https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/approval/joe-biden/?ex_cid=abcpromo

Looks like he’s at ~38% approval, ~58% disapproval.

For what it’s worth, the ipsos poll here is a bit of an outlier compared to other recent polls.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump/

Ok, I’ll bite.

How many people do you think shopped at your grocery store?

On average, how much food do you think they each wasted per week at home?

How much food per week did your store waste?

How typical do you think these numbers are nationwide?

Look at figure 2.

Consumption isn’t 50%, but it’s the largest single bar in that chart - significantly so.

You can argue, sure. But people have actually studied this, and you’re factually just plain wrong.

You’ve seen the centralized waste. But you haven’t picked through a neighborhood’s worth of trash cans to put that centralized waste into the larger decentralized context.

The government spends hundreds of billions on infrastructure every year.

Have we fixed potholes permanently?

Also, $8 billion is a bit less than $24 bucks per person in America. Do you really think $24 is enough to permanently solve hunger in a country? Do you think that another $5/person is reasonable, a few years later?

Almost half of food waste is people buying food that they let go bad before they eat it.

That’s substantially a price problem, in that people are more willing to let a cheap banana spoil than a prime rib or lobster. Food being cheap makes people more willing to let it expire.

But fixing residential food waste by making food more expensive would make hunger worse.

Keep in mind: the largest source of food waste is residential. The second largest source is restaurants.

Food waste is bad for the environment, sure. But the rent being too damn high is a lot more of the reason why people go hungry than me letting a bagged salad in my fridge go bad.

The American spelling matches the American pronunciation, and it was one of the original variations of the word. Americans didn’t pick it out of nowhere.

That’s more akin to saying “it’s spelled aubergine, not eggplant, you stupid Americans”.

Quay is one of those words like bowline or boatswain that’s commonly mispronounced because people see it in writing without hearing it said. Bowline “properly” rhymes with pin, and boatswain sounds like bosun.

A similar thing happened to solder in Britain, where it originally had a silent l as a nod to its Latin etymology, but some people started pronouncing it.

Housing; this is where wealthy “liberals” are directly to blame. Dems say that they believe in housing that’s affordable, but wealthy elites–which are overwhelmingly Democratic in California–oppose zoning changes that would allow for high density, affordable housing.

It’s not so much wealthy elites that are the problem here as everyday homeowners.

Because of the zoning ladder-pull people started decades ago, there’s a lot of older middle class homeowners that bought an affordable house that’s now worth millions. They’re incredibly afraid of their house losing its value because it’s probably the single largest part of their net worth, so they have a ton of cognitive dissonance over affordable housing.

They want affordable housing in the abstract, but they’re 100% opposed to anything they think might lower the value of their house. And you can’t really make housing more affordable without lowering the value of houses; they’re kinda synonymous. So they come up with all kinds of bullshit special pleading to justify NIMBY policies.