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@TheNewRedneck @McFranchisee Labor cost. Accountants and technicians at Quick Service Restaurants are pushing Technology Transformation using new AI and techniques to transform the human dining experience into efficient processes prioritizing profits over people without reducing prices.

@McFranchisee Why not just move the dispensers behind the counter so that the employee hands you your drink and then do a “no free refills” policy. Simple and easy instead of this whole system.

I don’t eat at Steak ‘n Shake very often (their transparency and ownership have always been a little weird to me), but a new controversy I just read about is pretty silly. During remodels, they may add a QR code scanner for soft drink refills. Basically, you scan proof of purchase so people can’t just order water and then help themselves to unlimited soda. Some folks are now boycotting because they have to scan their receipt each time. I think it’s a smart move that helps keep people honest. The entitlement is wild, people are genuinely mad about scanning a code for a free refill? Go to almost any other country where free refills barely exist (if at all) and they’d be begging for this system. 😂🥤

@DavePKel @ClownWorld San Antonio spent millions in CDBG to demolish thousands of shotgun houses - not as ornamental as NOLA's - for Hemisfair Plaza 1960s and Westside barrios 70s-90s. A few shotgun houses on 25' lots have been conserved and purtied up like perfume on a pig. x.com/i/status/20788…

@TedCornwell @ClownWorld The news ones, yes. Those will be falling down within 10-20 years. However, for shotgun homes that are built with some intention, there are still thousands in southern cities which are occupied by working class people and retirees. Even some from the 1870s are still standing.

I know some people think these tiny homes are the future, but I honestly think it’s pathetic. I’ve seen backyard sheds that are bigger than this. Somewhere along the way we started convincing ourselves that paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for what looks like a storage unit is normal. Is this really the direction we want housing to go?

@DavePKel @ClownWorld Designed by AI accountants. Built by illegal aliens. Financed and sold to low-income minorities. Barrio/ghetto in 1 year. Foreclosure in 2 years. Section 8 in 3 years. No-Go Crime Zone in 5 years. Substandard for §8 in 7 years. Demolition in 10 years. x.com/i/status/20786…

@ClownWorld Shotgun homes don't need to be hideous looking. Give it a normal roofline. Put the door on one side. Add a little flair to the windows and roofline. Put the parking and garbage pickup in an alley in the back. The builder from the video intentionally made them ugly.

At around 3:30 in the morning, a traffic stop was attempted on a white Chevy Camaro in Haines City. The driver was Hiram, and during a brief interaction with the deputy, Hiram felt it was necessary to mention that he just came from a lady-friend’s home where he…well…let’s just said he had a good time. So now he was wanting the deputy to give him a break. When Hiram realized he wasn’t going to get a break, he sped away from the traffic stop. Rather than pursing, the deputy got on the radio and told all of his cop buddies in the area about Hiram and his Camaro. A short time later, a Davenport PD officer found the Camaro in his city. Hiram got out of the Camaro and ran, leaving the car running. He also left one of his shoes behind. So he was literally fleeing on foot. One foot, and one shoe. PCSO deputies and even officers from Haines City responded to Davenport to look for Hiram. K9 Wit arrived on scene, and he was tasked with tracking Hiram. To do this, the poor dog had to take a whiff of the suspect’s abandoned shoe. The scent was strong with this one, and K9 Wit found Hiram two blocks away, lying on the ground, pretending to be a homeless person, comingling with garbage bags behind a business. Wit harangued Hiram using his outside voice. Hiram was arrested and taken to Grady Judd’s Bed & Breakfast. He was charged with Fleeing to Elude (because he fled to elude the popo), Cocaine Possession (because he had coke, and not the kind that looks like Pepsi), Driving While License Suspended/Revoked (the felony kind because he does it so often), possession of drug paraphernalia (for his coke container), resisting without violence (for popo defiance), and failure to appear (for declining the court’s invitation). Hiram, bless his heart (and you know what that means in the south), has now been welcomed at the Polk Pokey 38 times. He’s been a guest of the Florida State Prison system 6 times. Hiram’s hornswoggling might suggest an intellectual hebetude. #PCSO #PolkSheriff #HiramWasHavingAGoodNightUntilHeWasnt #HiramSharingTMIAndHopingHeWouldGetLuckyAndCatchABreak #NoLicenseAndTheresCokeInTheCar #WhatsAGuyToDo #FleeApparently #OutrunOneOfYourShoesEven #AtWitsEnd #HisNoseKnows #YouGotTheWrongGuy #ImHiramTheHomelessMan #HiramsCamaroAlsoGotArrested #ItWentToCarJail

@TerriblePic @unusual_whales The Secret Service protects a head of state visiting the U.S. x.com/i/status/20785… x.com/i/status/20785…

@unusual_whales MAMDANI in ACTIVE CONVERSATION to ARREST Netanyahu calls him ‘WAR CRIMINAL’ who ‘BELONGS in The Hague’ ‘Whatever law allows me… we will do it’

BREAKING: Mamdani in ‘active conversation’ about whether he can arrest Benjamin Netanyahu when Israel PM visits NYC, per NYP

@zantar9 @LeonSandoTXMN @HEB The Food Stamp Act of 1964 was a farm-to-market price support system to offset inflation caused by Vietnam War costs in LBJ's "guns and butter" economy. x.com/i/status/20784…

@LeonSandoTXMN @HEB SNAP is actually an indirect farm subsidy meant to stimulate demand for ag products. That’s the reason it’s administered by the USDA. That fact gets lost in the rhetoric.

So explain this @HEB when SNAP benefits blocked Soda you dropped the prices to $5 a 12pack. Once they reinstated SNAP soda purchase you jacked it to $8.50…. WTF. You fucking the Gov?

@JoaquinCastrotx x.com/i/status/20782…

More than 100 of Governor Abbott’s buoys broke loose during deadly floods in Texas. Buoys with sharp razors are now causing damage to neighborhoods and have shut down a bridge that transports thousands of vehicles a day. Abbott’s “buoy border” was a reckless idea from the very start and border communities remain collateral damage.

@FCNightingale x.com/i/status/20782…

Louisville, Kentucky aims to combat 40% vacancy rate in downtown office towers with more housing Walking around downtown Louisville on Thursday, a group of sorority sisters couldn't help but notice a slew of empty businesses and closed restaurants. "I did notice a lot of 'For Sale' or 'Space Available' signs in the windows and stuff," #commercialrealestate #CommercialRealEstateDownside wdrb.com/news/business/…

@mjohn55 @ChefGruel What do they wipe their asses with? Lettuce leaves. Do they then wash their hands in ditch water or not? Mano y mano. Hecho en Mexico. x.com/i/status/20783…

@ChefGruel So they are poopping while picking up the lettuce on the fields ?

And now we know the farm was in Mexico, so that confirms my suspicion it was the irrigation water.

@PeteHegseth It's the Obama Presidential Library x.com/i/status/20779…

First they stop paying credit cards Then they stop paying their mortgages Then we see more short sale and foreclosures

Today's view on Texas submarkets where homebuilders make up more than 50% of for-sale inventory in some cases. Note the ring formation around DFW and Houston, and the parallel tracks running from Austin down to San Antonio - builders concentrated around the urban hubs and built outwards. Cutting asking prices is the last thing homebuilders want to do. Their usual playbook is rate buydowns and other backend incentives that leave the sticker price untouched. In TX, they are actively cutting.

"Green, Ohio officials grow frustrated as massive former FedEx building still sits empty" Purchased at auction in 2024 for $2.4 million - $9.02/SF A 93% decline from its 2011 price of $35 million. Former headquarters of FedEx Custom Critical, a massive 266,000-square-foot dedicated office building at 1475 Boettler Road. -Crain's #commercialrealestate

CMBS special servicing rate climbed to 11.20% in June. Office 17.11% Retail 12.95% Lodging 8.89%. "Many lenders remain unwilling to seize assets in a market with few buyers." "Distressed sales remain uncommon. Most resolutions still come through extensions, forbearances, or new equity contributions." #commercialrealestate credaily.com/briefs/us-cmbs…

This goes back to Rousseau. Child-centered education is a women-oriented education. No hierarchy, no true discipline. For boys, the teacher-centered education requires a discipline that will push for a discipline of the mind. It happens that Rousseau followed and extended the English Enlightenment. You can already perceive feminist trends in Locke and Smith. The whole goes back to the Reformation and Renaissance but also the French "Amour courtois" courtly love.

@jfmaquine @Bitcoin_Teddy x.com/i/status/20777…

@TedCornwell @Bitcoin_Teddy Yes, that's the one. Fun fact, sort of: it was published the same year as "The Social Contract", 1762

@ArabianAnon @RamAbdu Jews and Christians don't hijack or blow up airliners with innocent people x.com/i/status/20777…

@RamAbdu Israel destroyed these people's brains, now a call to prayer is landing a whole plane lmfao fuking morons They deserve to be brainwashed; they are too lazy to learn about Islam properly

A plane in the United States was forced to land after the sound of the adhan was heard from a passenger's phone. A Southwest Airlines flight traveling from Tennessee to Florida was forced to make an emergency landing in Atlanta. Upon landing, a SWAT team boarded the aircraft and detained one of the passengers, accusing him of terrorism and posing a bomb threat. It was later revealed that the detained passenger was a Muslim. During the flight, his prayer-time app activated and played the adhan (the Islamic call to prayer). The crew reportedly interpreted the sound as a potential security threat, notified dispatchers, and decided to make an emergency landing.