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Still having customers. Groceries are a basic need, but fast food is a luxury most people are already wanting to cut back anyway. I have been a fan of McChickens for a long time due to them being so cheap. They don't taste amazing, but they got the job done, and were pretty much the cheapest protein I could get without having to make something myself. Even now, without any additional price hikes, they are now $3.50 for a single McChicken in my area. I cannot justify spending that, so I have completely stopped going to McDonalds. Since all other fast food has already done this before McDonalds, I no longer eat any fast food. They've all lost the only quality that made them worth while. Anecdotally, most people I know who did eat fast food don't anymore due to prices. The higher they go, the more customers they will lose.

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Recycling itself isn't mostly bullshit, plastic recycling is bullshit. If you look into it, most mass-produced products made of "recycled" plastics are actually made from in-factory plastic waste, which companies do for literally everything since it's just a waste of money not to use offcuts in the next batch of pretty much anything. Now, instead of just mixing those offcuts into new batches, they simply hold onto them until they have enough for a whole batch, and now they can legally call the product "made of 100% recycled material" even though it's still essentially made of virgin plastic. Paper, glass, and aluminum are all pretty heavily recycled in most places.

Cut plastic out of any facet of your life that you can, but it's such a small amount of plastic compared to corporations, even in places you wouldn't expect. Honestly anyone whose worked in the backroom of a grocery/department store knows just how much plastic goes into wrapping pallets to be stored on shelves, only to have throw that plastic away the next day for stocking, then re-wrapped again.

I personally have never seen this, and I've got 50+ TB of movies and shows in my collection, all from public torrents. I would definitely worry about viruses or other unwanted things being packed into an archive file. This is less of a concern on private torrents/Usenet, but I don't have much experience there so ymmv

I don't know if it's what you are looking for, but if you are into self-hosting, look into Kavita. It is a FOSS digital book manager that has a fully featured web reader. It syncs your progress across all devices, and can handle pretty much all e-book formats.

If you aren't into self hosting, and instead just want an app that can open epub, I'd look into Calibre, which has apps on all platforms and will manage your epubs and has a built-in reader. However, I would consider getting into self hosting if you are moderately tech literate. It's a really fun hobby and I've got a setup for watching TV, movies, reading ebooks, digital comics/manga, and listening to audiobooks/podcasts. All from a used dell server in my basement, all automated, all running on FOSS software

So the colors in the image are 100% light blue and brown. However, the brown is the same brown as faded black clothing. Given the context clues of that faded black color, the faded blue color, and the lighting situation in the background, it can be inferred that the dress is a blue and black dress under harsh warm light. I don't think anyone has ever seen a deep black or blue in the image, I think it's just some people's brains are better at picking up the signs of hash warm light than others.

I have never been able to see that colors as gold/white, because the background doesn't imply that the lighting would tint the white that blue. It would be pretty complicated a setup to get the background to look like that while the foreground is both shaded and hit by cool bounce lighting. Whereas it's easy to imagine it as a room that has a lot of morning/afternoon sunlight coming in a window.

By saying that you see brown and definitely not black suggests that you are also unable to pick up the details that reveal the lighting situation.

Does this mean that my insurance company won't consider them acts of god anymore and will actually cover them?

This game works flawlessly on the Steam Deck, which, in almost all cases, means it will work on Steam for Linux through Proton, which is an emulation layer built-in to Steam

I have a similar background, and I actually am automating my home. However, what Google/Alexa tote as automation isn't actually automation; I still would have to say something/press a button.

I have a pretty healthy home assistant setup, with stuff like electrochromic film on my windows that will dim the windows if someone is sitting near them and the sun is at the right angle to be in their eyes because I hate when I have to hold my head in a position to keep the sun out of my eyes.

I picked an extreme example, but I've also got things like reminders when my laundry or dishes are done (running off of a metered plug, so it just detects power spikes from the machines), presence detectors in rooms to automate lights on/off, and a whole slough of things that will happen when I click the play button on Plex (lights go out, curtains close, windows dim). I've got humidity sensors in the bathroom for starting/stopping the vent fan, I've got particulate/heat/humidity sensors for starting and stopping the hood vent in the kitchen.

Obviously these things save a few seconds here and there but it is nice to not have to think about these things anymore.

First part is saying she's proud of you, second part is her saying not to work too hard, remember to relax

I have this. I have zero visualization, in the little visual on the wiki I'm a 5. For the most part, I don't really notice any downsides. These are the things that I've noticed are difficult for me that I have attributed to it.

1. I can't remember directions based on visual landmarks.
2. A mild case of face blindness. I recognize people with distinct features pretty well, but it's common for folks to be going for a handful of trendy looks, and anyone with the same trendy look might as well be the same person to me.
3. A pretty strong case of "out of sight, out of mind." Like, I kind of forget about people, including family and loved ones, if I haven't seen them in a while. Kind of a hard one to explain.
4. I can't see my wife's face in my head, which makes me sad.
5. I have to be the jerk tourist who takes pictures of all the cool stuff I see, because if I don't I won't remember them in a few months. My travel memories are mostly tied to how I felt in the area.
6. Not sure if it's actually tied to aphantasia, but I don't dream. Like, not just visually but at all. When I sleep there is nothing. I can still tell that time has passed once I wake up, but I don't have any mental activity that I can even remotely remember happening while asleep. I'm sure there is some, it just doesn't make itself known to me.

There are a handful of perks that it comes with as well though:

1. I can watch scary movies and then sleep immediately as no images of scary things can haunt me
2. In that same vein, I am able to deal with gruesome stuff, and bounce back quickly since there is no "image burned into my head"
3. Along with no dreams, I have no nightmares, so that's also a plus
4. It appears to aid in an understanding of abstract logic; I have attributed my success in the software engineering field to it, at least partially.

Yep. No one is going to McDonalds for a delicious burger, just a cheap and fast one. Now that prices are above $10 if you want a meal, and the restaurants are understaffed so even the drive through takes > 15 minutes, there's really no reason to eat there