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@logicallysanders how do you feel about these?? i think they’re infuriating but also kinda satisfying
It’s math and poetry, both of which I have a great appreciation for.
it’s math and poetry both of which i have a great appreciation for ^Haiku^bot^0.4. Sometimes I do stupid things (but I have improved with syllables!). Beep-boop!
Ronald Reagan visited the concentration camp Bergen-Belsin, and then shortly after went to Bitburg to place a wreath on the graves of Nazi SS. After he came back to America there was obvious outrage and he said, “They [SS troops] were victims, just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps.” What a great guy comparing Holocaust victims to the men who massacred them.
Also a reminder why putting up monuments to horrible people is a bad idea. When Reagan left office, his reputation was declining in the shadow of AIDS, Iran-Contra, and his terrible economic policies. After wealthy conservatives started putting his name on every goddamn airport and park bench in the country and he’s become this conservative icon, erasing the history of the horrible things he did as president. Monuments don’t preserve history, they erase it. History is not made by “great men”, it’s made by the people who stand up to them.
Fuck Reagan. He was a terrible president and a garbage human. One of the greatest tricks the right wing ever pulled off was convincing people who are smart enough to know better that Reagan wasn’t the absolute dumpster fire that he really was.
Despite being a bladder-shattering 23.5 ounces, cans of AriZona iced tea have never wavered from the 99-cent price point introduced shortly after the drink debuted in 1992. It’s even printed on the label as a way of warding off sugar-water price gouging by retailers.
The fact that AriZona has been able to resist inflation for nearly a quarter-century is impressive. The fact that the cans usually wind up being cheaper than smaller soft drinks is also impressive, until you begin to realize how strange it is that a vat of iced tea and its accompanying ingredients somehow manages to be less expensive than plain water.
In a recent interview with Thrillist, AriZona chief marketing officer and co-owner Spencer Vultaggio shed some light on this convenience store mystery.
Unlike water titans Coke (which distributes Dasani), Evian, or Fiji, AriZona has virtually no advertising dollars invested in their teas. “We feel like it’s more important to spend money on something that our customer really cares about, instead of buying billboards or putting our cans in the hands of some celebrity for a few minutes,” Vultaggio said.
Even with a frugal approach to ads, AriZona still has to deal with rising production costs. To help resist increasing prices to compensate, the company has pursued alternative manufacturing methods, using 40 percent less aluminum in cans and having enough factories dotting the country to make transportation more efficient. Bottled water, in contrast, is sometimes sourced from abroad, making for exorbitant shipping costs.
In the end, it’s not the iced tea that’s more economical than the water; it’s that the container it comes in is simply cheaper to produce and transport. And while AriZona isn’t above charging a premium for fancier drinks—like a tea brewed with oak chips that sells for twice the price—their branding depends heavily on those familiar rows of 99-cent cans and the loyal consumers who keep reaching for them.
Interesting!
I’m glad to know there wasn’t something sinister involved, because I love this stuff and I drink it all the time.
A company that changes its conduct to roll with the times rather than compromise its product is a good company.
Reblog if you are an alpha woman who are unable to love, you support alpha women who are unable to love, or you just laughed really hard at the article title
Anglo-Saxon riddles are so weird, man. like I just translated:
“A creature came stalking where many men, wise of mind, sat on a council; it had one eye and two ears, two feet and twelve hundred heads, a back and a belly, and two hands, arms and shoulders, and one neck and two sides. Say what it is called.”
and then the textbook gives the answer in Latin, so of course I gotta translate that, and I find out the answer is a one-eyed garlic vendor
like just how high do you have to be to come up with these things
If you want non-monogamy to be more normalized, clap your hands.
If you want monogamy to be taught as a conscious commitment rather than a default, clap your hands.
If you want jealousy and possessiveness to stop being viewed as healthy characteristics of passionate, loving relationships, and you /really/ want to show it…
If you support polyamory and you know it, clap your hands.
