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Gamora: You never loved anyone, that's why you can't get the soul stone Thanos:

Wingstop employee wants Americans to know when you go to Wingstop you’re just buying regular Tyson chicken. He shows all the boxes as proof I ran the numbers on Tyson wholesale chicken prices and compared it to Wingstop prices They markup the chicken over 500% - Wholesale Tyson chicken wings typically cost restaurants $1.50–$2.50+ per pound - A pound of bone-in wings yields roughly 8–10 wings - Cost to Wingstop: $0.20–$0.35 per wing that’s including sauce, seasoning and prep - Selling price: $1.00–$1.50+ per wing, or even higher in combos - Markup is 300–500%+ on chicken cost You’re just paying for regular Tyson chicken wings in sauce that’s fried Make it at home and save yourself the 500% markup

Sony was so suspicious of this game they sent someone to the studio to check the footage wasn't faked. A tiny team had built a PlayStation game too big to fit inside the console, then taught the machine to read it off a spinning disc, piece by piece, as you played. The PlayStation came with two megabytes of memory. After the basics took their cut, only about one and a quarter megabytes were free for the level you were playing. One photo on your phone is bigger than that. Crash levels held far more than that, so they could never sit in memory all at once. The fix came from one of the studio's programmers, Andy Gavin. He built a system that grabbed the level off the disc in tiny chunks as Crash ran, always pulling in the next stretch of the world a beat before you reached it. Then he went further and arranged the data on the disc by hand, so each piece sat right where the laser would land at the moment the game needed it. Lean in close and you could hear the disc drive whirring and clicking without a break, feeding the game as you moved. That nonstop reading is what worried Sony. Every move Crash made meant the drive had to fetch new data, and a disc drive can only be read so many times before it wears out. A Sony exec asked how many reads finishing the game would take. It was more than the drive was built to survive. He went quiet, told the team to keep that to themselves, and helped get the game approved anyway. Even with all that, the game barely fit, right up to the final days before the deadline. The team kept rewriting the same lines of code in slightly different ways, shaving off a few bytes here, a few there, until the first game fit with about four bytes left over. Four bytes is not even enough to spell the word Crash. Warped, the 1998 game on screen, was the third and most ambitious version of all this. A jet ski level, a biplane, a motorcycle, a tiger ride along the Great Wall of China, all running on the same little machine that could barely hold one ordinary level. It sold around 7 million copies. The three original games together passed 21 million and turned Crash into one of the best-selling Western game series ever in Japan, a market Western games almost never cracked. A studio that had to trick a console into running its game built one of the best-selling series the original PlayStation ever had.

Days after bee venom was found to kill cancer…

🚨 Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins celebrated Saturday that “American beef; the best beef in the world! — will be back on the shelves in China soon.” Beef in the United States just hit $7 per pound — the highest price in recorded history. Beef prices are up 77 percent since January 2020. Rollins’s own MAGA base turned on her within hours. Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist: “supply relative to demand was jacking up prices, but now we are going to export the U.S. beef we were told we were short on to China? Make it make sense.” Wendy Patterson, a MAGA commentator with 200,000 followers: “Beef that the American people can’t afford to buy… Fire her globalist a– already.” This is the same Rollins who said in January that a $3 meal of “a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a corn tortilla and one other thing” was an affordable healthy dinner. It is the same week three out of four Americans told CBS News their incomes are not keeping up with inflation.

Zohran Mamdani has turned blocks in front of 50 NYC public schools into car-free ‘Soccer Streets’ where children can play in celebration of the upcoming World Cup.

I booked my flight to Chicago for my graduation in June through Spirit….i paid for myself, my mother, my aunt, and my sister…hotel bundled in like I usually do….these people are offering me a 190.00 credit and I spent over 1k on this shit. Mind you, I protected the trip….i-

Meta just threatened to shut down Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp in an entire US state.. New Mexico sued them for child safety failures.. a jury found them liable.. fined them $375 million.. and now the state wants actual reforms.. age verification, separate teen accounts, real protections.. Meta's response.. "those changes are too hard.. we'd rather leave" a $1.5 trillion company is telling 2 million people it would rather cut them off than make its platform safe for children.. the state attorney general called it a PR stunt.. said Meta rewrites its own rules constantly, redesigns products on demand, and has bent to the demands of dictators to keep market access.. but protecting kids in New Mexico.. that's where they draw the line

cost of living has increased over the decades wages remain stagnant( Value of work doesn't = value of production) The increase of the Uber conservative religious mindset around sex and sexual reproduction Plus incel/manosphere culture

Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones listened to 800 songs to find 9. Then Quincy threw out 4 of those 9 and went back into the studio. Beat It, Human Nature, P.Y.T., and The Lady in My Life were emergency replacements for songs that were not good enough. They spent four months just listening. Quincy and Rod Temperton sat in a Los Angeles studio in 1982, going through song after song after song from every songwriter they could pull a favor from. Most got cut after a few seconds. Of the 800, they only ended up recording around 30 with Michael actually singing. Of those 30, only 9 made the final list. And then Quincy listened to the finished album, decided 4 of his own picks were not strong enough, and pulled them. The four songs he replaced them with became some of the most famous in pop music history. The four he cut went on to become hits for other artists. Recording those replacements almost broke the team. During the Beat It sessions, Quincy had three studios running at the same time. Eddie Van Halen was in one of them laying down his guitar solo for free. He had thought the call from Quincy was a prank his friends were pulling on him. Michael was in the next room, singing a vocal part through a cardboard tube. Engineers were mixing in the third studio. They worked five days and five nights with no sleep. At one point the speakers overloaded and caught fire. Quincy later told the BBC they had to carry engineers out of the studio on stretchers. Musicians too. Greg Phillinganes, the keyboard player on the album, said there was a moment where everyone thought it was finished, that they had nothing left to give, and Quincy was still standing there saying "It is not there yet" while Michael, almost falling apart, kept asking what they were supposed to do now. They finally finished mixing in early November. Then they sat down to play the master back, and the album sounded weak. They had crammed too much music onto a normal vinyl record, and the grooves had to be cut so narrow that the punch was gone. So they cut a verse from "The Lady in My Life," shortened the famous 29-second intro of "Billie Jean" that Quincy had been trying to drop the entire time, and remixed almost the whole album from scratch. One song a day. Eight straight days. The only track they left alone was "The Girl Is Mine" because it was already on the radio. The final mix wrapped on November 8, 1982. The album came out 21 days later. The wolves you hear at the start of the song "Thriller" are Michael. The engineer set up tape recorders in a barn overnight to catch his own dog howling, and the dog never made a sound. So Michael did the howls in the booth himself. Some of the background vocals on the same track were sung in the studio's shower stall. Vincent Price did his entire spoken-word horror section in three takes, and the verses he was reading had been written by Rod Temperton in a taxi on the way to the studio that same morning. Michael never wrote his songs on paper. He recorded them on a small handheld tape recorder and then sang them back from memory in the studio. The album ended up selling around 70 million copies. It won 8 Grammys, sat at number one for 37 weeks, and produced 7 Top 10 hits out of 9 songs. At its peak it was moving a million copies a week. But all of that came after the work was done. The work itself was 800 demos, 30 recordings, 4 last-minute saves, three studios running until the speakers caught fire, and a producer who refused to put out something he did not believe in even when it meant pulling his own album apart twice. Nine tracks because they could not find more that were good enough.

I was assured that this never happens and that it's antisemitic to say it does.

Kristen to Zohran Mamdani: “Former Vice President Kamala Harris said just last week she is thinking about running for President again. Would you like to see former Vice President run for President again?” 🎥: Meet The Press

NBA players are still incredibly popular. In fact, we follow them more now with social media and primetime specialized content. Nike basketball shoes aren't selling at the same rate for a few reasons: • price points are too high • resellers and counterfeits ruined the market • competition is creating more cost efficient and comfortable shoes • some designs are too complicated or niche for daily wear • Nike still hasn't fully evolved in the accessibility lane; many customers require options without laces or fussy components that can rarely be found beyond children's sizes • customer service in many of the stores/outlets has deteriorated in comparison to a few years ago Nike needs to stop tapping into the the high volume buyers, elite brand boards, and wealthy folks for a bit. Get back to the the general public and the foundation of the product... the fans, the consumers, & the people who grew up knowing a standard we no longer have.

@TheDunkCentral I understand the game but we gotta draw a line at aggregating this guy, surely

She bodied that fool

A 13-year-old Canadian kid uploaded R&B covers to YouTube in 2008 from his bedroom. A talent manager named Scooter Braun stumbled on the videos and signed him. For the next 15 years, Braun controlled everything. Tours, branding, business deals, public image. The kid became the biggest pop star on the planet, sold 150 million records, racked up 32 billion Spotify streams, and had three Diamond-certified singles before turning 25. Then in 2022, he got hit with Ramsay Hunt syndrome. Partial facial paralysis. Cancelled the world tour. Disappeared from public life entirely. Here's where it gets interesting. In January 2023, he sold his entire 290-song catalog to Hipgnosis for $200 million. Every song he'd ever released. "Baby." "Sorry." "Love Yourself." All of it. Gone. At 28 years old, he cashed out his past. Then he dropped Scooter Braun. After 15 years. No manager. No agent. For the first time in his career, nobody was making decisions for him. Fast forward to this weekend. Coachella calls. He picks up the phone himself. Rolling Stone confirmed he negotiated his own headlining deal directly with Goldenvoice. No agent commission. No manager cut. $10 million for two weekends, and he kept all of it. Then he walked onto the biggest stage in music, sat down behind a MacBook, and pulled up YouTube. He played "Baby" from 2010. He played his bedroom covers from 2008. He harmonized with his 13-year-old self in front of 100,000 people. Katy Perry joked about whether he had YouTube Premium. Half the internet called it lazy. The other half called it genius. They're both wrong. It was a receipt. He sold his catalog for $200 million. He fired the man who discovered him. He negotiated his own deal. And then he went back to the exact platform where it all started and said: I built this from a laptop. I'm headlining Coachella from a laptop. And for the first time in my life, every dollar is mine. The kid from YouTube just closed the loop.

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