Post by @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io

2025-12-13 21:49 UTC

Sometimes when I watch documentaries about Pompeii excavations I think of future excavations of suburban America. ‘People bought things in physically impossible sizes’ ‘There was so much abundance, but only for the people who already have lots of stuff’ ‘We are reconsidering our assumptions of how humans in the 21st century lived, because we found kitchen condiments in vat sizes that don’t make sense’

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@wtrmt@mastodon.social 2025-12-13 22:08

“(…) some of these vats of food ingredients were used in elaborate funeral arrangements, when part of society interred themselves alive: whole families with their belongings and even sacrificial pets, looking to transcend to another plane of existence” “The cult used to be called «preppers» and what they left behind has been a source of understanding on the strange ways of this peoples, now lost to time” @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io

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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io 2025-12-13 22:03

Other things you can get at Costco. 80 lbs of cheese: $1099 A coffin: $1599

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@lemay@mastodon.social 2025-12-13 21:57

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io Have you seen "Motel of the Mysteries"?

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@alien@mastodon.green 2025-12-13 22:10

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io When I (Spaniard) went to the US to visit family as a teenager, I remember being very confused at sizes. I remember the first time I went to the grocery store, I saw a sale of a really huge bucket of chicken nuggets + a gallon of sweet tea and I was trying to figure out why. Fortunately my family there is Colombian+Venezuelan and therefore they cook reasonable meals but ?? Confusing af

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