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newkidsonmycock11: brazil: where riots meet soccer

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:08:54 -0400

newkidsonmycock11:

brazil: where riots meet soccer

90s90s90s:

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:03:32 -0400

90s90s90s:

gendermagick: awesome commentary below. they pretty much...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:29:15 -0400

gendermagick:

awesome commentary below. they pretty much covered everything that’s wrong with the views that these infographics represent!

mamamantis:

gcvsa:

tranqualizer:

keepingitconceptual:

bitsenbobby:

alithea:

canisfamiliaris:

Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?

The answer is NO.

The “fact” that junk food is cheaper than real food has become a reflexive part of how we explain why so many Americans are overweight, particularly those with lower incomes. I frequently read confident statements like, “when a bag of chips is cheaper than a head of broccoli …” or “it’s more affordable to feed a family of four at McDonald’s than to cook a healthy meal for them at home.”

(via sunfoundation)

this bullshit fills me with a very specific kind of rage. so, TIME TO DEBUNK!

that meal from mcdonalds takes virtually no time to acquire AND is available almost anywhere.

the second meal? that “salad” is lettuce … with nothing else, not even dressing unless its just olive oil or some milk i guess? gross.

also thats the price of each serving, not an entire loaf of bread, a bottle of olive oil, etc. that stuff adds up which means you have to have a lot of money at one time to buy it all.

that meal probably took an hour and a half to make, which is a long fucking time when you work multiple jobs or are caring for a lot of people or dont have help! seriously, if you are a single parent of three who works, is spending an hour and a half every night preparing a meal a likely option?

same with beans and rice! also, you know whats a fucking bummer? eating beans and rice every night because you are poor. ask any person who has done it and they will tell you (you can start with me).

there is a “nutrition” argument here that lacks a follow up: poor people are more likely to be doing physical labor and need more than 571 calories per meal.

you know who is less likely to know how to bake or prepare a chicken? people without access to the internet, or libraries, or who werent taught how to by their parents because their parents worked all the time. access to healthy foods is a classist issue and classism is cyclical, you fucking morons.

seriously, these sorts of infographics make me want to fucking flip tables. do you know why people don’t eat more fresh fruits and vegetables? because fresh fruits and vegetables are expensive, because they take a long time to prepare, because they dont live near a grocery store that has a decent produce section, because they dont have reliable transportation to get groceries to and from the grocery store, because they dont have the energy to plan all of the shit that is involved in making healthy, intentional, filling, balanced meals. basically: poor people get fucked, and then we get BLAMED for being lazy.

eating “healthy”, aka access to fresh fruits and vegetables, is a privilege, first, foremost, always. so fuck you new york times and your ignorant goddamn infographic.

there are SYSTEMATIC REASONS that we do not have equal access to fresh fruits and vegetables. they are very REAL problems. besides, you know, systematic poverty in america, the total mis-distribution of farm subsidies is a perfect place to start. read about that, then either get bent or start working on the actual problem.

YES YES YES YES YES

I am so fucking tired of seeing these misleading as fuck infographics about how “healthy eating is cheap!” No. No it is fucking not.

AND where the FUCK are you getting your food that salt and pepper are 5 cents?!??! or bacon for $1.85? or a CUP of oil for 55 cents? FOUR pieces of bread for 75 cents? 3 cups for rice for 50 cents?

this stuff just doesn’t make sense, is extremely shaming, and is extremely misleading.

Making homemade food affordable and healthy is very important to me, but let’s just point out a few things.

1. If you have very little money, you will *not* be eating Big Macs. You will be ordering off of the dollar menu. Off the dollar menu, that $28 is going to buy me two cheeseburgers, a fries, and a Coke for a family of SEVEN.

OK, six, really, because tax, and the double cheeseburgers are actually $1.19 now, but still. The point remains that I just bought 12 double cheeseburgers, 6 small fries, and 6ea. 16 oz. “small” sodas for about $26 plus tax. Trust me, I’ve actually done this…many times. Hell yes, I’ve dug under the seats of my car for that last nickel to get a $1 double cheeseburger when I had nothing else. Oh, wait, we were serving only four people? OK, so now we’re down to only $18 plus tax. Plus, I get free salt, pepper, ketchup, mustard, barbecue sauce, straws, napkins.

Now remember, each person in the family got TWO double cheeseburgers (that’s four small meat patties, four slices of cheese, and four slices of “bread” (sic), with onions, pickles, ketchup, and mustard, a side of french fries (or *two* apple pies), and two cups (16 oz.) of Coke, because I asked for no ice. No one is going hungry here, and as things go, there are a whole lot of much more unhealthy things they *could* have eaten, instead.

2. And I don’t have to clean up. No soap, no hot water, no dishwasher, no sponges, no dishes, no nothing involved that would be necessary to serve the equivalent at home. You forgot to add the prices of all those things. All the remains get binned.

3. Which means I didn’t have to pay for gas or electricity for my stove to cook this stuff, I didn’t have to pay for power to run the refrigerator, I didn’t have to go shopping for it, I didn’t have to cook it…the list goes on. I think you’re getting the point. And you forgot to add all the prices of those things into the cost of your homemade meal.

4. Do you actually know how much a chicken costs? Let’s say $1.69/lb, which is pretty average in my area for a factory-farmed chicken. Now, the chickens you find out there rarely exceed about 7 lbs, which will be called a “roaster”. Anything you see above that is kind of freakish and is probably going to taste like it grew in a vat, not in a battery cage, but you get my drift. In any case, that’s the size chicken I’m going to need to feed a family of six, and that 7 lb bird is going to cost me…$11.83, not $5.96, as the illustration shows. OK, so the chicken you picked is for four people, so I guess I can get a 4.5 lb bird, instead, for $7.60. Wait, that’s still more money than $5.96. Oh, and can we spice it up with something besides salt and pepper, and *maybe* a squeeze of lemon? That’s pretty boring. For Goddess’ sake, pick up a box of Bell’s Poultry Seasoning, and a head of garlic!

5. That salad? Does it contain anything other than lettuce? I guess I have to make a vinaigrette out of oil, lemon, salt, and pepper, too? Good thing for you, I know how to cook. It’s still going to be a pretty boring salad…but whatevs, I’ll let you slide on that one.

6. One quart of milk? That’s half the volume of drinks I got at Micky D’s, hon. Better make it two quarts. Wait, scratch that, I’m Asian, and my family is lactose intolerant. Try again.

OK, I think you’re starting to get the picture. There’s more to food security, cooking, health, nutrition, food access, and money than meets the eye. I forgive you. After all, I’ve got actual experience at doing all of these things, so I have a visceral understanding of all the processes involved. Maybe now you have a little bit more insight into it, as well.

seriously fuck this misleading bullshit

Great analysis above. To me, the infographic hit the BS mark as soon as the family wasn’t sharing fries.

This Question Block lamp on Kickstarter lets you feel like...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:12:17 -0400

This Question Block lamp on Kickstarter lets you feel like Mario, Luigi, Toad, or Princess Peach as you light up your room.

organizationxiii: cynicalxme: awordnerd: I don’t understand Christmas movies where Santa exists...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:46:54 -0400

organizationxiii:

cynicalxme:

awordnerd:

I don’t understand Christmas movies where Santa exists and the adults don’t believe in him. Because if he exists in the story, that means he’s delivering presents to everyone, including the kids of the skeptical adults, and so those skeptics must be sort of confused about all the gifts under the tree that they didn’t buy.

Biggest plot hole in history ^

monicacubillos: Hershey, PA2012

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:08:53 -0400

monicacubillos:

Hershey, PA
2012

silverpipess: installator: “Workers hang the painting of U.S....

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:41:31 -0400

silverpipess:

installator:

“Workers hang the painting of U.S. artist James McNeill Whistler titled ‘Whistler’s Mother,’ at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco, California.” [2010] (artdaily)

BUT WAIT. I thought Mr. Bean ruined it.

Nice restoration job, guys.

I remember that movie… But I thought that it was titled ‘Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1’, not ’Whistler’s Mother’

peakreality: (via World map with place names swapped out for...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:36:06 -0400

peakreality:

(via World map with place names swapped out for their original meanings - 22 Words)

Awesome.

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:32:47 -0400

lindsaylohoean: 2014 is in less than 6 months just let that sink in I count nearly 2 weeks more...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:31:58 -0400

lindsaylohoean:

2014 is in less than 6 months just let that sink in

I count nearly 2 weeks more than 6 months left

fiztheancient: saneintolerant: tinycartridge: Reggie’s New...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:39:30 -0400

fiztheancient:

saneintolerant:
tinycartridge:
Reggie’s New Leaf house and Town Pass Card

I’m disappointed that I forgot to take advantage of this, but Nintendo invited E3 attendees to hang out near its booth and receive the Animal Crossing: New Leaf home for Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime via StreetPass. AngryGiraffe, though, was able to get a peek at his virtual home.

Apparently he sleeps on bedsheets and pillowcases that have his own face on them…

There were like a million Animal Crossing things I wanted to post during E3 but didn’t get a chance to, so expect a lot more New Leaf junk.
BUY Animal Crossing: New Leaf, AC:NL guide, upcoming games
Oh my God Reggie.
I LOVE REGGIE

mabufu: dragonsroar: Harvest Moon creator Yatsuhiro Wada has...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:33:02 -0400

mabufu:

dragonsroar:

Harvest Moon creator Yatsuhiro Wada has been working on a game called “Hometown Story” scheduled to be released on the 3DS later this year.

Apparently you run a little shop in a small town with a pink creature named Pochica. You can stock the shelves with a variety of items and mark the prices up or down, and when you get tired of that you can go outside and socialize with the villagers. I don’t know much more than that, but it looks adorable.

Also, Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu and Pokemon character designer Atsuko Nishida are involved on this project. [via]

SOLD

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:47:16 -0400

The End of Stop-And-Frisk? Say Goodbye to the NYPD of Giuliani and Bloomberg - Vocativ

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:16:40 -0400

The End of Stop-And-Frisk? Say Goodbye to the NYPD of Giuliani and Bloomberg - Vocativ:

The NYPD’s controversial policing tactics may be coming to an end. What will that mean for New York City’s crime rate?

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:14:26 -0400

Warner/Chappell, the music company that owns the rights to "Happy Birthday to You," makes about $2 million a year off the song.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:36:53 -0400

Warner/Chappell, the music company that owns the rights to "Happy Birthday to You," makes about $2 million a year off the song.:

The birthday song â Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, etc. â is still under copyright protection. That may soon change.

Reading about The Little Loomhouse the other day, I was wondering about this. The song was allegedly penned in 1893, making it now 120 years old, which is a copyright limit.

broadwaycom: Neil Patrick Harris headed to Broadway in HEDWIG...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:28:35 -0400

broadwaycom:

Neil Patrick Harris headed to Broadway in HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH in spring 2014

Chandler Massey wins Outstanding Younger Actor at the 2013...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:31:00 -0400

Chandler Massey wins Outstanding Younger Actor at the 2013 Daytime Emmy Awards

Definitely well-deserved. Chandler has been killing it on the show. Anyone know what scene he used for his nomination?

everythingsalem: Days of our Lives wins Outstanding Drama...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:57:00 -0400

everythingsalem:

Days of our Lives wins Outstanding Drama Series at the 2013 Daytime Emmys

It’s about time! Great job!

stumpstiel-wentzchester: mykaobering: Sometimes...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:54:25 -0400

stumpstiel-wentzchester:

mykaobering:

Sometimes when I’m feeling down I like to remind myself that once, on /v/, I sang A Whole New World, as Jigglypuff, with a guy doing a solid impression of Professor Oak.

I LOST IT WHEN THE FUCKING POKEMON STARTED SINGING

I tried to listen, but kept falling asleep when Jigglypuff came in.

Muddled Moogle Musings

newkidsonmycock11: brazil: where riots meet soccer

90s90s90s:

gendermagick: awesome commentary below. they pretty much...

This Question Block lamp on Kickstarter lets you feel like...

organizationxiii: cynicalxme: awordnerd: I don’t understand Christmas movies where Santa exists...

monicacubillos: Hershey, PA2012

silverpipess: installator: “Workers hang the painting of U.S....

peakreality: (via World map with place names swapped out for...

Photo

lindsaylohoean: 2014 is in less than 6 months just let that sink in I count nearly 2 weeks more...

fiztheancient: saneintolerant: tinycartridge: Reggie’s New...

Reggie’s New Leaf house and Town Pass Card

mabufu: dragonsroar: Harvest Moon creator Yatsuhiro Wada has...

Photo

The End of Stop-And-Frisk? Say Goodbye to the NYPD of Giuliani and Bloomberg - Vocativ

Photo

Warner/Chappell, the music company that owns the rights to "Happy Birthday to You," makes about $2 million a year off the song.

broadwaycom: Neil Patrick Harris headed to Broadway in HEDWIG...

Chandler Massey wins Outstanding Younger Actor at the 2013...

everythingsalem: Days of our Lives wins Outstanding Drama...

stumpstiel-wentzchester: mykaobering: Sometimes...

**Reggie’s New Leaf house and Town Pass Card**