“Adult Canadian residents”, give or take, so maybe tens of millions of dollars.
I was going to say “and you have to live somewhere where food prices are low enough to make the math check out, so, like, not Nunavut”, but then I did some checking and…none of the grocery stores in Iqaluit seem to have online catalogues, but there’s a Real Canadian Superstore branch in Whitehorse, Yukon and it claims to be selling Cheez-Its for exactly the same price as the Superstore in Kitchener ($3.39 for one or 2/$5).
(I do kind of wonder if maybe it was too clever for its own good and ignored me asking for Whitehorse data, but OTOH I guess if any food *were* going to be the same price in Yukon it’d be a lightweight non-perishable like crackers. Hmm…okay, a 3L jug of store-brand apple cider is $3.99 in Kitchener and $7 in Whitehorse, so it looks like this is real price data. (Although I was honestly expecting the apple-cider prices in Yukon to be even worse.))
Maybe the main issue is *how many* grocery chains are in your area: the more options you have, the more likely one of them has a good sale on a given week. And since the receipt has to be from a (fairly long, but still) whitelist of specific chains to count, looks like the folks in Iqaluit are out of luck no matter how good a Cheez-It price they get.
I *am* wondering now if Brother is obtaining a larger fraction of his own food than I’d realised. But even if 0% of my food spending were for him (*definitely* not true), that would still only be USD$8.21.
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“Adult Canadian residents”, give or take, so maybe tens of millions of dollars.
I was going to say “and you have to live somewhere where food prices are low enough to make the math check out, so, like, not Nunavut”, but then I did some checking and…none of the grocery stores in Iqaluit seem to have online catalogues, but there’s a Real Canadian Superstore branch in Whitehorse, Yukon and it claims to be selling Cheez-Its for exactly the same price as the Superstore in Kitchener ($3.39 for one or 2/$5).
(I do kind of wonder if maybe it was too clever for its own good and ignored me asking for Whitehorse data, but OTOH I guess if any food *were* going to be the same price in Yukon it’d be a lightweight non-perishable like crackers. Hmm…okay, a 3L jug of store-brand apple cider is $3.99 in Kitchener and $7 in Whitehorse, so it looks like this is real price data. (Although I was honestly expecting the apple-cider prices in Yukon to be even worse.))
Maybe the main issue is *how many* grocery chains are in your area: the more options you have, the more likely one of them has a good sale on a given week. And since the receipt has to be from a (fairly long, but still) whitelist of specific chains to count, looks like the folks in Iqaluit are out of luck no matter how good a Cheez-It price they get.
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#reply via reblog #food #adventures in human capitalism #fun with loopholes #our home and cherished land #tag rambles #fun fact: I did the math after seeing a discussion of U.S. food stamps recently #and in 2022 we spent USD$6.16/person/day on food + soda #(I normally categorise soda under ”recreational drugs – caffeine” rather than ”groceries” #~~in order to (not-so-)subtly express my disapproval~~ #but it does in fact contain sustenance) #((it’s USD$6.02 without the soda‚ and yes these two figures *do* count restaurant spending)) #apparently this is substantially less than a food-stamp budget #but it requires more ability to exploit-sales-to-maintain-stockpiles than someone living paycheque-to-paycheque would have #some fortnights I spend $350 at the grocery store and others I spend $100: depends on what’s cheap enough to resupply on this week #(and how many loyalty points I had piled up from previous trips) #(I got over $800 of loyalty points last year‚ which I treat as a discount) #I still feel like we have a lot of room for improvement in our food spending #(indeed‚ I’ve *made* improvements since 2022: things are shaping up to be cheaper this year) #((and not entirely because I’ve been getting more food as ~gifts‚ though that is also happening)) #but Vimes Boot Theory is nevertheless a hell of a thing #as are the plans of a sublimated accountant
how many digits of pi (after the decimal point, so 3.?????? etc) do you have memorized?
“anyway I am surprised that 5 is such a popular answer, I can understand 2, but why 5, it’s so lopsided” (via @brin-bellway )
I answered 5! In my case, it’s because I once saw a nerdy math cheer that included those digits – something along the lines of “local math team, we’re so fine, 3.14159” – and it stuck.
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a few years back zinc acetate lozenges were doing the rounds and I love a good superstition so I went ahead and incorporated that into my belief system. been a while so I thought I’d check to see if the state of the science on the subject had shifted since then
afaict there hasn’t been much work on the subject in the intervening time, and nothing much to change your mind one way or the other. good work everyone, you may return to your superstition behavior.
some details:
one study¹ recently reported a null result, but based on the going theory for zinc lozenges that’s what you would expect (zinc acetate was administered by capsules). also the study was lacking in other ways.
another² has a good looking graph and is maybe positive for the concept. haven’t read the fully study yet
that’s maybe about it? my method for researching this research was to search pubmed for “(zinc) AND ((acetate) OR (gluconate)) lozenge” plus some other words instead of lozenge, as there were too many results without an additional keyword for filtering. I am sure there are other places results are published besides pubmed. feel free to catapult relevant studies into my inbox
yeah that sounds fucked up! had no idea that was the case for some people, I always thought of a cold as a 1-3 day kind of thing. but presumably if someone gets 20 day colds they’re probably very glad to cut a week off that
The third week of a cold sucks a lot less than the first week so, like, maybe only as much as a normal person’s cold, but yeah if there’s a pill for cutting that third week off, I’m interested regardless of whether it helps with the main brunt of the cold. Gonna have to look into this.
you want zinc acetate, or if that’s not available, zinc gluconate. it has to be a lozenge or otherwise dissolve in your mouth, since the theoretical method of action is coating some tissue or receptor or something with ionic zinc. preferably with as few additives as possible. if it doesn’t taste bad and feel astringent, it’s not working. in the US everyone buys the life extension ones. idk about elsewhere
it is ideal to start as soon as possible. preferably in the not-sure-if-im-actually-sick-yet phase. starting once the infection is well developed seems to be much less effective
tbh I will actually take one prophylactically if I feel like I was in a high exposure environment. this is a not the protocol the research was done on but it seems reasonable and as long I don’t do this every day it is at worst a bad tasting zinc supplement
iirc the studies mostly had a protocol along the lines of one lozenge (of varying size and type?) every 1.5-2 hours while awake until symptoms subside. that’s a lot. it seems to produce some effect in the studies. I do not know that anyone has done any real study on taking more or less to compare, so it’s unclear what the optimal amount is, or how long it is worthwhile to persist in taking them
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Click this link five times, and for each answer the question: would you take the superpower at the cost of never having sex* again?
*since i know people will ask otherwise: ‘having sex’ goes by whatever your personal definition is right now, broadly construed (e.g. if for a given act your current opinion is ‘eh it’s arguably sex’, then it’s banned). the ban does not update if your personal definition of what counts as sex changes
please don’t ask me questions about interpreting superpower implications. use your judgement.
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Has anyone done the “would you fuck your clone” meme as an actual poll on here yet?
No? Yes?
Fine.
Just to make sure.
*and just get it on with all of them at once because that’s how pro clone-fucking I am.
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mcu: this world but freelance cops can punch through walls. low chance of fucking an alien.
star wars: a thousand different planets to put up with fascists on. democrats somehow even more spineless and ineffective. however, very high chance of fucking an alien.
star trek: a thousand different planets to be a communist on. may get your shit kicked in by swarthy footballers or chicago gangsters. fucking an alien is inevitable
harry potter: this is just england with an even higher chance of getting hate crimed
middle earth: 50/50 chance on if you’ll get a lovely cottagecore lifestyle or some orc lops your head off. elves very unlikely to put out.
battle tech: chances of fucking an alien unknown. chances of fucking a robot not good.
discworld: not worse than our world but definitely smellier. you will be turned down, crushingly, by a beautiful werewolf. not sure i could survive this.
dune: coachella with no bands and no weed and no way home. they don’t let you ride the sand worms.
hitch hiker: you only get to fuck an alien if it is both humorous and sorta damp. not great odds.
narnia: god is real and you get to be a badger. as a jew, im honestly tempted.
fuck it i guess ill stay home: bad dragon dildos are really expensive and the economy sucks shit. reconsider.
shit, the Discworld would be a terrible place to live. the only thing that makes it worth living is having the narcissistic magical power of will to turn that shithole into somewhere you can survive. when you get like 3 inches outside the skull of one of the magic-using main characters it’s all misery barely kept at bay by the main character of the disc’s ego-defences.
I feel like “Star Trek outside of Starfleet” is the extremely obvious choice? Yeah it’s all communism but it’s communism with the problems solved you’re not going to get Gulaged for proscribed literature because then it wouldn’t be Star Trek, it would be some tankie’s revanchist Star Trek fan fic where they reintroduced the bad parts because that’s the only way they can get hard.
Obviously you might get Borged or Klingoned or Qed or something but IRL you can get hit by a car – we’re not comparing with perfection, we’re comparing with the other options. ST is better than IRL and also better than all the other options.
(That is, for every non-IRL option my first thought would be “Jesus Christ how am I going to survive this?” but for ST my first thought is more like “Ok, time to have a good time. Transporter, one ticket to a great location where I can build my dream house thank you.”
Also if you’re really that into adventuring and exploration I’m pretty sure there are avenues other than just Starfleet. And if you’re not, as revealed preferences suggest most of us aren’t, there’s a perfectly good near-utopia to live a long and comfortable life in.
Honestly even Star Wars probably wouldn’t be too bad. There doesn’t seem to be substantially more poverty than in the real world, life under the Republic was pretty alright and even the Empire seemed to have let the leash run a lot longer than most real world authoritarian states, and you still have a bunch of futuristic technology to improve your quality of life. Somewhat more planet-killing superweapons, which isn’t great, but honestly with there being about a million planets in known space your odds aren’t too bad.
Basically what I’m saying is that in the absence of widespread healing magic and similar (which none of the fantasy settings aside from HP really have), I feel like “access to modern or better medicine and running water” is a pretty high priority, especially if I’m not going to be the main character.
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