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  • Minimalist cheeseburger

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  • but the system would account for the lack of inventory loss, so it would become increasingly hard to justify this.

    Who would catch this, though?

    The question asked is whether a franchise owner could use fake orders to use dirty money and boost clean profits. What does the inventory have to do with anything? The franchise owner doesn't care, because they're the ones doing the money laundering. And McDonald's corporate doesn't care because they still get paid.

    It doesn't seem like a particularly efficient method of money laundering, but I am curious to know if this could feasibly be a pipeline for cleaning money in small quantities.

  • What are examples of "instead of making our own situation better, let's make the other's worse"?

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  • It might make rational sense in zero sum games where there is a winner and loser (or a draw). But the real world is full of examples of less rational people who forgo an improvement in their own situation to worsen someone else's situation, to create negative-sum competitive plays in a world where positive-sum collaboration is actually possible.

  • A language like a set of building blocks.

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  • Or for the example in the actual original post "ice box."

  • Home with others

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  • I'm not sure that was true in 1990 in the United States. In the old analog networks, the central offices could route calls locally among phone numbers that shared the same central office, which was basically any number that had the same first 3 digits of the 7 digit number under the North American Numbering Plan. At least for the suburban neighborhood I grew up in, in the 80's, the neighborhood pizza places had the same central office code as my home phone number.

    It wasn't until the rise of digital switching that the phone number itself got decoupled from the actual network topography, and things like number portability became possible. But in the analog systems they wanted to minimize switching where possible, so "local" calls weren't all equally local.

  • Home with others

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  • I stand by my statement about people who cut sandwiches horizontally

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  • Is he...your son?

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  • I'd argue that the type of people who make those investment decisions often don't put the proper weight on "destroy the planet" risk when calculating their expected value.

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  • It's a moonshot in that it has a very tiny likelihood of attracting alien intelligence that is such a game changer that it brings an unfathomable amount of wealth to our planet.

  • Has Trick-or-Treating died in your area, and what is to blame?

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  • There's definitely something to this popular neighborhoods theory.

    As an anecdote from my dense urban area, there's a stretch of a few residential blocks that have become the most popular spot within walking distance of my home, and it's largely due to the trick or treating "geography" of the area: horizontal density of lots of participating homes per block, wide sidewalks, single lane roads with lots of stop signs and crosswalks (inconvenient for through traffic).

    The blocks with major stroads get avoided for pedestrian safety reasons, and the blocks with big apartment buildings or commercial storefronts get avoided because there's not a lot of trick or treating available.

    So it creates hot spots, which feed back onto themselves as the residents of those hot blocks lean more heavily into decorations and candy and costumes the next year.

    And what I'm describing is kinda a micro sized distribution of this phenomenon, where the hotspots are only maybe a 2x2 grid of city blocks, next to completely dead zones of 2x2 city blocks. I imagine in a suburban area that clustering effect can intensify, especially if everyone is driving.

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  • It's even funny the way the parent comment described it: a girl town right next to the normal town.

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    How does one get hookups off dating apps as an average looking dude?

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  • if I just wanted to get railed (and I had no standards) it would take me less than two minutes to set that up.

    I actually wonder what the conversion rate would be for people who send DMs like that. I imagine a big chunk of them are like dogs chasing cars, and wouldn't know what to do it the car just stopped in the road.

    I'm thinking a significant percentage wouldn't follow through if the conversation turned to an invite to meet in person.

  • Friends with babies

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  • I ended up garbling my comment on an edit, but I've fixed it now.

    I meant to say that I admired the relationships several of my friends had with their parents, and I have always had a pretty good relationship with my own parents, so the idea of parenting has always been based on positive examples and role models in my life.

  • Friends with babies

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  • Even touches topics like, just because you like kids, doesn't mean you have to have them, you can teach, volunteer for after school activities, etc.

    Plus parenting is a lifelong role. Your kids are gonna be 50 one day, and you'll probably be alive for that.

    Personally, I've never liked children (the age group), but I have always admired some of my friends' relationships with their parents, and have always wanted adult children (that is, the relationship) of my own, so I had kids. And although my kids are pretty cool, I still mostly think other people's kids are annoying, and have only softened my views on that front a little bit.

  • Biology

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  • That's not true. Illness and injury still have an effect on reproduction. Someone who spends their life fighting chronic disease is going to have a worse time with sexual selection and reproduction. Plus a lot of characteristics are social in nature, with kin selection being a big part of human evolution, so those who are less able to contribute outside of their direct reproduction still detrimentally affect their genes' survival and propagation.

  • Ain't no way

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  • U-235 has a half life of about 700 million years, so it's fair to assume that there's about 1.1% as much U-235 as when the earth formed 4.6 billion years ago (about 6.5 half lives).

    Most uranium on earth is U-238, though, which has a longer half life of about 4.5 billion years, so that the amount of U-238 on earth today is about half of when the earth was formed. But the meme is about U-235, so that's just background information not directly relevant to the picture.

  • Do you put pizza in the fridge?

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  • Plain bread doesn't have sufficient water activity to support bacterial growth.

    Focaccia is generally bread with oils/fats (oils aren't water so they don't contribute to water activity).

    Sweetened pastries have more water in them, but have most of the water bound to sugar molecules so that there's not enough water activity to support bacterial growth.

    But pizza has a water-based sauce on the crust, and often has moist toppings. That's why some pizzas become soggy over time. That's enough water activity to support microbial growth, including some microbes that cause illness. So pizza should be refrigerated.

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  • You're just listing reasons why they were reliant on a single crop for sustenance. Cool, but the actual historical example shows why that particular arrangement is brittle and vulnerable to shocks, which is the point being made here.

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  • The Irish genocide that you refer to as using the colonizer’s term “Irish Potato Famine” had absolutely fuckall to do with potatoes or the Irish.

    But it has everything to do with potatoes (a particular blight that affected potato crops) and the Irish (the actual affected people of this genocide).

    The social and political reasons for why the Irish ended up so dependent on a single crop for sustenance is part of the story, of course, but this discussion right here is about the fragility and brittleness of relying on a single crop.