That's it. I should have guessed Schneier.

That's just for delivery. And all the big chains have apps with deep discounts. A one-topping large pie at Domino's is $7.99 if you use the app or web to get the discount. And most of the big chains now have car-side pickup, which means they bring it out to you in the parking lot. So pizza is actually the cheapest option to feed a family if you just use your head. Because 8 bucks won't even get you a single combo meal at most places now.

Pizza chains are simply having to face more competition now. There's more variety available to consumers than ever before. There's a drive-thru or Fast Casual joint for every taste now. It's not just Burgers vs. Chicken vs. Pizza anymore.

Urban pizza joints have been in trouble for a while. A restaurant's expenses are dominated by high fixed costs - mostly rent and insurance.

When customers expect your primary product to be cheap and your fixed costs are jumping, you have a problem.

Most of the cheap joints in San Francisco are long gone - there are a few left, seems mostly to be the ones that own their buildings.

And you're still going to pay at least $10 for a slice and a drink.

I updated one phone, and instantly regretted it.

I use X tools, and a lot of enterprise software - I am totally OK with bad UI.

But the Liquid Glass crap is just appallingly bad. Text overlapping blurry text, things out of alignment, weird motion for no reason - just garbage.

The other phone and my Mac will sit this one out.

Because the US Eastern Seaboard and Gulf region had one of the milder hurricane seasons this year than usual:

"There were two tropical storms in the southern Gulf’s Bay of Campeche in 2025, but this was the first year since 2014 that there was not a tropical threat to the northern Gulf Coast, according to NOAA data. It was also the first time in a decade that a hurricane did not make landfall in the United States at all, according to NOAA."

The linked article notes of the major hurricanes that formed this season, 2 of 3 stayed in the deep ocean.

There's a fun quote I can't find the source of, about why bear-proof trash cans are a tricky problem. "The intelligence of smart bears overlaps that of dumb tourists." Or something like that.

Pretty sure I'm just buying monitors or maybe DSD from here on out. The entire consumer TV category is surveillance-infested trend chasing garbage.

That attitude is of course insanity, the same kind of reasoning that complains about energy competition from the sun.

I'm sorry you're incapable of competing with free, you seem very frustrated about it. Many people/companies are perfectly capable of doing so, though; perhaps you should look at what they're doing.

In any case, having a large software commons is very good for business. It is no different than other infrastructure - when we built the highway system in the US, it meant lots of little guys could start lots of businesses that competed with railroads. For "free"! Can you imagine how that hurt the railroads?

Competition has made compilers free, not the fact that some of them are open. Same thing happened to browsers, but I don't hear you complaining about that, despite the fact that open ones are not, in fact, terribly competitive at the moment from a marketshare perspective.

Maps used to cost money, too, as did a lot of things that are now freeish. We call this "progress", and celebrate it. Maybe try to make things people want, instead of trying to make everything else worse so they're trapped paying for things they don't.

Lots of us have trucks, and all of us haul things in it: wood, purchased goods, trash, lawn stuff, you name it. Many of us also tow things with our trucks. The larger SUV's are overwhelmingly owned by families that haul kids around (and all that entails), or older folks with grandkids. Smaller SUV's are car-platform based, and are actually owned more by younger females, who find them more useful than sedans.

"Need" on transportation is like "voting your best interests". That's for us to decide, thanks. Not outside groups.

He's 71. With no Tom Cruise-ish plastic surgery or Botox. Put him in a lineup of other 71 year old faces and tell me he's worse than average.

It doesn't help that medical researchers can't seem to agree on alcohol outside of "too much is bad". Kind of hard to issue any guidance when one group of doctors say that research indicates a glass of wine may have benefits while another group of equally distinguished doctors says nope, there are no good amounts, period, and you should completely abstain.

Yeah, alcohol consumption has been in a generation long decline regardless of who is in office because drinking habits have changed for the population at large. Trade wars don't help, but the biggest issue is that the young just don't see the point in drinking. Bars and clubs have been steadily closing for years now. All dating is done online via the Internet and none of the kids are meeting in clubs anymore. Women used to go to clubs to get noticed. Now they have Instagram for that, and it's killing the club scene. As the club scene goes, drinking goes.

Maybe frying stuff in beef tallow and endless pushups are the answer then, 'cause the guy looks better at 71 than just about everyone else.

It really is that simple.

They want to destroy social trust domestically in order to isolate you, take your money (via the national sales tax masquerading as tariffs), take your vote so you can't fight back, and - if you're not a steady milk cow ready to be led around by the nose, they want you to die.

And if you're not white, their kind of Xian or attached to things like the franchise, well, they want worse for you.

This year is make-or-break for Freedom in the US, and probably a big chunk of Europe. These fuckers need to be out of power and in jail.

This is little like when a professionalized dealer takes over a new neighborhood.

The first order of business is stomping the local dealers.