Before everyone gets their pitchforks out - Person from the image posted on Hacker News, CEO replied and said this charge shouldn’t have happened and they wouldn’t be charging the client anything.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520776

Ah, so we've finally hit the end point of The Slow Breakup

The biggest shrinkflation culprit is food. People need food. Recent trends do, in fact, show that American consumers have been switching to cheaper brands and reducing consumption of some items, but boycotting is unrealistic. People need to eat and a handful of massive corporations own most brands.

if there is anything that I have learned in the past 8 years, it is that the American tolerance for capitalist fuckery has a much higher threshold than I would have predicted, provided that there is someone worse off who we can look down on

right wing politicians are cunts. all of them.

I mean, some cash is nice but the reason people don’t have kids is

• a bleak future in the face of a collapsing ecosystem
• late stage capitalism forcing people to work all day just to be able to afford existing
• degrading childcare infrastructure amidst missing teachers, preschool educators, daycare workers, etc. And a general social climate hostile to raising children
• and lastly of course the crippling loneliness epidemic, leaving many people (particularly men) unable to find partners

I can’t think of any questions right now because it’s a little bit shocking to see someone openly talking about their pedophilia like this and whle I find it disturbing, I do appreciate the honesty and the willingness to start a conversation on the matter.

While you’re using a throwaway, I’m still somewhat impressed by your courage to do this, and also by everyone else asking legitimate questions.

Yes. Even though the cynical take is easy, I don’t think it’s the right one. The U.S. military, despite its massive contribution to the problem, has been sounding the alarm bells about climate change for quite some time. Framing the conversation in terms of energy independence and strategic liabilities goes a long way towards convincing those outside of the terminally online bubble.

Fuck russia. And send the republican traitor filth to fight for their motherland.

“no rush” to address the issue

Brave Ukrainians, that didn’t have to, are dying.