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There's a lot of out of date info in there making your conclusions a bit innacurate. The yen is super weak right now, compared to USD and EUR especially.
Rice grown in California should not be cheaper than rice grown in Japan, just purely based on a currency analysis. Almost all other domestic foods in Japan are much cheaper in real terms than in California.
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You can have brown bread and baked beans that _aren't_ ultraprocessed, and they're probably healthier for you.
Using processed food ingredients like molasses doesn't make something ultraprocessed and unhealthy. Other ingredients like butter and olive oil are also considered processed.
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back during covid
Few people mean this literally. We all know covid is still around and will be quite possibly forever. What it means, depending on context is "during covid lockdowns" or "during covid restrictions" or really just 2020.
It's not a pandemic anymore, it's endemic now. Get both your shots every year now. Covid isn't the new flu, it's flu's new buddy.
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The failing was decades and centuries ago that led to this. Power has been consolidating in the presidency since the constitution was signed as the legislature and courts are happy to give more and more of their power over to the executive.
We've only been protected by being lucky having presidents and their staff with genuine care for the _intent_ of the constitution.
This was only a matter of time. It wasn't _our fault_. This is America.