Milord has no choice but to take measures against the other peasants who have been possessed by woke transgender demons to steal from him 😔
I need a reality check. What’s the street value of 64 ounces of 100% pure Walmart brand vegetable oil?
$17,000 USD
TIL
In case this is a sincere question - $9 in rural Ohio.
I think this hints at who is doing a considerable amount of shoplifting. The press around shoplifting (see
as always) is that it’s shadowy organizations paying people to walk in, grab as much expensive stuff as they can, and walk out past employees who are frustrated by how blatant it all is and scared of violence if they interfere.But no criminal mastermind is organizing this type of granular theft of cheap, heavy, bulky items. The person stealing vegetable oil is someone trying to stretch a food budget by “forgetting” to ring up something like this at self-checkout.
The flashier type of shoplifting does happen (although it’s often people with drug problems acting independently and selling to shady pawn shops), but either the second type happens quite a bit, too, or security like this is cheap enough and companies half want to drive people out of stores anyway.
Muricans are worse than serfs, we’re totally alienated from each other and even ourselves out here, the serf had a quiet and realistic resignation that things would never get better, Muricans are the Steinbeck quote about the temporary embarassed millionaire delusion while living lives so wretched in some matters the serf’s is enviable.
Nietzsche was wrong about ‘slave morality’ being attributed to the left.
is worse than a slave, he’s a minion, a loyal lapdog. I don’t even hate him, I’m angry for him that his misplaced generosity is wasted on the ungrateful bastards of the 1%. would take a bullet for David Koch, but David Koch would gladly sell to satan for a literal penny.
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the only parts of the US that could be considered 15 minute cities are some of the richer neighborhoods in NYC
yeah this shit doesn’t even exist, these dipshits dreamed it up a year ago and have convinced themselves that every city has completely restructured itself in that year
Iirc it started as a concept with the mayor of Paris and then other mayors have tried to copy it, but there is no actual 15 minute city anywhere yet.
Stealing is cool.
It should be legal to steal, escape from prison, and rob a bank. All three are cool. All three have given us great movies.
Is rank inequality and the exploitation of the working class to blame for social problems?
No, it’s the walkable cities that are wrong.
Why does he not consider vegetable oil to be cooking oil?
Seed-oil brain, I guess?
I’m on a seed oil diet - if i see d oil, I drink it
I only use high quality extra virgin olive oil, even when it costs $50 a bottle and is wrong for the recipe. In fact, I use it as a substitute for all liquids, including water. But the damn kids keep taking my olive oil and using it as body wash, like the ancient Greeks did. Slippery little bastards.
Conspiracy theory among the far-right and “carnivores” that seed oil is feminizing men, ruining society, causing cell death, etc.
I’ve deleted my previous post because I was working on old (15 years +) knowledge. There WERE studies which seemed to show that, but I hadn’t followed the subject and apparently further expanded studies show that phytoestrogens don’t have an effect on males. I humbly stand corrected. I will not say that they do any more.
For the record I eat tofu maybe once a week. The seed oil issue is not the phytoestrogens, it’s the polyunsaturated fat, and it’s not just soybean oil it’s any oil with high polyfats (corn cottonseed, etc). And it doesn’t “feminize” you (chuds are just small pp and therefore obsessed with feminization), it just does bad stuff in general, depending on your phenotype
chuds have only found out about this since 2019 or so (they are incapable of anything original), I’ve been avoiding them (not religiously) since 2010. And my health got a lot better after doing so. I had liver spots that disappeared after doing this and my scalp got a lot less greasy, and my hair quality improved. Behavioral changes too, much less agitated and intense and “overly focused”, more flexible, higher attention span
I also experienced similar effects when taking aspirin, which is a known inhibitor of the enzyme which transforms those polyfats into inflammatory prostaglandins. Obviously taking drugs isn’t the most “natural” thing so I’d rather just lower the polyfat intake at the start of the chain
I should also mention that I’m ancestrally from a tropical climate, and the whole point of polyunsaturated fat aka the reason it even exists, is so that it survives freezing temps which only happen in temperate climates. (think about what happens when you put coconut oil in the fridge, now imagine what that does to the coconut seed–any saturated fat crop in a temperate climate would just instantly go extinct since all its seeds would die from the fat freezing and destroying its tissues)
So the seed oils are probably fine, and maybe even necessary, for most mayos and east asians (and probably latinos since Native Americans came from the north) who evolved eating tons of polyfat crops with no alternative. Again this is just a generalization and there are all sorts of individual phenotypes in every group
If anything the people who need to be avoiding seed oils the most are Black and Indian people generally speaking
Super interesting. Thanks.
it’s funny because there’s a ton of shitty companies trying to con closeted trans women into taking phytoestrogen supplements as an OTC transition drug. it’s well known in trans communities that at best the dosages are too low to do anything and at worst have a straight up negative impact because phytoestrogens have an extremely weak estrogenic effect, so they block up the estrogen receptors and prevent the actual estradiol in your system from doing anything. some recent studies show that at a sufficiently high dosage, they can permanently harm breast development and the like, but the effect/sample sizes are too small to be certain yet (medical research on transition fucking sucks – there’s no funding and they operate on samples of like 10 people at a time).
Lol where else did people get the fat in their diet other than nuts and seeds? You can get some from meat but not enough for daily needs.
If you’re ancestrally from a tropical climate, the biggest and most efficient fat sources (apart from animals) were coconuts and other highly saturated (sometimes monounsaturated) crops
also, even the animals from tropical climates have lower total fat levels, and within that fat a higher proportion of saturated fat
anyway the issue is more about the person’s individual phenotype and the total amount of polyfats. I still eat some nuts and seeds, but I feel awful when I resume eating food cooked in “vegetable oil”. (or any high polyfat oil)
I also feel awful eating food cooked in pork grease, but solid pork meat is fine. This is probably because the grease contains a much higher amount of polyfats, while the fat left over on the solid meat is mostly monounsaturated/saturated. (polyfats are liquid at room temperature and even very cold temps, while saturated fats are solid)
Whole foods are definitely different from eating chemically separated oils, they have higher vitamin E which ameliorates the inflammatory effects of polyfats (which turn into prostaglandins especially in African and Indian people’s bodies), and they also have much less total fat in general
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Pretty sure this is debunked. Most protein powders are soy based.
The gymbro industry wouldn’t let that anywhere their workouts if it lowered testosterone.
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Is this a bit? Because I’ve genuinely never seen one of you in the wild until right now and this isn’t the place I expected it.
From research I read, the phyto-estrogens have the opposite effect you’re saying. While they have a very similar structure to estrogen, they aren’t estrogen. So at most they trick the body into producing more testosterone. But phyto-estrogens, as plant hormones, obviously are not absorbed or used by our body….
Nonsense. If phytoestrogens worked the same way as human estrogen, don’t you think there would be major physical differences between say, vegans and non-vegans? If consuming large amounts of phyto-estrogen could cause significant physical changes to your body, I think we would know by now.
Not to mention a lot of the worlds top weightlifters are Chinese atm and they’re eating more soy on average than their American counterparts.
phyto-estrogen, which is processed by humans as normal-ole’ human estrogen, having a literal and physical feminising effect on males.
You’re such a fucking rube
bit idea transwoman that believes this and drinks soy milk for this reason
we get tricked into doing this on the regular. at best it doesn’t work and at worst it’s harmful.
I mean I was doing a lot of insufferable “soyboy” jokes while eating tofu for the first time the other week, so I support this bit
I’ve said for years that if this shit was real you’d see transphobe legislators trying to ban soy
I was kind of expecting it to be a “carnivore” thing, but didn’t consider the soy boy aspect.
Thought it was like “I only cook with lard, butter, and bacon grease because vegetables are gross”
critical support to chronic heart disease for removing the problem after a few years
Still number 1!
Vegetable oil isn’t necessarily seed oil, it could pretty much be anything. If you actually want seed oil that’s cheap you should opt for canola.
Vegetable oil at the store is typically soybean, but yeah the anti-oil weirdos lump soybean, peanut, corn, etc. together with canola, sunflower, safflower, palm, etc. Unless it’s lard or olive oil it’s all the same to them
the 15 minute cities are a
thing right? I cant even tell whos complaining about whati think it started in Britain but american idiots seized on the dumbassery and ran with it
15 minute cities is just the idea that it should be feasible to walk to the shops from your house
It’s an urban planning concept that’s been proposed in a number of European cities. Because it’s European, it’s particularly odious to British chuds.
I don’t think Americans would even know about it without Twitter. Here your city is considered walkable if they bothered to build sidewalks.
its literally how cities were built for thousands of years until 20th century america came along
It was a vague goal of the city government of Paris, I think? Basically, all basic necessities needing to be within a 15 minutes’ walk from one’s housing unit.
The chuds went wild with WEF shenanigans and from there it ballooned to a ridiculous brain-worm.
Right wingers have finally caught up to the 2017 leftbook “imagine doing X” format
Gonna start creating random facebook groups to use as meme responses
And are still going with the “fifteen minute cities” thing that was a fad on NUMTOT-adjacent Facebook for like two weeks back in 2021
Yeah… this smells like “fake news” to me…
Questionable ideas for what constitutes “cooking oil” aside
What does that even mean? What is there to question in the validity of vegetable oil?
Chuds think seed oils are bad, and they’re super weird about it. Remember the soy thing from a few years ago? It’s basically a rehashing of that. They think it’s “feminizing men” and that real men only cook with lard and butter (olive oil is the exception because le “trad med diet”).
it was funny as fuck those couple months where wignats were chugging milk (with actual animal estrogen in it) to own the libs
I think that had more to do with their wacky belief that only white people can drink milk
Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING is part of fake “culture war” to these rightoids. Whatever clickbait outrage slop of the week conservative commentators decide is important becomes part of their identity and they have to bring it up at every occasion to own the libs.
These people are just racists, right? The 15 minute hysteria is fear they’d have to live near and interact with brown people. The screaming about school choice is trying to get segregation back. The shoplifting thing is just racism too.
I’m absolutely certain that’s the angle chuds are going for. “Don’t blame capitalism, blame brown people.” If you poke chuds long enough that’s what they’ll say. They’ll use distracting language like “high trust society” or they’ll say other countries have universal healthcare due to smaller, more insular populations. But I know what they mean. Ask any chud alive why Japan has such a low violent crime rate, and tell them to not mince words. Ask them to be honest.
I feel like this post is basically advocating for self harm
The fifteen minute city concept is threatening to the right, so like with so many terms they are diluting their meaning to blunt their effect. They did this with “urban”, they are doing it now with the term “woke”, it’s a linguistic sabotage.
Everything about being a right winger seems like an increasingly elaborate language game to construct plausible deniability for racists. It doesn’t fool us but it does seem to make liberals pause
How would a walmart fit in a fifteen minute city? It takes 15 minutes to cross the parking lot.
Easy, you live in the parking lot. Now do you leftists understand the threat we face?
You joke but Walmart parking lots are a good place to find people living in their cars ☹️
I like that there are places to pull over and safely take a nap during a road trip or whatever, but I hate that it’s only walmart.
remember: if you see someone shoplifting, no you didn’t
If you see someone shoplifting, begin asking all nearby associates really weird distracting questions
or just accidentally make a mess on aisle 5 for no reason
i’m not even convinced that companies are losing this much money to shoplifting, it seems like a convenient excuse for either poor management or intentionally using the real estate wrong to do weird fucky financial fraud. I used to work at a grocery store and far, far more loss of profit came from stuff not getting sold, or stuff being broken or expiring. Sometimes a case of pickles or whatever would arrive completely busted. Sometimes the wrong thing got ordered. Sometimes stuff falls off shelves or you have hyperactive kids pick stuff up and break it. Shoplifting was a rounding error compared to all of that.
Maybe it’s different in other areas, but I’m not convinced. These are gajillion dollar companies and they’re being brought down by people stealing eye liner and baby formula?
Chuds have to come up with these narratives that some states simply allow shoplifting by law.
A couple months ago the Walgreens CEO admitted they were making shit up about shoplifting being so much worse the previous year or whatever. Of course by then they had already gotten the narrative out there and shut down the stores they wanted to shut down.
Food/product waste is another extremely
stupidevil thing we have to deal with yeah, shit sucks.
I worked in retail for years right up through the pandemic, in grocery and drug stores, and it’s really illuminating to experience that environment when you’ve already been inoculated against these taking points. Because there has been no increase in shoplifting.
Shoplifting has always been easy and commonplace, it happens every single day and it always has. The only thing that has changed is that people who work these jobs are being fed this narrative of a shoplifting crime wave, and have become more paranoid and hostile as a response.
In response to this cultural pressure, this propaganda effort to obscure and deflect awareness of drastically plunging buying power and general impoverishment, petty managers seeking a sense of control over perceived attacks on “their stores” (nonsense serf logic) are chaining everything to the floor. And this of course only worsens their declining sales, because why bother even trying to buy something in the store if you’re doing to do so legitimately if you have to ask someone to get it for you? You might as well have it delivered tomorrow by Amazon!
chaining everything to the floor. And this of course only worsens their declining sales
and requires them spending more and more of their budget on needless security devices
This is were the Judge Dread PUNISHMENT complex just gets in the way of effective business management.
There will always be some amount of shoplifters, and they generally fall into two categories: shoplifters of necessity, and shoplifters of thrill. Shoplifters of necessity tend to only engage in shoplifting for as long as it is the only option. Looking the other way and eating the (marginal, minuscule, rounding error) loss gives customers a chance, albeit as small one, to find their footing and return to normal shopping habits.
Thrill seekers tend to think of about shoplifting tactically; they target small, easily concealable products and mask the theft with another purchase. If you own or manage a shop, you oughta think about it like a [high risk/low reward] loss leader for your customers – a bonus secret all-the-time sale that, while decreasing inventory, still brings in more money than it looses.
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I know this is preaching to the choir on hexbear, but fuck me if it isn’t frustrating that i - an idiot pinko liberal communism believer - have a better business sense about this than most owners/managers
It’s been my experience that they calculate it all stupid, then react to that miscalculation in a dumb way, and inconvenience everyone as a result.
Suppose they have a product they buy for $8 and sell for $10. They get the number of all that got bought but not sold, which may include ones that weren’t actually received or that were damaged during shipping and stocking or just left out and went bad or accidental “theft” or actual theft, and they multiply that number by $10. So now on paper they have “lost” a bunch of money to theft, even though they actually lost 20% less than the number they came up with AND they have no way to know how much of it was theft versus other shrinkage.
Now that they have this exorbitant number, they can use it to justify buying a million anti-theft devices. Which reduces the amount people buy because those things suck, but they can blame that on shoplifters too because it’s all their fault that the anti-theft devices were “needed.” And in the end none of it matters anyway because 1 theft is not the same as 1 lost sale to begin with.
I mean depending on where you work, there’s a lot of
non-traditional remunerationwater damaged items that need to be disposed ofIn the last drug store I worked in, about 3 years ago, before I quit they went through the makeup department and put hanger locks on every single item in the department. A massive about of extra effort for the already laborious task of stocking that section.
The result? Makeup continues to get stolen, but now no one buys any either, because the department never gets restocked. It’s too time consuming. So the section always looks barren. Everybody just goes to sephora instead.
I could have told them this, but who would listen to some girl with no business degree to wave around?
I’ve heard managers complaining about shit like “every week this lady comes in and steals half the baby section and I’m not allowed to do anything!”
Like, dude, listen to yourself.
they generally fall into two categories
You’re forgetting me, shoplifter of principle, coming out of the store with as many stolen goods as possible as both protest of and action against the commodity form
To avoid statistical error, Shoplift Nagarjuna, who shoplifts over 10,000 products each day, has not been included in the compilation of this analysis.
Recent increase of shoplifting rhetoric is due to the inclusion of hexbear.net/c/Nagarjuna
Whatever you think about Valve/Steam, Gabe was right when he said “make buying easier than stealing, and people will buy instead of stealing”
