athos77

Sadly, no:

Bakers, bakeries and bakers shops were required by law only to sell their ‘national loaves’ when they were a day old because stale bread did not cut to waste like fresh bread. Source

[If you can find it, the BBC Timeshift episode ‘Bread: A Loaf Affair’ mentions this along with a surprisingly interesting modern-ish history of bread in the UK. It’s narrated by Tom Baker.]

And WWII.

In the UK, bakers were forbidden from selling bread on the day it was baked, in order to make it more stale and reduce demand.

Funny how much support these companies need: waivers for environmental and zoning issues, noise and use variances, incentives and tax breaks, special protections, benefits, or exceptions their lobbiests arranged, artificially low minimum wages, artificially high prices, bailouts, special bankruptcy protections, tax laws written just for them, tariffs on international competition, etc etc etc etc etc.

On top of which, various forms of wage theft cost more than all robberies, burglaries and motor vehicle thefts combined, and it’s almost never prosecuted (or only in a superficial fines-only way, with no admission of guilt and no jail time). And the exact same thing happens with undocumented labor.

And on top of that is the rollback of hard-won worker protections: states rolling back child labor laws, states saying kids don’t need meal breaks, states saying people working outdoors in extreme heat don’t need water breaks, etc etc etc etc.

Of course, if you ask the owner, or the CEO, or other people who are benefiting from this system, they’ll tell you all about how “they built it with their own hands, from the ground up, with no help from anyone else” …

I had no idea about the Gros Michel peels - that’s fascinating!! Thank you for sharing that!

"We hypothesize that the bananas of the 21st century were a different type, one that grew in a wider range of climates. We’re not certain why this breed seem to have randomly fallen from the trees so often, but perhaps it helps explain all these other drawings of inattentive humans slipping on random banana peels as well. … "

A few hundred years from now, historians are going to be equally confused by the horse-sized duck images …

Good. Corporations should fear the people.

Plus their efforts have boosted wages in non-union shops and positions.

Apparently they’re a sensory system, like a cat’s whiskers.

I have a friend who says to never update anything in a room until you’re prepared to update the entire room. Because that new area rug will make the walls look bad and the new paint makes the drapes look old and the new surroundings make the furniture look old, lol!

I only found it recently. While some of the pages aren’t that good in explaining the humor, I’ve also run into pages that explain levels of nuance that I missed even when I find the original funny.

Here.

The last panel hits harder when you realize that polar bears only exist in the northern hemisphere and penguins only exist in the southern hemisphere :(

If a few thousand people walking off the job for a few days can hurt the entire American economy, then maybe those people deserve to get paid more.

I’m trying to remember the last time a CEO walked out and tanked the economy …