Business, Economics, and Taxes: Capitalism. Yay? >=(

[Handyman]

https://www.threads.net/@hoon_kim/po...c4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

That is just sad!

[Swansong]

Apparently Vivek (rhymes with fake) made a bathroom stop on a hot mic.


Absolutely not an accident.

[Proud2baLaker]

Elmo allowed Alex Jones back on Twitter...then was part of a live convo with Jones, a bunch of RWNJs, Vivek NotgonnabePresidentever and Andrew Tate. He is pushing to be banned in Europe.

Funny thing will be when twatter does inevitably get banned, there will be a bunch of idiots screaming about free speech because A: as has been well established, they do not understand what free speech/1st Amendment actually is, and B: as I have recently learned, there is a not insignificant number of people who think that the US Constitution applies to the rest of the world.

[Kepler]

Elmo allowed Alex Jones back on Twitter...then was part of a live convo with Jones, a bunch of RWNJs, Vivek NotgonnabePresidentever and Andrew Tate.

Birds of a feather.

[aparch]

CosMc is McDonald's take on the lunch/afternoon/drive home customers that Starbucks, Dunkin', Sonic, and others have.

It's going to be hard to wrestle those customers away.


Also really disappointed they used a fringe character from the '80s when they could have made an absolute killing by including a Big Mac on the menu and promoting it with Mac Tonite as the mascot.

[Handyman]

Elmo allowed Alex Jones back on Twitter...then was part of a live convo with Jones, a bunch of RWNJs, Vivek NotgonnabePresidentever and Andrew Tate. He is pushing to be banned in Europe.

[dxmnkd316]

dems introduce bill in house and senate to require investment firms to sell off single family home ownership, giving ten years to unload. It will die fast but keep getting Rs on record for voting against

**** yes. Keep doing this. Get the Ds on record too

[dxmnkd316]

I was trying to highlight McDonald's historic inability to break out of burgers and indirectly cast my doubts on the viability CosMc's. Nothing more.

Roger

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Austin Texas council voted 9-2 to torpedo single family zoning and allow duplex’s and triplexes similar to Minneapolis (still not aware of really any SFHs that were converted to duplex or triplex here yet).

dems introduce bill in house and senate to require investment firms to sell off single family home ownership, giving ten years to unload. It will die fast but keep getting Rs on record for voting against

[TalonsUpPuckDown]

Super random question…do you remember when the McDonalds near you stopped selling pizza? From what I remember they were the only one around who did. I got it once when I was a kid there and was surprised how good it was.

Another decent idea that didn't take hold. The capital outlay the owner-operators were asked to shoulder was too high, the footprint of the kitchen in that version of their standard restaurant wasn't big enough for the ovens (it's since changed, recall all the nationwide remodeling that recently took place), etc. Oerthers in Orlando is a huge McDonald's owner operator and they made pizza work by changing the kitchen footprint and expanding the restaurant. They still had pizza long after everyone else abandoned it. Not sure if they still do, it's been 15+ years since I've been to one of their restaurants.

The expanded coffee menu you can order from at a McD's is the only thing left from the McCafe days. They figured out how to stuff the coffee machine into a corner of the kitchen by the front counter where you place your order. What didn't survive is the meatloaf. Gotta tell ya, McDonald's meatloaf was pretty darned good.

[Drew S.]

Why? Sounds awful to me but I’m surely not their target. Empty calories as if Americans aren’t fat enough.

Super random question…do you remember when the McDonalds near you stopped selling pizza? From what I remember they were the only one around who did. I got it once when I was a kid there and was surprised how good it was.

[TalonsUpPuckDown]

Like, how? I thought they were just al large holder of their stock?

edit: Wikipedia says they more than quintupled their money between 1998 and 2006. That's pretty ****in good.

I was trying to highlight McDonald's historic inability to break out of burgers and indirectly cast my doubts on the viability CosMc's. Nothing more.

[dxmnkd316]

Not for McDonald's. They couldn't figure out what to do with it.

Like, how? I thought they were just al large holder of their stock?

edit: Wikipedia says they more than quintupled their money between 1998 and 2006. That's pretty ****in good.

[dxmnkd316]

For a long time Indy car shops have been able to pass laws called right to repair. They have made it so car manufacturers must allow the programming and such to be widely available to aftermarket scan tools. Maine just passed it again.

That's exactly what I thought when I read this story.

[TalonsUpPuckDown]

Wait, are you saying Chipotle wasn't a successful breakout?

Not for McDonald's. They couldn't figure out what to do with it after they bought it. They turned around and sold it something like 4-5 years later. Their grand thinking at the time was for you to walk into a McDonald's and order a Big Mac and fries, 1/4 chicken dark, and a burrito bowl.