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PhazonLink posted:hasnt every single surge pricing thing that isnt ride sharing crashed and burned? Still works pretty well for hotels.
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https://x.com/BeardedGenius/status/1762444050093760761?s=20 Who'd have thought something called "Willy's Chocolate Experience" would turn out to not be a place you'd want to go.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Seems like a good way to get your kneecaps broken by Oompa Loompas. Well, in fairness they can't reach any higher. You know, I'm honestly not sure this *is* backtracking. First, the "surge pricing" characterization came from after-the-fact reporting, which is uniformly not trustable. Second, the idea of a *fast food restaurant* charging more during peak hours is really a dumb idea. Granted, this entire thread is devoted to really dumb ideas which people decided to implement, but this one is a dumbness outlier even in that context, because it's such a competitive market and it's not like Wendy's is the only fast food restaurant that *any single person* has access to, and the products are pretty indistinguishable. As someone said upthread "Hrm, where should I go for lunch? The fast food restaurant that jacks up prices during lunch, or the ones that don't do that?" It would instantly kill off traffic unless their competitors also did it instead of saying "poo poo, let's put Wendy's out of business. And *then* do it." He did say "dynamic pricing," but that's not necessarily the same thing; we're in an economy right now where prices for certain things are way swingier than normal (e.g., eggs, which went up hugely partly because of supply chain disruptions, partly because of inflation, partly because of having to cull millions of birds for disease control, but for which prices have mostly recovered). It's possible they're telling the truth and the entire point was to be able to change prices in order to adjust for rapidly-changing input costs. Sort of like highway speed limits that adjust for weather or how prices in menus in Argentina are written in pencil because inflation's so high. Phanatic has a new favorite as of 20:41 on Feb 28, 2024 |
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:I just toss my single use plastic straws into recycling If you throw plastic into your recycling bin in America, what happens to it is mostly one of three things: 1. It gets commingled with the regular waste stream in your city and goes to a landfill or gets burned at a trash-to-steam plant because plastic isn't economical to recycle in the US and trying to do so is a net loss both economically and environmentally. 2. It gets shipped overseas to someone in a poorer country who has claimed they can recycle it economically (and the people saying "Sounds good to us!" have never engaged in the sort of analysis where you consider the environmental effects of putting your trash on a big ship and sailing that ship across the ocean so someone can turn your plastic straws into park benches and then shipping the park benches back across the ocean so you can put them in a park and say "See? We're helping!"). During some periods of time, they can, during some periods of time, they can't, and during the times they can't it sits on pallets by the local river which periodically floods and washes it out to sea. Basically no plastic from the US *directly* winds up in the ocean, oceanborne plastic comes mainly from rivers in Asia, but the plastic in Asia frequently comes from richer countries who for one reason or another want to participate in the illusion that recycling plastic makes environmental sense. China at least had the good sense to refuse to keep taking our plastic garbage off our hands, but others still do it. If you don't want your plastic straws ending up in turtle nostrils, just throw them in the trash.
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More fun with URLs: https://anuswitch.com/
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The one I will never not laugh at is drballitch.com Because 1. His name is Dr. Ballitch. 2. His name is Dr. Harold Ballitch. 3. His name is Dr. Harold Ballitch II which means the original Harry Ballitch refused to curse his child with the same name but then someone along in the lineage decided to honor him and undo his work. Phanatic has a new favorite as of 18:05 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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Except the radio, oddly.
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