Moody Monday: yep, it's a mood

I'm not in the best mood today. Let's blame it partially on the monkeypox vaccine 2nd dose and feeling "not my best" again, like last time. I'm checking out of civilization for the rest of today, I think. Sit under an electric blanket and read and eat and otherwise just be a bum.

• On my trip to Aldi's grocery today, the hot sauce section of the shelf was empty. *sigh* First time I've ever seen that, I think. But they had eggs this time.
• Someone famous has commented on the skyrocketing price of lettuce. Raw food is expensive now, and prepared food is outrageously expensive.
• Home Depot's co-founder is on my naughty list again after blaming socialism for making people not want to work. At wages that won't pay rent and barely buys food, while corporate profits soar, maybe has something to do with it? Bring on the socialism, please.
• The IRS audited poor taxpayers in 2022 while ignoring rich ones. *grrrrr*
• USA police set a new record in 2022 for killing our own citizens, since records began in 2013.
• Minneapolis police seized 31 guns after what started as a traffic stop. In 2022, they removed about 1,100 guns from city streets. That's some useful progress, I guess.
• My Jordan neighborhood ranks only 7th in areas of Minneapolis measured by violent crimes per capita. For once, I also have data that says other areas are worse than Minneapolis. Search this blog for "The worst contiguous", and see the chart that places a Minneapolis area (not even mine) as 3rd of the worst so far analyzed.

So... bad mood. It's bad here, but there are worse places to be. I want to see a comparison of wealth inequality now in 2023 with that of other periods of world history when the peasants killed their economic overlords in desperation and outrage. It was bad before, and I'm sure it's worse now.

I'm tired of human civilization. The status quo is awful. I want to start over with new rules.