Absolutely, conditions like that kill people.

The weather this week where they are has highs in the 90s, lows in the 70s, and 60% humidity. So yeah in a place that’s crowded with likely inadequate air conditioning it’s probably hot as shit.

It was a test lick! I’m very well hydrated!

They fucking deflated him 😭

They probably had you hold your fingers up to a small scanner if you turned 18 in the past 20ish years, not ink and paper fingerprinted you.

My knowledge is more related to the meat side of things than the egg side honestly, but here’s a citation: 70 percent of chicken farmers with no other job live below the poverty line. That’s not people who work on a chicken farm (although they’re certainly not paid well either), that’s the people who own it.

These farms may technically be ‘small scale’ in that they aren’t owned by a giant corporation, but they often contain multiple times as many chickens as their European counterparts, in more crowded conditions, which is part of why disease spreads so fast.

For meat, the reason the farmers are in this mess is because separate companies buy and process the chicken, and they won’t buy from you if you don’t follow their arbitrary and frequently changing guidelines. They also don’t pay a given amount per pound, they pay you depending on the yields other chicken farmers got on their farms. And the farmers don’t have another place to sell their chickens, it’s these companies or nothing, as 20 companies control basically the entire US market.

It doesn’t have to be gay sex, is the thing. You can criticize homophobes without engaging in homophobia yourself. “But they’re the ones that are upset by it, so in this situation homophobia is okay” is a bad excuse for it, and it also glosses over that they are not the only ones affected by homophobic imagery.

JD Vance is a racist, would you cheer on images that depict him marrying a non-white woman as shameful? If you are more comfortable with one than the other, you should ask yourself why.

On the off chance this is a genuine question, Trump is depicted as subservient to Putin and bad for the US in this image. While both of those things can be true, the way this was conveyed visually was with gay oral sex. Portraying politicians you don’t like engaged in gay sex is only a snappy own if you accept the right wing position that gay sex is shameful and exploitative. You don’t have to do that to criticize them.

For such a long article it’s really disappointing they didn’t at all go into how chicken farmers themselves are ratfucked by contracts with processing plants and live below the poverty line if they don’t have a second job.

Yeah, them all being the same is what makes me think person; when you look at those AI images with legible text, the text wiggles and is inconsistent when you compare something like one A to another A. But if you’re a person using linocut stamps or duplicating things in photoshop, letters will look the same.

There’s other little things too, like the knot in the wood that the paper dips into, that make me lean more towards ‘real but strange looking photo.’

I’m torn on whether this is AI. The AI detectors I put it in say no, and the letters being consistent (all T’s looking like all other T’s, etc) says real person to me rather than machine generated. The wood grain is also consistent beneath the lettering, and it and the chain link fence don’t meander or disappear in any weird ways that I see.

That said the building in the background looks weird to me, as does the lighting. And the combination of the wood grain plus the texture on the lettering does give it that weird quality that AI text tends to have, it immediately made me question it as well. I just can’t decide if it’s a weird artifact of real textures clashing or not.

Same for Bic

Fun fact: it’s actually a Mexican brand, that’s just the American branch logo. According to Wikipedia:

The name was formed as the combination of the Disney Bambi and Dumbo films names, which were the favourite movies of Marinela, Lorenzo Servitje’s daughter.

They’re right, but not for the reason they think. (About the democracy being very threatened part)

He was stretching the truth as much as possible to convince local art dealers to sell his stuff as an investment, got sued for it, and (spoiler if you’re wanting to listen to the episodes) may or may not have intentionally killed himself to avoid going to trial over it.

Thomas Kinkade did this with art prints in the 90s and 00s. Mass print them and then have ‘trained artists’ go in and add a little highlighting, and charge a premium for it.

Behind the Bastards has a good 2 part episode on him.

Deaf people already may learn to speak without that through speech therapy, although for most it’s not their preferred method of communication.

I don’t know how it’s changed in the modern day because the people I know who went through it as kids did it like 30 years ago, but it used to be common to hold a balloon against the throat while speaking to feel the different sounds you’re making.

anon6789 is a fucking champ. I don’t know how they churn out posts about owls and keep them high quality, but they do.

Promise?

I don’t think I’ve had Micky D’s in at least a decade. And it was probably close to the same amount of time before that.

Guess I’ll just continue not eating there unless the choice is literally nothing.