The American education system, producing the next generation of stable geniuses

Damn, that might be one of the dumbest things I've read today

Most of today still remains. Give it time.
- It's nearly midnight here. Still dumb.

In a sense, it is semantics. It's mathematically wrong but it's correct in terms of messaging. If you say that prices increased by 100%, then decreased by 50%, to a lot of people it sounds like they are still higher than the original.

It's sort of like how the 1/3 pound burger failed in America because people thought it was smaller than the equally priced 1/4 pound burger.

People are dumb is the point.

And if there is one competency Trump has, it's communicating to dumb people.

It might be correct in a technical sense but it's first and foremost misleading. If something costs $150 and the seller offers for the price to come down 50%, you'd rightfully expect the price to be $75, not $100. The seller could argue that it's some 50% markup being removed but would you believe that to be a genuine explanation, or that the seller is trying to mislead or scam you?
- I'm pretty sure we're saying the same thing
Republicans have consciously targeted a fifth grade educational level for decades now. Trump's innovation was targeting a third grade level.
It's sort of like how the 1/3 pound burger failed in America because people thought it was smaller than the equally priced 1/4 pound burger.
I've never heard of this. What? The average American doesn't know how fractions work? This country never ceases to amaze me.
- A&W tried it in the 80's and apparently more than half the people in the focus group thought the burger was smaller because 3 is less than 4. They renamed it the 3/9th burger so dumbass Americans wouldn't feel like they were being ripped off. Americans have been leading the world in dumbassery for the decades at this point.
- Had a guy swear up and down that 2/3 is larger than 3/4. This was brought up because he was telling me he was teaching his son math. Guy was at least 45+.
- In the early 1980s, the A&W restaurant chain released a new hamburger to rival the McDonald's Quarter Pounder.
but like he could just have said it's X times cheaper

Not for long. Y’see, when you roll back regulations and oversight for the USDA, you end up with large and costly recalls. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/recall/cdc-fda-eggs-salmonella-recall-rcna211610

Obviously you should just get rid of the CDC and FDA then. No recalls, no problem!
- Ah, yes. The 2020 classic covid server shift. No need to distort what you don’t report!
- I would say 'don't give them ideas', but I'm pretty sure that's already in the works.

All this means is that Trump had eggs for breakfast that day.

It was probably about 30 egg mcmuffins.
We all know how much Tubby Tiny Hands loves his McD's.

I just had breakfast at Tony T's Coney Island and they paid me $36 to eat a three egg omelette. Of course I had to pay for coffee.

The coffee was also cursed.
- Blecch! Ew! Sheesh! I'll take a crab juice.
The coffee was $50
So if I eat 3 eggs that should subsidize one (1) avocado toast(s). Hold on, I think I finally got agrip of these bootstraps!

The price of salmonella has come down 400 percent.

Salmonella outbreak linked to eggs sickens dozens of people across 7 states

Stupidity highlighted in the post aside - that's not my country, is it true that eggs now cost $2 when they used to be $8?

It's a lie. It's always a lie.
$3.99 here. I can almost guarantee what happened to drop the price is that they stopped testing for bird flu. Milk also halved in price at the same time. I haven't seen milk this cheap in 20+ years.
- 😂 milk/eggs are the same price here in my state. You guys were/are just getting fucked by standard capitalist behaviors. Nothing has fundamentally changed this year for those price drops.
  I assure you testing for bird flu in no way results in a 20% price drop, let alone whats being claimed by this admin. Testing is dirt cheap likely less than a fraction of a cent per egg.
  The reasons prices sky rocketted is because the flu killed off the chickens not because of testing.
- Food safety inspection (including bird flu testing) does not make up that much of the cost of eggs.
  Capitalists are passing their fuckup costs in to you. A shitload if birds died any you paid to float them until new birds were ready. Why is this so hard to understand? Why are you subtly astroturfing this “actually it’s Biden’s fault because they did egg testing” shit? Fuck off with this neocon propaganda.
- I feel like i have not seen milk move in price since the start of covid. Before covid I could get it for $3 at costco and $4 in stores. Now it's been about $5-$6 ever since.
- Milk prices have crept up at our grocery chains, remained stable for the last year at dollar stores, but still up from COVID days
In NY, a dozen has come down to $6.99 from $12.99 in March. They were ~$5.99 per dozen under Biden when MAGA could not shut up about them.
atm $3.80/dozen where i'm at.
- Ok and just confirming, these same eggs- brand, size, quality - used to cost like a lot more a couple months ago? Where I live prices went up... Stayed there
- I'm at $4.50/dozen here
They didn't. At least not for me. I work in the kitchen industry, cookie dough, liquid eggs, certain breads are expensive/hard to source atm. Egg prices went down a little, at one point we were paying $80 for a case that used to be $30ish. Last I ordered it was $68.