Personal opinion: Because some food should not be that cheap. It’s part of the reason we are so fat in the US (plus car centric cities). Subsidies keep some things like corn artificially low and they end up being hammered in into every product (biodiesel, sweeteners, animal feed, etc.)

With that setup, companies have learned to use those subsidies and other workarounds and loopholes to maximize profit at the expense of the product being output and we fall for it every time.

Edit: plus the usual smoke screen if using some events like COVID to jack prices up, increase executive pay and acquire smaller companies to artificially set the price in some instances.

For Google IoT devices specifically, I own a Google nest thermostat, doorbell camera plus some other Google products over the years. I can honestly say they might have a better chance by themselves than as part of Google. I actively avoid them now.

They’ve become very laggy, cloud dependent (I suppose that one is on me) and in some cases unsupported as they age. Seeing the direction of things with their app store being actively hostile toward individual developers solidifies that they are a declining company from the perspective of enthusiasts.

The problem is game companies don’t make games for gamers, they make games for investors. Hoarding IPs and patents is what they do.

Forgot the top 5/6/10/25 things you didn’t know about game XYZ pulled directly from some YouTube video. Also applies to Tech news websites.

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He was probably referencing the one on his tattoo on a mirror?

Watched this earlier on the week and made me realize a lot of small and medium imported home automation products we use will become similarly affected. Only the big fish will survive and we might end up with Google and Amazon cloud reliant devices that need to be replaced every few years… but we will generate profits for investors for a while I guess?

It looks a little too pedestrian friendly. It should be leveled to the ground to open it up to shit cars and bring profits to the large corporations.

• Average American probably.

Source: American from the Americas

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P.s. that looks like a beautiful area.

Reminds me of The Legend of Zelda’s Satori/Lord of the Mountain. Are they based on the same Japanese lore or reference perhaps?

There really needs to be regulation to have them disbarred if they try this shit for at least 5 years or more. In the case of California and the AI bullshit assisted test, the entire committee or whatever they call themselves approving such garbage should also face the same penalty (or harsher really, they should be held to a higher standard).

Such a stupid state of affairs even it becomes apparent the people in power of decisions are as dumb as rocks protected by family money, influence or legacy.

At first it felt like the most American car loving meme until the “Chad” perspective showed more clearly it was all an exaggerated commentary on the stupidity of it all (car vs people based infrastructure).

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End of Line (EOL) sensitive software perhaps?

We had the opposite problem, things edited in notepad would fail miserably once deployed to the target Linux servers. Nowadays git checkout settings on the build servers tend to get rid of those, but I remember it was the one thing that would occasionally explode.

In Mexico there is a phrase “comete un taco” (eat a taco) since a homemade taco is a tortilla with anything on it. We buy 1/2 - 1 kilo of (corn) tortillas for a family of four every day or every other day (depending on the food consumed) and it pairs really well with anything. E.g.:

• Eggs, salsa and tortillas
• Beans, cactus, salsa and tortillas
• Beef stew with rolled up tortillas
• Crunchy tortillas (slow comal/gridle heated to make them similar to a tostada, but without frying) with some sour cream, beans, lettuce and salsa
• Cheese quesadilla, generally salsa too (or even hot sauce) - optionally beans and/or some meat
• A taco similar to the one in the picture (maybe minus the cheese, but you could add it of course). These are a little harder to make since they call for specific meats or preparation, so they tend to be more commonly consumed from a vendor specializing in them.
• etc.

Since there is a tortilla in most homemade variations (the taco), everyday can be taco day. The salsa would mostly be served whatever you already have in the fridge, red, green, mild, spicy, etc. Sometimes flour tortillas are used, but corn is more common (and supposedly healthier according to the moms).

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The tree might ask, “useful to whom?”

Did the dialog get swapped somehow and the developer went like “let’s roll with it” ? :)

Always wondered about that reaction.

GameCube games MSRP was 49.99. Adjusted for inflation it is $79.30. The reason things feel so expensive is because you get half cooked broken DLC ridden games as the norm and a large portion of income goes toward housing, transportation (cars specifically), food and education.

It’s been so long. Still a surprise, but a welcome one.

Enterprise eh… So the clown car part is accurate!