General Mystery

@LizzyStarrrdust @SweatieAngle ~bows~ mademoiselle

@AbsoluteMystery @SweatieAngle Thank you, yes

Lmao yeah women have no concept of dirty smutty writing that’s prob like their main thing

Meet Agnessa Pedersen - the 23 year old from Norway building mind controlled drones. She has just spent the last 6 months in Ukraine building the product. She has built non-invasive brain-computer interfaces that eliminate the need for physical controls, such as joysticks. Her company, CEREBIONICS, is betting that all physical systems in the future will be controlled and operated via brain-computer interfaces. At age 16 she built a robot arm in her bedroom to draw portraits for her, and now she's building mind-controlled drones. WTF Europe has some of the most amazing founders building the technology of the future. And she's backed by @ProjectEurope_. Great stuff @Kitty_Mayo_, @HarryStebbings.

@estherzelda0514 So why were fast food places the cheaper of the two in the past?

This guy asked me why casual dining places (Chili's, Texas Road House, etc.) are cheaper or just as cheap now as fast food (McDonald's, Wendy's, etc.), and I did not really know the answer. After speculating, I thought it was interesting question, so I looked up the answer. Fast food is much more a la carte, so it does a lot more individual transactions and less large group tickets. This increases overhead and decreases profits. Their supply chain is usually franchise-reliant distribution networks that are sensitive to economic shocks like gas prices, which can aggressively cut into profits, causing them to increase their menu pricing. In contrast, casual dining chains usually operate with corporate bulk purchasing agreements with long-term hedges. Who cares if beef prices just went through the roof when you have prices set for the next year? Casual dining places sell loads of alcohol and cheap appetizers, which are going to have way better margins than their proteins. This allows them to sell meat at close to cost to keep themselves packed. McDonald's cannot do this. Casual dining has to intentionally undercut the market to get people in the door, because of the competition they face, and then they can use alcohol, merchandise, and appetizers to make up the backend. They also get people full on free bread and peanuts to make them feel like they got a lot of value out of the meal. Fast food, especially drive-thrus, have much more inelastic demand. They rise prices because their customer base often has no choice but to pay it. People are much more picky that their chicken nuggets and fries taste exactly the same at every fast food location. They want it fast and they want it now. But that's not how casual dining works. There's higher tolerance for delay and regional variations, and customers have more choice in that market, which drives prices down. Casual dining thus absorbs costs on their protein to maximize volume, whereas fast food makes aggressive markups on staple items, because they make the bet that those nuggets are your favorite and you'll buy them no matter what. They're right, by the way. Fast food also has higher rent, and smaller buildings. They need corner lots with high traffic and room for a drive through, or several. Casual dining places, however, build bigger buildings on cheaper land off an interstate, and can feed hundreds of people simultaneously. This results in better economies of scale in food costs and labor. Since they have a full kitchen, they don't need as much specialized equipment, and people are content to wait sometimes. This means they do not need to be constantly overstaffed. Anyway, that's why your steak at Texas Road House is cheaper than a burger at McDonald's and your chicken tenders at Chili's are cheaper than Culver's.

@LizzyStarrrdust @Hitchslap1 Tell me about it!

@Hitchslap1 Holy shit. Incredible.

Women rate ovulating women’s voices as less trustworthy. They detect the subtle acoustic shifts near ovulation. Female intrasexual competition strikes again.

@otokyo__ You betcha!

You’re offered $4 million to uninstall Facebook from your phone forever. Would you do it?

@TheLaurenChen I borrowed $30,000 and paid it off. I don't understand what's going on here.

Reminder that usury is a sin. Yes, people should know how interest and minimum payments work. But that doesn't excuse an immoral practice. I always get flak when I call out usury, and it just boggles my mind that anyone defends it.

@hicasamadim 3

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@SpringTesla @japan_nobunaga Americans just like guns. They're fun, and they're useful tools.

United States does have second amendment of gun rights, but the real issue that cause the massive gun abuse? The politically and financially powerful American NRA (National rifle association) is motivated by financial gain rather than freedom and they won’t allow anything that control guns pass legislation. Last year 44000 Americans died from gunshots.

In Japan, almost no civilian owns a firearm. Not because the people are afraid of guns. Because the people, decades ago, decided that conflict ends at a conversation. Hunting license? Yes, with extensive training. Self-defense pistol? Effectively not permitted. A gun in a glove compartment, "just in case"? Unimaginable. In 2024, Japan recorded three firearm incidents. Three. In a country of 124 million. The United States loses that many lives to firearms every two hours. Not because Japan is gentler by nature. Because Japan made a different bet: that the cost of a tense moment with no weapon is lower than the cost of an easy moment with one. Think about the last time a stranger raised their voice at you. Think about whether you, or they, calculated what was in someone's waistband. Japan built a different argument. Not loaded. Not chambered. Just expected. Of everyone. Always. 🇯🇵

@felitraxx @VittelMax @grok @grok, now do that with Clavicular.

@VittelMax @grok take the man on the left and make him look a little sloppy. unkempt hair, longer unruly beard, and instead of a suit put him in a white dirty tshirt

No. Clavicular has a more sexually appealing face but the judge has a superior aesthetic that inspires more authority to the beholder. Clavicular would get easier time having one night stands but the judge would more easily build a harem

@LizzyStarrrdust @SweatieAngle I think you meant "is not a result of porn....".

Yes. That are narrative and situationally driven. Women tend to enjoy the buildup, the tension, the subtleties that culminate toward passionate sexual encounters. Men tend to more often enjoy the mechanics of the sexual act than the situations and interplay that led to them. This is one of the primary differences between male and female sexual modes. A great many women seem to not recognize that men focusing on the physical mechanics of sex and female body parts rather than the interplay of emotions between two people that lead to sex is a result of porn use or a disrespect or degradation. It is not. It is simply the way men are wired.

@estherzelda0514 I think people in the skilled trades can often make more than $80 grand, so would be a legitimate alternative to college.

The typical person with a 4-year makes about $80k versus a high school diploma, at about $48k. This gap has widened. In 2004, the degree premium was 2x. Now it's 2.3x. Grads are also half as likely to be unemployed. Education has not lost any value. It's gained it. Men on the internet who think otherwise are literally so dumb they'd rather be poor than go to college with women.

@estherzelda0514 That's not being a bitch, that's just showing him/her a better way.

If you're a woman and you want to have good sex, be a bitch. Turn off that little voice in your head telling you to be nice, passive, and ladylike. Sit up, take his hand, and say "no, you're doing it wrong, it should be like this" and put it where you want it.

@CleansedTweets @borisyeltzin Far too much info. I didn't even read this far.

@borisyeltzin 😂

England: If home right now I could make for my date; - Pimm’s & Pickle (pre-dinner drink) - Mini Faggots (starter) - Toad in the Hole (main dish) - A huge Spotted Dick with cream (dessert) - 3 x Hanky Panky's (after drinks) - A Knackered Nightcap (nightcap drink) & then shag. 😂 In the morning have a: Full English (breakfast) & a Hairy Mary hangover killer. The English are magnificent. I mean look 👆It's poetry

@honeyNonABG Give me slender any day.

Asian American women are subconsciously pressured to be “healthier” by getting bigger to match American bodies. “Because being skinny, smaller, and more youthful looking by nature makes you automatically attractive to weirdo white guys cuz white supremacy and pedophilia. Therefore stuff your face to “be healthy” and achieve the American ideal of “thic” cuz you’re not white”

@estherzelda0514 Interesting

I really want to know when the manosphere will stop endlessly posting a chart that is twenty years old from a website from the very early days of online dating and where women were incentivized to be mean to men and rate them lower, because if you did not, they were notified by OkCupid and could message you, clogging up your inbox. This doesn't prove anything other than way too many people are basing their opinions of humanity on how one website worked two decades ago because it confirms their pessimistic depression and resentment of women.

@lizisamused I don't know if you're crazy, but I'm an American and I could stand to lose 6 pounds.

We are cooked as a society. A guy on here said I'm delusional because I said plenty of thin people exist and that's mostly what I've dated 😭 Apparently that's the "top 2%" and statistically ridiculous to expect and I'd better have a top 2% body myself 😂 Am I crazy? I live in a big walkable city and I see tons of thin people...

@honeyNonABG @LesChouans1793 I dated Asian Americans because they were intelligent, thoughtful, and conscientious, and because I couldn't figure out how to carry on a converation with American white women.

@LesChouans1793 I agree. The second paragraph was me being sarcastic cuz so many ppl criticize asian women for their natural looks in America and for dating white men for the listed reasons

I don't know who she is, but isn't it possible that she's been pumping herself full of fillers because so many women are doing that, not because she wan't to look caucasian? Meanwhile, countless white men are attracted to Asian women because they look...Asian.

@CleansedTweets I know English food has a poor reputation, but after crossing the continent and having nothing but continental breakfasts in the morning, I was in heaven when got to Britain and was served a breakfast of fried eggs, sausage or bacon, toast, and cereal. The English Breakast!

........we know.

I strongly disagree with the push for a constitutional amendment to bar foreign-born legislators. foxnews.com/politics/mace-… While I have suggested the possible tinyurl.com/f86u4tce, I cannot think of anything more antithetical to our founding than barring foreign-born citizens from Congress. As a nation of immigrants, it is a reaffirmation of our heritage to have these citizens serve in government...