GooberEar

Are you okay? This can be tough. I've had several friends go though this over the years.

I'm drawing a blank and I definitely don't recall anything along the lines of what you're talking about.

I used to know a guy who was going bald and could not accept it. He was using two different drugs, Propecia and Rogaine, but decided to buy some of those "hair loss supplements" he saw on Facebook because they had a money back guarantee. He stopped taking the drugs while on the supplements, and within a few months his hair started falling out even worse than before. And no surprise to anybody but him, he wasn't able to get his money back. Those supplements cost several hundred dollars (USD).

And since some of the other comments are going for systemic things (i.e. government, religion, etc), I'll add higher education in the USA. It's FAR too expensive and pushed way too much, even for kids that have no business going to college. Young people can quickly and easily end up in six figure (or near to it) debt that takes decades to pay off, with little or no benefit.

Got dayum and on an Sunday. You are brutal.

I've not seen anybody use a vape inside a retail store, so I can't speak to that part. I just assumed it was covered by the same or similar laws as smoking tobacco products inside businesses.

On the other hand, my limited experience with some of the younger generations is that they're way more comfortable with driving while under the influence of thc than older generations.

Not that I plan on going back to Wendy's, certainly not any time soon, but is that $5 deal a relatively new thing and/or a national thing?

When I was a poor college student working multiple jobs and having to do a lot of driving to get from one place to another, Wendy's was one of my go-to places. For about $4 I could get 2 burgers that had real, fresh lettuce, tomato, onion, plus a drink. I went to Wendy's a year or two ago and the same exact thing was a bit over $11. For what it's worth, if they had some kind of $5 special, I didn't see it on the menu.

Taco Bell was the same way. Back in my college days, I could get a couple 5-layer burritos and a drink for $3 and some change. Last time I went and got that order, it was $9 or $10 and the burritos were missing a few layers, not to mention just absolutely gross.

Most national/international fast food places seem to have looked at the "good, fast, cheap" principle and decided the answer is D) None of the above.

Have they been getting by on inertia and nostalgia in recent history? I could be an incredibly unlucky person, but all my experiences with these places have just been bad, bad in the past 5 or so years. I excused it a bit during the height of covid, but there's been time to work things out and they just haven't even bothered.

I'm not exactly their target audience, since I rarely get food at fast food places, but as it stands, if I were going to get fast food, the whole Trump McDonald's circus show has turned me off to that brand entirely. Burger King is a no-go after getting incredibly sick from their food. Taco Bell just completely gave up on themselves. Wendy's is so expensive now that I can't justify it anymore even as a guilty treat while traveling. I'd rather pack some ham sandwiches in a mini-cooler and make do with that.

He's retired, it's the main thing he's got going for him. I cannot be responsible for taking it away from him. But if he so much as plants a single row of okra, IT IS ON.

This makes sense and would explain the mainline windows versioning and probably the xbox versioning too!

Microsoft to AI: List all the integers from one to eleven.

AI: 3. 95. 98. 2000. XP. Vista. 7. 8. 10. 11.

Every night in my DMs.

I see poo, I feel poo.

That is how I know you, go poop.

Far across the distance.

And spaces between us.

You have come to show you, go poop.

Near, fart, wherever you are.

I believe that the shart does go on.

Once more you open the back door.

And you're here in my heart and my heart will go poo and poo.

You might be able to charge more for the eggs if you feed them to a civet cat first and then collect the egg laden civet cat shit and sell that as some kind of delicacy.

I'm halfway assuming I'll get down votes and angry responses for this, and I didn't read the article (yet), but honestly the title is inaccurate. It's simply not true that "nobody wants it". You'd have to be willfully ignorant or living on Mars to think that.

I asked ChatGPT and it said the answer is 255.