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But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The fuck? Milk is 2x to 4x cheaper ($0.50-$1.00) than the most common gas, Natural 95 ($2.10) here. I thought you’d get something from those crazy “Got milk?” dairy subsidies…

  (Multiply by 4.5 to get US units rather than liters)

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    2x cheaper is a crazy way of saying half as expensive.

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s fewer syllables, what’s the problem? And yes, milk is cheaper here than the same quality in the US.

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      • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        because expensiveness is a scale that starts from 0 so you always know how expensive everything is. cheapness works the other way, so there’s no starting point. that means there’s no way to quantify how cheap the first thing is, in order to double that. in your example gasoline would have to be the least cheap thing possible, which means nothing can be more expensive.

        it’s like saying someone’s twice as short as someone else. half as tall makes sense, twice as short is a weird way to say it because how short is the first person?

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      • Stez827@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You don’t have much better gasoline there it’s just that you use a different unit for measuring the octane. They aren’t actually much different

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    • Tetragrade@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yet more prof of the insanity of our capitalist system. Fuck this gay earth.

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• texture@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  you think cows are infinite?

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  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes it’s called breeding. You can’t breed more gasoline

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    • TomArrr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Jurassic Park says otherwise 😉

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    • Prathas@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Actually, Bloomberg Finance recently warned about how the cattle replacement level is precariously low in the US. It takes a minimum of a one-year forecast to gauge how many dairy cows will be born to reach milk production status, and apparently farmers are having a difficult time with all the debt and limited resources hampering them. Because of the US’s red meat addiction, we are currently at best only at minimum replacement, which is really concerning until the nation reduces some of its cattle consumption; otherwise, beef prices will continue to rise…

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      • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Well we’re talking about maintaining cows for food at a sustainable level, the US is stupid in all aspects and should not be considered. The rest of the world isnt greedy and fat like Americans.

        As far as I’m concerned the US is an isolated dictatorship like NK so their numbers are al over the place depending on who is dear leader

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      • texture@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        this is one example the sort of nuance was hinting at. cheers

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    • texture@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      it takes limited resources to breed the living beings youre talking about

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      • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Food and grass are also growable

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