Erik Berte
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Erik Berte
@erik_berte
Believer in free markets, realism, free expression, and intellectual honesty. Anti-authoritarian. Lifelong NYer. I don’t like eggs🥚. 🇺🇸🏳️🌈
New York Katılım Mayıs 2010
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If Massie is a “true conservative,” then why does everyone on the Left want him to win?
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The hotel union and the hotel owners worked together to get the city to ban new hotels. Hotel rates soared, and now labor and capital are dividing up the rents collected.
The New York Times@nytimes
The average pay of housekeepers in New York City hotels will increase to more than $100,000 a year as part of a contract settlement between an industry trade group and a powerful union. nyti.ms/4dPdsTw
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@JessicaTarlov I find the events of January 6th abhorrent, but there's no question many of them and other Trump-related folks had their rights violated by the Biden administration. They deserve to be made whole just like every other victim of government malfeasance.
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The corruption in broad daylight is astounding. He’s not only going to pardon J6ers, he’s going to pay them with our money, too. And use American independence as the branding!
Scott MacFarlane@MacFarlaneNews
FLASH: Justice Dept confirms it is establishing $1.776 billion fund "for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress" Fund will have five members and "issue formal apologies and monetary relief owed to claimants"
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@jakozloski @CostelloWilliam Sad, because less educated doesn’t necessarily mean less intelligent
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"Would you marry someone less educated than you?"
Outright "no":
Women: 19%
Men: 5%
Women are 4x more likely to rule it out. Less brutal intelligence, but the same direction.
Jake Kozloski@jakozloski
"Would you marry someone less intelligent than you?" Outright "no": Women: 45% Men: 8% Women are nearly 6x more likely to rule it out entirely. The single largest gender disparity in our deep-question dataset.
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Need a new app for tracking lifts and macros. Please don’t suggest My Fitness Pal.
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Only found in Seattle the mythical jar of Marina Tartar Sauce which must be eaten with Gorton’s Fish Sticks.
I don’t make the rules.
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I don’t want to sleep in roast beef
Temu@shoptemu
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@JackPosobiec @AlexanderPayton I never knew about this. How deeply disturbing!
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Never forget that the French revolutionaries tortured the 10-year old son of King Louis to death through neglect and imprisonment for the crime of being born
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@Rule1NeverTweet @CharlesFLehman Also, @grok compare risk for drivers with 0.05 BAC to drivers who had only 4 hours of sleep night proper
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@CharlesFLehman The point left out of this study excerpt is that most DUI fatalities involve drivers well over 0.8 bac—often double that limit and often repeat offenders.
0.05% is not unsafe for most people.
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In a city as transit rich as New York, the legal BAC limit should be as close to 0 as possible.
The New York Times@nytimes
Breaking News: Two people were killed and three critically injured when a driver lost control of his SUV in New York City on Friday night. It appeared that the driver was intoxicated, and he was taken into custody at the scene, the police said. nyti.ms/42DQ1q2
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Losing muscle, as well as fat, is an unexpected downside of the popular drugs that isn’t broadly discussed or immediately apparent. on.wsj.com/4dtVFzX
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Erik Berte retweetledi
Your periodic reminder that the US spends far more on entitlements than defense:
chiky handler@chiky_handlr
Zohran Mamdani quoted Tupac Shakur when asked if he opposes the war in Iran: "This war killed thousands of civilians, so yes, I strongly oppose it— Tupac said it decades ago, we always seem to have money for war but never to feed the poor."
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the race is already shaken up. pratt shook the race up. trump’s endorsement, in a city like LA, would just guarantee pratt loses.
New York Post@nypost
Trump could shake up LA mayor race with bombshell Spencer Pratt endorsement trib.al/3cJ2GRg
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Surgery is my life. I have done thousands since then, but it was 48 years ago to this very moment that I was in my very first cesarean section.
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Erik Berte retweetledi
Pizza Hut corporate spent seven years killing the exact thing this guy is bringing back. And his stores are now some of the busiest in the entire chain.
Tim Sparks, President of Daland Corporation, is converting 80 Pizza Hut locations to the original 1980s format. Red cups. Salad bars. Stained glass lamps. Pac-Man machines. Vinyl booths. His first job was as a Pizza Hut dishwasher.
The Classics are massively outperforming standard Pizza Huts. Customers drive two to three hours to eat there. A single Facebook post about one Classic location in Pennsylvania got 7,500 shares and broke onto TikTok overnight.
Meanwhile, corporate is doing the exact opposite. 250 store closures planned for first half of 2026. "Red Roof" dine-in franchises no longer offered to new operators. Yum Brands is considering selling the entire chain. No obvious buyer.
The decline numbers are brutal. Pizza Hut held 25% of U.S. pizza market share in 1995. Today: under 14%. In 2019, half of traditional stores were still dine-in, but 90% of revenue came from off-premises orders. Corporate saw the mismatch and decided to eliminate the dine-in format entirely. Convert everything to delivery boxes. Compete with Domino's on logistics.
The problem with that strategy: Domino's is a technology company that happens to sell pizza. Their competitive advantage is order tracking, delivery optimization, and franchise efficiency. When Pizza Hut stripped out the booths, the salad bar, the lamps, and the experience, they became a worse Domino's. A typical Pizza Hut location now generates 20% less revenue than the average across the other four major pizza chains.
Their biggest franchisee went bankrupt in 2020 and closed 300 stores. Total sales haven't grown since 2004. Twenty-two years of stagnation.
And a former dishwasher is adding salad bars and Pac-Man machines, and people are driving across state lines.
The Friday night with your family in a vinyl booth under a stained glass lamp while the kids played arcade games and loaded up plates at the salad bar. That was always what Pizza Hut was selling. Corporate optimized it off the balance sheet. One franchisee who grew up inside the original version understood what the spreadsheet couldn't measure.
Matt Braynard@MattBraynard
We're so back. An entrepreneur is restoring Pizza Huts to their former glory.
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