This is all kinds of horrible. How did he even have a gun?
While he certainly intended to commit violence against a woman, there’s a little nuance in this example. I don’t believe that he’d have walked away and not shot the people in the house had it been a father and son.
None of the snow gear moves at all. This stuff would have been gone in the first few hours in Melbourne. I think this is actually the second week, too!
I’ve had a brain cell chugging away in the back of my head for the last hour or so thinking of what I’d really like to do if I had this sort of money. The first idea that has come to mind is something like Coles/Woolies online. No stores. You order what you want and it is delivered in x hours.
Set it up as a non-profit to break up the duopoly. Give the farmers somewhere to sell their produce besides those jerks. I might be showing my naivety, but I believe with that much money on the logistics, it should be able to compete price-wise.
I’d keep going to work, at least until I figured out how I was going to deal with having life-changing money. Maybe another month?
Even once I’d figured out what my plans were, I expect it’d still involve some sort of work. It’s not like I’m going to sit and do nothing the rest of my life. I would just be doing projects that were of interest to me and on my own terms - instead of needing to work 40 hours a week and contributing to the family finances.
Dad’s in the USA at the moment, so I have an opportunity to use US Amazon and have him bring things home that are normally too expensive/unable to ship to Australia.
So, I’m looking to get my wife a new lunch box. And even accounting for our American friends’ love of putting adjectives in front of any consumer product, I have to say the phrase “tactical lunchbox” just makes me giggle.
“I’m far too manly to carry around a lunch box!”
“But, it’s a tactical lunch box, dear.”
“Oh. Well, that’s ok, then! I will take my tactical lunch box to work in a very manly fashion!”
Of course you will. You are looking at two items, both costing the same price ($x/kg). One is in fantastic condition and one looks less-than-fantastic.
It’s just human nature that you’ll take the pristine product. Why on earth would you pay the same amount for an inferior product?
A lot of this is on us (the consumers). If they put produce on the shelves that isn’t perfect, we don’t buy it. So, it gets wasted. Either
at the farm before it is loaded onto a truck,
at the warehouse before it is sent to store,
at the dock before it is put on display,
by the customer, who will pick the ‘nicer’ fruit/vegetable from the pile.
We can’t entirely blame the supermarkets for this, though they absolutely deserve some of the blame. Having the ability to buy an apple with a bruise on it for a fraction of the price of the perfect apple is both good for the environment and a way to help address the rising cost of living.
Not sure they’d go for it, as they care more about the loss of the sale of that perfect apple than they do about the food waste.