Taco Bell started scamming people a long time ago by charging more for their "food" and primarily giving you lettuce and a shell.
If I order, and pay extra for a GRILLED CHICKEN soft taco, I don't want .1oz of chicken, 3oz of lettuce, and 6 thin pieces of shredded cheese.
I swore that place off years ago even though it WAS one of the fast food joints I would visit on occasion.
Their damage was already done with that CEO statement (for me), since after those remarks I cancelled my VPN plan with them. I'm not someone who's going to then follow them around and post negative comments on their Mastodon, X, reddit account whenever they post. I'm just going to walk away.
So, they will move to where their base is, just like trump did and they can sell there stuff to a smaller percentage of the market if they want. I will never understand why a company would actively try to cut their sales base in half or whatever.
I was a videopass subscriber for YEARS, and when they did the big update a couple years ago making the app terrible it ultimately, along with a few retirements, led to me just not subscribing anymore.
The app changes made it impossible to navigate to previous races or catch up if you missed a race or two. We were traveling or something that causes my wife and I to get behind, and I struggled to use the app to find the race and watch it. I don't understand who could have developed that UI to make it so terrible but it helped push me away.
I catch highlights here and there now, but do not watch it much anymore. Which is a shame, but after some retirements, every bike out there being a Ducati and the stupid MotoGP App, it kind of just went 'meh' for me.
I mean, unless they actively go in and take those things off the schedule, my "mychart" tells me what I'm due for. Or, as someone that can read the calendar, I can figure out that each fall if I plan to get a flu shot, that's the time to do it.
The unfortunate world we live in
That's not at all what I said. The meat Industry already exists and is scaled profitable, even if it's terrible for our planet.
I said to get any scale of another version, it's going to have to be as equally profitable or corporations are not going to go for it.
Sustainable, scalable and profitable.
I am 100% in that category. I have some aspirations to be in a lifestyle where I catch a lot of my own fish but zero desire to move off animal protein to a vegetarian lifestyle.
I don't disagree with your general sentiment, but what I see as responses here are often empty responses... Just the obvious "we should stop being terrible arbiters of our planet". Like no shit, but it's hard and MOST humans are not gonna ever be vegan/vegetarian unless forced.
My point is, you try to... I try to also, but in the dead of winter there's no a local fruit and veggies. I'm also not vegan/vegetarian, I eat meat. Fish, and chicken primarily but I don't raise either, so I have to rely on someone else to do that for me.
We do actually get probably half our eggs from someone at my wife's work, and some. fruits and vegetables at the farmers market down the street in the summer. But they're closed now and have been most of winter.
It's harder than just saying "just stop" was my point. I'd love to be part of the solution where I can but there's zero chance of me not eating meat if it's available.
Curious about your diet, and where you get your food? Also curious how that scales to 350 million people (to feed the US)?
I'm not remotely implying what we're doing, as a society, is right or sustainable but it's super easy to just say "Just stop doing bad things".
Solutions, at scale are quite complicated and nuanced. Private companies that grow our food at scale now will only participate if it's profitable.
Also, if you're not sustainably growing your own food, are you not just like the rest of us (Part of the problem)? I know I don't have the land, or time to grow my own food.
Sticking our head in the sand (current administration) is definitely not gonna turn out well, so I'm guessing there's some fun times ahead!
I used to love track days on my 600. Passing the 1ks in turn 1 after they went zooming by on the straight :)
I raced a couple years and have had the pleasure of visiting a number of tracks within a few 100 miles of Cincinnati, Ohio (Mid Ohio, Grattan, Pitt, Putnam, Nashville Speedway, Autobahn)... This was back in the mid 2000s
Been able to get back to a few of them on 4/wheels the last few years too.
So much fun!
I raced a 2004 Suzuki GSXR600. Belows a picture before it was turned full race (at Deals Gap / Tail of the Dragon) in Tennessee /North Carolina.
Man I loved that bike!
The best response would be that you can't help because your representative(s) that would have agreed with keeping NOAA around weren't elected into office.