Now I'm getting it all confused...
Aug. 12th, 2018 03:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyYou spend $100 for butter? Your electricity costs $3.99 a month!?
For the record, our butter usually costs $3.49 or $3.99, but recently it's spiked as high as $7! (But not all over the Island, or even all over the city. Just near me.)
Also, Homefront is now letting me download it from the BBC again without worrying about being out of region (and, of course, not paying your TV/radio tax) so... yay!
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For the record, our butter usually costs $3.49 or $3.99, but recently it's spiked as high as $7! (But not all over the Island, or even all over the city. Just near me.)
Also, Homefront is now letting me download it from the BBC again without worrying about being out of region (and, of course, not paying your TV/radio tax) so... yay!
Hapax, Heyer, Austen and the Language Attic (“ton” and “sprack”)
The Amish now have their own Uber (Video)
Zebra Finches Dream a Little Dream of Melody
8 Alternative Uses For A Penis Cake Pan
From Feed Sack to Clothes Rack: The Use of Commodity Textile Bags in American Households from 1890 – 1960 (Now with pictures!)
For 1,500 years, Western Europe ‘forgot’ how to swim, retreating from the water in terror. The return to swimming is a lesser-known triumph of the Enlightenment.
It’s ‘the last frontier on Earth that’s truly not well understood,’ and scientists are about to explore it
The Disturbing Fate of a Planet Made of Blueberries
How the Past on TV Moves Faster, but Only So Slightly
France outlaws lewd cat-calls to women in public amid attack uproar
Majority Of Black Americans Value Social Media For Amplifying Lesser-Known Issues
Life Inside a Digital World for Chronically Ill Teens
Americans have increasingly come to dislike government, even as they have relied more on various forms of government assistance. (Somebody tried to tell me recently that "they'd heard" that SNAP takes up more space on the budget than anything else. I suppose they never heard about the military-industrial complex?)
'Makes me shake with rage': Japan probe shows university cut women's test scores
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Date: 2018-08-11 08:10 pm (UTC)