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Comment Yes. (Score 1) 141

by kalieaire (#65915212) Attached to: America Is Falling Out of Love With Pizza
My dominos sells a Large 14-inch $25.99 for a wisconsin 6-cheese for PICKUP.

I can understand it if you're an hour or two around NYC, but the rest of the United States, pizza is expensive ASF.  These corporate companies look at market prices and they try to undercut only a little bit to make them attractive.  If all the pizza in your area costs $40 bucks for a large pie delivered by private car, then everyone else is going to cost the same.

If you have some fool slinging pizzas in the back of a BF Newark pizzeria for minimum wage making 150-200 pizzas, they can afford to sell you the pies for less.

But if it's in California where health code is exceedingly strict, you need to pay for a $2000 dollar stainless steel microwave when a $200 dollar on will do.  Or a full ventilation hood system over the pizza ovens that cost $100k easy. Or you need to make sure there's a restroom that's code and is gender neutral.  All that sh** adds up.  Add that to the fact that people just charge more for pizza because people are gonna pay for it anyway.  But when you have a sub-par pizza option like pieology charging for the price but not given any benefit back to the customers, nobody's gonna show up.

Buy 4 Pizzas, get 1 free.  That'll bring folks in.

Comment THE "DEATH OF PIZZA" IS A MYTH (Score 1) 141

by kalieaire (#65915188) Attached to: America Is Falling Out of Love With Pizza
It's simply a litty artisanal takeover.

The constructed narrative that pizza is "losing popularity" is a corporate delulu. Pizza ain't fking dying; it’s reaching a fever pitch in the artisanal variety across the farthest reaches of the USA.

The true culprits? Ooni, Gozney, and Ninja (and a bunch of other copypastas)

THE PRICE GAP
* People are tired of paying "gourmet" prices - $30-$40 for a single XL chain pie after fees and tips .. for a lukewarm, mass-produced product (PLZZZZ)
* For that same $40, a home pizzaiolo can churn out eight to ten bussin' artisanal 12-inchers for $4–$5 a pie.
* A can of San Marzano style tomatoes, fresh basil and mozz, and a $2 grocery store dough ball makes a better product than any franchise.

THE COLLAPSE OF THE BARRIER TO ENTRY
* The residential pizza oven market hit $372 frickin' million in 2025. That represents millions of units in American backyards (EVERY gdam yr)
* Price disruption: You no longer need a $5,000 brick oven to hit 900 degrees. low end portable units now are like two fiddy on a holiday/BF deal.
* The secondary market, after a wholeass decade Oonis being available, used units are hitting Marketplace and Craigslist for as low as $50, making the hobby fking accessible to everyone.

THE CULTURAL SHIFT
* Pizza has moved from "convenience food" to "social currency."
* Discords, Instagram, and dinner parties are filled with people egging each other on to buy these contraptions and perfect their "leopard spotting."
* It’s a hobbyist culture where the amateur can now out-cook the local franchise for a fraction of the cost.

THE VERDICT
Pizza hasn't lost its soul, it has literally just moved home. The "soggy middle" chains aren't losing to new food trends—they’re losing to their own customers who realized they can do it better themselves 1000000000 percent.

I'm tired of these money grubbing corps trying to pay off investors.

Papa John's pays out nearly 5% dividends annually, compare that to Coca Cola.  They're seriously making money for both the owners and executive staff. Instead of complaining they should pay workers and work out a deal to make delivery drivers cost less and paid more through uber eats, doordash, and stuff.

Comment High beams and Car accidents -- A Perspective (Score 2) 153

by kalieaire (#65911161) Attached to: How Bright Headlights Escaped Regulation
It's a matter of perspective.

In my area where we have a lot of ride share drivers and recent immigrants working in tech, I've asked a fair amount of them:

* during the summer months when folks have their windows open when we're side by side at a light
* waiting at the cellphone waiting area at airports
* my own uber or lyft driver when I noticed their highbeams were on (7 out of the last 11 rides to and from the airport have had their high beams on)

During the 30 seconds to few minutes of conversation of the folks I've talked to, a large majority say they use high beams because it's brighter on the road.

They're all only looking at it from their own perspective and dgaf about anyone else since they're just trying to get through the day.  Literally working w/ blinders on.

Also, none of them were aware that it was considered bad behavior on the road.

A very small percentage are folks with either old headlights where it's fogged over the front so it scatters light everywhere or misaligned headlights after a car accident when it wasn't repaired to a professional level.

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If you shift things back a couple decades to the late 90s and early 2000s, the common excuse then (so sue me, i'm a chatter box) was that they have a headlight out and they're just trying to get home before they get to it the next day (for a year).

My main point being is that maybe it's not the headlights themselves being the issue, but it's people are using high beams when they shouldn't be.  For a lot of readers, and even people in general, it's a difference people don't care to distinguish they just want to blame someone or something. Headlight manufacturers using projector and LED matrix technology give really good cutoffs to prevent from deliberately blinding people, and they work well.  The only thing people think is "I'm blind".  Also complainers that answer these surveys where market research specialists get their data are typically older with poorer night vision and really bad cataracts so light scattering is at an order of magnitude greater than what young people see.

Younger people don't have time to answer surveys. lmfao. They really just have better things to do.

Comment Who's fault? Big Tech or the Graduates? (Score 2) 125

Whenever I've been asked to mentor acquaintance's kids in school underway on their last year, basically any industry, I've hammered in the point that as a student, nobody wants to hire them fresh out of college without relevant experience.  Folks in tech typically will hire almost anyone w/ an internship under their belt as well as a number of applicable personal projects that demonstrate skill and the ability to complete projects.

The irony is tech jobs just out of the market aren't exceptionally glamorous and typically focus on a single feature and a very menial task to boot that basically any college graduate in the relevant degree could perform, but candidates with internship experience easily edge out those with prestigious degrees sans any relevant work experience.

The internship is commonly the free or low cost method of determining whether or not a new grad has the ability to sit down, shut up, and do the work, eg work as a team.

Team work in any business is incredibly important.

Being able to listen to your peers or those just above you in terms of experience (not only expertise) and simply submit to the process that is professional work.  Then there's also the part about learning how to talk to one another w/o unintentionally undermine one another's work because you might not know all the background to a situation.  Oftentimes at work there're forums, opportunities, to learn the lore on why things are the way they are, but new students w/o previous work experience might be missing out on social etiquette or simply not have the awareness needed from those who actually go out of their way to pursue an internship.

The thing is, this isn't a new problem.  Students, even from my day, always thought that they could just get a job w/ a college degree.  With assumption, a lot of them ended up getting jobs where they could and ended up sticking in those industries.  Sometimes in Finance/Accounting, some in Admin, some just working in service industry labor.  The assertive bunch always found a way to network, make their name known, and get a decent job.

Comment Competing apps in other markets, the true insult (Score 1) 208

by kalieaire (#65864767) Attached to: Uber and DoorDash Try To Halt NYC Law That Encourages Tipping
In countries like Thailand where Grab, a formerly competing ride-sharing platform, actually bought Uber's South East Asian (SEA) presence and basically took over is the true insult to injury where Uber and Lyft exist as primary rideshare platforms.

They have a cohesive app that works great and margins (for the platform provider) are far lower, but they still remain profitable.  They're just not paying for a bunch of unnecessary overhead like software developers, product managers, and redundant data scientists working on projects that don't actually benefit the platform.  Instead they're redirecting their effort into vendor sales to find alternative ways to use their platform like delivering goods (food and local shopping supplies).

Deliveries services are also available across a variety of transportation modes including bicycles, scooters, and cars.

In the United States, outside of major metropolitan areas, cars are the primary delivery system and that's just insane for a burrito or a box of qtips.

Comment Can never forget about him firing Victoria Taylor (Score 2) 29

by kalieaire (#65793574) Attached to: Reddit Cofounder Had a Bad Feeling About Giving Data To Sam Altman
Alexis Ohanian is the epitome of enshitification for his direct hand Taylor's firing and also letting Reddit's former CEO take all the flack.  He benefitted but never once took responsibility for his actions. I can't understand how people can accept such a shameful role.

Comment Existing product reduces by 22.2222C (Score 1) 52

There's a commercially available product from home improvement stores called Sunshield, it's a water-based elastomeric acrylic with ceramic additives which reduces temps by up to 40 degrees Fahrenheit.  Though it only lasts about 15 years vs the decades of the product rated above.  The primary positive aspect is that it's available now.

Unfortunately, because of <insert cause of everything in the United States being more expensive>, the paint price went up more than 2x for a 5-gallon bucket.  It was originally around $200 bucks per bucket last year, it's like $500 USD today.

Comment Poorly written article. (Score 1) 137

It's common knowledge that Toyota simply does not like EVs and prefer hybrids completely.

Whether or not that's good or bad, that's not something I'm here to judge.

But the way the article's headline is written it makes it sound as though Toyota is experiencing difficulty selling EVs.

Simply put, they're not.

Toyota is deliberately not spending marketing dollars on the BZ4X or Lexus RZ as worldwide strategic decision, clearly not a sales issue.  They only made those models and in the configurations designed with limited range and low focus on quality because it is counter to their global market strategy of selling more hybrids and SUVs.

Comment Re:Why the shutdown? (Score -1, Offtopic) 23

by kalieaire (#65699426) Attached to: Japan is Running Out of Its Favorite Beer After Ransomware Attack
In the article, it says just that:

*On Wednesday, Asahi trialled using paper-based systems to process orders and deliveries in a small-scale trial and it is in the process of figuring out whether to proceed with more manual-style deliveries.*

It should be noted that with complex ERP (Enterprise Resource and Planning) systems combined with JIT (Just in Time) manufacturing means that not only taking of orders and the making of deliveries is disrupted, but the process of procuring beer precursors, this is from filtered water, barley, hops, yeast, rolls of raw aluminum to make cans, can tops etc, maintenance parts, cardboard boxes, etc.

The extent of the breach isn't fully known either. It's possible it compromised their o365 or google enterprise suite. meaning all their contacts, mobile device data, and whatever else is managed via mdm could all be ransomwared or completely deleted.

Any interruption can cause easily cause problems for days.  Fortunately, shortages aren't immediate at the point of sale since large distributors like Lawsons, 7-11, etc, will have a large quantity available at distribution centers around the nation, it's just that they don't last forever.

Despite losing access to their data to the systems, they should be able to come back online with some limited capacity in weeks, in the meantime, distributors can juggle and rotate supply until newly manufactured beer starts showing up at loading docks.

Comment Battlestar Galactica had it right (sorta) (Score 0, Troll) 23

by kalieaire (#65698876) Attached to: Japan is Running Out of Its Favorite Beer After Ransomware Attack
Do not network critical systems.

But if you do, practice network segmentation to make sure they're firewalled from one another to resist or completely prevent lateral movement.

While inefficient, air-gapped critical control systems gave the Battlestar a good security posture against software that excels at lateral movement.  Physical Access control and (some) auditing prevented most malware, esp those originating from communication systems from spreading into ship control/navigation, engine management, life support, viper launch control, DRADIS (Direction, RAnge, and DIStance), and etc.

Even though the CNP Program was downloaded to the Galactica's Navigation system, because the software required complete integration with all internal systems, it was never able to fully install due to Galactica's special no-network configuration. 

Comment Results and Conclusions from the actual study. (Score 1) 126

If you look past the superficial summary and read the study (or at least skimmed it), some of the useful conclusions were that rose essential oil (the scent used) it's possible people liked or disliked it and that caused the grey matter increase.

the other thing to note was that only rose essential oil was tested, no other scents. so it's possible that other scents can do the same to stimulate the brain.  with the understanding of the study, it's possible a hot new york restaurant dumpster in mid july might have the same effect at increasing grey matter as rose essential oil. we're not gaining much from this study, so to speak, the purpose of the conclusions for this research is that this is an area that's not well studied and is worth further exploration.

I'm going go out on a limb here and simply argue here that scents are greatly linked between the brain and memory, and possibly some of the best ways we can exercise our brain and mind is to travel from place to place and smell all the fancy things to smell. the things you smell in one state will be different somewhere else and at different times of the year and among different continents.

link to study:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0361923024000297?via%3Dihub

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