I think you know: Mexico
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Wow that’s surprising and awesome. Same one explain why the republicans did that
Chapo had this as a reading series on the most recent ep.
This woman is mad that Chipotle prices have increased 4% because the uppity poors are demanding bigger wages.
Chicken bowl, brown rice, black and pinto beans, pico, hot salsa, lettuce, cheese, sour cream — that’s all I want. And I want it for $7.60 plus tax. Thanks to the ill-named American Rescue Plan and remarkably short-sighted employment decisions, the federal government has jacked up the price of my Chipotle order.
Sure, the restaurant is the one raising its prices by about 4 percent, but the federal government is the cause.
Did you catch that? Restaurants have had to bribe current and prospective workers with fatter paychecks to lure them off their backsides and back to work. That’s what happens when the federal government steps in with a sweet unemployment deal, incentivizing workers do a little less labor and a little more lounging.
Well, you’re never going to guess what Will Menaker found after the ep.
I don’t get it. Why didn’t she just get a job at Chipotle if she needed some money?
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It’s easy and their donors don’t care. It doesn’t help anyone vote.
Eta: wait, are we talking about Democrats or Republicans? Oh well, doesn’t really matter.
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I saw some article the other day that said giving farm workers a 40% raise would result in $25 more a year for the average family in food costs. Might be cherry picked - but Jesus even it’s $100/year.
Lukewarm take incoming:
GOP senators voting for Juneteenth to be a national holiday is actually a brilliant move. Now if there is a bill to make election day a national holiday, they’ll say “We can’t afford another one, we just Juneteenth. It’s not that we’re anti-voting. We’re just trying to be fiscally responsible.”
They can also use it as an all-purpose anti-racism defense. “The suggestion that I’m racist is absurd. I’m the least racist person there is (after Dear Leader Trump, of course). FFS, I even voted for Juneteenth to be a national holiday. How can I possibly be racist?”
Does this mean we all get this Saturday off? AWESOME!
I read a fun fact today: one of the earliest groups trying to climb K2 got to 25k feet - as high as any humans had ever been - and sat down for smoke break. They were smoking the whole way up the mountain.
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I’m not going to look this up to double check, but I think one of the first to try K2 was Aleister Crowley, the ‘occultist’, who got up to all sorts.
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He was - this was the second serious attempt I think - 1938.
Crowley apparently was pretty unskilled compared to most on the team - but described himself as far superior to everyone else on his team.
1939 apparently was one of the worst weirdest disasters in mountaineering history. I’m on pins and needles until my next walk (listening to Ed Viesturs’ audiobook about K2). No spoilers!
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no wonder he lost
I should get hold of that. Although I have no desire to do it I find stuff about climbing massive mountains endlessly fascinating. K2 always seems the craziest of the crazy, I think the death rate for attempts (successful or otherwise) is something like 1 in 3. Russian roulette with two bullets.
(Though a quick google suggests Annapurna I is even more deadly. Edit - And that dude has a book about it as well.)
Minimum wage got a bump here today. Now $US 15.65/hr.
Well you had a good run, welcome to the upcoming distopia
I’m already getting panic attacks thinking about how many more cents I’m going to have to pay for my burritos.
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I saw a stat that the Congo produces something like $300 billion in wealth every year and only $3 billion of that stays in the Congo