• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    5 months ago

    the average amount of red meat consumed a day on the earth per person is something like 2.2 ounces.

    seems like the price isn’t high enough to make Americans recognize how a 1/4 pounder is twice that average in one item.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah that’s dumb… Not everyone eats red meat everyday… Maybe try finding out how much someone eats during a meal on average… And how many people per day … That’s more informative…

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        5 months ago

        I know, what a poor use of statistics. Most people play tennis for under 30 seconds/day so playing for 30 mins is an outrageous use of time.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Because the pro-Trump media now tells people it’s because of the long-lasting effects of the Biden admin. Here in Hungary, we’re still being told the awful state of the healthcare system is due to the Gyurcsány-era, that was in 2010(!), although they started to mix it up with a little “the EU isn’t sending us money because we made a law that labels gay people pedophiles”.

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    5 months ago

    I’d say it’s because during Biden’s term he was running a fairly basic administration and during the run-up to the election, inflation was something they (repubs) could use to rile up the base, but now not only is the election long over, there’s so much new horrible stuff every day (both real and made-up) in the spotlight that inflation pales in comparison.

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      5 months ago

      Also, Biden was actively tackling the problem by having investigations into large grocer chains and brandnames who reported record profits and increased prices, and we talked about that whether we were on his “side” or not. He also prevented a couple of mergers/acquisitions such as the Krogers Alberstsons merger. And that was boring in most cases and in some cases ineffective.

      Now that nothing is being done about any of it, theres less to talk about except “experts say this is really bad and it’s going to get much much worse. Now for the weather forecast, take it away Carl.”

      “Actually, Bob, with the loss of weather monitoring funding we’re back to relying on Almanacs and to avoid liability I’ve been asked to not call it a forecast but a weather prediction.”

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    In part because people got used to those prices rising. But mostly because the media couldn’t generate clicks discussing it anymore.

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      5 months ago

      …are you seriously complaining like this about the use of the word ‘apopleptic’? It was one word, dude, let it go.

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      5 months ago

      We are also exhausted by all the other things we’re supposed to be apoplectic about.

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      True, but the news is freaking out about it a lot less, and spending a lot less time interviewing people about what percent of them might feel like it’s personally the president’s fault and he should definitely lose the next election because of it because people are hurting right now and he doesn’t care.

      It is, as the man said, notable. In fact it seems like they’ve totally moved on from feeling like inflation is an important issue to pay close attention to and freak out about.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5mlx_DnIEo

  • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    I hear about high food prices all the time, it’s like 50% of what people complain about

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    5 months ago

    I mean, because the left and center are concerned more with the collapse of democracy and the rule of law and the right wants all brown people to die.

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    5 months ago

    because everyone knows and feels the slowly rising over-inflation, but there are far more pressing problems that need to be addressed

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    5 months ago

    Same reason the clown is elected twice in the first place, the media in this country is completely irresponsible and run by profit driven assholes with zero ethics, a major problem in everywhere.