Work Reform

I recently went to the store to buy some pastries before closing—you can already know where I'm going with this. The pastry cupboard was empty so I went to check the lady who cleans them out. They were all in a three big boxes stacked on top of each other, filled with soon to be thrown pastries. I took two and paid full price. Knowing how ridiculous this is in contrast with the rest having been thrown in the trash 10 minutes later. I'd much rather go a day or two without food knowing that nothing gets wasted and no one goes hungry than what shameful consumerist nonsense we have now.

I do a lot of big events at big convention hotels, and you would be shocked at how much amazing food they throw out. I know you think you know, but trust me you have no idea.

The fact that at this time in history we have the world's first trillionaire and we padlock the dumpsters we throw food away into is a disgrace. The future will not look kindly on us that we let this stand

Credit where credit is due.

I live in NYC and voted for him, but I honestly thought he'd be bogged down by an entrenched bureaucracy and not actually do much.

It was worth the price of admission just to see the Lesbian Fire Commissioner.

edit = The Fire Commissioner was an EMS Chief before getting promoted. Back in 1995 most of the front line EMS workers hated the idea of being pulled into the Fire Department. They liked being independent. It took a long time, but now the tail is wagging the dog.

When I'm president, I'm going to spend every dicking dollar on education, so the masses understand that a single person doesn't make as much difference to 360M people as those 360M We the People do to themselves.

My twelfth grade English teacher told me the machines are broken, they just don't know they're broken, so the bigger machine made of machines grinds on. There's a scene in the matrix about this, how the average person is so dependent on the matrix they will fight to defend it.

What truly is possible to the human form? Society is 1776 updated to 2026. What if we just started fresh, what would we make and be then? Would it be 1776 2.0, or something else entirely? I think of democracy afforded in the modern day where only a republic was good enough before with the communication potential available then.

Im in connecticut and my govenor is up for primary. He's done okay, but you can tell he is trying to compete with the younger fella up for the D primary. I hope the younger fella wins, but in the meantime 70ish old Lemont is trying to make headlines with "proposals" (nothings passed) that are based on policies that would benefit the working class.

I love to see the fear. I should write the old man and ask him to endorse his younger canidate. Near certain these guys just dont want to give up their comfortable positions of power due to some psycological desire.

They need the poors to fight their wars and work on their factory floors.

And to focus on perceived races, while keeping women and queers in their places.

(I'm working on the last line, too long)

the peasant class exists to generate more money for the owner class, not the other way around.

always has been

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We have too good to go, it's an app where shops can sell stuff that is near end of life at a discount. Some shops are better than others, we spent £3.99 for a portion at a local bakery recently and got 2 huge bags of baked goods.

Food doesn't get wasted and it costs very little compared to it's regular value. There is also a charity that focuses on similar things but ~~elitist cunts~~ friends and family have said I can't go there because I am not starving. They make it sound like a food bank when it's a shop selling products cheaply - or it was, they closed recently. Wanted to go but heavy social pressure/judgement not to put me off..

It seems to me that affordability starts with housing, because it is usually a household's single largest monthly expense. And it seems to me the best way to make housing more affordable is to make it non-profit. That doesn't necessarily mean city owned or other public housing, nor does it mean tax payer funded or subsidized housing, but having apartment buildings owned by a non-profit organization that charges tenants only enough rent to cover the organization's expenses without any extra going to an owner as profit. And the thing is, non-profit housing isn't only theoretical. It exists right now, but it's relatively rare. The reason is for-profit landlords don't want it because they can't compete.

Let's say you have two identical apartment buildings, but one is owned by a non-profit housing cooperative and the other is owned by a private landlord. The non-profit housing cooperative is going to have the same ongoing expenses (property management, maintenance, etc) as the private landlord, because the apartments are identical, but rent will be lower at the non-profit housing because they charge only enough rent to cover expenses whereas the private landlord charges rent to cover expenses plus some for his own personal profit.

Ok so what happens when you put food that close to going off onto a ship for a few weeks? You're just shipping rotten food to people.

The problems of logistics isn't "a choice" it's a very real thing.

Since the advent of GMO, starvation ls largely about political instability and conflicts. It's hard to get food to warzones. Something to think about before promoting violence as a solution to a problem.

I love mamdani but "who" are these people that are scared that she's talking about? I want names because I want some hope. Many of them openly don't give a shit and literally say it...

He does sound like he's doing a lot more than the average politician rn, but I wonder if he's just gonna end up w a crossheir to his head for it.

a few of the stores here, including both 'grocery' stores, do contribute close-dated and past-dated foodstuffs that isn't actually spoiled or bad to the local food pantry, who then distributes it to a huge line of people each week.

some weeks it's a pretty light box to pick up, but every now and then there will be a package of porterhouse or t-bones at the bottom of the box underneath all the "should've been eaten a week ago" produce.

This isn't always true. I was a volunteer at a Salvation Army food bank, and there would be crates upon crates upon crates of near expiry/day old bakery stuff/etc coming in from a local supermarket.

Don't get me wrong, it's not nearly enough. But there are some glimmers of hope within the rubble.