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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

There is no safety. No matter how wealthy you are, your house can be destroyed. No matter how much you diversify your portfolio, the economy could crash and send you back to square one. No matter what private army you pay, forces beyond your control can crush you like a bug.

Humans do not rule the world, and under capitalism, we don't even rule ourselves. We're ruled by profit motives more than any rich individual. No matter how much Musk or Trump try to play king, they're merely mortals riding the wave of economics and politics. We have no real gods, only chaos; no real masters, only thugs and bullies

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

No matter how wealthy you are, your house can be destroyed.

AND...

(from USA Today)

California had a home insurance crisis before the LA fires. It's only going to get worse.

The impact of the catastrophic wildfires could drive up already sky-high premiums and prompt a new wave of private insurers dropping policies or declining to write new ones – and not just in the LA area.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The wealthy can't hide from the Children of Kali.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But we need to get those egg prices down!

[+] [email protected] -16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Fun fact:

Egg prices are so high because they're used to make flu and covid vaccines.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The price spikes are driven by avian (bird) flu.

There have been several outbreaks here in the States over the past year or so and we're in the middle of yet another one.

I was able to get a dozen large eggs for about $1.60 in October; now they're at least twice that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I guess I'm projecting my Canadian-ness on everyone. A dozen large eggs in my area on the west coast is upwards of 6 Canadian apologies.

*Before the pandemic that was what you would pay for two dozen. Fuckin' bread cartel i tell yah hwat.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh, it's no big deal; what you said is true in terms of eggs being used to make vaccines.

But avian flu outbreaks require them to cull (kill) large numbers of egg-producing chickens, so it's basically a supply-and-demand issue -- hence the price spikes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I'm still sorry tho. Dang and heck.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There have been several outbreaks here in the States over the past year or so and we’re in the middle of yet another one.

can you guys keep it to yourselves? One pandemic was enough for a lifetime for me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

can you guys keep it to yourselves? One pandemic was enough for a lifetime for me.

With this incoming administration -- the same one that botched the response to the last pandemic -- I don't know if that's possible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It would be less of a stretch to say intentional

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Where did you learn that?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Most covid vaccines aren't recombinant vaccines, which aren't made using eggs.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

At the moment, I’m beginning to think that the best we can do is both, it might be to late for an either/or situation

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Though I'm not sure how slow the apocalypse will be.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

You say the whole world's ending, honey, it already did

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Should have paved over those mountains.

Can't have a fire if the landscape is one continuous piece of asphalt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't asphalt burn?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I might be wrong in this. My understanding is that it is flammable, but not when it's "solid" if that makes sense. That a fire would have to be on it and burning hot enough for long enough to start melting the tar then that could burn. But the asphalt itself isn't likely to just catch fire from a lighting strike or something and just continue to burn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

First it melts, but it's made up of very long hydrocarbons, so... probably?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

there is a 3rd way: a short, quick apocalypse. like nuclear war

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

There is, but the profits aren't as high as a slow apocalypse.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Slow apocalypse it is then!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

The thing about cancer is that it will eventually kill itself. It destroys the environment it lives in until it becomes uninhabitable, killing both the host environment and the cancer itself.

So, the cancer is already going to die, it's only a matter of if it takes us with it or not. The ONLY option for survival is to kill it before it kills us. There is no siding with cancer and hoping you won't be affected.

(Capitalism is the cancer, in case mods get nervous)