Imagine working in an actual environmental impact assessment agency and get a call of some dipshit who wants to dump some berrys in a forest, and then trying to hold your laughter you charge them for the question AND THEY FUCKING PAY YOU.
My first roommate in college dropped out and became a caterer pastry chef for about 10 years before quitting over shit like this. The stories he can tell about rich asshole clients could last all day.
One rich dude was marrying off his idle rich adult daughter to a geologist and he wanted the shop to do topological mountainscapes on 1000's of cupcakes for a huge wedding. So the shop had three or four molds made out of silicon to speed up the process and showed the finished cupcakes to him, but he insisted they do them all by hand for the same price. The owner accepted and he ended up working for a day straight and in the end like maybe 25% were eaten, the rest were thrown away.
Rich people do this all the time at parties. They have lavish spreads that end up mostly in the garbage.
it's insane how they exploit people who can barely eat only to throw away what they don't use
Imagine having enough money to feed and clothe and house everyone and solve the climate crisis, but instead using that money to make people peel your raspberries so they won’t rise up against you
well which option leaves you with more money? now it all makes perfect sense
And here I am feeling like shit when I throw away leftovers that have been sitting in the fridge for too long
Don't. I work as a cook and the amount of food waste is insane and we're at the end of the supply chain, the really big waste is the suppliers and their suppliers all the way up. Anything you ever personally need to throw out really amounts to nothing.
Apple orchards during good seasons can throw away nearly half of the apples because even juicers run out of demand.
I thought you could make cider out of just about anything as long as it had sugar in it?
You can but you won't get the dry bite of cider. It'll be like drinking normal sweetened apple juice - think concord wine.
This is basically the essence of neolib "enviromentalism": pure performance for the benefit of the consumer that is supported by a long supply chain as wasteful as the normal option.
Imagine working in an actual environmental impact assessment agency and get a call of some dipshit who wants to dump some berrys in a forest, and then trying to hold your laughter you charge them for the question AND THEY FUCKING PAY YOU.
When Dave came in for work and saw the "What is the environmental impact of dumping a few pounds of raspberries in the forest?" task on his desk he thought his colleagues were pulling another mean prank on him.
I don't understand the wedding rehearsal thing. What is there to rehearse? You go to a church/city hall or whatever to get married. They guys there already know how to do it. Then you go have a party with your friends and family to celebrate, which doesn't take any effort either.
What is there to rehearse?
White people be rehearsing 🤣 It's a pretty public thing with lots of people sometimes. I dunno.
I went to one where the rehearsal was literally a rehearsal, like, making sure people in the actual wedding party knew the order they were walking down the aisle and shit. The couple were both in sweats, one of their aunties made a bunch of sandwiches for everyone to eat after, that was it. Ideal.
I think it's just a nerves thing. Good to do a dry run for a process like that. Making a whole thing of it is weird. Just figure out where your marks and lines are.
how many of their rich friends are flown into attend this garish display. How much energy is required to heat their mansions. Rich People Environmentalism is an oxymoron.
most labor in the US economy is functionally very similar to this job: some lunatic vanity project that requires painstaking, demeaning labor from an army of people solely to provide moment of "happiness" for a rich person.
Having flashbacks to digging and grinding the grout out from between the tiles of a bathroom floor bigger than most living rooms three times because the clients wife kept changing her mind about what exact shade of brownish gray she wanted it to be.
Were they unionized? I know they went on strike sometimes but I didn't think there was any formal union
This is what gets me up in knots. In the adrenachrome factory we are incredibly stringent about how long we can have adrenachrome reagents for, on the order of 10x less than the suppliers guarantee the efficacy of the reagent. I pour so much perfectly good shit down the drain. As a result, we sometimes find that people can't supply us with enough shit. It's an absolute, unrepentant sin to throw out as much food as America does while people starve. To use all our resources to make berry confetti and violently repress people who want to live with dignity.
This is what we destroyed the environments for, we had one chance and we spend it on this.
well the environmental impact is pretty simple you might accidentally plant a raspberry bush
hey well someone has pay to keep the environment impact office open, and the government sure isn't going to help. Fleecing rich people to fulfill their crazy fantasies is based.
Honestly individually disassembling 10 lbs of berries and then pelting them at each other in the woods while dressed in white sounds like something I would have done in college with my friends.
:capitalist-woke: "Will berries hurt the enviroment?:
:bear-despair:
That soviet painting of bolshevik in awe of the imperial palace but in an anglo wedding
$2.5m for a 3 day wedding in tents, 500k of that being spent on lodging for 250 guests.
Best part is that they didn't even like each other and it was a shotgun wedding to shore up their parents fortunes.
It was a union of a corn syrup beverage princess and a medium sized banking company prince.
Gotta love America's royalty
