They taste good. They taste even better mashed up with other stuff as a condiment.

No. You’re wrong. What happens is the real estate stays empty. They never lower rents, because lowering rent devalues the asset.

They make more money leaving it empty.

why? the ads are 40% of the airtime.

even with ad service streaming, you are only seeing like 10-20% ads.

where is that offered?

local entertainment in my city is easily $100 a night now. For few hours.

Even when I go tot a cheap concert in a cheap place, it’s $25 to get in, and about $25 for two shitty drinks. $50 bare minimum, add food or any extras easily doubles. You want a place that isn’t shitty? those prices double or triple. Dive bars are now charging $10 for a shitty draft beer. 8 buck for a shitty bottle beer.

Most of the cost is the venue upkeep and the labor, which are fixed costs that keep escalating. it’s not the cost of the food and other stuff, that’s gone down.

The days of going out and hanging out for hours for $5-10 are never coming back. Every spot like that near me has closed, or cut back their hours to 10-3 or something mid-day only. even cheap places like coffeeshops have time limits for sitting down, like 30m tops or they have reduced/removed seating because they do not want people hangout there anymore.

things used to be cheap because wages were cheap and property was cheap. you could pay a retail worker 8 bucks an hour and rent a storefront for like 2-3 grand amonth. Now the workers get $20/hr and rent is 8-10K a month. So prices get doubled, and companies need to do everything they can to reduce costs by reducing hours to peak-traffic only. a lot of restaurants in my city are now only open from 6-9pm, because they can’t afford to let any table sit empty while they are open. they used to be open 4pm-11pm.

I figured this was coming tonight with his bluster this morning about destroying their ‘civilization’.

He always goes super extreme BS before he does a 180.

nobody is investing in the lower or middle classes. they are de-investing.

everyone is investing in the rich people. especially other rich people who are trying to grow their businesses.

The only people with money to spend are the upper-middle class consumers. Incomes of 100K+. 60% of consumer spending across the USA comes from people in this bracket… and for people under 100K income, spending is going down. Only 18% of USA population makes this level of income…

Hence if you want to make money, you have to move your products up-market to appeal to people who have all the disposable income to spend. This trend is all over the economy. Travel, clothing, food, etc.

The days of appealing to the mass market of lower and middle class consumers, is over, because they are broke, so nobody gives an F about them.

Going forward it’s about fewer sales, but higher margin sales.

Last time I checked Mario Bros was supposed to be happy and fun and simple not an art house intellectual experience.

I wonder if a lot of the reviews are just the bitterness that it’s going to be a 1.5B movie and that ‘real cinema’ movies do pitifully at the box office these days, very rarely to they even make $100mil

right, you’re not a the bigot here. not at all.

my cell is mostly just numbers.

no, man is not a label. i use it for women and queer people too.

typical lemmy. ‘if you disagree with me or challenge me you are just a hateful bigot’ straight to the personal attack because you have nothing of substance to say.

No, life is pretty easy for me. I don’t agonize over the labels of things. I mostly ignore them. Just like I ignore lazy relativism arguments that think words have no meaning… but who hypocritically get very defensive about those very same words.

None of those things are arbitrary, but keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel smart i guess? Jesus. Not everyone is so divorced from a physical/objective reality as you are.

I say ‘hey man’.

I don’t really use my name or other people’s names when interacting with them, no. I also don’t really use labels and I avoid socialize with people who are obsessed with them because I mostly find them to be massively self-obsessed jerks who lack respect for others and arrogantly insist they know shit they don’t.

Because I don’t really give a fuck about these weird arbitrary definitions of 150 pride flags that angsty teens on tumblr made up to feel special. anymore than i think anyone’s given name is some sort of ‘identity’ or horoscope of their personality.

Furry isn’t a sexuality, it’s a fetish.

Nobody makes fun of furries or horsegirls for being into animals.

They make fun of them for being insufferable twats who make everything about themselves and their feelings.

I’ve never met a male who was into horses or horseback riding my entire life.

I have met/known several horse girls/women and they all fit the stereotype of being a spoiled princess who throws crying tantrums when they don’t get their way. I regularly get interest from horse women on dating apps, but ignore them all because of this.

And to clarify, I’m talking about people who own/ride horses and often do dressage and or showjumping stuff. Not people who fantasize about it.

That said, I have not ever met a horsegirl who was also into anime. That’s a genre cross over that I am just learning about today from this article.

and people bitch and whine that they are 5 bucks, not 50 cents.

lots of prepper fetishist weirdos in this thread who seem to think anyone who thinks electricity, plumbing, and internet is normal are ‘weak’.

because apparently if we were ‘strong’ we would all be hunting animals and coking their carcasses over fires and sleeping outside… and communicating via smoke signal… lol

anyone can be potentially attracted to anyone in the right circumstances…

Yes, you are ace. So you are making up a false narrative about how other people work, that isn’t true.

Very few people are like that. Most people are not attracted to most people. Most people are not attracted to others solely based on looks either. There is also a difference in recognizing someone’s beauty, and being attracted to them.

And I’m talking real world attraction, not sexual fantasizing.