McDonald’s owned a large number of it’s locations prior to the real estate boom. As a consequence, they were more aptly described as a real estate management than food services business model by the late '00s.

A lot of their relative success has come from avoiding the crippling rent increases other fast food vendors have had to endure.

it would be much better for all of us to make new companies together

Companies need clients. That’s sort of the secret sauce in business. If you don’t have good relationships with the management at your client firms, you can’t win the contracts that give your work recognizable monetary value.

We can spin up an opensourcebusiness community here on Lemmy to do it together (Have no idea how to make/manage Lemmy communities and have projects already if any people would like to pick up this initiative. I can assist however I can in spare time)

:-/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat

My office just ditched it’s Wednesday work from home policy. I mentioned to a co-worker that we could start a petition and vocalize our displeasure as an office wide unit.

She shot it down, because so many of her co-workers were insisting “actually this is great, we love being in the office” in front of management. And the more unreliable folks were consistently the biggest kiss-asses.

Office politics is a removed.

In fairness, he was assaulted by police and pepper sprayed then shoved aside several times before they eventually bothered to get a warrant for an arrest.

It almost works better without the quote

News of the day != administration

It is when the administration is at the center of the news cycle day after day.

Air travel hurts everyone, not just senate liberals.

Less than half of the public travel by plane even once a year. Some 15% travel internationally. And your propensity to travel by plane is heavily determined by your wealth/income and your proximity to a major city. This is a problem that is heavily concentrated in the metro-poles.

The higher class politicians don’t even need to suffer TSA losses since private planes don’t even use the TSA.

Even the wealthiest Americans regularly use commercial airline services. Private chartered jets tend to be favored by corporate executives, because they can push off the cost of travel onto the corporate balance sheets. And even then, these private jets tend to function as mini-flying offices accommodating whole teams of people. They’re as beholden to FAA as every other airborne vehicle and the FAA was also suffering from shortfalls.

Lastly, the house still has to fold

Very possible the House GOP “Double Down” Caucus tries to squeeze an extra turd out before this bill goes to Trump. Hell, its possible Trump vetoes the bill because he’s in a nasty mood that day. But at this point, Republicans are operating as a unified caucus while Dems are fracturing. If the GOP does demand another pound of flesh, I question whether Democrats won’t cave still further.

From what I’ve read, none of them are even up for reelection, so it was 100% personal pride that drove them to give in to the traitors.

I’m sure there’s a bunch of money waiting for them on the backend of retirement.

The National debt bill will come due one way or another.

Who owns the debt and what does “coming due” look like? Treasury bonds have been recycled for over a century. We haven’t had a “zero” national debt since… what? The Andrew Jackson Administration? And that royally fucked the economy by depriving it of a secure repository for long term savings.

Either through “austerity” clawbacks or devaluing your wages by printing money.

At some point, everything we do in the economy is a choice. The idea that we all need to suffer because a number on a ledger goes up or down entirely decouples the idea of money from the consequences of public policy and private administrative decisions.

There’s no material reason for clawbacks or devaluation, outside the fact that its an outcome certain powerful people are seeking. It isn’t a consequence of the national debt any more than the New Deal / Great Society or the Petrodollar were a result fiscal prudence.

it never did >as much< as it’s doing now

:-/ South Park does news-of-the-day cartoons and the news-of-the-day is overwhelmingly this shit.

The sales targets for Elon’s $1T payday are so astronomical and they’ve been set up in the face of enormous headwinds.

Certainly possible Elon uses the promise of a future payment as leverage on new loans, so he can continue debt-financing his billionaire lifestyle. But like so much else, this is promising you $$$ on Tuesday for a cheeseburger today. The board rubber stamped a check they have no intention of seeing cashed.

Gaza is the proving ground for US foreign policy around the world.

Parker and his girlfriend went to Costa Rica and hated the country

My god, could he be any more American?

His response was about this season’s unusual targeting of the administration.

It isn’t unusual. South Park has dedicated an episode or three to mocking US and foreign politicians, NGOs, and popular figures going back to their first season. This feels like the old “When Did Star Trek Get Political?!” whine.

it is unusual for the show to focus so much on the current administration of the US

That hasn’t been true in decades. The episode About Last Night… pillared both '08 presidential hopefuls. A year before that The Snuke bashed Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, a character who has appeared in no less than fifteen episodes. On the flip side, Bush Jr got an appearance in thirteen episodes, starting as early as 2001. And they weren’t afraid of taking some deeper cuts, too. FFS, Gary Condit appeared three times.

The early seasons were largely an expression (abet, significantly more abstract relative to any sitting politician) of Matt and Trey’s own libertarian brand of politics - including their takes on gay marriage, gun ownership, climate change, drug policy, state censorship, the anti-muslim/pro-war post-9/11 politics. And they tip-toed around naming names until they’d built up a brand.

But to imply the show wasn’t critical of contemporary administrative policies, you really need to squeeze your eyes shut and refuse to read some pretty naked allegories and references.

Europe loaning Russian money to Ukraine so that Ukraine can buy weapons from Europe to use on Russia would seem like something the Russians wouldn’t like.

Keep an eye out on who he endorses. And whether Chicago progressives can field an alternative.

They get their constituents back to work and get SNAP money flowing again

The cuts to the health care system are going to put some number of people out of work. They’ve also created a precedent by which Republicans can extract these enormous concessions through shut downs, a thing prior Dem coalitions had largely squelched.

Most importantly, we’ve identified air travel as a pain point felt most keenly by Senate liberals. As soon as the upper class is inconvenienced, through long lines at airports and pain felt by airline companies, the Democrats begin to fold in droves. The TSA is effectively a pressure point for the liberal elite and one that Trump will happily squeeze in the future to get what he wants.

Are they armed drones? If not…who cares.

If they’re surveillance drones, it remains a concern. Very normal to scout the territory before queuing up a strike.

But, more broadly, it is a shot across the bow in a country currently debating escalating support to Ukraine. After supporting NATO-sponsored Ukrainian strikes into the Russian mainland, Belgium is building a precedent for what is looking like an explicit proxy war between Russia and Europe.

I think we’d be better off ignoring them

That’s why you’re a random rube on the internet and not a member of the Joint Chiefs.

What I’m hearing is that there’s 100s of GW of solar power trading at below-market rates.

How many of these Senators have primary opponents?

Which one of these senators has a primary opponent?