• chaosCruiser@futurology.today
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        8 天前

        If an artist is using their grant money on booze and art supplies, the government will get a fair bit of the money back through taxes. If the artist does drugs instead, the government is missing out. The obvious choice would be to start taxing all narcotics and intoxicants.

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    8 天前

    to contextualise : eggs aren’t just food, they could also contain various animals that could distrupt the ecosystem, hence why they were smuggled before, why border cops are looking for them, etc.

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      But, most of them are just food, because we would never have this uptick in smuggling otherwise.

      And we’re signaling border officials to throw away all of that food, as if we didn’t waste enough food in this county.

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    CBP intercepted egg products on 3,254 occasions this January and February, compared to 1,508 occasions in the first two months of 2024.

    TIL that people were “smuggling” eggs across the border last year as well. I wonder what the earlier historical numbers have been - there had to be some historical number of border residents doing it in their periodic cross-border visits, and unknowing vacationers who bought a dozen or two to cook while they’re camping and just brought the remainder home.

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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    8 天前

    Let’s try smuggling Kinder Surprise eggs instead, maybe that will relieve the tension.

    • sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Still illegal? My mom smuggled some like 10 ys ago and border protection didn’t even shoot at us … fucking amateurs

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      Among everything else that could go wrong with eggs from an untraceable unknown farm with an unknown level of safety management

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      They’re scared because other countries don’t wash them. They don’t realise that this keeps them fresherv for longer without needing to keep them cool.

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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      Eggs can contain invasive species.

      Chicken eggs can come in all sorts of shapes and colors. Hard to say for sure that an egg is definitively a chicken egg just on visual inspection.

      Of course, having the eggs in an incubator is probably a sure-fire way of telling they don’t intend to eat them…

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    Because people don’t realize that there are restrictions on eggs, and they’re cheaper in neighboring nations.

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    8 天前

    Why didn’t their orange shit stain make eggs cheaper like they claimed they voted for so they can avoid admitting they’re racist and sexist

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    How about works of art painted in fentanyl laced gelatin paint?

    Just giving you all a hint lol. You could paint an entire car in that.