McDonald’s is franchised to a whole bunch of individual owners in the United States. This is why you get such varying quality reports. Some franchisees are better at making the food tasty than others.

For example with French fries: to get good fries you have to keep the fryers at the right temperature, change the oil pretty regularly, and get the right amount of salt on the fries right when they come out. A bad franchisee will skimp on the oil changes, not fix the fryer thermostat, and he won’t care what the 16 year old does with the salt

One thing that McDonald’s is really good at with their franchise rules is food safety. It is quite rare for anyone to actually get food poisoning from McDonald’s. Probably rarer than many fine dining places where a lot more people touch your food, and they use a lot of manual cooking processes.

The state capital on the cover was not in area code 318 or the listed coverage area of this directory.

He’s got parallel New York state and federal charges going at the same time. Under double jeopardy rules, those are two separate cases, and if he wins one, he can still lose the other.

On the state case, at least, both 1st and second degree are charged. The jury doesn’t decide on 2nd degree unless and until they decide not guilty on 1st degree. The process is:

• Decide 1st degree charge.
• if not guilty on 1st, consider and decide on 2nd degree.
• is not guilty on 2nd degree, consider manslaughter or anything else on the charge sheet…
• etc.

All of that happens after one trial, and it’s all in one deliberation session. If the jury gets through all of that with a not guilty on everything, then the state can’t try again, and they can’t appeal.

In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Harrison Ford survives a nuclear test by hiding in a refrigerator.

prices go up, period–that’s true

According to Piketty, anyway, general inflation did not actually start until the industrial revolution. The price level was otherwise stable throughout history up to that point. It’s not just an incontrovertible fact of life, although it seems that way now.

Now do one that counts vehicles delivered.

The ghost movement is not random. They go in memorizable patterns. So it is possible to simply rote memorize the solution to all 256 levels or something.

Backpage moderated some posts, sure. But what was the role of Salesforce here besides supplying a software package?

The primary killer from global thermonuclear war will be starvation due to crop failures. Not fallout, radiation, or direct damage.

Better Zemenhof than ex-optometrist Bashar Al-Assad.

They probably didn’t understand who Metternich and Guizot were.

When the students came in and got on Usenet, that was just regular September. Eternal September when AOL or CompuServe, or one of those added Usenet. It was like the kids never had to leave at the end of the academic year.

That seems entirely feasible.

It seems he had to clear multiple malfunctions, and that suggests his firearm was poorly setup with the suppressor.

Surely, bankruptcy courts must be familiar with the tactic of “using shell companies to buy your own stuff back at bankruptcy auction for pennies on the dollar.”

And ICE right now doesn’t take orders from Trump… They take orders from that other guy. The ACLU knows this because they understand constitutional law. They’re not looking for the concrete deportation plans; they want general background on what the infrastructure looks like, so they can file challenges with the correct factual details quickly if shit does kick off.

For example, if they get the tail numbers on all the planes they can track them in flightaware or in a worse case by recruiting spotters. If they want to file a lawsuit, they’re gonna need to know some details about who got sent where and when.

Any trip to Mars is going to involve massive amounts of personal suffering and privation.

Minimum mission duration of 3 years. Living space no larger than a small RV. All the food is freeze dried. Can you imagine the smell that will develop? If anything breaks, it’s on you to fix it, and there is no trip down to the hardware store, and no United Rentals to bail you out. Any medical complication? There’s no ER, just whatever you’ve got in the kit.

And that’s not even starting on the chronic radiation hazard for which there is no viable option to deploy shielding. And a freak solar flare can cook you with acute radiation that will kill you at any time.

Seriously, we’re talking about an adventure that would be way more epic than Shackleton.

Fine.

Although the tenth does end with

…are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Once upon a time, straight outta school, I wrote up solutions to problems from the Serway physics book. For Chegg. $5 per problem.

Fuck Chegg.

The court affirmed migrants’ right to interstate travel,

Fun fact: this is an unenumerated right of the people that courts have consistently recognized. The tenth amendment promises that the people retain their natural rights, even if they’re not explicitly listed in the Constitution.

This is exactly the same category as the right to privacy that was postulated in Roe v. Wade and overturned in Dobbs.