Never wanted to be a pair of tights in my life like i do right now. those clips.

👍 didnt feel like pulling a real number so pulled a number that was almost certainly below what they did for demonstration purposes.

Culling was covered by federal subs. (Whether those subs were sufficient is a different matter)

Child, we’re both saying it wasnt market forces. But you have made unsubstantiated claims about testing be the source of these drops. Im calling you out as a moron because you are.

The prices increases were pure corporate greed hence why you’re seeing the rapid adjustments. Because the cost of eggs has never reflected the cost of production.

There is no need for gradual price adjustments for fucking eggs. Business’ make contracts for a set period of time precisely to manage the variability that would require gradual adjustments.

You have cost to produce + cost to deliver + storage costs + profit.

All of those are relatively constant over the span of a year except profit. And the only piece impacted by the flu was availability.

And the only way you fix availability is by sourcing from producers with surplus and in no way justifies nyc jump 200+% and a town a few hours north also jumping 200+% when NYC was already 100+% higher due to real estate and labor costs.

What we should have seen in a market based system is NYC goes up by n% and the town goes up by m% where n < m. Which is not what we saw at all. Cities went up more then rural areas.

Which leaves us back to my original statement of: pure corporate greed. And completely debunks your original claims about testing. Never mind the fact some places saw little to no disruption in prices, which also debunks your claims about testing, since thats federally mandated and uniform across the board.

Sigh, please stop talking you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Here are where eggs are produced in the US

The cost of producing/shipping eggs is basically constant. For example: if I ship go from penn to NYC, and then distribute to the rural areas from the nyc hub. Its cheaper to deliver to the city than the rural areas.

And yet you’ll see prices in NYC are much higher (probably where that $12 figure came from) than the rural areas.

So effectively our production, shipping, real estate, and labor costs are effectively constant in both regions and yet both experience a 200% price increases due to a supply shortage? Sorry fam, but the price isnt reflecting the cost to produce. Its reflecting what businesses think they can get away with.

The fact is prices were jacked up as high as they could get away with for local markets while they had the cover of a supply shortage. And in no way reflects the cost of the actual disruption, and have nothing to do with your absurd original claim about testing or anything to do with market forces unless you count unrestrained greed as a market force.

The USDA covered farmers for their loss of chickens/production the farmers didnt see a fucking penny of these price increases.

Edit: just to be clear, im not saying variability based on region doesnt make sense. Im asserting that in the case of a disruption in production you’d see a constant price increase across the board, since only production was impacted. So NYC would see $0.05 and so would a town in northern NY.

What you absolutely would not see is a 100%+ hike in prices across the board.

Dude, ive literally been in meetings where were it was decided to increase prices by 80% based on the zipcode you were from.

It absolutely is normal market behavior. These fuckers pull this kind of shit all the time. Hell during trumps last admin they killed some worker pay thing and immediately businesses gave a bonus to workers that was worth a fraction of what the bill would have given workers as a ploy.

Hell in this thread alone you can see the massive variability of prices based on regions and no, its not because of mysterious market forces. You dont go from 8 to 2 dollars in a couple months due to market forces for a product that has a lead time of 3-4 months (the time it takes for a chicken to mature and produce eggs)

What has happened here is essentially: flu killed off a truck load of chickens, prices sky rocketted due to supply/demand and farmers redirecting to chicken production to restore the supply. Then as the chickens matured prices stabalized back down. And during this period middle men jacked up the prices because they had cover of a supply issue to blame beyond what the reality dictated.

But this took awhile to occur and started well before this admin. Has nothing to do with testing as you asserted with 100% confidence, in fact trsting is how we managed to limited the damage. Nor does it justify 12.99/dozen prices in one region and 4 in another were both regions magically reverted by 50+% to the baseline.

😂 milk/eggs are the same price here in my state. You guys were/are just getting fucked by standard capitalist behaviors. Nothing has fundamentally changed this year for those price drops.

I assure you testing for bird flu in no way results in a 20% price drop, let alone whats being claimed by this admin. Testing is dirt cheap likely less than a fraction of a cent per egg.

The reasons prices sky rocketted is because the flu killed off the chickens not because of testing.

child, that article is exactly my point. once you grow up and your frontal cortex starts to mature maybe you’ll make the connection between kamala’s decision as an AG in deciding to charge people with victimless crimes and preventing parole because of labor shortages and that judge’s sentencing decisions.

They’re identical expressions of the same concept. we didnt tolerate ‘just doing my job’ at the nuremberg trials either.

Both the judge and kamala exercised their powers of discretion in incredibly improper ways.

Child, an AG has the power to decide which cases they decide to prosecute. They don’t need to prosecute any case they don’t want to. In fact you’ll often see AGs decline to prosecute cases. take a look at texas’ current asshole AG as a great example of this. Or the current DOJ over the next few years.

Kamala choose to prosecute those cases and choose to make the arguments that her department made. Trying to claim that just because part of the role of an AG is to make a case against defendents completely ignores the reality of how they choose which cases to prosecute in the first place.

To say she put people in prison without a guilty verdict and judge’s sentence gives her authority she doesn’t and shouldn’t have and to argue otherwise is a “fundamental misunderstanding of the legal system”.

Again you’re demonstrating your fundamental misunderstanding of how the legal system works quite blatantly here.

1. She choose to prosecute people which non-violent drug use crimes. drugs for which the majority of americans can now access legally.
2. Prosecutors often make sentencing recommendations too the judge.

When an AG declines to prosecute a case that defendant will not end up in jail. this is just a fact. I’m not arguing she has authority over the judges final determination, I’m saying she had the authority to pick and choose which cases and arguments the department she led made.

So yes, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the legal system and you’re denying kamala had agency in the decisions her department made which is absolutely moronic.

No, this is false. Her job was/is fundamentally to help ensure justice is administered, it is not to convince a judge (or a jury) to put people in jail.

Plenty of AGs have run on not enforcing specific unjust laws.

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the legal system.

And yes Kamala was and continues to be a horrible human being. She never would have survived a primary for this reason.

We literally denied Nazis the defense of ‘I was just following orders’ for good reasons. Just because kamala’s actions were slightly less damning doesnt change the fact she made the personal choice to make those arguments in court.

thats what happens when you have a two party system and both parties fuck over the working class.

Protesting is the least useful form of collective action. Dont worry if you cant participate in it directly. Its not materially useful.

What you need to do is organize locally and hold your local reps to the fire. Ensure your local elections are run fairly, etc etc.

Help run info ops for naturalized citizens who are comfortable taking direct action. Gather information and make it publicly available. Could be as simple as locating all the charging stations in your state for example. Or dossiers on particularly disgusting ceos.

Plenty of things you can do without directly exposing yourself.

Lol this behavior is exactly why i stopped supporting them. They’ve repeatedly shown they cant be relied on. I dont feel the need to reward them with anymore votes for bad behavior.

Get your party’s politicians in line or deal with the continued erroding support and losses.

friend you need to learn how to push back against administration processes. you dont do it head on. talk to your friends and get them comfortable with the idea of setting fire to things. this fight is hardly over, its just beginning.

yes, mobilization happens during a war and no one likes it.

we’re all frenemies here in the derp verse.

how lgbt+ heavy is your friend group? literally 60% of my friend group is bi which tracks with these numbers. think there are only 2 strictly hetero males in the group.

Thats me! I almost always disable music and ambiance noises in games.

… In the wrong direction.

thats almost certainly the deal. poor dude.