with the tongue!

hundreds to thousands per local market, depending on the size

It sounds like you're asking about buying fresh new houses, so I'll give a bit of details about those.

The long and short of it is that your money goes to the one of two things: If it's part of some whole new neighborhood that just opened, some promoter paid a whole bunch of construction companies to build 300 houses and a bunch of other buildings up front, and you're paying them. If it's just a house torn down and rebuilt, you're paying a single construction company that paid for the old house and lot, then paid to demolish and rebuild it, all in advance. Then they make profit once the house is sold.

Howe much everyone involved costs has no real answer because every project and business has their own guidelines.

Generally speaking, the ones paying a couple dozen million for a whole new development up front will expect to make more profit than the workers who did the job. This is compunded by them doing a whole neighborhood, so they have little to no competition, they know everything will sell, and they'll be the ones selling.

The moment there's more promoters, everyone's profit margin will get smaller, but not that much because they'll often collude and get away with it. workers won't get paid a dime more.

In truth, the small nd medium construction companies often go bankrupt because of how many unforeseen problems can baloon up costs after they got locked in to a fixed sale price, or because of their obligation to repair building flaws. So, since they take all the risk, and the workers merely show up, do their job, get a guaranteed paycheck, and find a new job if the company sinks, they don't get as big a piece of the pie as the promoter or construction company.

That's half the reason. The other reason is for marketing purposes. This way, you guarantee taste, not edibility. You get less complaints that your stuff doesn't taste good, as people know they're past the "best before" date.

The "best before" date is actualy a "tastes optimal if opened before". It's a guestimate, based on experiments. It has nothing to do with food spoiling, so they can afford to approximate.

Usually, there are some tests before launching some new product line with different sealed containers sitting there for different amounts of time at room temperature or fridges. For dates a year or more away, they guess using science. Petri dish cultures, for example, can help them extrapolate future dates just by watching the bacteria growth rate.

That's a bit missing his point of there not even existing imperial equivalents to volts and amps, and why that is.

For the police who patrol the street, each city has laws deciding on the qualifications. The only way things will change is if a municipal party senses that they will win or lose an election if they stand on the wrong side of police reform.

State troopers are hired by each individual state, the same principle applies but at another kind of election, probably governor. FBI, CIA, DEA, ICE are federal police, you'd need the democrats or republicans to think they'll lose an election if they don't reform police accountability laws.

Politicians often have many ways to distract the few people who actually vote in American elections, you'd have a better chance if people were more politically mindful, and if more people voted. Complaining for 4 years then voting automatically for the same party every election basically changes nothing, and that;s why they invented wedge politics.

I don't get it. What do pastries have to do with this? and what "Troubles" are they talking about? Some IRA stuff? Also, what;s "NI"?