I mean protest has been historically successful several times throughout history.

No problem! I did a single month membership before I joined to make sure I liked it, and then signed up for the year, which gives a discount over the monthly. I can’t recommend it enough. Place is super clean and they have classes baked into the cost of membership. Best gym I’ve been to by a longshot.

Yeah I’m a member and have no affiliation to the school and you just pay the community price. It’s worth it imo. I go at 6am and the pools usually have like 1-2 people in them. Prob more busy in the evening. I know they have tennis court signups to reserve them, they might have the same for lanes?

I can confirm this there is a community membership that costs a bit more but I think it’s very worth it. I shoot hoops as a warmup, do spin classes and use the power racks several times a week. Worth every penny. Everything you need really. As I lose more weight they even have a rock wall I am interested in messing around on. I can’t recommend the gym enough, but I also go at like 6am when there’s basically nobody there so it might get really busy during the peak hours.

That’s how we moved a pool table when I was a kid. Bought a pony keg and the ticket to the party was helping move the thing.

For real. I have lived all over the country and everyone has a chip on their shoulder that I came here from somewhere else. Sorry, my parents didn't fuck and birth me on your sacred land. Unlike most of the people getting shitty, I chose to be here.

Yeah I was like I have never 4-starred mushrooms before but I am down for whatever that means

That has nothing to do with it. Getting hit and killed by a street sweeper is an objectively bizarre and funny way to die. It’s like being drown in soft serve ice cream, or eaten by a hippo. Some ways of dying are funnier than others. I would rather get hit by the Oscar Meyer Weiner mobile than die of COPD in a hospital bed, then at least people could get a laugh out of it. Death is coming for us all, you should lighten up about it.

“Omg you can’t say ‘lighten up’ that’s racist.”

Bike Dyson was the best and most clever for sure but MF Broom is great too.

It’s nationwide. Compare rent costs to wages and it’s at a more imbalanced level than ever. It was 800 bucks which was pretty much normal for a lot of places that aren’t New York, LA, or San Francisco. You could get an apartment for 800 in Nashville, or Denver, or other similar, mid sized city. Now you can’t get one in any metro in the county. Rent is too high or wages are too low across the board. From an objective perspective.

Except when there is a finite anount of tomatoes and it isn’t a consumable item. It is a commodity that you maintain and can fluctuate the pricing of. You don’t sell more tomatoes, you sell the same tomatoes you have always had for an increased price because people have to buy them, and there is no alternative.

Does the entire problem stem from a computer algorithm? No, nobody is making that argument. But price fixing can exacerbate an already fucked up economic system, which is what is happening.

The fact that you’re arguing there isn’t a problem with price fixing or monopolies is frankly fucking hilarious. Or waxing philosophical about a theoretical and completely inapplicable ‘perfect market’ to the benefit to nobody in this conversation really is some libertarian big brain play.

Bro you’re literally calling price fixing, which is absolutely anti consumerist and anti free market as being “efficient”. You can’t fucking boycott the entire local housing market that gets raised with the tides of several large companies inflating prices, it’s a basic human necessity. The reason it is illegal is because it is efficient for the companies who do it, not the consumer.. And it is textbook, you don’t have to be in some official collusion handshake agreement for it to be price fixing, which is why they’re getting sued.

If I own 15% of the tomatoes and you own 15% of the tomatoes, and we run the same computer program that sets the price of our tomatoes. And they both say we should set them 10% above market value based on trends. Now a third of the tomatoes available to all people are priced slightly higher than they should be. We sell less tomatoes in the short term, but the other tomato peddlers notice they are able to sell their tomatoes at better margins than they were previously, raising the cost of tomatoes. Now our little algorithm raises that cost of tomatoes yet again.

Now imagine that scenario, but there is a shortage of tomatoes, and it’s the only thing that anyone is allowed to eat. That is what is happening here.

Yeah but generally three competing companies in the same market aren't using the same algorithm. An algorithm that one company uses, that feeds of the data that it set for another company will artificially inflate prices like we're seeing here. That is price fixing.

So wait is it because it's illegal or the cost of development is too high I am getting confused now.

The city or every single metro area in the country?

The 100 largest landowners increasing their stake by 50% every ten years surely has nothing to do with this problem. Surely the ultra wealthy and multinational developers working in tandem have nothing to do with this issue so I guess I'll just blame it on checks notes zoning policy in every county in the country.

The fucking problem is real estate investors snapping up properties to resell or develop for profit. Then costs of material go up so they sit on empty property until they can maximize profit, which is an affordance that small scale developers don't have - which is why it hasn't been a problem on this scale before. Blame it on zoning, but Euclid zoning has been around for 100 years and this is magically the first time we are facing this problem at this scale. Ignoring that different localities have different processes for changing zoning, permits, and several other variables which doesn't properly explain why this is happening all at once everywhere.

The problem is huge companies gobbling up everything and waiting to maximize profit. We have a ton of fucking land that can easily be developed but not without their say so because the cost of lumber and other materials hit an all time high, and the cost of weathering the storm makes more sense to them than developing and selling now and making less of a profit.

Bad zoning is ubiquitous, not corporate greed consolidating land to make feudalism 2.0. I didn't know that every county in the country had their zoning boards call each other and decided they would all align their values. Quite the project.

Local policy in every single locale at once across the county, wow that is really something. People really out here defending price fixing. I would love to hear your take on the telecom monopolies and how they're actually good for the consumer.

This isn't supply and demand. This goes against the concept of a free market economy by getting together with competitors and raising prices together. It's a practice called price-fixing, a textbook example of it, and it is against the law. This is artificially raising the cost of rent between competing businesses on a basic human necessity, knowing that small landlords will raise their prices to match, and nobody will have a choice but to bend over. Take an econ 101 class before you defend stupid, anti-consumer shit like this.

You def have to mix it with another cheese, but it adds a smooth texture that really meshes well with a lot of beef toppings. Mozz and American at like a 70/30 mix is pretty good for cheeseburger or cheesesteak pizza. Also goes well if you're using big slices of tomatoes as topping. It just doesn't jive super well will marinara.

American cheese on the Big Mac, not cheddar. I used to go to a place that did a cheeseburger pie, and they threw American under the mozzarella and it was pretty great.

Also a lot of the places that do meatball add fennel and other seasonings to them that can throw off the taste. I would just make one at home that skipped the tomato sauce and use 1k island instead, with a little higher ratio of low sugar ketchup.

Pretty sure the McRib is an all or nothing thing isn't it? If one McDonald's has them they all do. They show up nationwide when pork drops below a certain price.

You could make one at home pretty easy, I reckon. Grab yourself a good quality cheese pizza, and toss the stuff on yourself, maybe.