I’ve had a few miracle burgers. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great either. It just kind of tasted like a mediocre fast food hamburger. I don’t eat burgers that often anymore so when I do have one I want it to be really good so I probably won’t get another one unless there’s some great innovation in plant based meat in the future.

I suppose it accomplishes its goal in that it does taste like a hamburger, just not a particularly great one

I kinda feel like the name is part of the problem there. If someone says they’re serving me something called a “miracle” burger the expectation created is that it will taste exceptionally good, or at least better than average

Libertarians are an odd bunch these days. They claim to be against “big government” but they want to privatize everything which would essentially make giant corporations into a new authoritarian government.

The love to talk about being able to take your business elsewhere if you don’t like the service your getting, but that doesn’t do a lot of good if your house burns down because you were behind on your fire protection plan and no one will come to put it out.

It’s basically become an entire party that believes the idea that “survival of the fittest wealthiest” should be the only law

What was so important?

It sounds like the employees are the bottom level of some kind of scam. A company that has so little faith in itself that it forces their employees to act as customers is either on the verge of ruin or just completely unethical. They’re definitely getting some kind of kick backs from this.

I’m sure they have found some kind of shitty technical loophole that makes it legal somehow, but you might still report it anonymously to the employment commission since it is 100% unethical and a serious conflict of interests.

Either way if possible find somewhere else to work as soon as you can. Once these people have bilked you out of as much of your paycheck as they can they will decide your no longer a valuable company asset

You sure did buddy 👍

Sure buddy, that’s what I said. You got me 👏

I’m not particularly bitter about it, it’s just a fact of life at the moment. What I do take exception to though are people who like to condescendingly suggest that all life’s problems could be solved by just heading to the Caribbean or Europe for a few weeks. If I could afford to just pick up and go wherever whenever I felt like it then most of my issues would already be resolved lol

Cool. Is this your way of telling me that you’re going to pay for me to go traveling? That would be great, thanks 👍

Which one is that? That sounds like an even better idea!

It’s called “Alarm Clock Xtreme & Timer” but I do use it on android

I had to download an app on my phone where I can set multiple alarms for this exact reason! The first one goes off at 8am, then another one plays every half hour until I get up. It has an “extreme” setting for heavier sleepers where it keeps getting louder until you solve a math equation to turn it off again, but I only use that for special occasions lol

The ongoing destruction of democracy and rise of a new Nazi dictatorship/theocracy seems like it kind of encapsulates all the recent news stories lately

Every once in a while the cable company where I lived would unscramble it at random times, and it always felt like Christmas came early lol

When I’m feeling really down I have to either build something or fix something. It’s really the only way I’ll start to feel better. Somehow building models or working on cross stitch or taking apart an appliance to find out why it doesn’t work makes everything feel kind of “normal” again.

Because it didn’t make financial sense for them to buy it. The last I read up on the matter it seemed like Musk has lost quite a bit of money on it since he took over. Literally the ONLY reason Musk bought it was because he got into a pissing contest with the previous owners after he claimed he could run it better. He actually tried to back out of the deal a number of times but there was some kind of legal reason he was obligated to buy it after he made an offer

No, but I remember seeing the TV ads for Hooked on Phonics

Find a way to convince Republicans that it will help the needy, create equality, and/or cost them money somehow. That will kill it off pretty quickly.

It sounds like it was in sale. It may be a sale offered by the manufacturer, or one the store is offering directly. Getting rid of old stock is not the only reason things go on sale.

I’m sure it’s probably some kind of misunderstanding