11mo ago

become ungovernable

Source and explanation at https://www.tumblr.com/snazzymolasses/758209948448587776?source=share

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For those like me not from the US
EBT = food stamps
- Correct.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_benefit_transfer
- Na must be some kind of crypto
  
  eBTC
Whoever made that decision is awesome
- A local pizza place in my home town did this for years until they got new owners. The new owners shut that down within a week.
  They went out of business within a year.
  They had good pizza.
  
  As for the new owners... good. Fuck 'em for being so shitty.
  
  I wonder if this is why papa Murphy sells uncooked pizza. I’ve never had the desire to buy pizza and cook it in my own oven, but it makes sense to sidestep the EBT rules.
Context here, at least my understanding from when I worked in a deli ~10 years ago, is that EBT can only cover cold food. So they're offering to let you buy cold chicken then warm it for free.
- Raw. And then they'll cook it. Which means you (and maybe your kids) don't have to wait to get home and cook it, plus you save on whatever fuels your stove. This must be the kind of store that also sells raw ingredients as well as cooked. If they have the grill or fryer hot already, it's not a big loss for them, and you'll probably also buy milk or whatever, but it's still a big kindness.
  
  Or if you are unhoused, or live in car and can't cook.
  
  I think they don't otherwise sell raw ingredients
- As I recall, it wasn't just hot food, but any food meant to be consumed on the premises, such as fountain sodas instead of canned ones. I remember a talking point about that being would get more nutritious and cheaper food buying a bag of rice and dried beans than it would for them to buy pre-made burritos, chili or whatever.
There's no law against cooking people's raw chicken for free for them.
Not yet, just wait for the next "freeloader" scare.
- everybody's favorite radical pacifist terrorist organization has procedures for confounding the cops while they feed people.
  
  As someone who did food safety with a health department there certainly is no arresting going on over such food service. At most a health inspector notifies them of the problems and provides guidance on requirements of serving food publicly.
  But I think every example I remember of this happening in a rural town: it is a trespass charge filed as a complaint from a property or business owner that involves police.
[Very sarcasm] Noooo, don't feed the poors hot food! They'll, uhh, Idunno, it's like feeding gremlins after midnight or something! Probably!
So I just got my EBT card and I'ma go use it tomorrow. Will hopefully get to have some variety and even snacks! Woo! Hopefully the cash assistance thingle comes through too or I'ma get scared again 😅 😰 ... Dunno why I'm saying any of this here. Hi! Hello. It's good that somecritters are working around dickish law :3
- What a rollercoaster of a read.
- Around 2020 my wife had to quit her job and we had a newborn at home. I forget what she had called the local benefits office to setup but the lady basically said "I'm going to get you every benefit I can" and we ended up with Medicaid, EBT and WIC. So we used that shit to make sure the whole family ate as well as we could.
  I was still working and we don't have extremely high expenses, plus it was early in the pandemic so we were avoiding shopping or leaving the house as it was, so we just continued grocery shopping normally (other than grabbing extra of whatever WIC covered that month) and would swipe the benefits card before the debit card and consistently only had to pay for one or two things out of pocket
- Good luck!
- adhd irl
- Fren! Glad to hear you're getting benefits set up 😀
I prefer this flavor over EBT
This is how WinCo sells hot pizzas for EBT. They sell you an uncooked one, and then offer to cook it for free.
Walmart, too, kinda. You can buy any of the hot things on EBT as long as you get the ones that are in the fridge and not the thing that keeps them hot. Rotisserie chicken, corn dogs, popcorn chicken, etc.
Basic compassion seems like such a foreign thing in late stage capitalism, but there is still goodness all around us. It’s important not to lose sight of that.
#BoringDystopia
- Welfare for people in need has to be as difficult and painful as possible. Corporate handouts don't need any of that. /s
- Nah, this is just good people doing good things for other people in need.
  I can actually see how you might think it’s a boring dystopia, but this is just how we live where I’m from.
  
  The American welfare system is byzantine, unfair, corrupt, and ineffective. People need this workaround on cooked food because there are irrational, pointless restrictions on what kinds of food people can buy with EBT. That's the dystopia part.
  It's awesome that good people do good things to fix the problems caused by a dystopian system. But if the system wasn't broken, they wouldn't have to.
There is a lot of good discussion here, but I'm going to keep things light, since I doubt I can add much of value given how far the conversation has gone.
Me:
why are there slurs all over that tumblr page :l i do not understand tumblr
- if you mean the 'slurs' for gay people then it's because in some places they are genuinely reclaimed as good things to call yourself.
  
  why did u put the word slurs in quotes lol
- Are you talking about the poll? It appears to be created by gay people, for gay people, and shared by gay people, on a site well known for its giant lbgtq+ community.

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