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you can tell they realized they were overplaying their hand by introducing those apps with the crazy deals and those weirder value meals that are not numbered/not part of the standard sandwich+fries+drink formula.

Pretty sure this is why Taco Bell did slightly better - they don’t have any weird “deals” on their app but you can get a combo meal for like $5. Far more straightforward imo

They had trashcans, but they switched to plastic bags during a sanitation worker strike in 1969 b/c the chemicals industry donated them.

Are E-sims an option in either your phone/internet connections? Some can support 2 at a time I think or you could have 1 physical one and an e-sim

I looked and it seems like egg prices spiked the most in 6/7 of the swing states from 2022-2023:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/egg-prices-by-state

The data source is a paywalled business insider article, but it’s got an archive link

granted it’s a website run by like 1 guy with a secondhand source (BI is citing an Instacart study) but if it’s accurate it means that 3 of the top 10 states for egg prices are swing states (Nevada, Arizona, Georgia) , and if you look at inflation per dozen eggs per state Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania are also in the top 10. All of those states also have low minimum wages (Arizona’s an outlier at like 13 bucks but every other swing state, it’s $10 or the federal minimum).

I could imagine China using policy demands (similar to what the IMF does, but not evil) in exchange for financing, economic development, but IDK if turning Afghanistan into 18th century England will do much good.

TBF to the Dutch, the regular food they serve you at a restaurant nowadays beats the USA by a mile.

I drink water, water comes out. I drink soda, water comes out. It’s pretty obvious, my body don’t want the water.

They’re definitely worth caring about (and for) but I’d say it’s really important to put the dangers of nuclear power in the context of what we’re already doing, and it’s magnitudes safer. While I feel like we should be pushing for more renewables regardless, at the same time nuclear’s still really viable because it doesn’t have the availability (renewables are weather dependent) and storage (you can just keep running it on demand) issues.

IIRC Chernobyl amounted to about 46 people dead from the disaster itself, (the Fukushima incident did not kill anyone at the time it occurred IIRC, three mile island didn’t kill anyone) and while it did release a lot of radioactive material that did result it more cancers/excess mortality, coal burning releases about ten times more radioactive material than a nuclear reactor (coal has trace amounts of radioactive material in it). So even if we’re just comparing the hazards of radiation nuclear is probably the better/cleaner option if there’s a robust and quick response after incidents.

It’s from '06, I think? Apparently Vin Diesel actually turns in a pretty good performance in this, from what I’ve heard.

Abandoning the idea that Russia buying a relatively miniscule amount of ads on social media/running bot farms swayed the 2016 election would mean that liberals would have to confront the idea that Trump won in 2016 b/c the country is actually more racist than they thought it was.

Isn’t this just the inherently not-good version of “why do these homosexuals keep sucking my dick?”

ohh yeah I must’ve been thinking of 2 maybe?

I mean the guys name is snake and he has to save the president