I just got word that Trader Joe's is discontinuing their popular Basil Pesto (which has an olive oil base and is delicious).
I'm calling it now, I bet they're switching it out for a seed oil version to save money.
you remember how the CPI is a lie, right?
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Basil pesto is my all time favorite food. Sending my most sincere condolences.
Dude, try to find olives in olive oil. Comically hard to do.
Lol oh yes I'm familiar... it's nuts. packing olives in their own oil - are you insane?!
Your tax dollars at work. Only subsidies could make it make financial sense to filter off the oil that oozes out from pitting them and then replace it with a manufactured oil from the other side of the planet.
CPI is simply nonsense pretend statistics perpetuated by those continuously messing up the money supply. The devastatingly sad thing about it is that smart, responsible people look to it for answers to the question why they can no longer feed their families.
> CPI is the "price of the things **poor people** will riot for" index. It has been determined empirically that you can make poor people at least 2% poorer per year and they won't guillotines you.
Inflation means the price of everything goes up. Including what you get paid for your goods and services. If that's falling short then that's a problem with what you have to offer, not Inflation.
Inflation is the increase of the money supply within an economy, benefitting those who get to spend the new money first the most and then creating a "ripple effect" of decreasing utility around those entry points as said new money is divided among more people, increasing prices along the way by decreasing the value of each individual unit of currency due to there being more of it.
When it reaches people who don't benefit from increased money supply at all, mostly because their income isn't directly based on the price of goods they sell but on things like fixed salaries or pensions, they are forced to simply pay more for the articles of daily life using the same absolute amount money they had before which has now decreased in value, allowing them to purchase less, i.e. lowering their "purchasing power", making them poorer in real terms.
If your salary is fixed that's a problem with your salary not with inflation.
Isn't it enjoyable how morally good and for the sake of everyone modern democracies act that the supreme guideline is "How far can we go to enrich ourselves before people turn violent?"
You should mention higher up that it's just AI output so I can skip reading it completely 👍
its in the first paragraph.
also, are you an AI? this is what you said last time you read it....
Sometimes I wonder
there are other reasons why people are repetitive. cocaine and alcohol are two famous ones. i'm not saying it to cast aspersions because i personally catch myself saying the almost exact same thing more often than i should. it's a factor of intelligence and neurochemistry and context.
quite funny though, to observe that the tics of AI text generators resembles somewhat pathological human behaviour.
Trader Joe’s is seed oil paradise. Very infortunate
Good news is it's easy to make at home.
extremely.
though if you're not growing the basil, and if you're using high quality ingredients, it gets expensive fast.
...which is probably why TJ's is doing this 😉
the state of animal fat production and olive oil demand is getting out of control.
people will start using lard again, i can see it coming, once the seed oil allergy issue becomes more recognised as the effects of it manifest in more people.
the state of sheep and cattle production is in serious trouble, if the supply isn't short, that's because it's cruddy corn and soy fed feedlot trash that is almost as bad as eating the seed oils directly.
everyone who planted a load of olive trees in the last few years in their backyard is gonna be pleased tho.
Fellow trader joe frequenter here. I've gotten suspicious of them lately. They briefly stopped carrying this cheddar popcorn I sometimes like. Month later it's back, but I could swear the bag is skinnier in size. Another time they were out of the ginger beer I liked, then it's back but priced a dollar higher.
Shady stuff going on there...👀
