this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2024
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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Using MOVIES as an example is hilarious...ticket sales haven't come close to rebounding after COVID. Seems there are a lot of people who already took it out of their budget to make room for groceries!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah strong Lucille Bluth vibes. “Here’s some money go see a star war.”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How much can one banana cost?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We paid about 3$AUD per banana just over a decade ago. Cyclone Yazi had wiped out a fair portion of the plantations.

I don't want to imagine what they'd hit cost wise if that were to happen now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I remember when I was visiting Australia back 2009 I think and bananas were about $16 aud/kg. We were paying about $0.90 USD/lb. So if we multiply by 2.2 to convert to kilo and assume $1 AUD = $0.70 USD, it works out to $2.82 AUD/kg.

Pretty darn close in price before the storm.