Being homeless is the ultimate poor pill

This isn't wrong. But it's also the hardest poor pill to swallow:

Our genuine [poor] pill is not ready for the mass market. It is the size of a golfball, though nowhere near so smooth, and halfway down it splits in half and exposes a sodium-metal core, which will sear your throat like a live coal. There will be scarring.

Today I learned that non-poors have plates called "chargers" that are purely decorative; they set their regular dinner plates that they eat from on top of the "chargers."

This is so stupid, it has to be some kind of joke. Do the wealthy really think we're stupid enough to think that they live like this? Come on.... No way.

TIL that in the state of Colorado, a chicken wing is legally a sandwich:

“SANDWICHES” AS USED IN ARTICLES 47 AND 48 OF TITLE 12, C.R.S. ARE DEFINED AS SINGLE SERVING ITEMS SUCH AS HAMBURGERS, HOT DOGS, FROZEN PIZZAS, BURRITOS, CHICKEN WINGS, ETC.

Tfw a state's lawmakers are in need of a lesson on Plato's Meno:

SOCRATES: Meno, by the gods, what do you yourself say that virtue is? Speak and do not begrudge us, so that I may have spoken a most unfortunate untruth when I said that I had never met anyone who knew, if you and Gorgias are shown to know.

MENO: It is not hard to tell you, Socrates. First, if you want the virtue of a man, it is easy to say that a man’s virtue consists of being able to manage public affairs and in so doing to benefit his friends and harm his enemies and to be careful that no harm comes to himself; if you want the virtue of a woman, it is not difficult to describe: she must manage the home well, preserve its possessions, and be submissive to her husband; the virtue of a child, whether male or female, is different again, and so is that of an elderly man, if you want that, or if you want that of a free man or a slave. And there are very many other virtues, so that one is not at a loss to say what virtue is. There is virtue for every action and every age, for every task of ours and every one of us—and, Socrates, the same is true for wickedness.

SOCRATES: I seem to be in great luck, Meno; while I am looking for one virtue, I have found you to have a whole swarm of them. But, Meno, to follow up the image of swarms, if I were asking you what is the nature of bees, and you said that they are many and of all kinds, what would you answer if I asked you: “Do you mean that they are many and varied and different from one another in so far as they are bees? Or are they no different in that regard, but in some other respect, in their beauty, for example, or their size or in some other such way?” Tell me, what would you answer if thus questioned?

MENO: I would say that they do not differ from one another in being bees.

SOCRATES: If I went on to say: “Tell me, what is this very thing, Meno, in which they are all the same and do not differ from one another?” Would you be able to tell me?

MENO: I would.

SOCRATES: The same is true in the case of the virtues. Even if they are many and various, all of them have one and the same form which makes them virtues, and it is right to look to this when one is asked to make clear what virtue is.

I'll be a bit of a critic here and point out that eggs are lacking one thing we need: vitamin C.

It has all the stuff needed for a chicken to grow, but chickens are different animals and produce their own vitamin C. Humans cannot do that.

A similar case: taurine is not essential for humans, since we can produce our own. (Might have good effects for humans, but it's not essential.) Cats, on the other hand, need taurine; without it, they go blind and die.

Woah, so affordable.

Canucks getting ready to invade yooper land

Hmmm, do I need a $1.6b loan?

Feel like I'm in a Twilight Zone episode. You know that line old folks will say if an item doesn't scan at the grocery before getting an angry scoff from the cashier? "Guess it's free?"

Was getting checked out a few minutes ago. $10 or so item. Won't scan. Cashier looks at me, says, "guess that means it's free" and bags it without scanning it

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