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it goes both ways… keeps the riff-raff out.

all veggie oil definitely messed up french fries… everywhere.

more fat in them nowadays than there used to be, and the buns have less ‘substance’, too… oh, and the cheese is wafer thin now. so yea. ‘shrinkflation’ has definitely hit even mcdonalds

29c and 39c here back in the early 90s, but couldn’t even compete at that with their next-door competitor (hardee’s) doing 25c and 35c

even the ‘quarter-pounder’ has shrunk over the years. there’s more fat ground-in now than there used to be, but same ‘pre cooked’ weight.

that used to be hardee’s here… covid took away the wall of mugs the old-timers used every morning.

they all have.

just a hunch… but i’m guessing that to be completed before summer 2028, the price tag will end up being 5x higher, and it won’t all be ‘finished’ in time anyway.

and lemme guess… amazon doesn’t want to ‘partner’ with any local entities, like a joint venture with sufficient local ownership to get better rates–they want to own and control everything.

i don’t sign-in to my systems with a microsoft account. hell, i don’t even have one. nowadays, i dunno if i could even get one–and maintain it, as i do not have, nor want, an sms-capable or ‘smart’ phone. they don’t do ‘verification’ bullshit by voice anymore, just sms.

we still run win10 at the office on dual core wolfdale systems. they mostly now have 8gb ram and sata ssd. they run great. wolfdale launched in 2008, seven years before win10 was released.

i also have win11 set up on ivy bridge and haswell, that are also running very well. used daily for everything from basic office tasks, email with local multi-gigabyte mail stores, to video capture and editing. these are even older in relation to win11 than wolfdale is to win10.

the main issue is microsoft has unilaterally and arbitrarily decided that all these systems, all the way up to kaby lake (which was only discontinued by intel in 2020), which are usable by many, if not most, users for the tasks they perform are now ‘obsolete’… all in the name of profits for them and their oem partners.

it’s texas, in a county entirely run by ®acists.

you already know what they ‘picked’.

‘reader view’ in firefox helps on some sites.

iirc, ‘in use’ memory as reported by task manager does include some file cache memory space.

gotta keep the chains tightened somehow!

i could spend a week just at the library.

many women are waiting til they are ‘older’ before having any kids.

since STIR/SHAKEN protocols started to roll-out, the number of ‘spoofed’ calls coming in here have fallen-off considerably. down to only one, maybe, a week on a cellular line; and one every day or two on the office pots. nearly all bogus calls coming into a cell phone are marked by verizon as ‘potential spam’ alongside the reported cid number–some of which don’t even ring through at all.

if you get more than that on your phone, you need to get on your provider’s case about their STIR/SHAKEN implementation, or lack thereof.

it takes less than two hours to get from bonesteel to gayville.

until we get the musk vs zuck cage match, there’s little by way of spectator entertainment from CEOs though.