Post by @AutisticInnovator@autistics.life

2026-05-04 23:36 UTC

@cwicseolfor Walmart gets their employees on SNAP, which they benefit from when their employees spend it at Walmart. In Texas, the main beneficiaries of SNAP are single moms. Frito Lay and the other soda and snack companies are headquartered in Texas. Our Texas SNAP was subsidizing their profits. Using the poor and single moms money from the government in Texas to make their corporations richer. In 2001 a bottle of soda was 75¢, now it’s $2.25. I don’t enjoy soda, but I drink a lot of it purely for cheap liquid calories.

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@cwicseolfor@zeroes.ca 2026-05-04 23:42

@AutisticInnovator Oh, I know, I’m from here (top level domain notwithstanding.) It’s part of my specific ire for Frito-Lay-Pepsi (and Dr. Pepper too for what they did to the workers in Dublin.) I never would have qualified for benefits but spent a lot of the twenty-teens on an $80-100 grocery budget (while working in a grocery, ‘natch) so I pay a lot of attention to this issue. I’m overdue on a requested write-up of what I’ve been doing to stay well under $200 per adult per month but I kept kicking the can because I wanted to start incorporating the price of electricity into it - running ovens, especially in AC weather, adds a ton to the price of home cooking.

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@rspfau@ecoevo.social 2026-05-04 23:57

@AutisticInnovator @cwicseolfor Seriously? You drink soda just so you can get enough calories??? Who does that??? "I don’t enjoy soda, but I drink a lot of it purely for cheap liquid calories"

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