Eternal Cyclicality

*** The Lounge ***

"Thanks, Dusa. We'll catch up again, soon." ~Megaera, to Dusa

Like. I remember back in my grocery store cashier days I did so much crazy shit.

When WIC (Women, infants, and children voucher program to help low income mothers/families with children) people were in my line I would pretty much know who they were. Before the cards they had to tell us upfront they were WIC and show us their vouchers for what they were allowed to get (it was awful some times. Like. 2 gallons of milk. $4 worth of vegetables etc etc). They’d always have items hanging back, waiting to see what the total was and if they would have to take it off the belt.

I began to place the fruits/vegetables a certain way on the register scale so that like 1/2lbs of grapes read as like .28lbs or something. Then act shocked when I said that they still had X amount of lbs left. They got all their fruit and vegetables.

I think it started to kinda? Catch on to the women? Because I would have the same moms in my line month after month. And even after they switched to the cards (they worked like food stamp cards?) I’d still do the same thing. They were able to get more produce for whatever shitty max amount Indiana gave them.

for 2024 (the latest year with mostly complete data) when sorting by highest per capita murder rate, you have to scroll down even find Brazil, and this is with max zoom out in my browser, which expanded the number of entries visible in the table without scrolling:

the highest per capita rate I found for Brazil in ourworldindata.org's data was for 2017, so for that year, it does show up without having to scroll down: