It’s not, BUT, doing absolutely nothing to address the problem is orders of magnitude easier, which is why Abbot picked it (or his rich friends like the prison pipeline just the way it is)

Maybe, but you didn’t answer any of my questions in any kind of a good faith way, which tell me your talking out your ass and haven’t actually thought about any of your words. What percent or amount is fair? How much do you value work other people do for you? If you don’t value it at all, how do you justify not doing everything yourself. Other people don’t want to be making you ice cream, prob because you’re an asshole, but regardless they’d do it for money, not for free.

So the question stands, if you don’t do everything yourself and presumably also participate in the system you were born into, what percent or amount do you think is a fair amount to pay for other people’s labor?

Your answer equals just less than $20,000, but your complaining about a less than $3 blizzard, so that can’t possibly be the right answer. Maybe you don’t understand how numbers work?

How about calling a special session to get the legislators to use state state money to address the root causes like systemic inequality against poor brown people? You know, an empathetic human approach?

But of course he’s a republican and so only has a flaming ball of tar where his soul should be, so that’s never going to happen.

As far as government bail outs go, I think taking a portion of the company in exchange is an excellent idea. THIS orange asshole is doing it for all the wrong reasons, and will VERY likely fuck up literally everything about it, but the idea is sound.

I wonder what things would look like today if the government had taken some portion of control over all the auto manufacturers, airlines, banks, etc it has bailed out over the years instead of just giving them unsecured loans

It’s Japan, it was definitely Cat Girls first, literally any justification to spend money developing this second.

If it were me it’d be a dragon tail, but to each their own.

Ah, I haven’t experienced that, but it could just be that the ones near me are well run. Quality wise I haven’t really noticed a difference, even my dad agreed (who worked for DQ back in like the 70’s I think) that it tastes pretty much the same as it always has, even if we’ve personally outgrown it and no longer find it appetizing.

You sparked my curiosity enough that I looked up the price.

The small Oreo cookie blizzard that I remember as a kid, which I will get a few times a year probably, is $2.89. I didn’t realize the different flavors have different prices, though I guess it makes a little sense?

https://dairyqueensmenu.com/dairy-queen-blizzard-menu/

Can’t speak to the rest except to say the steak fingers I tried again a few years ago after a 30 year hiatus are as horrible as ever.

Do you make all your own food, clothes and shelter yourself with foraged materials from the land you live on?

I’d love an idea world too, but the one we live in requires compromise, like sometimes trading your labor for things your labor can’t easily produce. Like drive through ready fluffy air-laden ice cream.

You can do it yourself, but you’ll have to raise a cow, travel Madagascar or Mexico for wild vanilla beans, extract sugar from somewhere (sugar cane might be easy to get for you), and I think there’s gelatin in there too, good luck with that. You can probably carve a bowl and spoon fairly easily, as well as appropriate the salt, but the ice might be a problem depending on where you live.

Taking a month to ferment and distill something to get some alcohol to make vanilla extract would amp up the flavor, but that might be more trouble than it’s worth (it is fun though).

That’s not an answer, because it ignores my question. I asked you what percent of the cost to produce the good would be low enough for you to agree that it’s fair. I’m not even asking for a specific cash amount, just a percent. If you want to give an amount that’s fine too.

exactly why I wrap the parts I need, it’s like git, tons of power, zero help.

Accessing the food court without a membership is hit and miss per location isn’t it? Like, they really don’t want people eating there without a membership but the way the stores are laid out they can’t really prevent it so it’s all down to how badly each individual store wants to enforce that rule.

“A consistent product with little fan fair”

I don’t see the problem. It’s not great ice cream, but it’s cheaper than practically anywhere else.

If you wanted one, and someone broke down the logistical costs out for you, what percent of the cost going to profits would be acceptable to you, assuming all the other “line items” on that breakdown were justified (power, wages, raw materials, building maintenance, transportation, etc)?

False, DQ also serves burgers.

You say that, but even McDonalds can’t keep their blizzard-knockoff machines running. DQ’s got that shit locked down. They’ve been serving air-fluffed-icecream-surrogate the old fashioned way for decades. It’s as American as health insurance that costs more than rent.

I’ll take overloaded operators over overloaded functions any day of the week, and I also hate overloaded operators.

Python’s optional typing has come a very long way in the past few years, you might be able to mitigate this with some creative application of typing.

Edit: I read your post closer, I’m not sure typing would help with the overloaded operator issue and now I have something fun to try out later 😁

Ok, everyone who’s ever had to use datetime hates it, but not because it’s insufficient, but because international date/time is such a nightmare that the library must be complicated enough to support all the edge cases I’m convinced that library has a function for traveling trough time.

For years I’ve wrapped datetime with custom functions that do exactly and only what I want to mitigate its all-plumbing-zero-porcelain approach to the problem.

Let’s see, Houston has ~4X the population and ~10x the murders. So unless that equation is known to be non linear, that seems pretty bad Mr abbot

Mr abbot: who gives a fuck about brown people?!

That’s why CEO"s are so impressed by it, it’s just like they are! Empty.