It’s largely because of new tiered pricing. They want to extract the maximum price while not losing any customers.

To do this, they first double or triple all their prices. Then, for those who are willing to stand on one leg, pat their head, and rub their stomach* while ordering the right things, they’ll charge you half price.

(*By this I mean use their app. The main purpose of the app and the deals are to charge everyone what they’re willing to pay.)

I can blame McDonald’s for a lot of things, but not this. They didn’t really get a choice.

Yeah, there are certainly worse jobs. Just that getting paid for 25 hours while effectively being busy for 50 hours a week (with breaks between) is a huge drawback.

Well, we just voted down all the levies to build new schools. So it’s not like the schools are getting that money.

(If funding stays the same but students double, they have less money.)

It would help if driving a bus wasn’t such a shitty job. "Okay, we’re gonna pay you for three hours in the morning, then you’ll have a five hour break, then we’ll pay you another three hours. So it’ll be an 11 hour day and we’ll pay you for six of them. But you get a break!

As much as the farm subsidies have been criticized, literally starving isn’t something we should have to worry much about.

Food we can do domestically just fine, as long as you don’t care about coffee and tea. Even those I just expect we’re going to make existing grounds/leaves stretch a whole lot farther.

I don’t think it’ll be as bad as some of Russia’s hard times, but goddamn is that a long, long way to fall.

I’m more concerned about world politics. We’re going to cede a hell of a lot of control of the world to Russia and China. It’s likely that China claims an entire vertical slice of the Earth, standing in the way of a good chunk of world trade.

That should be reported, and should be investigated.

Yes. Certainly.

But the bigger issue is that the punishment doesn’t fit the crime. It’s going to cost some resources from law enforcement, and that needs to be punished because we don’t want people like this regularly draining our tax dollars. But any punishment more than probation and/or community service is obscene.

They’ve framed her as a terrorist, and she’s clearly not.

credible

able to be believed; convincing

Did anyone really think she was coming after them after that? No. She got heated on the phone and said something she shouldn’t have.

It’s not nothing. What she did was wrong, and it’s reasonable for it to be a crime. We don’t want to always have to investigate or deal with constant threats. However, she was neither credible nor specific, which are two major criteria. (Keep that in mind when you’re posting here, by the way.) She committed a crime, but not one that should be very serious.

The way they’ve framed her is obscene.

If you say it, you’ll likely be removed from the jury.