No idea. Maybe they’ll keep it like the Gadsden Flag holdout libertarians? “We were here first” and all that.

Honestly, I was thinking about the people out there with tattoos. There has to be at least one.

For me, the cherry on top is how the “InfoWars” name is still completely apt, for completely different reasons.

I think there’s always going to be that group of people. Another example: folks that didn’t notice that The Colbert Report was satire.

That also sounds like the kind of prank that Cards Against Humanity would pull if they had access to as much cash. I love this so much.

Maybe? We also import a shed-load of tobacco. Combined, that’s not gonna be pretty.

https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/raw-tobacco/reporter/usa

The syrup helps the little corns slide down better.

Also: I can’t feel my toes but I’m sure that’s unrelated.

Rabbit hole time.

Apparently, caffeine in soft drinks is synthetic. I thought they just used caffeine that is extracted from decaffeinating coffee beans - not so. Also it’s barely produced in the US (anymore), and we mostly import it from China.

Neat part is: it doesn’t look all that complicated to synthesize and requires some common-ish organic compounds and solvents to make. As a bonus, the “the raw synthetic caffeine often glows - a bluish phosphorence”. If anyone is on his Patreon, please give NileRed a nudge to give this a shot; I think it would be right up his alley.

So we can get by without coffee, but short of running your own chemistry lab, it’s going to be a bit before industry can ramp up production of the synthetic stuff. Meanwhile, caffeinated beverages across the board would be more expensive were synthetic caffeine a part of any tariff scheme.

More here:

https://www.decadentdecaf.com/blogs/decadent-decaf-coffee-co/174589383-ever-wondered-where-the-caffeine-comes-from-in-soda-or-energy-drinks-answer-synthetic-caffeine

Add a philosopher to the mix and you can start rattling off all the logical fallacies in the paper too.

Portions in North America are HUGE.

The restaraunt portion thing is… a big problem. Here’s what I think is going on.

I’m pretty sure that it has more to do with profitability than customer demand, although it’s gone on for long enough perhaps it’s both by now. The key here is that food sales have pretty thin margins (except for soft drinks which are outrageously marked-up everywhere). If a restaurant chain suddenly downsized their portion sizes, people would realize very quickly that the price hasn’t scaled down to the same extent, as the current portion sizes are inflated to mask how much food service really costs. There’s a price floor to remain profitable and I think it’s a lot higher than people realize.

NGL, that sounds pretty good, actually. What baffles me is that pasta was the go-to here instead.

Considering how Toriyama named a lot of his characters, looking to the shower stall for ideas would just be on-brand.

If you are not okay with this, then let me ask you: WHERE IS YOUR SAIYAN PRIDE?!

the alternative is to make the syntax become a hellish mess. Like Mandarin or English.

Now hang on just a second. English is fine. You just have to memorize or correctly guess the etymology of whatever word it is you’re trying to spell/pronounce in order to get … oh, okay, I think I see the problem now.

The key phrase to remember here is: Price Discrimination.

Stores already possess the technology to track anyone’s shopping experience through loyalty cards. The “discounts” you get are really just a tax on everyone that doesn’t participate, and the benefits to the company for having your data are worth potentially losing business from un-tracked customers. That’s how valuable your data is.

So why aren’t we seeing per-customer targeting? This is not to suggest that businesses are benign here, but rather, just cautious about outright per-customer discounts and other price manipulation. Custom coupons are kinda/sorta a part of this. IMO, the door is still wide-open to find ways palatable to the customer (and courts) while dialing everyone in.

In that context, all cameras do is make the system practically impossible to dodge. Considering how much stores value that kind of information, it makes sense they’d invest to capture 100% of their retail activity.

For me, it’s all the suck brought on by a pathological fear (trauma) of authority figures abusing their power. In this case: TSA, and their ability to completely screw with your travel plans. To be clear, this is not rational and 100% nothing bad happens.

As true now as ever.

There’s just so much in IT that fits this format.

• Every Terraform project
• Using Nix tooling inside of Ubuntu
• WSL
• Proton/WINE
• Containers on ECS, EKS, or whatever container runtime you hate this week.
• Every custom C++ program that uses glibc, SDL, openssl, or whatever lib that has it’s act together.
• Python using numpy
• Remediating a security hole in a legacy enterprise program

Ah, but that’s how I run my table. The jank is a feature, not a flaw.

For me it’s the damn scale under the bag, and how long the kiosk takes to register the weight of the last scanned item. Then the system “unlocks” and lets me scan another item. This system slows me down to the speed of the worst clerk in the store.

Maybe? I think that’s open to interpretation. IMO, only the devs at Bethesda can make that call.

Me? I’m not going to hold onto the opinion that it’s game-breaking so strongly. After all, if you’re having fun, what’s the problem?