The Restaurant Industry Is Now Enjoying Bidenomics, and They're Not Enjoying It Much

In California, restaurants and fast food chains are taking the hit from the eyepopping $20/per hour minimum wage.

Menu prices in California will rise once again when a new law goes into effect in the summer, a double-whammy after fast-food chains in the state hiked prices to help pay for the $20 minimum wage the state imposed last month.
Restaurant owners in the state are warning that a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans "junk fees" in the state starting July 1 will force them to raise prices because it prohibits restaurant surcharges and fees.
Restaurant owners have often relied on surcharges to provide their employees benefits like health care. Some businesses would note surcharges on menus, and others would make them optional, with the decision left to the customer.
However, the new law is prompting restaurant owners to hike prices on their menus to comply with the new law.

California's attorney general confirmed to the San Francisco Chronicle this week that restaurant surcharges and fees would be illegal under the new law in a blow to the industry.

Golden Gate Restaurant Association Director Laurie Thomas told CBS News Bay Area the law will put restaurants in a tough spot with either lower wages for employees or by discouraging customers with higher prices.
"So, now, do you take their rate down and do you go to an old-fashioned tip model and say to your servers, 'You have to tip the whole house, but that drops everybody's salaries' or do you raise your prices 20%, 25%?" Thomas said. "It might make a lot of customers happier. They might say, 'We understand why prices went up.' Let's hope that happens. But I don't know if our industry can hope that's what happens. They're still struggling. It's been a tough year."

Unexpectedly, the restaurant sector is now downsizing. Or should I say, Bidensizing.

Starbucks announced a surprise drop in same-store sales for its latest quarter, sending its shares down 17% on Wednesday. Pizza Hut and KFC also reported shrinking same-store sales. And even stalwart McDonald's said it has adopted a "street-fighting mentality" to compete for value-minded diners.

For months, economists have been predicting that consumers would cut back on their spending in response to higher prices and interest rates. But it's taken a while for fast-food chains to see their sales actually shrink, despite several quarters of warnings to investors that low-income consumers were weakening and other diners were trading down from pricier options.

You just hate to see it happen to Google, too. Google to lay off 200 " " " workers. " " "

The NY Post:

The job cuts -- announced internally on the eve of Google's blowout first-quarter earnings report -- targeted members of Google's "core" team, which works on the "technical foundation behind the company's flagship products" as well as the online safety of users and its global IT infrastructure, according to its website.
At least 50 of the roles were based at Google's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Google is expected to hire replacement workers for the roles in Mexico and India, CNBC reported, citing a review of internal documents.
"Announcements of this sort may leave many of you feeling uncertain or frustrated," Asim Husain, vice president of Google Developer Ecosystem said in an email to staffers last week announcing the cuts, according to CNBC.

But... Google's AI was such a smash success!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:28 PM

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 06, 2024 03:28 PM (QNSds)

2 last

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 03:28 PM (GBKbO)

3 Hi Ace

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 06, 2024 03:29 PM (t/2Uw)

4 This seems important
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Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 06, 2024 03:29 PM (t/2Uw)

5 Menu prices in California will rise once again when a new law goes into effect in the summer, a double-whammy after fast-food chains in the state hiked prices to help pay for the $20 minimum wage the state imposed last month.

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Labor costs have no effect on prices. This is just a ploy by big restaurant to gouge customers.

Newsom must use his democratic dictatorial powers to arrest the CEOs of restaurant chains that raise prices at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 03:29 PM (GBKbO)

6 You can't walk out of mcdonald's or burger king without spending over $20 for two people. And that is the wife and I sharing the fries from a combo meal with her getting just a burger off the menu.

We went to Arby's last month and it was almost $20 with tax for two classic sandwiches, 1 order of fries and a drink.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 06, 2024 03:30 PM (QNSds)

7 Newsom must use his democratic dictatorial powers to arrest the CEOs of restaurant chains that raise prices at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 03:29 PM (GBKbO)

except for Panera, cause he buddy owns those.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 06, 2024 03:30 PM (CIS44)

8 8 Newsom must use his democratic dictatorial powers to arrest the CEOs of restaurant chains that raise prices at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 03:29 PM (GBKbO)

except for Panera, cause he buddy owns those.
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 06, 2024 03:30 PM (CIS44)

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The CEO of Penera is raising awareness of high prices by raising prices! He's a hero, and Newsom must give him a medal of freedom!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

9 Ha! Gavin CREATED the junk fees when he created "Healthy San Francisco" 15 years ago.

Every restaurant started to add a 4% surcharge to pay the outrageous taxes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 06, 2024 03:31 PM (RIvkX)

10 Yes, but people taking a dump outside your favorite restaurant adds to the ambience.

Posted by: Joey Poopfaschizzle at May 06, 2024 03:32 PM (5APbY)

11 The Restaurant Industry Is Now Enjoying Bidenomics, and They're Not Enjoying It Much
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That is how one appreciates Bidenflation.

Not much.

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 03:32 PM (krQz2)

12 11 Ha! Gavin CREATED the junk fees when he created "Healthy San Francisco" 15 years ago.

Every restaurant started to add a 4% surcharge to pay the outrageous taxes.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 06, 2024 03:31 PM (RIvkX)

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That's outrageous!

The restaurants should be ashamed! They should be arrested and shut down! The only solution is state-run restaurants that don't discriminate based on wages and wage-slave status!

Food is a human right!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 03:32 PM (GBKbO)

13 Google employs over 180,000 people. 200 employees is in the noise.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at May 06, 2024 03:32 PM (VGRuw)

14 Between the price increases, horrible service and the now mandatory "tip for just taking the order" we have cut back significantly. Instead of a Friday or weekend night out we try and make something new while watching a movie or TV show as it cooks, some type of casserole or wok dish.

It's just fucking sad. A simple Whataburger with cheese meal is 12 bucks now, it used to be 8. I cannot justify 10+ bucks on fast food, and these gay ass craft burger places think it's carte blanche to charge 20 bucks for a 2" diameter but 1" thick shitty burger.

Posted by: UwU_Power at May 06, 2024 03:33 PM (V3JSD)

15 Newsom must use his democratic dictatorial powers to arrest the CEOs of restaurant chains that raise prices at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 03:29 PM (GBKbO)

except for Panera, cause he buddy owns those.
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 06, 2024 03:30 PM (CIS44)
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And the French Laundry.

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 03:33 PM (krQz2)

16 Restaurant owners have often relied on surcharges to provide their employees benefits like health care. Some businesses would note surcharges on menus, and others would make them optional, with the decision left to the customer.

However, the new law is prompting restaurant owners to hike prices on their menus to comply with the new law.
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The customer will always pay. He has to. Money doesn't gush up out of a geyser to cover the expenses. It has to come from the sale.

Slap it on as a surcharge or factor it into the price. It doesn't matter. The customer pays. The surcharge might actually be more honest, because it's at least semi-transparent.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 03:34 PM (HnUIn)

17 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 06, 2024 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

18 Slap it on as a surcharge or factor it into the price. It doesn't matter. The customer pays. The surcharge might actually be more honest, because it's at least semi-transparent.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 03:34 PM (HnUIn)
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The customer only pays if they patronize.

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 03:35 PM (krQz2)

19 Google to lay off 200 " " " workers. " " "

LULZ.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 06, 2024 03:35 PM (Zz0t1)

20 No burgers for anyone.

May I interest you in a BugRrito?

Posted by: Czech Chick at May 06, 2024 03:35 PM (I6NNh)

21 Google is expected to hire replacement workers for the roles in Mexico and India, CNBC reported, citing a review of internal documents.

"Announcements of this sort may leave many of you feeling uncertain or frustrated," Asim Husain, vice president of Google Developer Ecosystem said in an email to staffers last week announcing the cuts, according to CNBC.

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Kinda makes you wonder, if the Veep was named something like Bob Jones, would he be sending jobs to India?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 06, 2024 03:35 PM (dGCAG)

22 Good. I want them all laid off and having to come to me on their knees begging for a job at Arby's for a uniform and a shift meal.

I will beat them daily like that Red Chinaman beating those savages in South Africa.

Where is my riding crop?

Hahahahaha!

Posted by: Dick Cheney, Mastermind On Viagra at May 06, 2024 03:35 PM (4a+k3)

23 Just like airline "junk" fees

I'm willing to pay $40 for extra legroom. Now everyone pays and no one gets extra legroom.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 06, 2024 03:36 PM (RIvkX)

24 Soon we will hear stories about how the minimum wage law is just an excuse, and it’s all about how a bunch of rich bastards (who the media reminds us constantly need to be strung up) just don’t want to pay people the $20-30 an hour they deserve because they are greedy. (Of the greed of government the media is silent).

I just wish places like Starbucks, MickeyDs, etc would tell CA to fuck off and just leave the stat outright. Serves CA’s Marxist government right for thinking they know better than the market.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 06, 2024 03:36 PM (Ds3Rc)

25 Die Goolag!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at May 06, 2024 03:36 PM (esflq)

26 Don't travel peons.
Don't eat out peons.
/subtext

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 06, 2024 03:36 PM (RIvkX)

27
Every restaurant started to add a 4% surcharge to pay the outrageous taxes.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 06, 2024 03:31 PM (RIvkX)

I just got back from Europe.

VAT is 25%

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 06, 2024 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

28 24 Soon we will hear stories about how the minimum wage law is just an excuse, and it’s all about how a bunch of rich bastards (who the media reminds us constantly need to be strung up) just don’t want to pay people the $20-30 an hour they deserve because they are greedy. (Of the greed of government the media is silent).

I just wish places like Starbucks, MickeyDs, etc would tell CA to fuck off and just leave the stat outright. Serves CA’s Marxist government right for thinking they know better than the market.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 06, 2024 03:36 PM (Ds3Rc)

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The left has been running with this constantly since inflation started.

Corporate profits prove it, don'tchaknow?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

29 "Announcements of this sort may leave many of you feeling uncertain or frustrated," Asim Husain, vice president of Google Developer Ecosystem
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No relation

Posted by: ... at May 06, 2024 03:36 PM (cyR1c)

30 Used to be, you could go to the pancake joint and order the "Wham Bam Thankyouma'am", and the worst you would get was the ugly waitress.

You go in and order that now, and YOU'RE the one that gets bent over and f*k'd.

Cha. Ching.

/s

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 06, 2024 03:36 PM (e6UQI)

31 "For months, economists have been predicting that consumers would cut back on their spending in response to higher prices and interest rates."
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I don't think you really need to be an economist to figure this out.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 06, 2024 03:37 PM (7fElN)

32 I was out for dinner last night for the first time in a while. Not CA, because I can barely afford my own MO neighborhood anymore, but more city than I usually hang. Our group of 11 was seated within 20 minutes of arriving to a no-reservations restaurant. I tipped well. Best I could do.

I am SO thankful I was busy with my second child's HS graduation and could completely ignore the pooper-in-chief.

Posted by: Catherine at May 06, 2024 03:37 PM (ZSsrh)

33 Joeconomics.
It's what's NOT for dinner.

Posted by: wth at May 06, 2024 03:37 PM (v0R5T)

34 For months, economists have been predicting that consumers would cut back on their spending in response to higher prices and interest rates. But it's taken a while for fast-food chains to see their sales actually shrink, despite several quarters of warnings to investors that low-income consumers were weakening and other diners were trading down from pricier options.
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Fast food is almost - but not quite - a Giffen Good. It's an inferior good that holds up better as people move into lower-priced options when under pressure. Fast food got more expensive, but it's still cheaper than Chili's. Some guys who used to go Chili's now buy fast food. It can get more expensive and still be cheaper than the preferred alternative.

But there are still yet more inferior alternatives. Classic Giffen Goods are stuff like boxed mac and cheese or ramen noodles. They still sell more despite higher prices, because much of the influx comes those moving down-market due to economic circumstances. Fast food was in that position. It might not be anymore, or it's finally too expensive to be worth it. Just don't eat out or buy the package of ramen noodles and pocket the difference.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 03:37 PM (HnUIn)

35 The Ryan George take on Google search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT7_SxJ3oSI

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 03:37 PM (krQz2)

36 >>At least 50 of the roles were based at Google's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif.

You know times are tough when even the CIA starts laying people off.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2024 03:37 PM (LkLld)

37
"Announcements of this sort may leave many of you feeling uncertain or frustrated," Asim Husain, vice president of Google Developer Ecosystem said in an email to staffers last week announcing the cuts, according to CNBC.

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Kinda makes you wonder, if the Veep was named something like Bob Jones, would he be sending jobs to India?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 06, 2024 03:35 PM (dGCAG)
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Sundar Pichar (CEO) to Asim Husain: "Tell them we're going to hire replacement workers from back home in India."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 03:37 PM (YqDXo)

38 Google has a lot more “personality “ hires they could shed, I’m guessing….

Posted by: Roseann Roseanna danna at May 06, 2024 03:38 PM (Hkcdp)

39 The higher wages haven't bit into the pizza shops I am familiar with yet. (Not CA, rather TX) But, they sell a higher end pie to a higher end customer. Two larges - about $40. That's before any drinks.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 06, 2024 03:38 PM (AW6h8)

40 Willowed: I swear I have surpassed that.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 06, 2024 02:42 PM (nFo4U)
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The judges would also have accepted "I crap bigger than you."
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 06, 2024

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"I got chunks of guys bigger than you in my stool."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 06, 2024 03:38 PM (J2vNu)

41 It's delicious when the fever dreams of the left run smack into the cold reality of economic laws.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 06, 2024 03:38 PM (d9fT1)

42 "Announcements of this sort may leave many of you feeling uncertain or frustrated," Asim Husain, vice president of Google Developer Ecosystem said in an email to staffers last week announcing the cuts, according to CNBC."

Did he have the courtesy to send it in English or would that be considered imposing our culture on him?

Posted by: Ripley at May 06, 2024 03:39 PM (JojsZ)

43 targeted members of Google's "core" team, which works on the "technical foundation behind the company's flagship products" as well as the online safety of users and its global IT infrastructure, according to its website.
At least 50 of the roles were based at Google's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Google is expected to hire replacement workers for the roles in Mexico and India, CNBC reported, citing a review of internal documents.
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If true (who got laid off), these were likely top-skilled and extremely expensive people, who will be replaced with 2-3 times as many much cheaper and less-expensive foreigners.

"We needed you to build it, but we don't need you to run it." Indeed, this is true. For a while.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 03:39 PM (HnUIn)

44 Restaurant industry is already dead. At least as it was once known and configured. Other than a few, usually super-high-end places, the majority of restaurants today are little more than glorified take-out places for the app delivery services.

Part of the reason for this is economics. Going out to dinner became increasingly more expensive for increasingly less quality. Covid of course changed habits. Lots of former restaurant-goers (like me) finally had enough and asked "why bother?"

But a real driver for this is that the younger generations don't give a shit about eating out. It's alien to them.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 06, 2024 03:39 PM (iFTx/)

45 Restaurants are generally the first to suffer in a downturn.

More pain coming.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 06, 2024 03:39 PM (JMAcK)

46 The customer only pays if they patronize.
Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 03:35 PM (krQz2)
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Well, yes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 03:39 PM (HnUIn)

47 Re: restaurants - they also are dealing with increasing food prices and rent/lease increases.

They cannot survive while being squeezed by everyone.

Posted by: Roseann Roseanna danna at May 06, 2024 03:39 PM (Hkcdp)

48 "For months, economists have been predicting that consumers would cut back on their spending in response to higher prices and interest rates."
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I don't think you really need to be an economist to figure this out.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 06, 2024 03:37 PM (7fElN)
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C'mon, economists finally predicted something that actually happened. Let 'em roll around in it for a bit.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 03:39 PM (YqDXo)

49 I find myself rooting for restaurants to go under. They seem to just be pushing the envelope at every opportunity. owners always seem to be dirtbags.

I just went out to a dinner last night where I couldnt make a "stink", but they had a credit card fee AND a fee for "splitting" an entree for kids.

Plus you basically pay for the waiters, so dont tell me its all the increase in labor prices, I'm already paying most of that.

You would have though the pandemic would have made people better at making meals at home, but everyone decided instead to do takeout for every meal.

Posted by: Blago at May 06, 2024 03:39 PM (wMRY8)

50 46 The customer only pays if they patronize.
Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 03:35 PM (krQz2)
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Well, yes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 03:39 PM (HnUIn)

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I think Axeman was patronizing you, Joe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

51 We are heading to a depression if someone doesn't stop this

Posted by: Skip at May 06, 2024 03:40 PM (fwDg9)

52 It's called Reality.
Something Leftists do not want to face.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 06, 2024 03:40 PM (t/2Uw)

53 Restaurants are generally the first to suffer in a downturn.

More pain coming.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 06, 2024 03:39 PM (JMAcK)
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Especially after Whitless kills all the chickens in Michigan...

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 03:40 PM (krQz2)

54 51 We are heading to a depression if someone doesn't stop this
Posted by: Skip at May 06, 2024 03:40 PM (fwDg9)
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You misspelled civil war

Posted by: ballistic at May 06, 2024 03:41 PM (oqH4h)

55 I just wish places like Starbucks, MickeyDs, etc would tell CA to fuck off and just leave the stat outright. Serves CA’s Marxist government right for thinking they know better than the market.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

McD is largely a franchise thing. The franchisees can't just decamp and move. They'll have to just go out of biz with no replacement before the effects are felt.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 06, 2024 03:41 PM (IG4Id)

56 Somehow I think a guillotine is the solution to this problem also.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 06, 2024 03:41 PM (4XwPj)

57 Well, yes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 03:39 PM (HnUIn)

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I think Axeman was patronizing you, Joe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 03:40 PM (GBKbO)
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There is a fine line between patronizing and pedantry.

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 03:41 PM (krQz2)

58 We are heading to a depression if someone doesn't stop this
Posted by: Skip at May 06, 2024 03:40 PM (fwDg9)
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You misspelled civil war
Posted by: ballistic at May 06, 2024 03:41 PM (oqH4h)
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First one, then (maybe) the other.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 03:41 PM (HnUIn)

59 Wait — if Google is hiring replacements in India and Mexico then how do immigrants make us stronger?!

They are better off staying home with US businesses coming to them for cheap labor.

Posted by: Roseann Roseanna danna at May 06, 2024 03:42 PM (Hkcdp)

60 It's delicious when the fever dreams of the left run smack into the cold reality of economic laws.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 06, 2024 03:38 PM (d9fT1)
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Well, it would be if they ever paused to reflect on why their fever dreams don't ever seem to come to fruition.

They just see the economic laws as a hindrance (greedy corporate profiteering), not an absolute iron law of the universe.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 06, 2024 03:42 PM (7fElN)

61 "Announcements of this sort may leave many of you feeling uncertain or frustrated," Asim Husain, vice president of Google Developer Ecosystem ...

"... whereas it may leave others of you ... uh ... unemployed."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 03:42 PM (YqDXo)

62 We only go out to lunch anymore.
For starters, it's light out.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 06, 2024 03:43 PM (MeG8a)

63 The surcharge might actually be more honest, because it's at least semi-transparent.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 03:34 PM (HnUIn)

I was in the Savannah area the last few days and they have a wonderful surcharge on their restaurant bills. 2% for the welfare of their employees, or some similar drivel.

I just cut my usual tip by that much.

Sorry, but I will not be shaken down.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 06, 2024 03:43 PM (d9fT1)

64 have yogi krugman and booboo reich chimed in yet to tell us why it's the fault of greedy businessmen that mr ranger's hours were cut and the price of a pic a nic basket is up like 10 percent?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 06, 2024 03:43 PM (B1FKF)

65 Well, it would be if they ever paused to reflect on why their fever dreams don't ever seem to come to fruition.
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Leftists NEVER reflect on why their fever dreams never work. Every day is Groundhog Day for them. Their mascot must be Wile E. Coyote.

It's one of the mysteries of the universe.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 03:43 PM (YqDXo)

66 Make do with less if things are too expensive. The earth will thank you for consuming less and using fewer resources. This all needs to happen.

Posted by: Sid likes little boys at May 06, 2024 03:44 PM (oDzRT)

67 I find myself rooting for restaurants to go under. They seem to just be pushing the envelope at every opportunity. owners always seem to be dirtbags.
Posted by: Blago at May 06, 2024 03:39 PM (wMRY

Concur...plus most of the customers are dirt bags too.

Lazy fat asses who cannot cook and most likely paying for their overpriced food with stolen tax payer's monies in one form or another.

Next time you go out just look around at the folks around you. Disgusting animals.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 06, 2024 03:44 PM (4a+k3)

68 Outsourcing to India will guarantee further degradation of whatever shit services they offer, since them raghead hindu bindus are the worst fucking workers on earth

Even the rare salt of the earth hindu coworkers I work with are like, "damn, those indians are the worst fucking workers on earth"

Literally everything that goes wrong either online or with customer service can be traced to hindu bindu incompetent fuckery

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at May 06, 2024 03:44 PM (VTu1l)

69 Google is expected to hire replacement workers for the roles in Mexico and India
.......

Gemini, can you show me a picture of the donkey show and a sacred cow?

Posted by: wth at May 06, 2024 03:44 PM (v0R5T)

70 if we have a depression next year it will be trump's fault. won't matter if he's president or biden is still shitting in the oval office

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 06, 2024 03:44 PM (B1FKF)

71 We are heading to a depression if someone doesn't stop this
Posted by: Skip at May

We hear your cries for another bipartisan Inflation Reduction Act!

Posted by: The Gope at May 06, 2024 03:44 PM (j8zBt)

72 Posted by: Sid at May 06, 2024 03:44 PM (oDzRT)

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There was a time when communists promised greater wealth with the implementation of pure socialism.

Now, they promise less because Gaia.

Weird how "scientific government" turned out to be completely wrong about its effects and turned into an apocalyptic religion, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 03:45 PM (GBKbO)

73 Wait — if Google is hiring replacements in India and Mexico then how do immigrants make us stronger?!
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The amazing news is that there's anyone left in India or Mexico. I thought they were all here now.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 03:45 PM (YqDXo)

74 Just wait until the regulation issued s by the EPA a year or so ago take effect. They are starting to be felt by developers and engineers and there is a collective scream and mass panic already going on. Expensive and impractical and it is going to be a disaster.

But the EPA insists not only is a god idea, it will save money. Which they prove by including $50 billion dollars in money saved by reduced global warming. I wish I was making that up but it is real. We are being ruled by delusional idiots.

Posted by: Ripley at May 06, 2024 03:45 PM (JojsZ)

75 Posted by: Sid at May 06, 2024 03:44 PM (oDzRT)
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Good advice, Sid.

Why don't you show us the way by consuming less oxygen?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 06, 2024 03:45 PM (7fElN)

76 The only cure now is a federal $50 minimum wage, which increases to $500/hour if Biden steals the election again.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 06, 2024 03:45 PM (f79f5)

77 >>Leftists NEVER reflect on why their fever dreams never work. Every day is Groundhog Day for them. Their mascot must be Wile E. Coyote.

>>It's one of the mysteries of the universe.

I wouldn't care if their idiotic ideas only hurt them.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2024 03:45 PM (LkLld)

78 The higher wages haven't bit into the pizza shops I am familiar with yet. (Not CA, rather TX) But, they sell a higher end pie to a higher end customer. Two larges - about $40. That's before any drinks.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 06, 2024 03:38 PM (AW6h

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$40 would get you a 2-topping 18" pie. Maybe a coke too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 06, 2024 03:45 PM (RIvkX)

79 Dining out is ridiculously expensive now.. I go to my local owned places… at least the robbery is not helping the chains…

Posted by: tubal at May 06, 2024 03:46 PM (PCK5/)

80 I cook my own foods whenever I can, it always tastes eminently better.

Even my store bought coffee tastes better than the mud that gets poured for me at breakfast places

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at May 06, 2024 03:46 PM (VTu1l)

81 I want formally challenge Jerry Nadler to a Pants Shitting Contest to be televised on MSNBC and CNN.

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 06, 2024 03:46 PM (Wb+1f)

82 Of course. One thing the left hates is any chance to connect their policies enacted at gunpoint to the inevitable shit consequences. We must ban any way for people to put two plus two together, for Democracy™!

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at May 06, 2024 03:46 PM (uLJBD)

83 There was a time when communists promised greater wealth with the implementation of pure socialism.

Now, they promise less because Gaia.
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"Scientific socialism." Right.

You're right: they initially promised greater wealth. They quietly shitcanned that promise, and moved on to "greater equality." And, as you point out, protecting Gaia.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 03:46 PM (YqDXo)

84 I just cut my usual tip by that much.

Sorry, but I will not be shaken down.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

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That's my play as well when something stupid is put on my bill.

My kid at a Mexican restaurant asked for extra sour cream, I see a $2 charge on my bill for extra sour cream. We're talking like a tablespoon extra on the side.

It gets deducted.

Another time (at a different place) there was a surcharge for the increase in minimum wage (what it actually said). Again, that gets deducted from the tip.

I hate to say Europe does something better than we do, but I hate the tip culture here.

Posted by: Blago at May 06, 2024 03:46 PM (wMRY8)

85 The earth will thank you for consuming less and using fewer resources.
.......

Does the earth speak Spanish or Hindi?

Posted by: wth at May 06, 2024 03:46 PM (v0R5T)

86 It's delicious when the fever dreams of the left run smack into the cold reality of economic laws.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Those are only the acolytes and initiates. The programmers, aka inner circle, don't give a fuck how bad the economy is. The neo-marxist programming is designed to bring it all down and turn it into a feudal state. The Fuckerbergs, Cooks, and Gates' have their fiefdoms in place and online.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 06, 2024 03:47 PM (IG4Id)

87 Just wait until the regulation issued s by the EPA a year or so ago take effect. They are starting to be felt by developers and engineers and there is a collective scream and mass panic already going on. Expensive and impractical and it is going to be a disaster.

But the EPA insists not only is a god idea, it will save money. Which they prove by including $50 billion dollars in money saved by reduced global warming. I wish I was making that up but it is real. We are being ruled by delusional idiots.

Posted by: Ripley at May 06, 2024 03:45 PM

When all of the remaining coal fired electricity plants are forced to go offline in the next five years due to the EPA ruling they are polluters we are pretty much not going to have to worry about anything like minimum wages.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 06, 2024 03:47 PM (QNSds)

88 We had such a great first quarter that we must now fire you.

Posted by: Google at May 06, 2024 03:47 PM (7XQ/q)

89 83 "Scientific socialism." Right.

You're right: they initially promised greater wealth. They quietly shitcanned that promise, and moved on to "greater equality." And, as you point out, protecting Gaia.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 03:46 PM (YqDXo)

=========

Gorbachev crying at the sight of how much was in a random American grocery store had an effect, it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

90 Ride for ruin, ride for wrath and a red dawn

@IsraelWarRoom
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26m
#BREAKING: The ground operation in Rafah has begun.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 06, 2024 03:47 PM (IG4Id)

91 Keep. Voting. Democrat.

Useless, mouth breathing idiots.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 06, 2024 03:47 PM (B0mGw)

92 When all of the remaining coal fired electricity plants are forced to go offline in the next five years due to the EPA ruling they are polluters we are pretty much not going to have to worry about anything like minimum wages.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Or electric vehicles.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 06, 2024 03:47 PM (nFo4U)

93 We used to go out a few times a week, but Covid made the restaurant experience unpleasant, so I cooked even more.

And now? I don't miss it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 06, 2024 03:48 PM (d9fT1)

94 I guess my point was that the Democrats keep thinking that they can keep hiding more and more taxes in what the customer pays at checkout.

But every little bit adds into the decision that it's too expensive to do that anymore.

Rush used to talk about how Dems cannot handle dynamic accounting, and tend to think of things as steady-state. Thus if they've gotten away with hiding taxes in the price tag so far, they see no reason they won't continue to get away with it.

It's so bad that Ronald Reagan asked economists what the revenue would be if income tax were 100%. And they very excitedly gave him an answer of what kind of boom that would create for government. The story goes that Reagan told them the correct answer is "None", because we would be in revolution at that time.

Dems think Reagan was a dummy, but he shamed the "experts" in DC.

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 03:48 PM (krQz2)

95 ---
Good advice, Sid.

Why don't you show us the way by consuming less oxygen?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 06, 2024 03:45 PM (7fElN)

Eat Moar Led

Posted by: Chick-Fil-Led Cowz at May 06, 2024 03:48 PM (Zz0t1)

96 a New Wendy's just opened near me and the drive thru is AI or Automated, and only 2 people are working inside. I guess it could be worse and you are talking to a Person from India taking your order, which is also a thing

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 06, 2024 03:48 PM (dKiJG)

97 Does the earth speak Spanish or Hindi?
Posted by: wth

A mix of Esperanto and Pig Latin.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 06, 2024 03:48 PM (AW6h8)

98 Speaking of jesters...

@nicksortor
REPORTER: "Madam Vice President, Hamas says it accepted a ceasefire deal. Your reaction?"

HARRIS: "Shrimp and grits!"

The White House is a freaking clown show.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 06, 2024 03:48 PM (IG4Id)

99 I wouldn't care if their idiotic ideas only hurt them.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2024 03:45 PM (LkLld)
________________

Me either, but they don't think that way. They're like the Muslims; EVERYBODY must be as miserable as they are.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 03:48 PM (YqDXo)

100 targeted members of Google's "core" team, which works on the "technical foundation behind the company's flagship products" as well as the online safety of users

"Online safety" is globalist totalitarian-speak for "censorship." I'm sure they'll be snapped up by Fuckerberg in a heartbeat.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at May 06, 2024 03:48 PM (DTX3h)

101 We have a local owned place that serves bone-in fried chicken… not that crap they push most places..

Posted by: tubal at May 06, 2024 03:48 PM (PCK5/)

102 The surcharge might actually be more honest, because it's at least semi-transparent.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 03:34 PM (HnUIn)
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True but I'm so sick and fucking tired of getting nickel-and-dimed and death-ed by a thousand cuts on all these fees and surcharges and tips and bullshit. All the while providing LESS service and quality than before.

I'm not a fan of waiters hovering all over me. But do I have to ask for salt and pepper (many place don't have it on the table any more)? Do I have to ask for fucking chopsticks at a Chinese place? Do I have to deliberately delay putting in my entre order so that it doesn't come out in the middle of appetizers, so they can seat someone else at the table asap?

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 06, 2024 03:49 PM (iFTx/)

103 as i was foraging for lunch today, i saw a lone vibrant protestor walking around with a "free palestine" sign.

Posted by: anachronda at May 06, 2024 03:49 PM (v3pYe)

104 26 Don't travel peons.
Don't eat out peons.
/subtext

66 Make do with less if things are too expensive.
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The trolls are so f*cking predictable.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 06, 2024 03:49 PM (RIvkX)

105 It's delicious when the fever dreams of the left run smack into the cold reality of economic laws.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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"Social constructs."

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 03:49 PM (krQz2)

106 I went to McDonald's the other day and the food was free. What are you clowns whining about ??? My economic plan has brought down the price of food for me to $0 a month.

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 06, 2024 03:49 PM (Wb+1f)

107 Biden: "Milton Friedman is not running things now."

Everybody else: "No kidding. We can see that."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 03:49 PM (YqDXo)

108 Dining out is ridiculously expensive now.. I go to my local owned places… at least the robbery is not helping the chains…
Posted by: tubal at May 06, 2024 03:46 PM (PCK5/)

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Same. I told my family that Applebee's doesn't need our money. Local places do.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 06, 2024 03:50 PM (FzDG4)

109 "I find myself rooting for restaurants to go under. They seem to just be pushing the envelope at every opportunity. owners always seem to be dirtbags."

We design a lot of restaurants. Most are broke by the time they get built since massive cost overruns are standard and many have no idea what they getting into. Running one is even worse.

All the profit in restaurants is in the design and construction.

Posted by: Ripley at May 06, 2024 03:50 PM (JojsZ)

110 I hate to say Europe does something better than we do, but I hate the tip culture here.

Posted by: Blago at May 06, 2024 03:46 PM (wMRY

Service in Europe is chaotic. it can be good, but it can also be f*cking awful.

The scam that restaurants get away with by paying some fraction of minimum wage to their waiters is stupid. That contributes to the problem, and of course our politicians are complicit.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 06, 2024 03:50 PM (d9fT1)

111 It's delicious when the fever dreams of the left run smack into the cold reality of economic laws.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
_____________

"Our policies would work, but for the hoarders, saboteurs, and wreckers! Once we execute them ... paradise!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 03:50 PM (YqDXo)

112 >Fast food is almost - but not quite - a Giffen Good.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 03:37 PM (HnUIn)

Seems to me that the price gap between shitty fast food and a casual sit-down is now small enough to make it very hard to justify the fast food option. It's not even like fast food is actually fast any more.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at May 06, 2024 03:50 PM (uLJBD)

113 I wouldn't care if their idiotic ideas only hurt them.

Posted by: JackStraw

Me either, but they don't think that way. They're like the Muslims; EVERYBODY must be as miserable as they are.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

It's the core difference between us and them. We simply want to be left alone.

They, on the other hand. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at May 06, 2024 03:51 PM (AW6h8)

114 True but I'm so sick and fucking tired of getting nickel-and-dimed and death-ed by a thousand cuts on all these fees and surcharges and tips and bullshit. All the while providing LESS service and quality than before. ...
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 06, 2024 03:49 PM (iFTx/)
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Yes. The point isn't whether or not restaurants are worth it (most aren't, in my experience, but I have a couple I like), but whether being nickled-and-dimed is worse than just being charged a high list price. I could see it either way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 03:51 PM (HnUIn)

115 That's my play as well when something stupid is put on my bill.

My kid at a Mexican restaurant asked for extra sour cream, I see a $2 charge on my bill for extra sour cream. We're talking like a tablespoon extra on the side.

It gets deducted.

Another time (at a different place) there was a surcharge for the increase in minimum wage (what it actually said). Again, that gets deducted from the tip.

I hate to say Europe does something better than we do, but I hate the tip culture here.
Posted by: Blago at May 06, 2024

***
One of the last times I ate at an IHOP, I asked for some salsa, just a little bit, to put on my eggs. No problem.

A year later, around 2013, i was there again and asked for a bit of salsa. They brought it . . . but on the bill was a charge. I don't recall, $2 or something. I complained loudly. "This charge was never mentioned -- and it's a minor seasoning item. Are you going to charge for salt and pepper next?"

They took it off, with the worst grace possible, and I haven't been back. I can only imagine what the scene is like now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 06, 2024 03:51 PM (J2vNu)

116 Awww. I missed the Biden fecation thread.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2024 03:51 PM (8zz6B)

117 Some restaurants here have a literal inflation fee that shows on your receipt

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at May 06, 2024 03:51 PM (VTu1l)

118 It's delicious when the fever dreams of the left run smack into the cold reality of economic laws.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
_____________

"Our policies would work, but for the hoarders, saboteurs, and wreckers! Once we execute them ... paradise!"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 03:50 PM (YqDXo)

Damn dirty Kuklaks!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 06, 2024 03:51 PM (4I/2K)

119 >>as i was foraging for lunch today, i saw a lone vibrant protestor walking around with a "free palestine" sign.

It's being freed from Hamas as we speak.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2024 03:51 PM (LkLld)

120 93 We used to go out a few times a week, but Covid made the restaurant experience unpleasant, so I cooked even more.

And now? I don't miss it!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 06, 2024 03:48 PM (d9fT1)

Yep. I make a better steak, salmon, or most any entree than a restaurant at 1/2 or less the price… my exceptions are pizza and the Mexican food cooked by the illegals at the hole in the wall place down the road…

Posted by: tubal at May 06, 2024 03:51 PM (PCK5/)

121 We have a local owned place that serves bone-in fried chicken… not that crap they push most places..

Posted by: tubal at May 06, 2024 03:48 PM (PCK5/)
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If a group of whoever and me go out for wings, it's usually just me ordering bone-in.

Almost everybody else is like "Why pay for the bone?"

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 03:51 PM (krQz2)

122 From

Let them eat cake

to

Let ME eat shrimp and grits

Democrats in a nutshell but the message is the same.

Posted by: ... at May 06, 2024 03:52 PM (cyR1c)

123 Seems to me that the price gap between shitty fast food and a casual sit-down is now small enough to make it very hard to justify the fast food option. It's not even like fast food is actually fast any more.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at May 06, 2024 03:50 PM (uLJBD)
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Fast food has gotten more expensive faster, but the casual chain restaurant is going up, too. I suspect the gap will widen back out.

Time will tell, but right now, this is absolutely a part of it. It ain't that much cheaper, so why bother?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 03:52 PM (HnUIn)

124 All the profit in restaurants is in the design and construction.

Posted by: Ripley at May 06, 2024 03:50 PM (JojsZ)

A long time ago I toyed with the idea of starting a restaurant.

I spoke with a friend who was a very successful executive chef at a top five restaurant in NYC.

He said you have two choices...work 100+ hours/week and make a little money, or pay a manager all of your profits.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 06, 2024 03:52 PM (d9fT1)

125 Fast food is almost - but not quite - a Giffen Good. It's an inferior good that holds up better as people move into lower-priced options when under pressure.
...
Classic Giffen Goods are stuff like boxed mac and cheese or ramen noodles. They still sell more despite higher prices, because much of the influx comes those moving down-market due to economic circumstances.
...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 03:37 PM (HnUIn)
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A Giffen Good is a theoretical extreme case of an inferior good where an increase in the price of that good results in an increase in demand for that good, due to income effects outweighing substitution effects. The substitution effect is that a higher price in the Giffen Good results in spending shifting away from that good to substitutes (as with any good that increases in price), while the income effect is that a lower income caused by the higher prices results in more spending on the Giffen Good (as with any inferior good that increases in price). This situation must occur with an increase in the price of the Giffen Good alone, not increases in prices in higher-quality goods that can be substituted for it.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at May 06, 2024 03:52 PM (SV9jd)

126 >>Awww. I missed the Biden fecation thread.

Don't worry. They'll be more.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2024 03:52 PM (LkLld)

127 Sending the work back to India helps, but doesn't necessarily solve, all the HR issues endemic to mixed culture workplaces blessed with a heavy dose of the sub- continent.

Overt sexual advances on women, conflict if the manager is lower caste. . It's enough to make an HR professional throw their hands up and say, " Now I have to actually . . work!"

Posted by: 2009Refugee at May 06, 2024 03:52 PM (QTnHQ)

128 do like sid says, eat corn flakes for dinner then eat the box for a high fiber dessert.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 06, 2024 03:53 PM (B1FKF)

129 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=violABv826U

Posted by: Ribbed at May 06, 2024 03:53 PM (B0mGw)

130 I think the Hamas Ceasefire Deal brokered by Egypt is a good deal. Hamas gets all of Israel, Can Rape any Virgins, Steal all the food, and then funnel more money to the Houti's to close the Persian Gulf. And Israel gets something too........... Death ....

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 06, 2024 03:53 PM (Wb+1f)

131 Just wait until the regulation issued s by the EPA a year or so ago take effect. They are starting to be felt by developers and engineers and there is a collective scream and mass panic already going on. Expensive and impractical and it is going to be a disaster.

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In HVAC, R-410 (refrigerant) will be illegal after Dec 31 in new units. New stuff mandated stuff is flammable, installers have like zero experience with it in conventional spilt units. Going to have to have additional safety stuff on heat pumps. More money, more complexity.

To be fair, Trump actually signed it into law.

Posted by: Blago at May 06, 2024 03:53 PM (wMRY8)

132 A year later, around 2013, i was there again and asked for a bit of salsa. They brought it . . . but on the bill was a charge. I don't recall, $2 or something. I complained loudly. "This charge was never mentioned -- and it's a minor seasoning item. Are you going to charge for salt and pepper next?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 06, 2024 03:51 PM (J2vNu)
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Yes. They will charge for salt and pepper at some point.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 06, 2024 03:53 PM (iFTx/)

133 Awww. I missed the Biden fecation thread.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2024 03:51 PM (8zz6B)
......

It was pretty shitty.

Posted by: wth at May 06, 2024 03:53 PM (v0R5T)

134 Leftism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, is having fun

Posted by: ... at May 06, 2024 03:53 PM (cyR1c)

135 121 We have a local owned place that serves bone-in fried chicken… not that crap they push most places..

Posted by: tubal at May 06, 2024 03:48 PM (PCK5/)
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If a group of whoever and me go out for wings, it's usually just me ordering bone-in.

Almost everybody else is like "Why pay for the bone?"
Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 03:51 PM (krQz2)

Well some people are just dumbasses, eh?

Posted by: tubal at May 06, 2024 03:54 PM (PCK5/)

136 We are heading to a depression if someone doesn't stop this
Posted by: Skip at May

We hear your cries for another bipartisan Inflation Reduction Act!
Posted by: The Gope at May 06, 2024 03:44 PM (j8zBt)

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"Another trillion dollars to Ukraine Oligarchs will goose the GDP and GOP numbers, rubes! Read a book on economics sometime ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 06, 2024 03:54 PM (f79f5)

137 Seems to me that the price gap between shitty fast food and a casual sit-down is now small enough to make it very hard to justify the fast food option. It's not even like fast food is actually fast any more.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at May 06, 2024 03:50 PM (uLJBD)
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Yeah...sure...

Posted by: Purple-haired Fast Food Worker, Finishing Her Text Who Almost Called In Sick Today at May 06, 2024 03:54 PM (krQz2)

138 Ok. I saw on utube that hamas accepted a cease fire proposal from Egypt and Qatar. When did they even enter the war?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 06, 2024 03:54 PM (OiAR7)

139 Announcements like this make many of you frustrated or uncertain, but be assured we don't give a shit about any of you

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 06, 2024 03:54 PM (5S+sK)

140 Dining out is ridiculously expensive now.. I go to my local owned places… at least the robbery is not helping the chains…
Posted by: tubal at May 06, 2024

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All of our three regular dine-out places are local. Prices have gone up, but not by as much as places like Chili's or, sadly, even Chik-Fil-A.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 06, 2024 03:54 PM (J2vNu)

141 Awww. I missed the Biden fecation thread.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2024 03:51 PM (8zz6B)
______________

Relax. There'll be another one once F. Joe digests lunch.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 03:54 PM (YqDXo)

142 Legalinsurrection.com- Judge giving Trump his last time of bitching about his Kangaroo Court then its 30 days in the cooler.

Hope Trump has his baseball and glove

Posted by: Skip at May 06, 2024 03:54 PM (fwDg9)

143 Almost everybody else is like "Why pay for the bone?"
Posted by: Axeman

The Paolo is, how you say, amused.

Posted by: The Paolo at May 06, 2024 03:54 PM (AW6h8)

144 I heard that Wendy's is now offering Roach Burgers for only $1.99 with Fries and a Shake. Better for the environment also...

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 06, 2024 03:55 PM (Wb+1f)

145 There is a fine line between patronizing and pedantry.

Well, if we're going to be pedantic about it, one who doesn't patronize isn't a customer so Joe's original statement is correct as stated.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 06, 2024 03:55 PM (/y8xj)

146 He said you have two choices...work 100+ hours/week and make a little money, or pay a manager all of your profits.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

I have a feeling that banks and bridge funders are halting all restaurant loans. There's just no money it it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 06, 2024 03:55 PM (IG4Id)

147 "online safety of users."

This is such bullshit doubletalk - you think when they mention "safety" that they mean, keeping someone for stealing identify, scams, and rip offs.

But what they mean by "safety" is making sure you never hear anything you disagree with, and the people running that show are offended by everything imaginable. And they are all hyper progressive - so what offends them is you.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at May 06, 2024 03:55 PM (nLFEI)

148 I wonder if Fast Food getting expensive has anything to do with Food getting expensive.

Posted by: ... at May 06, 2024 03:55 PM (cyR1c)

149 This situation must occur with an increase in the price of the Giffen Good alone, not increases in prices in higher-quality goods that can be substituted for it.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at May 06, 2024 03:52 PM (SV9jd)
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Fair enough, but it never actually (well, very rarely) that way. Giffen goods only really exist in times of economic pressure. Without the pressure, they're still just inferior goods and the normal rules apply. So the more-expensive option doesn't have to (and, as you point out, strictly speaking *shouldn't*) get more expensive, but the more-expensive good getting more expensive will still force people further down the stack, and still result in more units moved of the inferior good despite the inferior good's higher (higher than before) price. The net effect is the same.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 03:55 PM (HnUIn)

150 The scam that restaurants get away with by paying some fraction of minimum wage to their waiters is stupid. That contributes to the problem, and of course our politicians are complicit.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 06, 2024 03:50 PM (d9fT1)

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Here in WA waitstaff make the regular state minimum wage. Which makes it really tough for me to want to tip what I would in ID.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 06, 2024 03:55 PM (FzDG4)

151 I wouldn't care if their idiotic ideas only hurt them.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2024 03:45 PM (LkLld)

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The overt envy and hatred of success is part of the kink.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 06, 2024 03:56 PM (f79f5)

152 If it's a Karen, shouldn't the term be "Matronizing?"

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, not trying to be pedantic at May 06, 2024 03:56 PM (PiwSw)

153 Sending the work back to India helps, but doesn't necessarily solve, all the HR issues endemic to mixed culture workplaces

*******************

Hindus are dirt cheap for a reason, in addition to lacking critical thinking skills largely because of their bullshit caste system, the 500 holidays they observe a year honoring Elephant Butt Fucker of Multiverses, many are so fucking arrogant and love to hindusplain especially to our female coworkers which end is up (and get it wrong)

eventually they'll all be replaced with AI and nobody will be able to tell the difference

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at May 06, 2024 03:56 PM (VTu1l)

154 Leftism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, is having fun

Posted by: ... at May 06, 2024 03:53 PM (cyR1c)
___________

Or that someone, somewhere is doing something because he wants to, and not because he's required to.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 03:56 PM (YqDXo)

155 You know what else is getting expensive? Slow Food, Stationary Food, and Moderate Speed Food.

Posted by: ... at May 06, 2024 03:56 PM (cyR1c)

156 We are heading to a depression if someone doesn't stop this
Posted by: Skip

FREE ZOLOFT FOR EVERYONE

Posted by: Joe Schmoe at May 06, 2024 03:57 PM (v0R5T)

157 136 We are heading to a depression if someone doesn't stop this
Posted by: Skip at May

We hear your cries for another bipartisan Inflation Reduction Act!
Posted by: The Gope at May 06, 2024 03:44 PM (j8zBt)

Saw on the morning news that the 10 jabillion migrants that recently arrived are having a positive 8mpact on keeping inflation down while also providing stability against recession and depression.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 06, 2024 03:57 PM (OiAR7)

158 114 True but I'm so sick and fucking tired of getting nickel-and-dimed and death-ed by a thousand cuts on all these fees and surcharges and tips and bullshit. All the while providing LESS service and quality than before. ...
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 06, 2024 03:49 PM (iFTx/)
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Yes. The point isn't whether or not restaurants are worth it (most aren't, in my experience, but I have a couple I like), but whether being nickled-and-dimed is worse than just being charged a high list price. I could see it either way.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 03:51 PM (HnUIn)
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Agree. But the restaurants seem to want to avoid a higher list price, because they go out of their way to shove all these fees and surcharges up your ass. I suspect the practical reality is that the fees and charges are just bullshit gloms and aren't really necessary. I suspect if they were forced to include these in higher prices, the total bill wouldn't go up as much as if they added surcharges. I suspect that's why they don't just include them in higher prices.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 06, 2024 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

159 Took my son to the emergency room, stomach pain and they asked if we had trouble paying for food, God help me I laughed and nearly said yes, and the Nurse Yeah I get it and I said No.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 06, 2024 03:57 PM (dKiJG)

160 The scam that restaurants get away with by paying some fraction of minimum wage to their waiters is stupid. That contributes to the problem, and of course our politicians are complicit.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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And of course waiters love it, most of the time, they usually make way more with tips than an hourly wage and it used to be largely under the table with cash.

i will say though, places that dont have tips tend to have awful service.

Posted by: Blago at May 06, 2024 03:57 PM (wMRY8)

161 79 Dining out is ridiculously expensive now.. I go to my local owned places… at least the robbery is not helping the chains…
Posted by: tubal at May 06, 2024 03:46 PM (PCK5/)

This is what I do...and I don't go out a lot (but I have 1 Vietnamese, 1 Indian, 1 Poke, and 1 Japanese place that all handle my allergies and have lunch specials and/or great prices)...my Chinese place closed in March. Yeah, not happy about that, but I only went 2x/year, so I probably didn't help...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 06, 2024 03:57 PM (exHjb)

162 I wouldn't care if their idiotic ideas only hurt them.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2024 03:45 PM (LkLld)
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That's why they should stay in charge of blue cities and keep the damage there.

But, they have been too "successful" of late, and have finally absorbed the buffer at the national level.

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 03:57 PM (krQz2)

163 A few years back, Omaha instituted a 1 1/2% tax on restaurant meal -- both take out or stay and eat. There was a lot of screaming and hollering at the time, but people got used to it.

Why the extra tax? The obvious: Omaha needed money. Nebraska allows cities and town to tax at 7 1/2%. Sales tax in Omaha at that time was 5%, so Omaha was within State guidelines, and it was only restaurant meals. The restaurants got their revenge by naming the tax whatever they wanted on the ticket. And, boy, did they get creative!

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel and all Jews everywhere at May 06, 2024 03:57 PM (ET1Q8)

164 "New stuff mandated stuff is flammable"

Flammable freon, huh? That stuff turn into mustard gas at like 1000 degrees, still?

Posted by: Ribbed at May 06, 2024 03:58 PM (Ectld)

165 You can't walk out of mcdonald's or burger king without spending over $20 for two people

Chicago suburb prices:
McDouble $3.29 (400 cal)
Small Fry $1.99 (230 cal)

While that's about twice as much as it's worth, it's around $12 for two people, not $20.

Posted by: Chuck C at May 06, 2024 03:58 PM (yOPBE)

166 There is a fine line between patronizing and pedantry. And pederasty.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 03:58 PM (YqDXo)

167 I don't know why they call this stuff hamburger helper. It does just fine by itself, huh? I like it better than tuna helper myself, don't you, Clark?

Posted by: Cousin Eddie at May 06, 2024 03:58 PM (4I/2K)

168 Agree. But the restaurants seem to want to avoid a higher list price, because they go out of their way to shove all these fees and surcharges up your ass. I suspect the practical reality is that the fees and charges are just bullshit gloms and aren't really necessary. I suspect if they were forced to include these in higher prices, the total bill wouldn't go up as much as if they added surcharges. I suspect that's why they don't just include them in higher prices.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 06, 2024 03:57 PM (iFTx/)
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Not sure. The absence of transparency might allow net final price to go up even further.

I have no idea. CA will provide an experimental case, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 03:58 PM (HnUIn)

169 We just raised prices last month. Avocado Toast with tomato and micro greens topped with two poached eggs is 15.99. Quiche Lorraine served with a homemade muffin and small fruit cup is the same. Add in a couple cups of coffee and breakfast for two can approach $40.

Posted by: jwest at May 06, 2024 03:58 PM (VP9ao)

170 118 Damn dirty Kuklaks!

i saw kuklak open for fran ampersand ollie at the salt palace back in the noughties

Posted by: anachronda at May 06, 2024 04:00 PM (v3pYe)

171 What's going to happen when the best and brightest say, "screw it" and opt for a job filling burgers rather than doing a job that doesn't pay much more but requires a ton of experience and responsibility?

You'll see even further erosion of the low skill job market.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 06, 2024 04:00 PM (tT6L1)

172 I'd rather be charged a high price than nickel and dimed. More transparent.

When a place tries to be sneaky and a patron feels like they have been taken advantage of, high probability they dont come back.

I'm not going to be "angry" when I order an $18 burrito and a $18 burrito shows up on my bill.

I will be mad if I order a $15 burrito and $3 in handling fees shows up on my tab.

Posted by: Blago at May 06, 2024 04:00 PM (wMRY8)

173 "I have no idea. CA will provide an experimental case, though."

Assuming the left and their voters had any interest in learning from the past.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 06, 2024 04:00 PM (Ectld)

174 118 Damn dirty Kuklaks!

i saw kuklak open for fran ampersand ollie at the salt palace back in the noughties
Posted by: anachronda at May 06, 2024

***
"The Naughty Noughties!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 06, 2024 04:01 PM (J2vNu)

175 There is a fine line between patronizing and pedantry. And pederasty.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 03:58 PM (YqDXo)
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Nope!

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 04:01 PM (krQz2)

176 >>But, they have been too "successful" of late, and have finally absorbed the buffer at the national level.

Obama promised the he would "fundamentally change" America. It's a lot easier to change after you destroy the place. Build, Back, Better.

Every policy Biden has impemented has been aimed at tearing the country apart.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2024 04:01 PM (LkLld)

177 124 All the profit in restaurants is in the design and construction.

Posted by: Ripley at May 06, 2024 03:50 PM (JojsZ)

A long time ago I toyed with the idea of starting a restaurant.

I spoke with a friend who was a very successful executive chef at a top five restaurant in NYC.

He said you have two choices...work 100+ hours/week and make a little money, or pay a manager all of your profits.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 06, 2024 03:52 PM (d9fT1)
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As I have said before, many restaurants and especially bars/nightlife are owned or backed by guys who are already rich and aren't interested in making a profit. They want the vanity of owning these kinds of businesses, and all the perks that come with them (including easy access to hot women).

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 06, 2024 04:01 PM (iFTx/)

178 The higher wages haven't bit into the pizza shops I am familiar with yet. (Not CA, rather TX) But, they sell a higher end pie to a higher end customer. Two larges - about $40. That's before any drinks.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 06, 2024 03:38 PM (AW6h

Here in upstate SC, an extra large cheese and pepperoni runs about $26. This is a local place, not a chain, and their pizza is awesome.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 06, 2024 04:02 PM (w6EFb)

179 Agree. But the restaurants seem to want to avoid a higher list price, because they go out of their way to shove all these fees and surcharges up your ass. I suspect the practical reality is that the fees and charges are just bullshit gloms and aren't really necessary. I suspect if they were forced to include these in higher prices, the total bill wouldn't go up as much as if they added surcharges. I suspect that's why they don't just include them in higher prices.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 06, 2024 03:57 PM (iFTx/)
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The list price is low. But when you add in shipping and handling, restocking fee, etc. the resulting price is eye-popping.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 04:02 PM (YqDXo)

180 Without a liquor license… better be a breakfast joint..

Posted by: tubal at May 06, 2024 04:02 PM (PCK5/)

181 We design a lot of restaurants. Most are broke by the time they get built since massive cost overruns are standard and many have no idea what they getting into. Running one is even worse.

All the profit in restaurants is in the design and construction.
Posted by: Ripley at May 06, 2024 03:50 PM (JojsZ)

In my neighborhood there was an Indian place there for decades. It had a fire and was closed for years. Opened again and folded after a couple more years. A Chinese place that had been around a long time folded too. Some trendy-American place took its place which had really poor food, round burgers on very hard bread. Nothing worth going to, and I never see customers there, unlike the Chinese place.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 06, 2024 04:02 PM (eoQWY)

182 The left thinks you peons eat too much and too much of the wrong things anyway.

So...if restaurants targeted at working/middle class people close they are quite happy with that result.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 06, 2024 04:02 PM (ibTVg)

183 You know it's like people complain about how much the oil company or the local service station is "gouging" you at the pump.

When Michigan and the Federal Government take multiples of what the station makes and that's more than what the oil company makes.

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 04:02 PM (krQz2)

184 As I have said before, many restaurants and especially bars/nightlife are owned or backed by guys who are already rich and aren't interested in making a profit.
_____________

Mafiosi?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 04:03 PM (YqDXo)

185 Chicago suburb prices:
McDouble $3.29 (400 cal)
Small Fry $1.99 (230 cal)

While that's about twice as much as it's worth, it's around $12 for two people, not $20.
Posted by: Chuck C at May 06, 2024 03:58 PM (yOPBE)

Mid Michigan price:

Big Mac meal (small fry and Coke) $9.81

Posted by: jwest at May 06, 2024 04:03 PM (VP9ao)

186 You know, maybe putting price controls on labor is not the way to make every one rich.

No, wait, we should put price controls on energy and food as well, that is what will fix this problem!

Posted by: Kindltot at May 06, 2024 04:03 PM (D7oie)

187 144 I heard that Wendy's is now offering Roach Burgers for only $1.99 with Fries and a Shake. Better for the environment also...

organic free-range?

Posted by: anachronda at May 06, 2024 04:03 PM (v3pYe)

188 “IDF forces are now attacking and operating against the targets of the terrorist organization Hamas in a targeted manner in Rafah,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement Monday night local time.

Allah will protect the innocent

Posted by: SMOD at May 06, 2024 04:03 PM (RHGPo)

189 186 You know, maybe putting price controls on labor is not the way to make every one rich.

No, wait, we should put price controls on energy and food as well, that is what will fix this problem!
Posted by: Kindltot at May 06, 2024 04:03 PM (D7oie)

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What about rent?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

190 > i will say though, places that dont have tips tend to have awful service.

YUUUUUP.

Below average restaurant service in the US is better than average restaurant service in most of Australia and a whole lot of Europe.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 06, 2024 04:04 PM (6OrcJ)

191 This redhead in an open shirt has rarely has to pay at restaurants, so doesn't really grok the problem:
http://tiny.cc/lr6zxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 04:04 PM (HnUIn)

192 Went to the local Mexican place run by a family, not some box chain. House margarita, a chile rellno plate, and a plate of tacos al pastor was about $45 with a 20% tip.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 06, 2024 04:04 PM (YRsIm)

193 Sure, why not?

@TheInsiderPaper
BREAKING: Trump hush money prosecutor was paid $12,000 by Democratic National Committee for 'political consulting' - Daily Mail

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2024 04:04 PM (LkLld)

194 188 “IDF forces are now attacking and operating against the targets of the terrorist organization Hamas in a targeted manner in Rafah,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement Monday night local time.

Allah will protect the innocent
Posted by: SMOD at May 06, 2024 04:03 PM (RHGPo)

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Needs rewrite. Uses two variations of "target" in the same sentence.

Go back to Tel Aviv and start the attack over when you're finished.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 04:04 PM (GBKbO)

195 organic free-range?
Posted by: anachronda at May 06, 2024 04:03 PM (v3pYe)
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Well, the roaches are raised on the vegetable oil behind the range, so, yeah...

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 06, 2024 04:04 PM (tT6L1)

196
It's been pointed out, and is worth mentioning, that union labor contracts often have the minimum wage built into the formula for the wages of union members. If the minimum wage goes up, so do the wages of a lot of unionized workers. Unions are part of the push for minimum wage increases.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 06, 2024 04:04 PM (7xqnr)

197 "I have no idea. CA will provide an experimental case, though."

Assuming the left and their voters had any interest in learning from the past.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 06, 2024 04:00 PM (Ectld)
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In California? I've been hoping for that for decades now. No such luck.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 04:05 PM (YqDXo)

198 I wonder if Fast Food getting expensive has anything to do with Food getting expensive.

Posted by: ... at May 06, 2024 03:55 PM (cyR1c)

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Until he gets around to curing cancer, F. Joe has decided to settle for curing obesity.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 06, 2024 04:05 PM (f79f5)

199 I understand that if the restaurant is prevented from raising prices, every meal sold loses money. However, because they keep the prices low for the customer, they will be able to make up the losses on volume of sales. Everybody wins.

Posted by: Certain Economics Grad from Boston U at May 06, 2024 04:05 PM (Eur7t)

200 This redhead in an open shirt has rarely has to pay at restaurants, so doesn't really grok the problem:
http://tiny.cc/lr6zxz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 04:04 PM (HnUIn)
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Barter? I hardly knew her!

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 04:05 PM (krQz2)

201 I wonder if Fast Food getting expensive has anything to do with Food getting expensive.

Posted by: ... at May 06, 2024 03:55 PM (cyR1c)
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Also, the destruction of food production....

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 04:05 PM (krQz2)

202 It's all about control.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at May 06, 2024 04:06 PM (qZdIZ)

203 199 I understand that if the restaurant is prevented from raising prices, every meal sold loses money. However, because they keep the prices low for the customer, they will be able to make up the losses on volume of sales. Everybody wins.

adding a value menu allows them to turn the volume up to 11

Posted by: anachronda at May 06, 2024 04:06 PM (v3pYe)

204 Asim Husain, vice president of Google Developer Ecosystem
......

I know, move all Goggle employees to Gaza!

Posted by: wth at May 06, 2024 04:06 PM (v0R5T)

205 We've been eating out less and less and cooking at home more. Even that isn't cheap anymore, prices are up 50% over what they were under Trump, more if we go pre-Covid.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 06, 2024 04:06 PM (xcxpd)

206 Until he gets around to curing cancer, F. Joe has decided to settle for curing obesity.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 06, 2024 04:05 PM (f79f5)

He's causing it to increase... People have to eat the cheap stuff instead of healthier food

Posted by: It's me donna at May 06, 2024 04:06 PM (Akjoo)

207 188 “IDF forces are now attacking and operating against the targets of the terrorist organization Hamas in a targeted manner in Rafah,” the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement Monday night local time.

Allah will protect the innocent
Posted by: SMOD at May 06, 2024 04:03 PM (RHGPo)

If he can find one.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 06, 2024 04:06 PM (N39Ws)

208 192 Went to the local Mexican place run by a family, not some box chain. House margarita, a chile rellno plate, and a plate of tacos al pastor was about $45 with a 20% tip.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 06, 2024 04:04 PM (YRsIm)

Seems high to me… maybe I am just cheap..

Posted by: tubal at May 06, 2024 04:06 PM (PCK5/)

209 The list price is low. But when you add in shipping and handling, restocking fee, etc. the resulting price is eye-popping.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 04:02 PM (YqDXo)

I admit, my Indian place has gotten in to the surcharge game for allergies. Their lunch special has naan, but they always swapped in roti for me free due to allergies (and it's the same price on the menu) - in fact, their website touts how well they accommodate allergies.

So, I admit, when I went this weekend with the fam to lunch, I didn't order the lunch special and just got an app - saved about $10 (if you count the tax and tip saved on top of the lunch savings) and wasn't annoyed by a surcharge.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 06, 2024 04:06 PM (exHjb)

210 For only 3 easy payments of $9.99, plus S&H, you too can enjoy this sumptuous, savory breakfast. But wait . . . there's more!

Posted by: TV Pitchman at May 06, 2024 04:06 PM (4I/2K)

211 65
‘ It's one of the mysteries of the universe.’

The mystery to me is why anyone votes for them.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 06, 2024 04:07 PM (jbnUc)

212 184 As I have said before, many restaurants and especially bars/nightlife are owned or backed by guys who are already rich and aren't interested in making a profit.
_____________

Mafiosi?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 04:03 PM (YqDXo)
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Back in the day, yes. But now the Italians are mostly gone and replaced with Israelis (lots of NYC clubs are owned or backed by Israelis) and the Wall Street set.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 06, 2024 04:07 PM (iFTx/)

213 Today must be Redhead Monday.

Posted by: wth at May 06, 2024 04:07 PM (v0R5T)

214 As I have said before, many restaurants and especially bars/nightlife are owned or backed by guys who are already rich and aren't interested in making a profit. They want the vanity of owning these kinds of businesses, and all the perks that come with them (including easy access to hot women).
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 06, 2024 04:01 PM (iFTx/)

Now the guy's got Paulie as a partner. Any problems, he goes to Paulie. Trouble with the bill? He can go to Paulie. Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Tommy, he can call Paulie. But now the guy's gotta come up with Paulie's money every week, no matter what. Business bad? Fuck you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? Fuck you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning, huh? Fuck you, pay me.

Posted by: Zombie Henry Hill, Rat Bastard at May 06, 2024 04:07 PM (4a+k3)

215 We've been eating out less and less and cooking at home more. Even that isn't cheap anymore, prices are up 50% over what they were under Trump, more if we go pre-Covid.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 06, 2024 04:06 PM (xcxpd)
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When this inflation first set in, but before the shell-shock could dull the horror of it, my sister-in-law started weeping in the car after leaving the supermarket.

Ain't nothing cheap anymore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 04:08 PM (HnUIn)

216 I understand that if the restaurant is prevented from raising prices, every meal sold loses money. However, because they keep the prices low for the customer, they will be able to make up the losses on volume of sales. Everybody wins.

Posted by: Certain Economics Grad from Boston U at May 06, 2024 04:05 PM (Eur7t)

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EV sales hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 06, 2024 04:08 PM (f79f5)

217 It's all about control.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at May 06, 2024 04:06 PM (qZdIZ)
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Leftists don't need Viagra. They get a chubby from controlling others. Mandate this, prohibit that, and they're ready to rock.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 04:08 PM (YqDXo)

218 Big Mac meal (small fry and Coke) $9.81

Well, if you're going to be getting one of them fancy "Big Macs" you're going to have to pay.

Posted by: Chuck C at May 06, 2024 04:08 PM (yOPBE)

219 Agree. But the restaurants seem to want to avoid a higher list price, because they go out of their way to shove all these fees and surcharges up your ass. I suspect the practical reality is that the fees and charges are just bullshit gloms and aren't really necessary. I suspect if they were forced to include these in higher prices, the total bill wouldn't go up as much as if they added surcharges. I suspect that's why they don't just include them in higher prices.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 06, 2024 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

the demand for restaurant food is reflective of the cost. When a happy meal is $30 there is not much demand, same thing with a steak or a bowl of pad thai.
They have to keep the price down.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 06, 2024 04:08 PM (D7oie)

220 192 Went to the local Mexican place run by a family, not some box chain. House margarita, a chile rellno plate, and a plate of tacos al pastor was about $45 with a 20% tip.

at my local arby's the reuben has gone plaid at $15 just for the sandwich, up from the previously ludicrous $12.

Posted by: anachronda at May 06, 2024 04:08 PM (v3pYe)

221 maybe off topic, but remember when the first mcdonald's opened in moscow in the 1980s? customers couldn't believe that the people who worked there were pretty nice to them

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 06, 2024 04:08 PM (B1FKF)

222 I hope and pray the IDF flattens what's left of Gaza.

Not one stone left upon another. Bulldoze it.

Ship the residents to Iran. Or drop them in the ocean. I. Don't. Care.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 06, 2024 04:08 PM (46TUD)

223 218 Big Mac meal (small fry and Coke) $9.81

Well, if you're going to be getting one of them fancy "Big Macs" you're going to have to pay.
Posted by: Chuck C at May 06, 2024 04:08 PM (yOPBE)

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Big Macs used to delight me as a younger man.

I've since developed a taste for the Royale with Cheese.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

224 Leftists don't need Viagra. They get a chubby from controlling others. Mandate this, prohibit that, and they're ready to rock.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 04:08 PM (YqDXo)
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The funny part is that they think other people are "authoritarians", not them.

But that's the power of narcissism. It's always them, never you.

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 04:09 PM (krQz2)

225 At least 50 of the roles were based at Google's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Google is expected to hire replacement workers for the roles in Mexico and India, CNBC reported, citing a review of internal documents.

LOL. I wonder who the laid-off workers voted for.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 06, 2024 04:09 PM (uxCna)

226 Until he gets around to curing cancer, F. Joe has decided to settle for curing obesity.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 06, 2024 04:05 PM (f79f5)
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What about diarrhea?

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 06, 2024 04:09 PM (iFTx/)

227 Posted by: tubal at May 06, 2024 04:06 PM (PCK5/)

It is. But the service is good, and the food is better, and I don't have to do anything afterwards except take a nap.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 06, 2024 04:09 PM (YRsIm)

228 re 216: does said grad have google eyes and bigguns, because that sounds like her

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 06, 2024 04:09 PM (B1FKF)

229 Good. Restaurant workers love them some minimum wage hikes. Especially in Cali.

Fuck your war.

Posted by: Montec at May 06, 2024 04:10 PM (8ZLyY)

230 226 Until he gets around to curing cancer, F. Joe has decided to settle for curing obesity.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 06, 2024 04:05 PM (f79f5)
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What about diarrhea?
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 06, 2024 04:09 PM (iFTx/)

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Inducing diarrhea is part of the whole curing obesity thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

231 When this inflation first set in, but before the shell-shock could dull the horror of it, my sister-in-law started weeping in the car after leaving the supermarket.

Ain't nothing cheap anymore.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 04:08 PM (HnUIn)

Ooof. I'm lucky enough to not need to cry but a very small bag of groceries is $20 if I'm lucky...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 06, 2024 04:10 PM (xcxpd)

232 It really is a testament to how stupid they think we are.

"They will pay, relax".

Posted by: Disgusted at May 06, 2024 04:10 PM (Z8Yh2)

233 Over the past 2 years, eggs have more than tripled and bacon is double. When you're going through 500 dozen eggs a week it adds up, and we're just a little place. Everything is way up, from frying oil to toilet paper. But oddly enough, our business is way up too. We lost a few competitors over Covid.

Posted by: jwest at May 06, 2024 04:10 PM (VP9ao)

234 Until he gets around to curing cancer, F. Joe has decided to settle for curing obesity.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 06, 2024 04:05 PM (f79f5)
______

What about diarrhea?
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 06, 2024 04:09 PM (iFTx/)

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Inducing diarrhea is part of the whole curing obesity thing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

Ah. Hydroxycut model.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 06, 2024 04:10 PM (xcxpd)

235 233 We lost a few competitors over Covid.
Posted by: jwest at May 06, 2024 04:10 PM (VP9ao)

=========

"Covid"

*touches nose*
*nods sagaciously*

Arson.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 04:11 PM (GBKbO)

236 Don't like this economy? OK, just wait for Trump and the GOP to ruin it. Authoritarians always screw up the economy — come to think of it, GOP presidents have done that for decades.

...macroeconomic indicators look great, but your household budget may remain a struggle. Gas prices keep rising, but that's largely the result of decisions made in Saudi Arabia and Russia, well beyond the Biden administration’s control...People in this country are kept unsettled and economically stressed by living with a threadbare social safety net, one relentlessly under attack by Republicans.

if Americans actually paid attention to how other countries are dealing with inflation, for example, they might feel a lot better about the Biden economy. For that matter, if Americans were better versed in the writings and actions of our founders, they might understand that they believed in a strong central government and sometimes held surprisingly progressive ideas about how to manage an economy.

Republicans are not moved by expertise or evidence but by ideology, like the thoroughly discredited idea that tax cuts for the wealthy will somehow “trickle down” to benefit the average Jane and Joe.

Posted by: Intercepted Salon.com Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 06, 2024 04:11 PM (JCZqz)

237 @171 What's going to happen when the best and brightest say, "screw it" and opt for a job filling burgers

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As I've observed to more than one person recently, many IT Support positions pay less than flipping burgers in California.

Posted by: junior at May 06, 2024 04:11 PM (wk6ZQ)

238 Want to put the hurt on a fast food restaurant such as Taco Bell, Mickey D's, etc.? Avoid all soft drinks. The big money maker for any fast food franchise is soft drink sales.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 06, 2024 04:11 PM (tT6L1)

239 Took my son to the emergency room, stomach pain and they asked if we had trouble paying for food, God help me I laughed and nearly said yes, and the Nurse Yeah I get it and I said No.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 06, 2024 03:57 PM

They ask me that at my Doctor's office every year when I have to fill out that stupid wellness questionnaire.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 06, 2024 04:11 PM (QNSds)

240 Ooof. I'm lucky enough to not need to cry but a very small bag of groceries is $20 if I'm lucky...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 06, 2024 04:10 PM (xcxpd)
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As am I. As are they, now. It was a bad patch, and the inflation hit like a ton of bricks at a very inopportune moment. It took things from bad to really really bad.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 04:11 PM (HnUIn)

241 What about diarrhea?
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 06, 2024 04:09 PM (iFTx/)
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Dear Diarrhea,
...

Posted by: President Joe Shartzem at May 06, 2024 04:11 PM (krQz2)

242 Until he gets around to curing cancer, F. Joe has decided to settle for curing obesity.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at May 06, 2024 04:05 PM (f79f5)
_________

He should be curing senility.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 04:12 PM (YqDXo)

243 > at my local arby's the reuben has gone plaid at $15 just for the sandwich, up from the previously ludicrous $12.

Taco Time is now like $14.50 for a soft drink, tater tots, and a beef burrito. Before Covid it was closer to $11.50.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 06, 2024 04:12 PM (6OrcJ)

244 ... Republicans are not moved by expertise or evidence but by ideology, ...
Posted by: Intercepted Salon.com Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 06, 2024 04:11 PM (JCZqz)
++++
High-fucking-larious.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 04:12 PM (HnUIn)

245 $20 an hour will buy a lot of illegals.

Posted by: t-bird at May 06, 2024 04:12 PM (KBusA)

246 maybe off topic, but remember when the first mcdonald's opened in moscow in the 1980s? customers couldn't believe that the people who worked there were pretty nice to them
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 06, 2024 04:08 PM (B1FKF)

Local guy took them over recently because of the sanctions. Made some changes, but it looked nice and was inexpensive. The Happy Meal equivalent had a little book included.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 06, 2024 04:12 PM (eoQWY)

247 236 if Americans actually paid attention to how other countries are dealing with inflation, for example, they might feel a lot better about the Biden economy. For that matter, if Americans were better versed in the writings and actions of our founders, they might understand that they believed in a strong central government and sometimes held surprisingly progressive ideas about how to manage an economy.

Republicans are not moved by expertise or evidence but by ideology, like the thoroughly discredited idea that tax cuts for the wealthy will somehow “trickle down” to benefit the average Jane and Joe.
Posted by: Intercepted Salon.com Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 06, 2024 04:11 PM (JCZqz)

========

1. Alexander Hamilton is not the only founder. Perhaps read something other than Hamilton lyrics.

2. The right is less for cutting taxes for the rich and more for wealth taxes on the rich, to be honest. The rich have made an enemy of a lot of the right.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

248 Big Macs used to delight me as a younger man.
I've since developed a taste for the Royale with Cheese.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

The secret is to buy a Big Mac and a cheese burger. Then take the meat and cheese and condiments from the cheese burger and slide it into the Big Mac.

You now have a Big Mick.

Your welcome.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 06, 2024 04:12 PM (4a+k3)

249 . Gas prices keep rising, but that's largely the result of decisions made in Saudi Arabia and Russia, well beyond the Biden administration’s control...
—-

How come Russia and Saudi didn’t raise gas prices to $4 between 2017 and 2020? Weird huh?

Posted by: Montec at May 06, 2024 04:12 PM (8ZLyY)

250 Water with lemon… watch the waitress face-fall…

Posted by: tubal at May 06, 2024 04:13 PM (PCK5/)

251 Big Macs used to delight me as a younger man.

I've since developed a taste for the Royale with Cheese.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 04:09 PM (GBKbO)
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The classic McDonald's cheeseburger is the only burger on which I enjoy ketchup. Otherwise, I just steer clear of ketchup in all its forms.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 06, 2024 04:13 PM (7fElN)

252
But now that every beef cow in America will be chipped, you will know exactly where your burger came from, what it ate , where it died, and who the Guatemalan was that butchered it, so you get a much better value.

Thanks, California!

Posted by: Auspex at May 06, 2024 04:13 PM (j4U/Z)

253 For those of you on the fence about Trump, I need a second post to include this gem from Salon. Who could be against him after reading this?

Trump appears ready to follow the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which calls for replacing expert civil servants with a legion of loyalist lackeys, ditching climate science, imprisoning or expelling immigrants who are crucial to the economy, cutting taxes further and reducing Social Security and Medicaid benefits, forcing a misogynistic theocracy on a nation founded on the separation of church and state, and turning our back on historical allies around the world. Oh and, first and foremost, getting revenge on all of Trump’s enemies.

Posted by: Intercepted Salon.com Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 06, 2024 04:13 PM (JCZqz)

254 At least 50 of the roles were based at Google's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Google is expected to hire replacement workers for the roles in Mexico and India, CNBC reported, citing a review of internal documents.
.......

Goggle runs landscaping services and 7-11's?

Posted by: wth at May 06, 2024 04:13 PM (v0R5T)

255 Don't like this economy? OK, just wait for Trump and the GOP to ruin it. Authoritarians always screw up the economy — come to think of it, GOP presidents have done that for decades.

Posted by: Intercepted Salon.com Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 06, 2024 04:11 PM (JCZqz)
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LOL. Right on time.

Posted by: President Joe Shartzem at May 06, 2024 04:13 PM (krQz2)

256 244 ... Republicans are not moved by expertise or evidence but by ideology, ...
Posted by: Intercepted Salon.com Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 06, 2024 04:11 PM (JCZqz)
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High-fucking-larious.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 04:12 PM (HnUIn)

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"The experts say," and the left's brain turns off.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 04:13 PM (GBKbO)

257 187 144 I heard that Wendy's is now offering Roach Burgers for only $1.99 with Fries and a Shake. Better for the environment also...

organic free-range?

Posted by: anachronda at May 06, 2024 04:03 PM (v3pYe)

Straight from the sewers, so also recyclers.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 06, 2024 04:13 PM (ynpvh)

258 Don't like this economy? OK, just wait for Trump and the GOP to ruin it.
_______________

That's like ruining Hiroshima on Aug. 7, 1945.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 04:13 PM (YqDXo)

259 >>Republicans are not moved by expertise or evidence but by ideology, like the thoroughly discredited idea that tax cuts for the wealthy will somehow “trickle down” to benefit the average Jane and Joe.

It's the opposite of discredited.

Do these idiots realize we were alive when Trump was president?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2024 04:14 PM (LkLld)

260 For those of you on the fence about Trump, I need a second post to include this gem from Salon. Who could be against him after reading this?

Posted by: Intercepted Salon.com Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 06, 2024 04:13 PM (JCZqz)
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Really. Stop selling. I'm sold.

Posted by: President Joe Shartzem at May 06, 2024 04:14 PM (krQz2)

261 But now that every beef cow in America will be chipped, you will know exactly where your burger came from, what it ate , where it died, and who the Guatemalan was that butchered it, so you get a much better value. ...
Posted by: Auspex at May 06, 2024 04:13 PM (j4U/Z)
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Will the high-end stuff come with a little pamphlet about the animal? It's name, location, a picture, etc.?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 04:14 PM (HnUIn)

262 I would go to Chick-fil-A more often, but by the time I've finished washing all the feet-of-color I've lost my appetite.

Posted by: Bunions and Hammertoes at May 06, 2024 04:14 PM (V5BDR)

263 McDonald’s needs to deploy a fleet of taco-truck burger wagons; Low wages, black market payroll and impossible to track cash sales.

Posted by: 13times at May 06, 2024 04:14 PM (WHVu+)

264 "The official government numbers are great. Sure, you're still having trouble affording *checks notes* groceries, but you're just not being grateful for the great government numbers."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 04:14 PM (GBKbO)

265 Do these idiots realize we were alive when Trump was president?
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2024 04:14 PM (LkLld)
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Sort of. It's irrelevant. Every day is Year Zero.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 04:14 PM (HnUIn)

266 Trump appears ready to follow the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which calls for replacing expert civil servants with a legion of loyalist lackeys, ditching climate science, imprisoning or expelling immigrants who are crucial to the economy, cutting taxes further and reducing Social Security and Medicaid benefits, forcing a misogynistic theocracy on a nation founded on the separation of church and state, and turning our back on historical allies around the world. Oh and, first and foremost, getting revenge on all of Trump’s enemies.

—

It moved. A lot.

Posted by: Montec at May 06, 2024 04:15 PM (8ZLyY)

267 265 Do these idiots realize we were alive when Trump was president?
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2024 04:14 PM (LkLld)
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Sort of. It's irrelevant. Every day is Year Zero.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 04:14 PM (HnUIn)

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Is this why Joe Biden is the first black president?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

268 Intrepid AoS...it must be tough to cull the stupidest of the stupid.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 06, 2024 04:15 PM (tT6L1)

269 Local guy took them over recently because of the sanctions. Made some changes, but it looked nice and was inexpensive. The Happy Meal equivalent had a little book included.

Amazing that the guy who had franchised the McDonald's restaurants in Russia for decades knew how to make burgers without McDonald's assistance.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 06, 2024 04:15 PM (uxCna)

270 It's the opposite of discredited.

Do these idiots realize we were alive when Trump was president?
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2024 04:14 PM (LkLld)
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No, because they were still eating crayons.

In grade school, in case that had to be specified.

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 04:15 PM (krQz2)

271 221 maybe off topic, but remember when the first mcdonald's opened in moscow in the 1980s? customers couldn't believe that the people who worked there were pretty nice to them
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 06, 2024 04:08 PM (B1FKF)

I've been to a couple of the McDonalds in Moscow. Of course they are called something else now, but back then it was great because you just pointed to items you wanted on the menu attached to the counter and paid whatever came up on the register screen. No need to speak Russian. It was also a prestigious job for young Russians to work there.

Posted by: jwest at May 06, 2024 04:15 PM (VP9ao)

272 Today must be Redhead Monday.
Posted by: wth at May 06, 2024

***
Every day is Redhead Monday!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 06, 2024 04:16 PM (J2vNu)

273 268 Intrepid AoS...it must be tough to cull the stupidest of the stupid.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 06, 2024 04:15 PM (tT6L1)

It's like there's a contest to see who can say the most idiotic thing

Posted by: It's me donna at May 06, 2024 04:16 PM (Akjoo)

274 The last time I ate at McD's was before the coof, and IIRC a big mac meal was around $12 which I thought was insane (silicon valley). Here in Carmel, there's a little bistro grill that serves a 1/2 lb mesquite grilled burger with good fries and a side of fruit (strawberries, blueberries, mango, banana, grapes, rasberries and melon) for $12.95. It's YUGE. It was $10.95 when I first moved here, but thanks to Joe has gone up $2. Anyway, yes I need to buy a drink and tip, but I'm guessing at this point I'm spending another $3-4 tops, having a vastly superior meal with real ingredients in an equally superior environment.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at May 06, 2024 04:16 PM (zB/T/)

275 if Americans were better versed in the writings and actions of our founders, they might understand that they believed in a strong central government
_______________

Hence the Articles of Confederation.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 04:16 PM (YqDXo)

276 No, because they were still eating crayons.

In grade school, in case that had to be specified.
Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 04:15 PM (krQz2)
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I read that as "grad school."

Still works.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 04:16 PM (HnUIn)

277 "The official government numbers are great. Sure, you're still having trouble affording *checks notes* groceries, but you're just not being grateful for the great government numbers."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 04:14 PM

Hey it's not my fault that the peons refuse to give me credit for raising the chocolate ration from 25 grams to 20 grams......

Posted by: Joe (Big Guy) Biden at May 06, 2024 04:17 PM (QNSds)

278 We just raised prices last month. Avocado Toast with tomato and micro greens topped with two poached eggs is 15.99. Quiche Lorraine served with a homemade muffin and small fruit cup is the same. Add in a couple cups of coffee and breakfast for two can approach $40.

Posted by: jwest at May 06, 2024 03:58 PM (VP9ao)

How much for real food, like biscuits and gravy?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2024 04:17 PM (8zz6B)

279 No, because they were still eating crayons.

In grade school, in case that had to be specified.
Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 04:15 PM (krQz2)
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We're talking people who got a participation graduation certificate after 10 years in 1st grade.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 06, 2024 04:17 PM (tT6L1)

280
I didn't enjoy going out to dinner Friday night and buying 2 adult meals, 2 sodas, one kids plate with lemonade, no dessert and getting a bill for $68 without tip. This wasn't some swanky place either.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 06, 2024 04:17 PM (+oR7L)

281 Crazy Ivan.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 06, 2024 04:17 PM (QNSds)

282 275 if Americans were better versed in the writings and actions of our founders, they might understand that they believed in a strong central government
_______________

Hence the Articles of Confederation.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 04:16 PM (YqDXo)

=======

Hence a prescription of powers in the Constitution and then the Tenth Amendment which said, "Everything else is the responsibilities of the states."

They sure obviously loved centralized government so much that they decentralized power both vertically and horizontally.

Seriously, they watched Hamilton and think he's the only founder.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

283 I've been to a couple of the McDonalds in Moscow. Of course they are called something else now

Вкусно – и точка

'Tasty & that's it'

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 06, 2024 04:17 PM (uxCna)

284 Minimum wage is a price control

The government wants to interfere in order to force businessmen to conduct their affairs in a different way than they would have chosen if they had obeyed only the consumers. Thus, all the measures of interventionism by the government are directed toward restricting the supremacy of consumers.

Mises gives an example of a price ceiling on milk. While those who enact such an intervention may intend to make milk more affordable for poorer families, there are many unintended consequences: increased demand, decreased supply, non-price rationing in the form of long queues at shops that sell milk, and, importantly, grounds for the government to intervene in new ways now that their initial intervention has not achieved its intended purpose. So, in Mises’s example, he traces through the new interventions, like government rationing, price controls for cattle food, price controls for luxury goods, and so on until the government has intervened in virtually every part of the economy, i.e., socialism.

(Mises knew more economics than Hamilton)

Posted by: Kindltot at May 06, 2024 04:18 PM (D7oie)

285 252
But now that every beef cow in America will be chipped, you will know exactly where your burger came from, what it ate , where it died, and who the Guatemalan was that butchered it, so you get a much better value.

Thanks, California!
Posted by: Auspex at May 06, 2024 04:13 PM (j4U/Z)
Your burger came from a transgendered cow/bull. We had to use squirrel testicles, that's the reason for the new oreo-sized burgers.

Posted by: Eromero at May 06, 2024 04:18 PM (NxC5+)

286 Announcements of this sort may leave many of you feeling uncertain or frustrated," Asim Husain, vice president of Google Developer Ecosystem said in an email to staffers last week announcing the cuts, according to CNBC.

==

Developer Ecosystem ?????

Posted by: runner at May 06, 2024 04:18 PM (V13WU)

287 They ask me that at my Doctor's office every year when I have to fill out that stupid wellness questionnaire.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 06, 2024 04:11 PM (QNSds)

The mental health portion is what gets me. "Do you feel suicidal?" My first instinct was to reply using a line from Oceans 11 - "Only in the morning". Then I realize what road that'll lead to. So I look at the nurse and simply ask "If I really wanted to check out, do you honestly think I'm going to answer YES to this question?"

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 06, 2024 04:18 PM (N39Ws)

288 ... If Americans actually paid attention to how other countries are dealing with inflation, for example, they might feel a lot better about the Biden economy. For that matter, if Americans were better versed in the writings and actions of our founders, they might understand that they believed in a strong central government and sometimes held surprisingly progressive ideas about how to manage an economy. ...
Posted by: Intercepted Salon.com Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 06, 2024 04:11 PM (JCZqz)
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I see Salon's writers went to the Hollywood School of Shitting on Your Audience.

"Americans are so dumb! They don't listen to their betters because they're dumb and bitter clingers and shit."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 04:19 PM (HnUIn)

289 But now that every beef cow in America will be chipped, you will know exactly where your burger came from, what it ate , where it died, and who the Guatemalan was that butchered it, so you get a much better value. ...
Posted by: Auspex at May 06, 2024 04:13 PM (j4U/Z)
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Will the high-end stuff come with a little pamphlet about the animal? It's name, location, a picture, etc.?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 04:14 PM (HnUIn)

A Sally Struthers video clip?

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 06, 2024 04:19 PM (4I/2K)

290 i will say though, places that dont have tips tend to have awful service.

Posted by: Blago at May 06, 2024 03:57 PM (wMRY

One place I go has managed "no tipping" perfectly. The other places have discontinued it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 06, 2024 04:19 PM (d9fT1)

291 46 The customer only pays if they patronize.
Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 03:35 PM (krQz2)
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Well, yes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 03:39 PM (HnUIn)
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They wouldn't be customers otherwise!

Posted by: Ciampino - we don't need no stinkin' tips at May 06, 2024 04:19 PM (qfLjt)

292 Did y'all see the video of Seattle PD absolutely lighting up a 67 year old pedo?

Pedo thought he was meeting 7 and 11 year old girls. When the PoPo came out of the door, pedo drew his gun and fired a shot. SPD then put many holes in the man, reportedly even shooting him in the dick.

https://youtu.be/-ffFB1lEfxE

Posted by: bonhomme at May 06, 2024 04:19 PM (6OrcJ)

293 I've suddenly had it in my head to get a primary care physician for the first time in...twenty years.

Since I left home for college.

I'm almost 40. I guess I need some doctor's attention just in case by this point.

I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 04:19 PM (GBKbO)

294 Posted by: Intercepted Salon.com Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 06, 2024 04:13 PM (JCZqz)

Uh, "It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons to worship the Supreme Being, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping God in the manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession or sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship."

Massachusetts, when the Founders ran it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 06, 2024 04:19 PM (xaFKb)

295 The funny part is that they think other people are "authoritarians", not them.
____

Being a conservative, you have all the hallmarks of becoming authoritarian, so that's why we have to work so hard on your behalt to prevent you from becoming one. You really should be thanking us.

Posted by: Progressives at May 06, 2024 04:19 PM (Eur7t)

296 Steakflation

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 06, 2024 04:19 PM (63Dwl)

297 287 They ask me that at my Doctor's office every year when I have to fill out that stupid wellness questionnaire.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 06, 2024 04:11 PM (QNSds)

The mental health portion is what gets me. "Do you feel suicidal?" My first instinct was to reply using a line from Oceans 11 - "Only in the morning". Then I realize what road that'll lead to. So I look at the nurse and simply ask "If I really wanted to check out, do you honestly think I'm going to answer YES to this question?"
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 06, 2024 04:18 PM (N39Ws)

I just tend to draw a straight line down the page (once I ensure there's no trick question to stop that)...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 06, 2024 04:19 PM (exHjb)

298 One of the main reasons I would love a split of the US is so these lefty lunatics can experience their projections. What’s ironic is the reason they would never agree to a split is they know the Right is the only reason the USA hasn’t already imploded.

Posted by: polynikes at May 06, 2024 04:20 PM (MNhXM)

299 Big Macs used to delight me as a younger man.

-

Back when it was made of food.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 06, 2024 04:20 PM (SdC0P)

300 How come Russia and Saudi didn’t raise gas prices to $4 between 2017 and 2020? Weird huh?
Posted by: Montec at May 06, 2024 04:12 PM (8ZLyY)

Trump also didn't stop the pipeline, offshore drilling along with other moratoriums and then drain the strategic reserves for a momentary bump in approval, only to try buying back at an all time high. But hey, what do I know? Biden is playing 4D chutes and ladders.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at May 06, 2024 04:20 PM (zB/T/)

301 A Sally Struthers video clip?
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 06, 2024 04:19 PM (4I/2K)
++++
Even better!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 04:20 PM (HnUIn)

302 Many churches have split off the United Methodist Denomination after this week the churches that stayed voted for what was most important to them.

Cock.

Posted by: Norm MacDonald at May 06, 2024 04:20 PM (LaNzR)

303 The big money maker for any fast food franchise is soft drink sales.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 06, 2024 04:11 PM (tT6L1)

Less than 1oz syrup for a 16 oz'r with ice.

You don't want to know how bad your mom is getting screwed for that $8 Margarita at the foofy bar.

Posted by: Auspex at May 06, 2024 04:20 PM (j4U/Z)

304 252 But now that every beef cow in America will be chipped, you will know exactly where your burger came from, what it ate , where it died, and who the Guatemalan was that butchered it, so you get a much better value.

yeah, yeah, until the next pandemic, when it will be impossible to get the chips and therefore illegal to sell you a burger.

Posted by: anachronda at May 06, 2024 04:20 PM (v3pYe)

305 They believe in a stronger central government "like the founders wanted", and again, we're the "authoritarians".

Because that's what authoritarians do, more widely distribute discretion...

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 04:20 PM (krQz2)

306 Ooof. I'm lucky enough to not need to cry but a very small bag of groceries is $20 if I'm lucky...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 06, 2024

***
I forgot to grab my weekly head of lettuce yesterday, because I was excited over getting out of the store for only $30. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 06, 2024 04:20 PM (J2vNu)

307 239 Took my son to the emergency room, stomach pain and they asked if we had trouble paying for food, God help me I laughed and nearly said yes, and the Nurse Yeah I get it and I said No.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 06, 2024 03:57 PM

They ask me that at my Doctor's office every year when I have to fill out that stupid wellness questionnaire.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 06, 2024 04:11 PM (QNSds)

I was waiting for the do you have any guns in the home question,

The security at Children's Hospital was very intense and I forget that "TEENS" that shoot each other up and crash stolen cars end up at Children's. I laughed at the Abercrombie and Fitch Emergency Room

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 06, 2024 04:20 PM (dKiJG)

308 Spamflation

Posted by: wth at May 06, 2024 04:21 PM (v0R5T)

309 299 Big Macs used to delight me as a younger man.

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Back when it was made of food.

go long on melamine

Posted by: anachronda at May 06, 2024 04:21 PM (v3pYe)

310 "Americans are so dumb! They don't listen to their betters because they're dumb and bitter clingers and shit."

Democracy!

Posted by: Ribbed at May 06, 2024 04:21 PM (Ectld)

311 That's like ruining Hiroshima on Aug. 7, 1945.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 04:13 PM (YqDXo)

More like "Adenauer is going to completely RUIN the rebuilding of Cologne, mark my words!"

Posted by: Kindltot at May 06, 2024 04:21 PM (D7oie)

312 305 They believe in a stronger central government "like the founders wanted", and again, we're the "authoritarians".

Because that's what authoritarians do, more widely distribute discretion...
Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 04:20 PM (krQz2)

=======

"Let the states decide on abortion" = "Trump wants it possible for armed guards to check under the skirts of women going into bathrooms"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 04:21 PM (GBKbO)

313 Play-Doh tastes gooder than crayons.

Posted by: Pica Paulie at May 06, 2024 04:21 PM (V5BDR)

314 Giffen goods only really exist in times of economic pressure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 03:55 PM (HnUIn)
***********************************

If I hadn't run into a maximum character limit for comments, I would have clearly stated that Giffen goods don't exist in reality. They're a theoretical construct that depends on the consumer devoting a large portion of the budget to the Giffen good, to such an extent that the income effect (higher consumption of an inferior good that increases in price) becomes larger than the substitution effect (lower consumption of a good that increases in price).

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at May 06, 2024 04:21 PM (SV9jd)

315 I haven't been out to eat, anywhere, in 5 years. Covid did have a lot to do with it, but IMO the quality of the food and service went to shit before the covid op was unleashed. Now, the money you'd have to spend on a single, fairly decent meal would buy groceries for a couple days to a week.

IMO that's cost prohibitive.

Plus, I enjoy adult beverages, not having to worry about driving and I like to cook. So it's not like I'm given up anything.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 06, 2024 04:21 PM (Q4IgG)

316 The mental health portion is what gets me. "Do you feel suicidal?" My first instinct was to reply using a line from Oceans 11 - "Only in the morning". Then I realize what road that'll lead to. So I look at the nurse and simply ask "If I really wanted to check out, do you honestly think I'm going to answer YES to this question?"

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 06, 2024 04:18 PM

I just ask them if I wanted to off myself would I be sitting here in the doctors office filling out a stupid form that you aren't going to bother read.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 06, 2024 04:21 PM (QNSds)

317 >> if Americans were better versed in the writings and actions of our founders, they might understand that they believed in a strong central government

If Salon writers weren't borderline retarded they would know that some states including my own which was the first to declare independence from GB and held out signing the Consitution for a year specifically because they didn't want a strong federal government.

Nothing worse than being talked down to by a stupid person who thinks they are smart.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2024 04:21 PM (LkLld)

318 Trump also didn't stop the pipeline, offshore drilling along with other moratoriums and then drain the strategic reserves for a momentary bump in approval, only to try buying back at an all time high. But hey, what do I know? Biden is playing 4D chutes and ladders.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at May 06, 2024 04:20 PM (zB/T/)
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Pfffft.

They already mentioned ideology.

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 04:22 PM (krQz2)

319 Speaking of, and it's been posted before:

Hamburger rotting/molding time lapse. Homemade on the left, McDonalds on the right.

(spoilers, after three months they ended the video since nothing of significance ever happened to the McDonalds burger)

youtube.com/watch?v=-f4tFzboDfI

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 06, 2024 04:22 PM (SdC0P)

320 ... The mental health portion is what gets me. "Do you feel suicidal?" My first instinct was to reply using a line from Oceans 11 - "Only in the morning". Then I realize what road that'll lead to. So I look at the nurse and simply ask "If I really wanted to check out, do you honestly think I'm going to answer YES to this question?"
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 06, 2024 04:18 PM (N39Ws)
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I don't answer any question not directly related to the reason I went to the doctor. I leave it blank and initial it.

Usually, the doctor or PA will then ask me the questions in real time. My answer is always the same: "it isn't that I didn't understand the questions, it's that I am choosing not to answer them. They are not relevant for treating my {ailment}."

Sometimes they get on with it and take care of business. Sometimes they get stupendously, forehead-vein-throbbing angry.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 04:22 PM (HnUIn)

321 One of the main reasons I would love a split of the US is so these lefty lunatics can experience their projections. What’s ironic is the reason they would never agree to a split is they know the Right is the only reason the USA hasn’t already imploded.
Posted by: polynikes at May 06, 2024 04:20 PM (MNhXM)
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No, I don't think it's that. These people think America is one giant HOA and because we're American, we get to treat the rest of the world as an HOA. Following along those lines, leftists would never abide their vision of HOA utopia being ignored by USA v. 2.0.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 06, 2024 04:22 PM (tT6L1)

322 And the service still sucks. Fast food service was always dicey, but it's gotten far worse in the last few years. Wendy's seems to be an exception.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at May 06, 2024 04:22 PM (Dm8we)

323 I'm almost 40. I guess I need some doctor's attention just in case by this point.

I guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 04:19 PM (GBKbO)

Remember

You’re just a set of numbers to them.

Symptoms be damned …

Posted by: browndog says Stevie G was the better of Scholes or Lampard at May 06, 2024 04:22 PM (pY+ea)

324 I don't understand anyone calling themself a Christian and pushing some of the stuff that's being pushed right now. It's so clearly vile and antithetical to biblical principles and people still go to these churches and support them.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 06, 2024 04:23 PM (iFMeW)

325 Is this why Joe Biden is the first black president?
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Well, he did get more black votes than Obama.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 06, 2024 04:23 PM (ZdexC)

326 Because that's what authoritarians do, more widely distribute discretion...

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Increased personal freedom is imprisonment!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 06, 2024 04:23 PM (SdC0P)

327 Ooof. I'm lucky enough to not need to cry but a very small bag of groceries is $20 if I'm lucky...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 06, 2024

***
I forgot to grab my weekly head of lettuce yesterday, because I was excited over getting out of the store for only $30. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 06, 2024 04:20 PM (J2vNu)

I've started looking at recipes for cabbage as I can get a head of that for about a buck. Oddly there's a Korean cooking channel (Haru? might be the name) that uses eggs and cabbage in a lot of recipies.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 06, 2024 04:23 PM (xcxpd)

328 The venison restaurant has stagflation.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 06, 2024 04:23 PM (63Dwl)

329 The mental health portion is what gets me. "Do you feel suicidal?" My first instinct was to reply using a line from Oceans 11 - "Only in the morning". . . .
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 06, 2024

***
"Do you feel irritated after sex?"

"Only when he -- Never mind."

Posted by: Not Dottie Parker, but it should have been at May 06, 2024 04:23 PM (J2vNu)

330 Mises gives an example of a price ceiling on milk. While those who enact such an intervention may intend to make milk more affordable for poorer families, there are many unintended consequences:
Posted by: Kindltot at May 06, 2024 04:18 PM (D7oie)

Price ceilings on milk lead to no milk and cheap meat prices...for a little while.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 06, 2024 04:23 PM (eoQWY)

331 If I hadn't run into a maximum character limit for comments, I would have clearly stated that Giffen goods don't exist in reality. They're a theoretical construct that depends on the consumer devoting a large portion of the budget to the Giffen good, to such an extent that the income effect (higher consumption of an inferior good that increases in price) becomes larger than the substitution effect (lower consumption of a good that increases in price).
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at May 06, 2024 04:21 PM (SV9jd)
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The perfect, true, self-driving Giffen Good is a theoretical construct. In effect, the phenomenon is real. It's a good enough proxy to describe it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 04:23 PM (HnUIn)

332 Posted by: bonhomme at May 06, 2024 04:19 PM (6OrcJ)

They lit him up!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 06, 2024 04:23 PM (d9fT1)

333 Will the high-end stuff come with a little pamphlet about the animal? It's name, location, a picture, etc.?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 04:14 PM (HnUIn)
Hitchiker's Guide

Posted by: Eromero at May 06, 2024 04:24 PM (NxC5+)

334 Nothing worse than being talked down to by a stupid person who thinks they are smart.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2024 04:21 PM (LkLld)
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Besides, the Constitution represents an adjustment to a more sustainable central government than the AoC supported, it doesn't mean that's the choice whenever a change can be made--or argued.

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 04:24 PM (krQz2)

335 GOOGLE: Smash Success!
BIDEN: Successful Smash!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 06, 2024 04:24 PM (wtvvX)

336 "Do you feel irritated after sex?"

-

"Nah, hasn't happened in years."
- Married men

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 06, 2024 04:24 PM (SdC0P)

337 I've started looking at recipes for cabbage as I can get a head of that for about a buck. Oddly there's a Korean cooking channel (Haru? might be the name) that uses eggs and cabbage in a lot of recipies.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 06, 2024 04:23 PM (xcxpd)

Egg roll bowls are great with cabbage. And you can use any protein you have for them.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 06, 2024 04:24 PM (exHjb)

338 "Remember. You’re just a set of numbers to them. Symptoms be damned …"

Be ready for a lot of useless labs and tests before getting your prescription for the obvious infection you came in for.

Posted by: Ribbed at May 06, 2024 04:24 PM (Ectld)

339 But now that every beef cow in America will be chipped, you will know exactly where your burger came from, what it ate , where it died, and who the Guatemalan was that butchered it, so you get a much better value.
______________

Who her friends were, how happy a life did she lead, etc.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 04:24 PM (YqDXo)

340 295 behalt s/b behalf, dangit

Posted by: Progressives at May 06, 2024 04:24 PM (Eur7t)

341 The mental health portion is what gets me. "Do you feel suicidal?" My first instinct was to reply using a line from Oceans 11 - "Only in the morning". Then I realize what road that'll lead to. So I look at the nurse and simply ask "If I really wanted to check out, do you honestly think I'm going to answer YES to this question?"
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 06, 2024 04:18 PM (N39Ws)

it does catch people that are in distress, my Wife asked that question and the guy said Yes and The guy got the help he needed. She said it happened quite a few times

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 06, 2024 04:25 PM (dKiJG)

342 I've started looking at recipes for cabbage as I can get a head of that for about a buck. Oddly there's a Korean cooking channel (Haru? might be the name) that uses eggs and cabbage in a lot of recipies.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 06, 2024

***
Be careful not to overheat the cabbage. Miss Linda did that once at my place, and I had to use a lot of Febreze to get rid of the odor.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 06, 2024 04:25 PM (J2vNu)

343 If I hadn't run into a maximum character limit for comments, I would have clearly stated that Giffen goods don't exist in reality.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at May 06, 2024 04:21 PM (SV9jd)
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Does Giffen make widgets?

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 04:25 PM (krQz2)

344 I've started looking at recipes for cabbage as I can get a head of that for about a buck. Oddly there's a Korean cooking channel (Haru? might be the name) that uses eggs and cabbage in a lot of recipies.
_____

I use half for cabbage soup and the other half for cole slaw.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 06, 2024 04:25 PM (Eur7t)

345 Because medicine in America is a billing system that practices medicine on the side. All the proper forms must be filled out in their entirety. That's what really matters.

Posted by: brak at May 06, 2024 04:26 PM (25k9m)

346 The DFAC is better than most of the restaurants around here. That's just sad.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 06, 2024 04:26 PM (ofdHm)

347 by the way, that minimum wage post of mine was lifted from the Mises.com website, and was written by Jonathan Newman

Posted by: Kindltot at May 06, 2024 04:26 PM (D7oie)

348 Nothing worse than being talked down to by a stupid person who thinks they are smart.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2024 04:21 PM (LkLld)
_____________

True. A close second is being patronized by a pimply undergraduate who thinks "poverty" can be solved by doubling everyone's income.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 04:26 PM (YqDXo)

349 >>>Starbucks ... Pizza Hut ... KFC ... McDonald's

And how many of their employees had already been replaced by touch-screens? Or will be, now?

Posted by: m at May 06, 2024 04:26 PM (o3SCB)

350 The mental health portion is what gets me. "Do you feel suicidal?" My first instinct was to reply using a line from Oceans 11 - "Only in the morning". . . .
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

I have never, not once, felt suicidal.

Homicidal, on the other hand...

Posted by: rickb223 at May 06, 2024 04:26 PM (nFo4U)

351 328 The venison restaurant has stagflation.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 06, 2024 04:23 PM (63Dwl)

/Homer Simpson Facepalm

DOE...

Posted by: Romeo13 at May 06, 2024 04:26 PM (xaFKb)

352 336 "Do you feel irritated after sex?"

-

"Nah, hasn't happened in years."
- Married men
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 06, 2024 04:24 PM (SdC0P)

That type of question was where I did let my snark loose.
Got asked about having an active sex life.
Replied "I'm married".
Nurse says "I see that. But answer the question."
Me: I did.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 06, 2024 04:26 PM (N39Ws)

353 I've started looking at recipes for cabbage as I can get a head of that for about a buck. Oddly there's a Korean cooking channel (Haru? might be the name) that uses eggs and cabbage in a lot of recipies.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 06, 2024 04:23 PM (xcxpd)

I think the oriental salad pack I buy at the store every so often is mostly cabbage.

I used to make a soup/stew with cabbage back in the day. I tend to wing it more now.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 06, 2024 04:27 PM (eoQWY)

354 The mental health portion is what gets me. "Do you feel suicidal?" My first instinct was to reply using a line from Oceans 11 - "Only in the morning". . . .
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed
*
I have never, not once, felt suicidal.

Homicidal, on the other hand...
Posted by: rickb223 at May 06, 2024

***
You better not answer that one either

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 06, 2024 04:27 PM (J2vNu)

355 I've started looking at recipes for cabbage as I can get a head of that for about a buck.

Cabbage does come with a fairly substantial drawback, assuming you think clearing a room is a drawback.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 06, 2024 04:27 PM (CsUN+)

356 The mental health portion is what gets me. "Do you feel suicidal?"
_____________

"Only when I read the news."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 04:27 PM (YqDXo)

357 356 The mental health portion is what gets me. "Do you feel suicidal?"
_____________

"Only when I read the news."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 04:27 PM (YqDXo)

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"The only thing that takes me from the brink is Prometheus."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 06, 2024 04:28 PM (GBKbO)

358 I've started looking at recipes for cabbage as I can get a head of that for about a buck. Oddly there's a Korean cooking channel (Haru? might be the name) that uses eggs and cabbage in a lot of recipies.

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Big pot, brown some cheap sausage. I like hot. When it gets halfway done add cut up cabbage. How cut up is up to you, but I like fairly decent sized chunks. Avoid the heart because the flavor is too strong.

Add 1/2 tablespoon garlic, a half teaspoon pepper, and a teaspoon salt. Stir, cover, and cook on low for 20 minutes or so.

Serve with rice if you want or just eat in a bowl. Some vinegar is nice on top if that's your thing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 06, 2024 04:28 PM (SdC0P)

359 >>>Starbucks ... Pizza Hut ... KFC ... McDonald's

And how many of their employees had already been replaced by touch-screens? Or will be, now?
Posted by: m at May 06, 2024 04:26 PM (o3SCB)

A local burger king has touch screens but they soon broke down. As does the self serve omni drink machine. Last McD I went to had no self serve anymore.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 06, 2024 04:28 PM (eoQWY)

360 >>if Americans were better versed in the writings and actions of our founders, they might understand that they believed in a strong central government

No! They hated it...but the confederate states was a complete mess where any citizen would be under many states individual rule depending on where they went - and that was worse. We see some legal folks here even suggesting "states rights" that provide for state court procedures and laws completely different from other states, NO!

No, it had to be a Constitutional Republic all the way down or nothing. Every state had to have a constitution that incorporated EVERY element of the US Constitution from 1794 or don't bother joining...

Posted by: Boswell at May 06, 2024 04:29 PM (K+UlC)

361 Peppers and onions are good in it too if you want to splurge.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 06, 2024 04:29 PM (SdC0P)

362 347 by the way, that minimum wage post of mine was lifted from the Mises.com website, and was written by Jonathan Newman
Posted by: Kindltot
____

I don't know if this statement is from Mises, but it is apt
-real minimum wage is always $0.00

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 06, 2024 04:29 PM (Eur7t)

363 358 I've started looking at recipes for cabbage as I can get a head of that for about a buck. Oddly there's a Korean cooking channel (Haru? might be the name) that uses eggs and cabbage in a lot of recipies.

-

Big pot, brown some cheap sausage. I like hot. When it gets halfway done add cut up cabbage. How cut up is up to you, but I like fairly decent sized chunks. Avoid the heart because the flavor is too strong.

Add 1/2 tablespoon garlic, a half teaspoon pepper, and a teaspoon salt. Stir, cover, and cook on low for 20 minutes or so.

Serve with rice if you want or just eat in a bowl. Some vinegar is nice on top if that's your thing.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 06, 2024 04:28 PM (SdC0P)

hard to find 'cheap' sausage anymore ($5/lb is a good price) but I do like this idea, thanks man.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 06, 2024 04:29 PM (xcxpd)

364 "Only when I read the news."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 06, 2024 04:27 PM (YqDXo)
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I don't like to read the news -- Mark Hollis

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 04:29 PM (krQz2)

365 Got asked about having an active sex life.
......

"You mean like with other people?"

Posted by: wth at May 06, 2024 04:29 PM (v0R5T)

366 Cooking Haru, and I subscribed

Depression Era cooking, is good, A Grandmother was showing her Grandson how she cooked and survived during the Depression

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 06, 2024 04:29 PM (dKiJG)

367 I think the oriental salad pack I buy at the store every so often is mostly cabbage.

I used to make a soup/stew with cabbage back in the day. I tend to wing it more now.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 06, 2024

***
For years my lunch salad has been chopped-up lettuce, green onions, and radishes with dill pickles -- and pickle juice as a dressing. I make it up in the morning, store it in the work refrigerator, and it's nice, cold, and salty at noontime. A little shredded cheese on it too from time to time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 06, 2024 04:29 PM (J2vNu)

368 There isn't a decent slice of pizza in all of south Texas.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 06, 2024 04:30 PM (ofdHm)

369 I'm not a number!

Posted by: Inspector #17 at May 06, 2024 04:30 PM (V5BDR)

370 Also try scrambling eggs in some noodle recipes that call for meat. It will often work as a decent substitute, although you might need a bit more salt and pepper.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 06, 2024 04:30 PM (SdC0P)

371 take all of the positives and negatives of any business and add all the minuses together and leave out the positives - you have a restaurant

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at May 06, 2024 04:30 PM (iNp3L)

372 You don't want to know how bad your mom is getting screwed for that $8 Margarita at the foofy bar.
Posted by: Auspex at May 06, 2024 04:20 PM (j4U/Z)

Phrasing? Please?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 06, 2024 04:30 PM (D7oie)

373 Allah will protect the innocent

Cool. So what's all the protesting about again?

Posted by: Oddbob at May 06, 2024 04:30 PM (/y8xj)

374 317 Nothing worse than being talked down to by a stupid person who thinks they are smart.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2024 04:21 PM (LkLld)

Eh, I don't know. A really stupid person talking down to me makes virtually no bad impression on me at all. Sorta like a yippy dog.

Posted by: m at May 06, 2024 04:30 PM (o3SCB)

375 hard to find 'cheap' sausage anymore ($5/lb is a good price) but I do like this idea, thanks man.

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I stock up when I see it on closeout at the grocery store. I can find it for $2 - $2.50 pretty often (yeah, half price) and I buy as much as I think I can freeze.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 06, 2024 04:31 PM (SdC0P)

376 They lit him up!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 06, 2024 04:23 PM (d9fT1)

I couldn't view it. Fucking Ewetoob wants me to "sign in" to confirm my age. Fuck them up the ass with a red-hot railway crowbar.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2024 04:32 PM (8zz6B)

377 I'm not a number!
Posted by: Inspector #17 at May 06, 2024

***
They don't listen, do they?

Posted by: Number Six (aka John Drake) at May 06, 2024 04:32 PM (J2vNu)

378 Poll: Trump Ties Biden with Suburban Women, Massive Setback for Democrat President

Posted by: SMOD at May 06, 2024 04:32 PM (RHGPo)

379 How much for real food, like biscuits and gravy?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2024 04:17 PM (8zz6B)

I had to pull up the menu to check...

Biscuits and gravy is $11.95
Meat lovers omelette w/sausage gravy $14.95

Posted by: jwest at May 06, 2024 04:32 PM (VP9ao)

380 375 hard to find 'cheap' sausage anymore ($5/lb is a good price) but I do like this idea, thanks man.

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I stock up when I see it on closeout at the grocery store. I can find it for $2 - $2.50 pretty often (yeah, half price) and I buy as much as I think I can freeze.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 06, 2024 04:31 PM (SdC0P)

I now see who beats me to protein closeout sales...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 06, 2024 04:32 PM (exHjb)

381 hard to find 'cheap' sausage anymore

Anthony Weiner has entered the chat.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 06, 2024 04:32 PM (N39Ws)

382 Also try scrambling eggs in some noodle recipes that call for meat. It will often work as a decent substitute, although you might need a bit more salt and pepper.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 06, 2024 04:30 PM (SdC0P)
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Eggs are actually something that is up the most.

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 04:33 PM (krQz2)

383 368 There isn't a decent slice of pizza in all of south Texas.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 06, 2024 04:30 PM (ofdHm)

That's why there's Pizza Hut. It's not great but it's good enough wherever you find it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 06, 2024 04:33 PM (xcxpd)

384 381 hard to find 'cheap' sausage anymore

Anthony Weiner has entered the chat.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 06, 2024 04:32 PM (N39Ws)

lol

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 06, 2024 04:33 PM (xcxpd)

385 I now see who beats me to protein closeout sales...

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I was raised right. I will never, ever buy it all. I always want someone else to happen along and find a deal, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 06, 2024 04:33 PM (SdC0P)

386 I've started looking at recipes for cabbage as I can get a head of that for about a buck. Oddly there's a Korean cooking channel (Haru? might be the name) that uses eggs and cabbage in a lot of recipies.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

One killer recipe?
Three packages of the ramen noodles. (Throw away seasoning packets. You only want the noodles.)
Boil ramen noodles.
Chop up an onion 🧅, red, yellow or orange bell pepper 🫑, sliced carrots. Sauté. Put to the side.
Brown ground beef.
Drain ramen noodles.
Add all ingredients to a pot and add soy, sweet & sour sauce and hoisin sauce as necessary for flavoring. Let simmer for ten minutes.

I am buying the the 24 count ramen noodles at Sam's for $6.24. 90/10 hamburger is $3.99 at Sam's in 10 lb chubs.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 06, 2024 04:33 PM (nFo4U)

387 Poll: Trump Ties Biden with Suburban Women, Massive Setback for Democrat President
Posted by: SMOD at May 06, 2024 04:32 PM (RHGPo)

Is it a real poll or a Rasmussen?

Posted by: Montec at May 06, 2024 04:33 PM (8ZLyY)

388 One killer recipe?
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Thanks, will try.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 06, 2024 04:34 PM (SdC0P)

389 "That's why there's Pizza Hut. It's not great but it's good enough wherever you find it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 06, 2024 04:33 PM (xcxpd)"

Guy dragged me about 30 minutes to a place he said was the best in south Texas. I told him he would walk home of it sucked. He's not back yet.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 06, 2024 04:34 PM (ofdHm)

390 A Pizza Hut, a Pizza Hut,
Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut!
McDonald's, McDonald's!
They can take their high prices
Shove 'em up their butts!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 06, 2024 04:34 PM (wtvvX)

391 I saw an infographic a leftist had posted. It traced prices at all the major fast food restaurants over the last 10 years and noted that they were all up 50-100% versus the nominal inflation rate of 31%. Being a leftist he argued this was greed on the part of all the fast food restaurants.

One person asked him though, if the prices across a whole sector are up more then inflation, and this is true of most sectors in the economy, what makes you think that the official inflation rate is correct?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 06, 2024 04:34 PM (ibTVg)

392 347 by the way, that minimum wage post of mine was lifted from the Mises.com website, and was written by Jonathan Newman
Posted by: Kindltot
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I don't know if this statement is from Mises, but it is apt
-real minimum wage is always $0.00
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 06, 2024 04:29 PM (Eur7t)

I have Mises' book on Socialism. One bit of comedy he stuck in a footnote (he's fairly dry) is that one French socialist proposed that in his society road repairs would be done by children at night so as to not interfere with their schooling in the day. I laughed at the vision of the tykes with pickaxes and shovels working the night away for free. And someone read that and called him a serious thinker and bedrock of the next 200 years of advanced thought.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 06, 2024 04:34 PM (eoQWY)

393 by the way, that minimum wage post of mine was lifted from the Mises.com website, and was written by Jonathan Newman
Posted by: Kindltot
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We will not be requiring your services but thank you for your resume.

Posted by: Harvard DEI Hiring Section at May 06, 2024 04:34 PM (ZdexC)

394 Eggs are actually something that is up the most.
Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 04:33 PM (krQz2)

It's another protein stores will loss lead on...

Cheapest protein that gets loss led by the lb price - tofu, eggs, chicken legs/drumsticks, pork butt...in that order...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 06, 2024 04:34 PM (exHjb)

395 You can only eat so much brisket.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 06, 2024 04:35 PM (ofdHm)

396 332 Posted by: bonhomme at May 06, 2024 04:19 PM (6OrcJ)

They lit him up!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 06, 2024 04:23 PM (d9fT1)

They'll need a mop to pick that mess up.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 06, 2024 04:35 PM (N39Ws)

397 Old and Busted: We stand up for the little guy

New Hotness: You know cereal can be what's for dinner

Posted by: The left at May 06, 2024 04:35 PM (ibTVg)

398 One person asked him though, if the prices across a whole sector are up more then inflation, and this is true of most sectors in the economy, what makes you think that the official inflation rate is correct?

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Shame no one could ask him to make a chart detailing the price of a Big Mac meal deal with minimum wage over that time frame. It's a weird constant.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 06, 2024 04:35 PM (SdC0P)

399 You ever see the list of what needs to be replaced when your vehicle hits 100K miles? Not worse than what's to come, but a local peak.

That's what it is to be 45 years old and finding your regular specialists.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 06, 2024 04:35 PM (cf/0E)

400 400

Posted by: m at May 06, 2024 04:36 PM (o3SCB)

401 Poll: Trump Ties Biden with Suburban Women, Massive Setback for Democrat President
......

Tied, like with a rope? That's mean.

Posted by: wth at May 06, 2024 04:36 PM (v0R5T)

402 Biscuits and gravy is $11.95
Meat lovers omelette w/sausage gravy $14.95
Posted by: jwest at May 06, 2024 04:32 PM (VP9ao)

Those actually are not bad prices in today's market.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 06, 2024 04:36 PM (8zz6B)

403 The price of a coke has held very steady over time in real money. Except when it went from 5 cents to 10 cents.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 06, 2024 04:37 PM (cf/0E)

404 Comment not found

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 06, 2024 04:37 PM (HnUIn)

405 The overall inflation rate is across all industries. Of course some industries will be higher and some lower. Leftists are too retarded to get this basic fact. But they’re the party of experts and science.

Posted by: Montec at May 06, 2024 04:37 PM (8ZLyY)

406 Noodus die-versity

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 06, 2024 04:37 PM (J2vNu)

407 359 >>>Starbucks ... Pizza Hut ... KFC ... McDonald's

And how many of their employees had already been replaced by touch-screens? Or will be, now?
Posted by: m at May 06, 2024 04:26 PM (o3SCB)

A local burger king has touch screens but they soon broke down. As does the self serve omni drink machine. Last McD I went to had no self serve anymore.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 06, 2024 04:28 PM (eoQWY)

Ha!

Posted by: m at May 06, 2024 04:37 PM (o3SCB)

408 Most of the problems normal Americans face right now are specifically caused by the government.

In terms of food cost printing money at warp speed and raising minimum wage is of course going to raise the price of food.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 06, 2024 04:37 PM (ibTVg)

409 $1.50 hot dog at Costco. By far the best value anywhere food wise.

Posted by: Montec at May 06, 2024 04:37 PM (8ZLyY)

410 If I hadn't run into a maximum character limit for comments, I would have clearly stated that Giffen goods don't exist in reality. They're a theoretical construct that depends on the consumer devoting a large portion of the budget to the Giffen good, to such an extent that the income effect (higher consumption of an inferior good that increases in price) becomes larger than the substitution effect (lower consumption of a good that increases in price).
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at May 06, 2024 04:21 PM (SV9jd)

so, if I understand correctly and build upon this definition, Giffen goods can be created in the real world via cartel action among producers, in which inferior goods are the only products available in the broader market, and the profit from their rise in price due to demand is an element of restraint from production from outside the cartel.

remember, cartels are only sort of monopolies, monopolies have the problem of outside competition and cheating from within by members. Cartels police each other, mostly through government oversight which mostly restricts outside entry into the market, and forces price conformity on the allowed producers.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 06, 2024 04:37 PM (D7oie)

411 Poll: Trump Ties Biden with Suburban Women, Massive Setback for Democrat President
Posted by: SMOD at May 06, 2024 04:32 PM (RHGPo)

How does one tie someone else with suburban women?

Posted by: Doof at May 06, 2024 04:38 PM (26/W4)

412 $1.50 hot dog at Costco. By far the best value anywhere food wise.

I get my sausages for free at the local men's club

Posted by: Pete Bootyjuice at May 06, 2024 04:38 PM (ibTVg)

413 One killer recipe?

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Sweet and Sour Strychnine.

Posted by: Axeman at May 06, 2024 04:38 PM (krQz2)

414 Clara's Kitchen. And it's interesting because, during the Drpression, her mom still cooked with olive oil and parmesan cheese.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 06, 2024 04:39 PM (yeEu9)

415
"Nah, hasn't happened in years."
- Married men

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams

Because of health concerns my wife and I only smoke after sex. I haven't bought a pack in years, and she's up to two packs a day.

-- Rodney Dangerfield paraphrased

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 06, 2024 04:39 PM (RKVpM)

416 regarding the previous post -impromptu defecation or...dementia posturing

why can't it be both?

Posted by: ed gibbon at May 06, 2024 04:39 PM (Mj2F5)

417 "If I really wanted to check out, do you honestly think I'm going to answer YES to this question?"

If checking out, why bother going to the doc?

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at May 06, 2024 04:39 PM (iNp3L)

418 I've started looking at recipes for cabbage as I can get a head of that for about a buck. Oddly there's a Korean cooking channel (Haru? might be the name) that uses eggs and cabbage in a lot of recipies.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 06, 2024 04:23 PM (xcxpd)

Maangchi is a good Korean cooking site with videos. My wife really likes it.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 06, 2024 04:40 PM (D7oie)

419 Most of the problems normal Americans face right now are specifically caused by the government.

In terms of food cost printing money at warp speed and raising minimum wage is of course going to raise the price of food.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 06, 2024 04:37 PM (ibTVg)

...obviously, the solution is: more government!

/NPC's everywhere.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 06, 2024 04:40 PM (tT6L1)

420 >>A local burger king has touch screens but they soon broke down. As does the self serve omni drink machine. Last McD I went to had no self serve anymore.

I went to a McClown at BWI last week. I would much rather have had a touch screen. The absolute worst run fast food restaurant I've ever been to.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2024 04:40 PM (LkLld)

421
My wife was with me on my last doctor visit and when the nurse asked the "do you feel threatened at home?" question. I nodded and rolled my eyes toward my wife who said "Oh, shut up." and they both laughed.

Posted by: Auspex at May 06, 2024 04:42 PM (j4U/Z)

422 Way back when in the olden days when I was a teenager, my first job at 16 was at a burger/Mexican fast food place in my town. Minimum wage was $2.50 w/no benefits except that we got to eat free which was awesome. It was myself and a lot of friends from High School slinging those fries. It was never meant as a career and a way to feed and house a family. If an older person worked those jobs, it was to earn a little extra cash for Christmas.

Posted by: Cheri at May 06, 2024 04:43 PM (oiNtH)

423 I eat our far less now and eat at cheaper places but even my local chinese dive or subshop are getting expensive.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 06, 2024 04:43 PM (ibTVg)

424
Big pot, brown some cheap sausage. I like hot. When it gets halfway done add cut up cabbage. How cut up is up to you, but I like fairly decent sized chunks. Avoid the heart because the flavor is too strong.

Add 1/2 tablespoon garlic, a half teaspoon pepper, and a teaspoon salt. Stir, cover, and cook on low for 20 minutes or so.
Serve with rice if you want or just eat in a bowl. Some vinegar is nice on top if that's your thing.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 06, 2024 04:28 PM (SdC0P)
This is a good recipe, though we chop up the hearts and cook them longer before adding the other stuff. Best over rice.

Posted by: Eromero at May 06, 2024 04:45 PM (NxC5+)

425 I have Mises' book on Socialism. One bit of comedy he stuck in a footnote (he's fairly dry) is that one French socialist proposed that in his society road repairs would be done by children at night so as to not interfere with their schooling in the day. I laughed at the vision of the tykes with pickaxes and shovels working the night away for free. [ . . . ]
Posted by: Oldcat at May 06, 2024 04:34 PM (eoQWY)

ah, yes. The Corvette!

Posted by: Kindltot at May 06, 2024 04:47 PM (D7oie)

426 This case should be tossed immediately.

@baldwin_daniel_
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4h
Reports say Matthew Colangelo received $12,000 from the DNC for "political consulting" in 2018.

Colangelo delivered the opening statement for the prosecution in the Trump hush money case.

Yet Trump can't talk about this due to his unconstitutional gag order

Posted by: JackStraw at May 06, 2024 04:48 PM (LkLld)

427 383 368 There isn't a decent slice of pizza in all of south Texas.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 06, 2024 04:30 PM (ofdHm)

That's why there's Pizza Hut. It's not great but it's good enough wherever you find it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, PNW MOME June 1st at May 06, 2024 04:33 PM (xcxpd)
CiCi's, the pizza equivalent of the Valentine Day masacre.

Posted by: Eromero at May 06, 2024 04:50 PM (NxC5+)

428 But now that every beef cow in America will be chipped,

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I love chipped beef on toast.

Posted by: Bigsmith at May 06, 2024 04:50 PM (2shbx)

429 One killer recipe?
Three packages of the ramen noodles. (Throw away seasoning packets. You only want the noodles.)
Boil ramen noodles.
Chop up an onion 🧅, red, yellow or orange bell pepper 🫑, sliced carrots. Sauté. Put to the side.
Brown ground beef.
Drain ramen noodles.
Add all ingredients to a pot and add soy, sweet & sour sauce and hoisin sauce as necessary for flavoring. Let simmer for ten minutes.

I am buying the the 24 count ramen noodles at Sam's for $6.24. 90/10 hamburger is $3.99 at Sam's in 10 lb chubs.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 06, 2024 04:33 PM (nFo4U)
ALWAYS throw away the flavor packets. Unless you save them for zombietimes.

Posted by: Eromero at May 06, 2024 04:51 PM (NxC5+)

430 Has anyone tried to cook tree bark?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 06, 2024 04:55 PM (BCnR0)

431 430 Has anyone tried to cook tree bark?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 06, 2024 04:55 PM (BCnR0)

Only when I bake with it (cinnamon is basically tree bark).

Posted by: Octochicken at May 06, 2024 05:34 PM (oCS0o)

432 287 They ask me that at my Doctor's office every year when I have to fill out that stupid wellness questionnaire.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 06, 2024 04:11 PM (QNSds)

The mental health portion is what gets me. "Do you feel suicidal?" My first instinct was to reply using a line from Oceans 11 - "Only in the morning". Then I realize what road that'll lead to. So I look at the nurse and simply ask "If I really wanted to check out, do you honestly think I'm going to answer YES to this question?"
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 06, 2024 04:18 PM (N39Ws)

That mental health questionnaire you get with any doctor's visit now annoys me because it's such a blunt instrument. So many of those questions are open-ended to the point where I have to think way too hard about limiting the question before I answer it.

Posted by: Octochicken at May 06, 2024 05:41 PM (oCS0o)

433 I asked my SB barista why my two shots of espresso now cost $3.45 up from $2.95, which was bad enough. Oh they gave us a raise, she said. Okey, dokey, then no tip.

And I bring my own cookie when I meet a friend bc there's are so bad and so expensive.

Posted by: PJ at May 06, 2024 05:51 PM (G1dq6)

434 And people wonder why starvation is a feature of communism.

Posted by: Fred at May 06, 2024 06:26 PM (bXvrr)

435 108 Dining out is ridiculously expensive now.. I go to my local owned places… at least the robbery is not helping the chains…
Posted by: tubal at May 06, 2024 03:46 PM (PCK5/)

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Same. I told my family that Applebee's doesn't need our money. Local places do.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 06, 2024 03:50 PM (FzDG4)

The people who work at Applebee’s aren’t local residents?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 06, 2024 09:23 PM (Ds3Rc)

436 190 > i will say though, places that dont have tips tend to have awful service.

YUUUUUP.

Below average restaurant service in the US is better than average restaurant service in most of Australia and a whole lot of Europe.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 06, 2024 04:04 PM (6OrcJ)

Konnichi wa.

Posted by: Japan at May 06, 2024 09:30 PM (Ds3Rc)

437
(Mises knew more economics than Hamilton)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 06, 2024 04:18 PM (D7oie)

You spell Mises G-O-D so it’s no surprise you think that.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 06, 2024 09:40 PM (Ds3Rc)

438 No, it had to be a Constitutional Republic all the way down or nothing. Every state had to have a constitution that incorporated EVERY element of the US Constitution from 1794 or don't bother joining...
Posted by: Boswell at May 06, 2024 04:29 PM (K+UlC)

But we want a parliamentary system.

Posted by: Maine and Alaska and other RCV advocates at May 06, 2024 09:48 PM (Ds3Rc)

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