WTF Sh*t's F*cked Up and Bullsh*t - a "Who Cares" thread for news

[Innula Zenovka]

Speaking of coffee, has anyone noticed that it has more than doubled in price at the store? A 3 lb can was 8.99 early last year, went up to 11.99 in Nov/December and then suddenly I saw that it soared up to $17.99 last week. I generally make my own cuppa every morning.

I ran across this article. The most interesting thing is that farther down in the article they provide a list of prices for various common grocery items from 2019, compared to this year. The only prices that appear to have gone down are lemons and tomatoes.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-are-coffee-prices-so-high-inflation/

It's a combination of increased demand and bad coffee harvests, most definitely not caused by climate change and global heating.

Coffee prices at record high after bad weather

Coffee drinkers are set to feel the pinch from high prices after crops got hit by drought and heavy rainfall.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Dancien]

Yeah, I've been looking at alternatives. So far, I really enjoy mushroom coffee.

 

[Noodles]

There is a lot to hate about Black Rifle. Their stupid "VetBro" youtube channel. The fact when Starbucks said "Hey we're going to hire 10,000 immigrants" and they said "That is Un-American, we're going to hire 10,000 veterans" (Spoiler: They did not and in fact, Starbucks hired more veterans.) Their association with what used to be the Proud Boys and Kyle Rittenhouse. But overall it is just horrifically shitty coffee.

Wait, does Black Rifle have stores? I just see it lining the shelves at Wal-Marts next to the Starbucks and Ducan bags.

 

[Dancien]

They have several around where I am

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Speaking of coffee, has anyone noticed that it has more than doubled in price at the store? A 3 lb can was 8.99 early last year, went up to 11.99 in Nov/December and then suddenly I saw that it soared up to $17.99 last week. I generally make my own cuppa every morning.

Heck yeah it's gone up. I don't drink coffee daily, so I don't have to buy it very often, but last time I was at the store I noticed the price on the ground coffee I usually get was a lot higher, like over 50%. It won't hurt me the way it will hurt some of you, but geez.

Anyways I'm starting to drink more tea!

I've severely cut back my egg intake, though, at least until the avian flu crisis is resolved.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Speaking of coffee, has anyone noticed that it has more than doubled in price at the store? A 3 lb can was 8.99 early last year, went up to 11.99 in Nov/December and then suddenly I saw that it soared up to $17.99 last week. I generally make my own cuppa every morning.

I ran across this article. The most interesting thing is that farther down in the article they provide a list of prices for various common grocery items from 2019, compared to this year. The only prices that appear to have gone down are lemons and tomatoes.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-are-coffee-prices-so-high-inflation/

If I bought my coffee beans in 3lb cans rather than 200g bags, the cans would cost something like $31.00 (that's at the lower end of the premium price range -- organic Peruvian or Mexican beans, depending on what I feel like).

 

[Free]

Speaking of coffee, has anyone noticed that it has more than doubled in price at the store? A 3 lb can was 8.99 early last year, went up to 11.99 in Nov/December and then suddenly I saw that it soared up to $17.99 last week.

I've not heard of a coffee bean flu virus, have you?

 

[Noodles]

I've not heard of a coffee bean flu virus, have you?

Its called "Global Warming"VID.

 

[Dancien]

DOGE cancels lease for NOAA Radar Operations Center in Norman

On March 3rd, there was a tornado outbreak west of and into Dallas-Fort Worth. There was almost no local radar coverage. Why? Because DOGE fired too many IT people to keep the wheels running. As we're looking at a really bad tornado season this year, this is going to kill people flat out.

 

[Dancien]

U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@fetterman.senate.gov)

The weeks of performative “resistance” from those in my party were limited to undignified antics. Voting to shut the government down will punish millions or risk a recession. I disagree with many points in the CR, but I will never vote to shut our government down.

bsky.app

John "I can't figure out how buttons work" Fetterman is an absolute bozo who absolutely needs to be primaried.

 

[Noodles]

U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@fetterman.senate.gov)

The weeks of performative “resistance” from those in my party were limited to undignified antics. Voting to shut the government down will punish millions or risk a recession. I disagree with many points in the CR, but I will never vote to shut our government down.

bsky.app

John "I can't figure out how buttons work" Fetterman is an absolute bozo who absolutely needs to be primaried.

Yeah, what a disappointment he has been. Like, maybe Dr Oz would have actually been the better choice.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Yeah, what a disappointment he has been. Like, maybe Dr Oz would have actually been the better choice.

 

[Dancien]

So what is our plan other than the Democrats?

Gavin Newsom pressured behind the scenes to kill pro-LGBTQ+ bills, state lawmakers say

The bombshell revelation from Politico is part of a disturbing trend among some Democrats.

www.erininthemorning.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

US influencer draws backlash for taking baby wombat from mum

Australia's PM Anthony Albanese suggests she tries it with a crocodile: "See how you go there".

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Interesting (and free to read) post about "knowingness," the unshakable conviction that we know something when we don't.

"Knowingness" and the Politics of Ignorance

Much ink has been spilled about "polarization." Most of it ignores a major cause: the widespread, misplaced faith that we already know that which we do not know.

www.forkingpaths.co

Intellectual exploration is a uniquely human gift, producing the most extraordinary pleasure for those who engage in it. As modern humans, we have access to more knowledge than anyone, ever. Even the poorest, most uneducated person has more quality information available to them today—in public libraries and on the internet—than the richest scholar with packed mahogany bookshelves from bygone eras.

And yet, paradoxically, deliberate ignorance has become one of the biggest threats to our fragile democracies. In the past, we needed to worry about uninformed voters, those who didn’t know much about politics. These days, we need to worry about the much more dangerous misinformed voters. Uninformed voters often recognize the limits of their knowledge and are therefore more hesitant. Misinformed voters are certain they know something they don’t—and they don’t hesitate to act, sometimes aggressively, on those false beliefs.

But uncertainty is a crucial feature of our world. We do not and cannot know millions of things. That unavoidable feature of our intellectual landscape drives curiosity, a sense of exploring the unknown. It is therefore a realm to be accepted, even embraced, because the world is a delightfully complex and surprising place, and it’s our human duty, every day, to discover a new slice of it.

I would propose that there are two distinct subsets of knowingness in modern society.

Type 1: People who think they know but they don’t; and

Type 2: People who don’t want to know.

Often, unfortunately, they overlap, with the person moving from Type 1 to Type 2 when inconvenient facts clash with their incorrect certainty. This case study was a classic example of moving from one form to the next, making it the most persistent and dangerous form of knowingness there is. Type 1 Knowingness can be cured. When someone also has Type 2, it’s much more stubborn.

 

[Dancien]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/business/alcohol-tariffs-eu-trump-trade-war/index.html

This is gonna end so well for him

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Violent Rise of ‘No Lives Matter’

“No Lives Matter” has emerged in recent months as a particularly violent splinter group within the extremist crime network known as Com and 764, and experts are at a loss for how to stop its spread.

www.wired.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I don't know who writes these headlines -- no one "ruled" this was the case. The jury found, by their verdict, that it was. But anyway...

The Guardian (@theguardian.com)

UN judge ‘exploited and abused’ woman she forced into slavery, court rules https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/13/un-judge-exploited-and-abused-woman-she-forced-into-slavery-court-rules?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

bsky.app

 

[Free]

Thankful for the outcome, but that skier snowboarder should not have been there! It's too early in the season!

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/mount-washington-snowboarder-avalanche-video/

 

[Casey Pelous]

Thankful for the outcome, but that skier should not have been there! It's too early in the season!

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/mount-washington-snowboarder-avalanche-video/

Tuckerman's is literally a textbook case for avalanche studies. It gets a massive amount of snow under varying conditions, which makes layers in the snowpack. Each boundary between layers is a plane of reduced friction. Add to that, a lot of it is perilously close to the magic 38 degrees of slope that is the optimum avalanche angle -- steeper and it sloughs off as it falls. Shallower and it just stays put. Anyone who knows anything about avalanches knows about Tuckerman's.

In short, that snowboarder is about as smart as a particularly dumb hammer.