Yeah, you become a trillion dollar company by being lazy and not knowing what people want!

And O-circumflex “ô” in French indicates an elided “s”. hô = hos

guar gum, xantham gun, locust bean extract, etc - all emulsifers or texture additives used to mask lower product quality and allow more air to be whipped in.

Even the expensive stuff, Ben & Jerrys (sold out to PE a while ago), boutique brands at Whole Foods, and even Kirkland premiun have the same list of bullshit.

The only brand I can reliably find without them is Haagen Dazs.

The kids on my street do come and knock, but they don’t know what to do then. The just stand there waiting - I’m like “what do you say???”, and they go “uhh, thank you???”

C’mon kids!

LOL, yeah. Capitalism.

The great socialist countries are way ahead with modular, standardized mobile handset components.

Everyone knows the longest-lived PC bus standards came out of the Soviet Union and North Korea in the 80s.

And large businesses worldwide are still running accounting software on the mainframe architecture China’s government developed in the 60s.

lol, right, this is terrorism!

If 10 people are sitting at a table…

When Russian citizens understand there are direct consequences to them, Russian citizens stop supporting Putin’s actions.

Personally I’m glad the sanctions have some bite. You can’t expect to just keep living your life as you wish when your country is obliterating its neighbors and disrupting stability worldwide.

Also no downvotes :)

This is why I chose lemmynsfw. No one doubts our intent

SPY returns an average 12%

1. pay off high interest debt

2. top off your emergency fund so you don’t run into expensive short-on-money situations

3. take care of deferred maintenance on your car or house that might turn into an expensive repair

4. If you have an employer sponsored 401k, increase the contribution amount to get 10k more tax free into it before the end of the year and use the $10k cash in hand for expenses.

5. Open a roth IRA and contribute the maximum amount you can (which may vary based on your income)

VT, VTI, and SPY are good broad-market funds with good historical growth.

Yeah, I agree the tax needs to be visible in the price to be effective

Good argument for the price inclusive of tax to be the price shown.

I think it’s fairly uncommon for sales taxes in the US to be intended to incentivize behavior - moreso, they are for funding local government and higher taxes are placed on things that are politically palatable in local elections - hotel rooms or restaurant/alcohol sales come to mind.

So I just don’t think we’re well practiced at mechanisms that make them work as a point-of-sale incentive, and changing the way a single class of items are priced would be complicated and surely receive pushback from retailers and the industry involved.

faze, not phase

vinyls

FYI it’s called a “record”, or music could be “on vinyl”. They were never referred to as “vinyls”.

Also VCRs were never called “VHS’s”

That’s an interesting possibility - is there any data to support it?

Here in Georgia the fight is in the center, for sure.

lol

What’s good is that it might get them in office so they can continue making incremental progress.

I got a heat pump this year because of the $3000 tax credit they passed - no chance of more incentives like that under Trump.