Hadlock posted:

What are the chances Biden wins the election, then 90 days later resigns to give it to the cop

Hadlock posted:

What are the chances Biden wins the election, then 90 days later resigns to give it to the cop

genericnick posted:

Eh, you sure about that and not listening to people backdating their split to before the start of the cold war and the interventions into the Warsaw pact countries?

biceps crimes posted:

you’ll be ruled by a mummy cabal and you’ll like it

Hadlock posted:

What are the chances Biden wins the election, then 90 days later resigns to give it to the cop

ikanreed posted:

Why didn't he do it this time if that's the dems' secret strategy?

Bar Ran Dun posted:

with several specific public American religious thinkers that were socialists up until that point, yes because they wrote about it explicitly at the time. The biggest one being Niebuhr.

Xaris posted:

drat, bad time for DEALS if slickdeals is laying off 1/3rd staff



also wtf slackoverflow has 600 people? isn't it just a lovely text-dump/quora/yahoo answers where people post code for everyone else to copy to pretend like they touch computers?

Raskolnikov38 posted:

because Harris absolutely cannot win an election

Hadlock posted:

Why don't we just elect inanimate golden calves, managed by faceless rotating committees in the shadows. At least golden calves never die, nor sexually harass staffers and lie about it later

This

You can't be pro cop + put black people in prison to win votes, then run for democratic president

Willa Rogers posted:

some wild results here

more voters think that trump will win his primary than biden will win his

Willa Rogers posted:

some wild results here

more voters think that trump will win his primary than biden will win his

Hadlock posted:

Why don't we just elect inanimate golden calves, managed by faceless rotating committees in the shadows. At least golden calves never die, nor sexually harass staffers and lie about it later

Willa Rogers posted:

more voters think that trump will win his primary than biden will win his

Hadlock posted:

Who gives two shits what the UK does

Hadlock posted:

Who gives two shits what the UK does post Brexit

quote:

Italy calls a crisis meeting after pasta prices jump 20%

Consumers in some countries might not bat an eye at rising macaroni prices. But in Italy, where the food is part of the national identity, skyrocketing pasta prices are cause for a national crisis.

Italy's Industry Minister Adolfo Urso has convened a crisis commission to discuss the country's soaring pasta costs. The cost of the staple food rose 17.5% during the past year through March, Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported. That's more than twice the rate of inflation in Italy, which stood at 8.1% in March, European Central Bank data shows.

In nearly all of the pasta-crazed country's provinces, where roughly 60% of people eat pasta daily, the average cost of the staple has exceeded $2.20 per kilo, the Washington Post reported. And in Siena, a city in Tuscany, pasta jumped from about $1.50 a kilo a year ago to $2.37, a 58% increase, consumer-rights group Assoutenti found.

That means Siena residents are now paying about $1.08 a pound for their fusilli, up from 68 cents a year earlier.

Such massive price hikes are making Italian activists boil over, calling for the country's officials to intervene.
Durum wheat, water — and greed?

The crisis commission is now investigating factors contributing to the skyrocketing pasta prices. Whether rising prices are cooked in from production cost increases or are a byproduct of corporate greed has become a point of contention among Italian consumers and business owners.

Pasta is typically made with just durum wheat and water, so wheat prices should correlate with pasta prices, activists argue. But the cost of raw materials including durum wheat have dropped 30% from a year earlier, the consumer rights group Assoutenti said in a statement.

"There is no justification for the increases other than pure speculation on the part of the large food groups who also want to supplement their budgets with extra profits," Assoutenti president Furio Truzzi told the Washington Post.

But consumers shouldn't be so quick to assume that corporate greed is fueling soaring macaroni prices, Michele Crippa, an Italian professor of gastronomic science, told the publication. That's because the pasta consumers are buying today was produced when Russia's invasion of Ukraine was driving up food and energy prices.

"Pasta on the shelves today was produced months ago when durum wheat [was] purchased at high prices and with energy costs at the peak of the crisis," Crippa said.

While the cause of the price increases remains a subject of debate, the fury they have invoked is quite clear.

"People are pretending not to see it, but the prices are clearly visible," one Italian Twitter user tweeted. "Fruit, vegetable, pasta and milk prices are leaving their mark."

"At the supermarket below my house, which has the prices of Las Vegas in the high season, dried pasta has even reached 5 euros per kilo," another Italian Twitter user posted in frustration.

This isn't the first time Italians have gotten worked up over pasta. An Italian antitrust agency raided 26 pasta makers over price-fixing allegations in 2009, fining the companies 12.5 million euros.

Xaris posted:

it is very funny they are melting down very rapidly. good content

biceps crimes posted:

you’ll be ruled by a mummy cabal and you’ll like it

Koirhor posted:

there is no loving way biden gets reelected

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

toxx on it

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

toxx on it

Hadlock posted:

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

i propose this as a thread rule: any time someone makes a prediction, it's treated as a toxx

i'll go first: biden will win in 2024

holefoods posted:

someone call brendan fraser to deal with our mummy problem

Mr Hootington posted:

https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1658080033666371584?t=6-4Sq_G5zBT0SHeqcymAdg&s=19

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

i propose this as a thread rule: any time someone makes a prediction, it's treated as a toxx

i'll go first: biden will win in 2024