• Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    That’s not the tragedy of the commons, and that’s not why everyone drives turboencabulators.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

    It is, I shit you not, a cold war tariff on fucking chickens. There’s some other shit that’s glommed on over the centuries, but the mad-science breeding program to create a pickup truck big enough to swallow the sun started with a stupid trade dispute over chickens between the krauts, the frogs, and the yanks.