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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have a shamefully dark question for firefighters. I'm sorry but I'm just too curious to not ask... It's about the smell and how that affects life.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not speaking from experience with the firefighters side here, but I do think it come’s down to the ick factor of smell is so much stronger than the yum factor.
  Smell is how we know if something is safe to eat, so if its off even a bit, that jumps to the peak of our attention.

  Usually if you burn something a little bit, that’s the only smell you notice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos Says Movie Theater Model Is ‘Outdated’: ‘Most of the Country’ Cannot ‘Walk to a Multiplex’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Accessibility is only a tiny portion of it. Most of the US can’t walk to pretty much anything useful.

  Lets start looking at ticket prices, and concession prices.

  Family of 4 to watch a movie starts at $70 CAD at my local theatre. $10 for a single large popcorn to share, and $5ea per water. Fountain drinks are somehow more expensive than bottled water. That’s $100 for the start of an evening. Take a look at the rest of the economy, and figure out why theatres aren’t seeing the traffic they used to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to treat a man⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what part of the world you grew up in, but that hasn’t been my experience at all. All the women I know have been brought up to know this is the old way, and any man who thinks along those lines is a man to avoid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Astounding absurdity⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If we want to fix the bad stuff corporations are doing, simply put a larger cost on those things. It’s that simple. Pollution, Safety, Health, whatever… price the negative externalities (economic speak for bad things humans don’t want) properly and the market will sort itself out.

  The part where it goes right off the rails however, it seems now that its cheaper to buy and own the politicians, and buy and own the media to manufacture consent to kill these regulations than it is to operate responsibly. Which seems to be right around where we are now.