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Post by afavour »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #110
afavour wrote: post #84

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This is also a great defense against something like bird flu. When you centralize operations a disease can spread through a population like wildfire. When it's a number of smaller, separate operations the impact is lessened.

Really raises the question - should vital infrastructure, like food production, be built in an attempt to maximize profit or resiliency? Have things swung too far in one direction?

To my mind there's no question that it's swung too far. But it's very easy for me to live in the country and say "oh I get all my fresh produce from the local farm!" when there are cities of millions of people that need feeding too. Scaling while retaining resiliency is not easy.

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Post by dragonwriter »

slothtrop wrote: post #149
happytoexplain wrote: post #116

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It became a meme/joke because of the contrast between the good part of Trump's image (promise of egg prices) and the bad part (extreme pettiness, violence, lawlessness, fascist-adjacent behavior, etc). Contrast is a big part of jokes. It would be very uncharitable to extrapolate that to "the people joking about eggs don't care about working-class people". The people joking about it largely are affected by grocery sto…

> It would be very uncharitable to extrapolate that to "the people joking about eggs don't care about working-class people". I put it to you that the conservative opposition and bigots are very uncharitable at the outset, in interpretation of messaging from the other side. In this case they didn't have to do any work, it was literally said for them. Don't forget that working people and moderates are the ones you need…

> If people didn't change their votes, election outcomes would always be the same.

This is only true if the composition of the electorate never changes, which of course it does: people become, and stop being, eligible voters all timhe time, and those that remain eligible change constituencies. Even if each individual’s voting behavior was constant, election results would change all the time.

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Post by llamaimperative »

rcpt wrote: post #80
Xunjin wrote: post #15

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I hope they stop this cultural war and focus on the real problems that actually affects the population,for example, high prices.

Prices aren't high on anything except for housing. No politician, either past present or future, will ever run on a platform of reducing housing prices.

Here are several specific proposals to do just that: https://nlihc.org/resource/harris-campaign-releases-plans-lo...

Not a fan of credits to buyers (just inflates prices further) but I'm a big fan of credits to developers, streamlining permitting, and making some federal land available for development.

Regardless of whether you think these are good policies or an effective platform, it is patently false to say no one would run on such a promise.

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Post by slothtrop »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #95
slothtrop wrote: post #69

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The snark predates the outcome of the election.

That's because it was always a ridiculous claim and obvious he wouldn't follow through on it but people still used that as a reason to vote for him.

It was not obvious to his voters.

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Post by ars »

colonial wrote: post #109

Yup, bird flu moment. I'm very glad my family put up a chicken coop in our backyard years ago; we get a ~carton a day, and they last forever even outside the fridge due to the natural "sealant" still being intact. Hopefully store prices will come down as the year goes on and flocks bounce back.

The commercial eggs also last forever outside the fridge. That thing about the natural sealant is a widely believed myth.

Source: I leave my commercial eggs outside the fridge, and they last with zero problems.

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Post by epistasis »

bavarianbob wrote: post #170
epistasis wrote: post #133

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How does cage free make this worse? The supply shortages are coming from avian flu in every report I have heard.

It's another requirement to comply with. More work for the producer == higher cost for the consumer.

But the claim is that the shortage has been made worse by cage free laws. Any higher cost from cage free laws would already have been part of the price.

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Post by oaththrowaway »

codingdave wrote: post #163
jnmandal wrote: post #90

Meanwhile, my chickens cost exactly the same as they did 12 months ago. :)

Which is great, so long as your flock does not get the flu and die. We have had chickens in the past, and while I fully support anyone wanting to do their own chickens, the level of effort to keep them clean and healthy, safe from predators, and the labor to take care of them is non-trivial. They were the most expensive and labor-intensive "free eggs" we ever had.

I have lost 2 flocks of chickens to a combination of raccoons, foxes, and skunks. Interestingly enough none of those could kill my turkeys - they are big enough to fight them off I guess. They don't lay as many eggs though.

It is a lot of work, but after my last group was killed off 2 months I have not impressed by store eggs, so I'm planning on re-enforcing my coop so I can get another group of them soon.

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Post by Auracle »

giblfiz wrote: post #132
zo1 wrote: post #97

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This is disturbing and not what I found with eggs at all - Are eggs somehow different in the US compared to the rest of the world?

Yep. In the U.S. the eggs are all machine washed which removes a natural protective outer coating (as well as dirt). This means that they don't store as well or as long, and really should be refrigerated. It _might_ reduce salmonella.

> as well as dirt

Well, more importantly, poop. The cloaca does all.

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