving, but that the rich aren't starving alongside them .

This, but unironically.

Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages

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Post by blaser-waffle »

adwi wrote: post #215

No-Knead bread is a godsend on every level: taste, cost, ease. Even the worst loaf I’ve made is amongst the bread I’ve ever tasted, for ~ 15 min of unskilled effort. // 430g Flour (3.5 cups) .5 gram of yeast (1/4t) 9g salt (1.5t) 320g ~70° water (~ 1.33 cup) Mix the dry stuff then stir in water. Cover the bowl with a big piece of parchment paper and let it sit on the counter for 12-36 hours. Uncover, dust some flour…

> Go darker than you expect

Worked in a bakery in college. As my old boss would say, "we don't want blonde, we want em brunette". Big improvement to taste once it cools down, similar in concept to the fond at the bottom of a pan.

Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages

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Post by czbond »

theNJR wrote: post #156
earthtourist wrote: post #94

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Careful giving medical advice. Fasting can be dangerous in some cases. The advice I got from my doctor is to start with 24 hour fasts. And then try 48 hours. And then probably stop there. (I am not a medical expert)

Related - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22578614

Interesting - thanks for posting. The difference in cortisol is useful to know about.

Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages

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Post by chantelles »

XaspR8d wrote: post #212
McKayDavis wrote: post #160

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http://apocalypsethememoir.com/ (from her profile https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chantelles )

The BookBaby links there were timing out for me, but I found it at https://store.bookbaby.com/book/apocalypse-the-memoir

Thanks for the search - it's on amazon too. It's translated into Chinese and sells very well there, especially right now.

Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages

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Post by chantelles »

noah-kun wrote: post #241
chantelles wrote: post #106

I 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…

I hope I'm not reading this as a refutation capitalism as exploitation-based economics. I could carry on about that, but will pick up something: > I've never purchased shampoo or paid for a hair cut - I am female [me: this choice of quote has nothing to say about gender, please read on] In the Soviet Union, there was a growing demand for consumer goods. Government fought to reach a balance on whether it was time to u…

What's funny is I've been living in St Petersburg Russia for 4 months a year for the past 3 years. It's wild to live there now, where the stylish and beautiful youth are extremely enthusiastically embracing capitalism. I am not sure how capitalism is not gendered or any other economic system, but I agree, I'm very sure the failure of every economic theory is one of imagination and disciplinarity.

Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages

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Post by chantelles »

RobertRoberts wrote: post #117
chantelles wrote: post #106

I 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…

I lived with my wife in a van for months. We dumpster dived behind bakeries, pizza places and ate very simple food. Even now 24+ years later we live a very simple life with few things. (I left home at 17, and lived on the streets for a time as well, so a van was luxury to me) My hope is that if nothing else, the current situation opens people's eyes to past indulgences with no thought toward the future. I wish I had…

Yes vans are a luxury! My first 'home' was a tent with no zipper and then a VW rabbit for a year and so when I got a '64 Ford Econoline it was my mcmansion! I find that having a home is stressful, like stuff owning is a huge responsibility because I see each item as hours of my life sacrificed from thinking and working on relationships.
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