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I grew up in marginal farmland and heard about it, though not any specific examples. More that farming is an occupation for already crazy people, incredibly boom and bust, and likely has been affected far more by pretty much any and every economic downturn than most industries. Also, farmers tend to be crazy bwm, though I'm not sure whether it genuinely is more affordable to buy a new combine harvester when the old one breaks down because combine harvesters are slow and expensive to take anywhere. Hell, the farm we were on had a combine harvester as the equivalent of a car propped up on bricks in the front yard, apparently the engine still ran but it was otherwise unusable. Was great to climb up into and pretend it was a spaceship. Then again, that place had a loving swimming pool (defunct and the liner all torn up), in bumfuck nowhere farm country, on top of a hill. And the property was over a century old. There's some weird poo poo out there. Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 12:46 on Jun 29, 2018 |
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Most ag now is corporate behemoths. The mom and pop small family farms that still exist are a supplemental family income. Usually at least one person in the household has a non-farm job to make sure the family can eat and whatnot. the farm bill is national BWM
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My wife's family has dairy farmers and they run a medium sized operation (300-500 head), but they also specialize in organic stuff and sell through a co-op to a worldwide brand that's not price sensitive chunky monkey. That gives them a little cushion, but dairy farmers elsewhere don't have those advantages. So the government steps in and does something stupid like Montana where the sell-by date on milk is half that of everywhere else and stores routinely dump 100's of gallons of the stuff each week. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/best-enjoyed-by/
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Ixian posted:Mass Transit instead of horses the new BWM thread Make SF's transit system horse exclusive
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Krispy Wafer posted:My wife's family has dairy farmers and they run a medium sized operation (300-500 head), but they also specialize in organic stuff and sell through a co-op to a worldwide brand that's not price sensitive chunky monkey. That gives them a little cushion, but dairy farmers elsewhere don't have those advantages. Please thank your wife's family for their service to this great nation and my taste buds.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Please thank your wife's family for their service to this great nation and my taste buds. If you work at the Ben & Jerry's factory you get 3 pints a day. Employees there have chest freezers full of the stuff and die young.
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It’s not the time you live, it’s the quality of the experience. Died ten years early because he ate Ben and Jerry's everyday for twenty years. Oh woe is us, he could have lived another ten years if he’d eaten only vegetable and lean meat and worked out every other day forever and didn’t smoke and drink. Why yes my doctor just put me on a diet why do you ask?
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*eats single spoonful of Ben & Jerry's out of a tiny salt spoon for dessert after lettuce salad* who the gently caress says you can't enjoy life???
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Krispy Wafer posted:If you work at the Ben & Jerry's factory you get 3 pints a day. They are allowed to take 3 pints home because before that they were eating 3 pints a day straight off the line or even more. B&J wanted to have more control over how much the line employees were eating and to not run afoul of FDA regs. Get 3 whole pints instead of eating 1/8 a pint of 24 flavors, that's easier on the factory.
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At like 280 calories a pint, Halo Top is GWM/GWL, get that Ben & Jerry's poison outta here
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Jun 29, 2018 15:44
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Trustworthy posted:At like 280 calories a pint, Halo Top is GWM/GWL, get that Ben & Jerry's poison outta here Look at this awful opinion. Halo Top sucks.
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Jun 29, 2018 15:45
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Hutzpah posted:Look at this awful opinion. Halo Top sucks. The peanut butter one is good, all the others are kinda bad
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https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/8uohua/hi_everyone_i_just_got_a_job_with_a_salary_of/e1hvhai/quote:401ks notoriously under-perform the stock market and are really only good investments with a match. Should I invest in a 401k or in the stock market 
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OctaviusBeaver posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/8uohua/hi_everyone_i_just_got_a_job_with_a_salary_of/e1hvhai/ I guess the real BWM is listening to financial advice from people who don’t understand how these things work.
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I think they mean the lovely mutual funds that the median 401k offers
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Trustworthy posted:At like 280 calories a pint, Halo Top is GWM/GWL, get that Ben & Jerry's poison outta here After you get used to eating the entire pint in one sitting you can no longer go back to real ice cream. potatoducks fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Jun 29, 2018 |
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Trustworthy posted:At like 280 calories a pint, Halo Top is GWM/GWL, get that Ben & Jerry's poison outta here if you're going to eat ice cream, eating garbage tier poo poo ice cream because it's ~low cal~ is super BWM and BWL
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Jun 29, 2018 16:34
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:if you're going to eat ice cream, eating garbage tier poo poo ice cream because it's ~low cal~ is super BWM and BWL Yum yum stevia.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I was going to comment on the fact you can't build Tokyo sized buildings in earthquake prone San Fran and then I remembered, oh yeah.
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FrozenVent posted:It’s not the time you live, it’s the quality of the experience. Live fat die young
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Hutzpah posted:Look at this awful opinion. Halo Top sucks. Eat the ice cream
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:if you're going to eat ice cream, eating garbage tier poo poo ice cream because it's ~low cal~ is super BWM and BWL It's better than most full calorie ice creams because it's not made entirely out of corn derivatives and emulsifiers. It probably has more cream in it than most of the poo poo at Walmart.
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neonbregna posted:Live fat die young And leave a not so good looking corpse.
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Leviathan Song posted:It's better than most full calorie ice creams because it's not made entirely out of corn derivatives and emulsifiers. It probably has more cream in it than most of the poo poo at Walmart. It might not, seeing as how they're the target of a class action lawsuit for underfilling their pints.
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Halo Top is the methadone of ice cream
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measuring ice cream in volume is super misleading because you can whip it extra and put it right into the batch freezer and its only 300 calories a pint becuase it's 80% air bubbles
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Leviathan Song posted:It's better than most full calorie ice creams because it's not made entirely out of corn derivatives and emulsifiers. It probably has more cream in it than most of the poo poo at Walmart. It's 50% air. It's easy to cut calories when you replace the edible stuff with air. Just pick up a container, you can tell it weighs half what a pint of B&J does. Here's a suggestion: Just eat half as much good ice cream.
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Weatherman posted:Also also I can get on any train by tapping my card and then go pretty much anywhere in the entire region (and some other cities elsewhere, even) and tap out from the same card. poo poo works. Bay Area has this part. The cards and gates aren't as good, though. Along with everything else. FrozenVent posted:It’s not the time you live, it’s the quality of the experience. I diet and train and would probably do both even if they shortened my life, because they make me feel good both immediately and indirectly by their effect on my appearance and ability to move and do things. But, as luck would have it...
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Phanatic posted:It's 50% air. It's easy to cut calories when you replace the edible stuff with air. Just pick up a container, you can tell it weighs half what a pint of B&J does. I mean yes, when you're comparing it to Ben and Jerry's which is about twice as expensive. That's one of the few better ice creams at the grocery store. Halo top is stevia, fruit and air instead of corn syrup, corn oil, and air like 90% of the grocery store. Is halo top expensive where you live?
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Halo Top is the methadone of ice cream Pretty much. I'll buy one of the non-poo poo flavors if it's on sale (like mint or pistachio) but I'm not going to pretend pistachio Talenti or something like that doesn't blow it away.
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Doc Hawkins posted:Bay Area has this part. Clipper doesn't cover everything, unfortunately. There are some trains/routes in the South/East Bay that are basically just doing their own thing, e.g. ACE from Fremont to San Jose.
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Leviathan Song posted:I mean yes, when you're comparing it to Ben and Jerry's which is about twice as expensive. That's one of the few better ice creams at the grocery store. Halo top is stevia, fruit and air instead of corn syrup, corn oil, and air like 90% of the grocery store. Is halo top expensive where you live? Halo Top Vanilla: Skim milk, eggs, erythritol, prebiotic fiber, milk protein concentrate, cream, organic cane sugar, vegetable glycerin, natural flavor, sea salt, vanilla beans, organic carob gum, organic guar gum, organic stevia leaf extract. Edy's Vanilla: Skim milk, cream, sugar, whey, tapioca starch, pectin, natural flavors (with vanilla extract), guar gum. Breyer's French Vanilla: Milk, cream, sugar, egg yolk, tara gum, natural flavor Halo Top tastes bad where I live. Granted, I only tried one flavor, maybe the others are better.
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Vox Nihili posted:Clipper doesn't cover everything, unfortunately. There are some trains/routes in the South/East Bay that are basically just doing their own thing, e.g. ACE from Fremont to San Jose. Oh. 
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Leviathan Song posted:I mean yes, when you're comparing it to Ben and Jerry's which is about twice as expensive. That's one of the few better ice creams at the grocery store. Halo top is stevia, fruit and air instead of corn syrup, corn oil, and air like 90% of the grocery store. Is halo top expensive where you live? Where do you live? Halo top is regularly more expensive than Ben and Jerrys around Chicago.
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Wow, I am very out of the loop wrt ice cream
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Halo Top has coconut based versions of their stuff that is real, real bad and isn't always clearly labeled.
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CheesyDog posted:Halo Top has coconut based versions of their stuff that is real, real bad and isn't always clearly labeled. I tried one once (because lactose intolerant). I spit it out in the sink and threw the rest in the trash. Truly vile
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Ice cream derail is totally harmless but also real real dumb
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Wow, I am very out of the loop wrt ice cream Being out of the loop with american dessert chat is extemely gwm and gwl Yay we're back on topic!
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baquerd posted:Where do you live? Halo top is regularly more expensive than Ben and Jerrys around Chicago. Oklahoma, it's on sale like twice a month for dirt cheap here. Also, we only get the lovely fake Breyers that can't be labeled ice cream. I think everyone gave up on competing with Braum's or something. That and Ben and Jerry's are the only thing I've found better than Halo top around here.
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