teajaygrey, 2 months ago @skinnylatte Oh "food stamps". When I first got married, my then wife had booklets of those. The stores which would accept them were few and far between, but not nonexistent. Still, useful. Fast forward to "the future" and "progress" and EBT cards. Where: sometimes I never receive the card in the mail at all. Only to show up to the Social Services office in person to tell them as much. Just to be told: we mailed it. Going around in circles like that, dark pattern, by design! Or: getting an EBT card, in the mail. But: never receiving the PIN (which is mailed separately; not activated like a bank/credit card). Then going through all that rigamarole. Only to have the card STOP WORKING after a month or two. Then a year later, being mailed notice that my EBT card has been canceled, because it hasn't been used in a year. The USA, excels at punching down and making starvation and "food poverty" far worse than it needs to be. While simultaneously, THROWING AWAY all sorts of foods that probably weren't even bad so much as their "good by date" had passed. (also see, @adamconover's "Adam Ruins Everything" episode segment on food expiration scams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1rZAT2GtmI ) SNAFU, misallocation of resources for maximal profits, rather than maximal usefulness.
@skinnylatte Oh "food stamps".
When I first got married, my then wife had booklets of those.
The stores which would accept them were few and far between, but not nonexistent.
Still, useful.
Fast forward to "the future" and "progress" and EBT cards.
Where: sometimes I never receive the card in the mail at all.
Only to show up to the Social Services office in person to tell them as much.
Just to be told: we mailed it.
Going around in circles like that, dark pattern, by design!
Or: getting an EBT card, in the mail.
But: never receiving the PIN (which is mailed separately; not activated like a bank/credit card).
Then going through all that rigamarole.
Only to have the card STOP WORKING after a month or two.
Then a year later, being mailed notice that my EBT card has been canceled, because it hasn't been used in a year.
The USA, excels at punching down and making starvation and "food poverty" far worse than it needs to be.
While simultaneously, THROWING AWAY all sorts of foods that probably weren't even bad so much as their "good by date" had passed.
(also see, @adamconover's "Adam Ruins Everything" episode segment on food expiration scams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1rZAT2GtmI )
SNAFU, misallocation of resources for maximal profits, rather than maximal usefulness.