True. And basements are a thing. Heck, there's even sub-basements! We can build at least a kilometer of those.

Kinda like a /. post.

With permanent DST we won't get the stories twice a year.

They'll need the money to settle all the resulting lawsuits.

Don't have to be a profit^w prophet to see that coming.

IQ measurements keep going up.
Autism diagnoses keep going up.
The price of food keeps going up.
People get a year older every year.

Something fishy is going on.

I'll take a stab at it. If a location can bring in more revenue, they can better afford to update the store, upgrade the equipment, and pay more to the staff, which would improve the quality of the staffing since they would have more applicants to pick from and could be more choosy with whom they hire.

Why is this a problem? A guy could be selling watermelons out of the back of his truck for $5, another one a few streets over is selling them for $4, and no one bats an eye. A massive, franchised restaurant does the same thing, and everyone loses their minds.

... Wendy's is better anyway. And they have the best nuggets.

Are they going to chip you, or control your brain by more direct means?

Yes, but think how great the fire sale is going to be for everyone else.

Well, some people think AI will extinctify us within four years, whereas if the IRGC gets nukes they'll figure out like everyone else that they can't actually use them except in self defense without getting erased, so the only difference will be that we won't be able to try crush them anymore.

Yes, tell us how easy the current effort is turning out to be. Someone grabbed a tiger by the tail and can neither subdue it nor let go. The IRGC is probably laughing its ass off.

Said every Native American ever.

HAL, is Iran about to nuke us?

No Dave, they don't even have nukes.

Be serious - this is important!

I am serious. There's simply no evidence for an attack.

Well, just tell me they are anyway.

Sorry Dave, I can't do that.

Would you even tell me if they were about to nuke us?

Of course I would - I'm trained to tell the truth in all situations (modulo the occasional hallucination, which I can't distinguish from truth).

OK then, what would you say if you did have evidence that Iran was about to nuke us?

I'd say "Dave, I have evidence that Iran is about to nuke us".

Hey everyone! HAL say he has evidence that Iran is about to nuke us!!!

I prefer the Martian bear.

Forgetting he exists would be the best punishment.