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“Is that ham processed?
If it’s processed, I don’t want it.”

“Ma’am, that is an eleven pound whole slab of deli ham. It has no bones, fat, or connective tissue.  It is an amalgamation of the meat of several pigs, emulsified, liquified, strained, and ultimately inexorably joined in an unholy meat obelisk. God had no hand in the creation of this abhorrence. The fact that this ham monolith exists proves that God is either powerless to alter his universe, or ignorant of the horrors taking place in his kingdom. This prism of pork is more than deli meat. It is a physical declaration of mankind’s contempt for the natural order. It is hubris manifest. We also have a lower sodium variety if you would prefer that.”

 

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“It’s likely the administration was lulled into complacency by a previous, abbreviated shutdown that took place in early 2018. This interruption in funding lasted only a few days and had barely any effect. Perhaps the administration assumed a longer shutdown would work the same way, but, you know, more of it. The reality is that the effects of a shutdown compound over time. Government agencies can creatively stretch their budgets to mask gaps in funding, but at some point, their capacity to maintain services snaps. The relationship between the length of a shutdown and its impact is not linear. A 30-day shutdown is not ten times as damaging as a three-day shutdown. It is probably 100 times as damaging.”

- Jonathan Chait, "Trump Literally Did Not Understand What a Shutdown Would Do" Jan. 7, 2019. This is a good example of the peril of linear, 'no-threshold' thinking.

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