Malls were just a way to privatize mainstreet and allow the ownership class of capitalists to extract more money from a local economy through large chain stores and to give them private control over what used to be public space.

Now the middle class is worth a fraction of what it used to be, their purpose has dissolved.

People use Amazon instead of the mall because they can still afford the Temu-level garbage Amazon sells.

Musk has been using x.com since the Mac OS 8 days.

He’d easily have prior rights.

Yeah, Reddit was like that about a decade or more ago.

The current level of bot activity there is actually insane.

Windows has always been good at making the non-experienced feel comfortable and taking advantage of them.

Carls Jr Microsoft Windows. Fuck you, I’m eating!

Any hassle they can create to manufacture a reason to deny coverage.

It’s not “beyond belief” it’s disgustingly evil.

Non-utilitized internet service.

Internet providers ARE UTILITIES. Regulate them like one.

“Kewl Terminal Emulator”

Does Alpine Linux count as “running”?

SystemD just isn’t necessary for every Linux install.

Linux has thousands of uses that aren’t “running on bare metal on my customized gaming rig at my computer desk to play steam games and pretend to look like Mr. Robot”

“YES I KNOW WHAT I AM DOING”

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They have a for-profit subsidiary, for tax purposes.

Except for onions, ironically.

Plenty of independent coffee shops sell Lotus energy drinks for this exact reason.

To add to all this, if most of your customers are seriously there to taste their flavored syrups and milk of their favorite drink, you wouldn’t want to alter or even ruin that with unexpected, unique coffee flavors.

He just means “feature phone”

Dark Roasted coffee is the only way Starbucks can be Starbucks.

Lighter-roasted coffee emphasizes origin flavors and i agree with you --generally tastes better and is more interesting.

But you can’t sell coffee like that in tens of thousands of coffee shops and have it remotely consistent.

Coffee growing from the same plot but on one side of a hill will taste different from the other side due to getting different quantities of sunlight. Complex origin flavors will always be the domain of small specialty coffee shops.

Starbucks has McDonalds-like consistency serving millions of customers a day and that’s only because they emphasize the flavors they can get consistently–roast flavors.

TL;DR The bigger the chain, the darker you have to roast. That’s just how coffee works.

Wow, you’re an ass.

You absolutely can’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

Speedrunning SM64 is fun, but first we need to talk about parallel universes…

RIP crafting bench