Thinking back to this CGP Grey video and how I believed it at the time.

And now:

US trucker shortage means everything is more expensive

The trucking industry has been short drivers for years, but the pandemic made it worse. The shortage means the price of groceries and moving costs are going up. CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich reports.

Source: CNNBusiness

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    I mean, one could argue that animal domestication and factory farming have had us on the path towards "lab-grown meat" for centuries. What are pig pens and chicken coops if not increasingly limited and controlled environments for producing foodstuffs? We're just coming at it from the other end. Rather than trying to turn vegetable waste into a lump of edible meat in a petri dish, we're trying to turn a sentient ambulatory life form into a regenerating torso that you can hack chunks off of indefinitely.

    Yeah, there's definitely a "pay me to make the infinite money fountain dream a reality" angle to this. But there is also tangible progress towards the capitalist's ideal being made.