No, but it is more a sign of what a restaurant or store will focus on. If the raw ingredients are of lower costs than rent and labor, it may make more sense to provide more food.

For restaurant culture in the USA, there is generally a focus on large portions, free tap water, few courses, and turning tables over quickly. A lot of early fast food chains were effectively food factories, skimping out in rent and reducing labor costs because those are the major costs.

There can still be value in some old things like maintaining old equipment or preserving old media. The demand may have collapsed, but it didn’t collapse to zero.

Pot is rarely laced.

Harder drugs typically have some form of dilution because it is worth it to stretch supply.

The only recent lacing I can think of is fentanyl, which was generally used in pre-existing opioids.

Food is relatively cheap in the USA compared to other countries. You also had a lot of immigrant waves come to the USA, find that food was so cheap, and celebrated by creating larger meals.

Then they need different efforts to get their word out.

Also, I pointed out another leftist party which has been able to break through the noise.

I know of the Working Families Party and that party has had some success either winning their own election or running as Democrats.

A major job of a political party is to organize. If a party can’t organize while other ones can, maybe I shouldn’t support the party which can’t organize.

Adding to what everyone else said, stores commonly sell loss leaders as a way to get people into the store to sell goods with higher margins. Part of the reason why there are so many food deserts in the USA is because stores like Dollar General will sell higher margin stable goods at a lower cost. This means grocery stores who rely on those profits to sell fresh produce and meat can’t compete, going out of business.

Show era, he’s shown to be a competent captain able to make decent strategic decisions. For instance, in the episode with the cloaking Romulan Bird of Prey, Kirk creates a battle plan which is able to take advantage of deficiencies in his foe’s ship. He’s also seen caring about making sure the crew goes into battle prepared, constantly drilling the crew so they are more responsive when time matters. Kirk is also shown as able to make hard personnel decisions which end up being right in the end. Kirk takes risks and is somewhat aggressive in playing a weak hand, but that is why he was put in command. SNW even has an episode showing that Kirk’s command is better suited to certain situations over Pike.

Movie era, Kirk isn’t as good of a captain. His crew bungle safety so bad it kills his science officer. Kirk’s rash decisions get people killed when dealing with Khan. His crew shows wild incompetence which kills a Klingon Chancellor.

It is interesting how different the character is between the shows and the movies.

Given that I don’t know what the acronym is, they aren’t doing a great job.

There isn’t an organized group for it, but there are organized groups against it.

The two attempts to do so, in 1993 and 2009, saw little organized political activity in favor of creating a single payer system while there was organized political resistance against it.

If politicians lose their seats trying to support a single payer system, they won’t be around after the next election.

There is no current organization of the working class to counter capitalist demands. Without organization, the working class will be kept powerless.

So there are two different kinds of sales taxes, the value added tax and a retail sales tax.

You’re generally never getting out of paying a value added tax since it is incorporated as part of people and corporations doing business. Dove countries allow for refunds up to a certain amount for tourists, but it is baked into the price.

A retail sales tax is a lot more complicated in enforcement. Selling to a business can mean you don’t have to pay the sales tax. There are also smaller groups that don’t get the attention of local tax officials when selling goods, so they don’t charge the retail sales tax. Most large websites will typically charge the buyer’s local sales tax, but it isn’t uniform for smaller vendors.

Importing to the USA has also gotten more complicated as a lot of the minimums on import duties are gone.

You didn’t see the one here about gooning communities?

Someone stated in a Reddit post that being a hero requires that person to take an action that requires self sacrifice. I replied that, if this was the case, the people who fought back on Flight 93 weren’t heroes because they were talking a selfish action in fighting back.

There were a lot of knee jerk reasons to that.

Genetic counseling is common for rare cancers. It is used in some in some populations who are prone to generic diseases.

I’ve never had to replace my LED lights and I’ve had mine for a decade.

Life cycle cost analyses are typically done by engineers.

A fly has a low terminal velocity, below 20 mph. This is good for a fly if it is dropped from a skyscraper. However, that isn’t happening here.

In the air, the fly is going to rapidly slow down as it leaves the turbulent wake of the car. While I expect the insect to live, it will likely be stunned as the air hits it. That also assumes there are no other cars on the road for the fly to hit.

It depends who is fighting back.

We’ve been heading towards a time that a lot of leaders knew would require change and reform but didn’t. This has made the required reform to be more drastic, creating greater resistance.

It seems to be so bad that a lot of elites are just betting on collapse without understanding what they’ll lose.