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

🤯

Just saw some tourist get kicked out of a gas station. First, they asked the gas station cashier if they had kombucha. Later, they said "I want whole wheat of course you don't have it." Finally, "ugh of course all they have is powdered creamer for coffee." To which the cashier responded by pointing out the refrigerated machine for actual cream, but then told them to get out as they started walking towards it.

This is how you gatekeep your gas stations

Let us first address the staggering figure of $1,747, purported to represent the average American's monthly rent. Where did he pull that number from? Astoundingly, this figure emerges from an amalgamation of rental costs across the nation's 50 largest metropolitan areas.

"Look guys, the average person runs over 5,200 miles per year. What do you mean my sample is biased by the fact that I only asked elite marathon runners who are actively training? Ridiculous."

Yet, the discourse extends beyond this glaring misrepresentation, unveiling two critical issues:

1) The pursuit of college degrees has devolved into an exercise in futility.
2) Individuals are relentlessly flocking to already saturated metropolitan areas, exacerbating the housing crisis in areas with already exorbitant rental prices.

In stark contrast, the US Census Bureau provides a more grounded estimate of the national average monthly rent: $1300.

Diving deeper, the Census delineates between urban and rural living costs. The urban average, encompassing a broad spectrum of urban regions beyond the top 50 metros, stands at $1349 monthly for approximately 81% of the populace.

What of the rural demographic, constituting the remaining 19%? Their average rent is a mere $864 per month.

Rural folks' rent is, on average, less than two thirds that of their urban counterparts.

This disparity reveals a poignant truth: rural residents find themselves in a more tenable financial situation, with a significant portion spending less than 20% of their income on rent. Conversely, a disproportionate number of urban dwellers allocate over 30% of their earnings to housing costs.

While some may be excused for succumbing to the first mistake, having been indoctrinated with the notion that higher education is the gateway to success, there remains no justification for persisting in the second error. The choice to break free from the urban grind is yours to make.

I implore you, dear readers: liberate yourselves from the confines of urban life; get out of the cities