I bet it did, but you just didn’t know it. It was always a thing you had to ask for, and they’d give it to you from behind the counter.

I was using Gentoo over two decades ago, compiling on an Athlon XP (not sure which model). Single core, well less than 2GHz.

If it was manageable back then, surely it’s no big deal by now with a modern multi-core CPU – even a low-end one, let alone something like a $300 16-core Ryzen 5950X.

Buy a faster CPU.

Nah, it’s both of them. The difference is, Gentoo gives you a cotton gin and a loom.

They’ve still managed to chip away at it a little. It used to be that you could pick a regular hot dog or a polish sausage for the same price, but the latter is gone now. They also used the pandemic as an excuse to get rid of the sauerkraut, and now I think even the onions are gone.

Also during the pandemic, the local Costco Business Center just demolished their cafe entirely.

My dislike for Subway comes from experience probably close to three decades ago, so nah, not enshittification (unless they’ve gotten even worse since then, LOL). The main things that bothered me were that the bread was weirdly sweet, and all the meats were pre-sliced and tasted not only not particularly fresh, but also kinda the same?

I always thought Blimpie was vastly superior, if that gives you a frame of reference. It seems like even Blimpie isn’t considered all that great these days (compared to, IDK, Firehouse or Jersey Mike’s or something), so that’s saying a lot.

One thing Subway wasn’t, at the time, was overpriced, BTW. That’s why my parents often preferred it over Blimpie, despite my objections.

I’d rather have a sub from literally any other chain before one from Subway. Hell, at this point I might even rather give Quiktrip made-to-order subs a shot than go to Subway!

If you have a retirement account with “normal” recommended investments (I.e. broad-market mutual funds, target date or otherwise), you’re (indirectly) a Tesla shareholder and the fund manager likely voted your shares for this on your behalf.

You’ve been disenfranchised and the people controlling your money are breaching their fiduciary duty to you. You should be fucking pissed off!

They’re trying to incite food riots to manufacture a pretext to declare martial law and give Trump even more absolute power.

Best use of their mediocre sandwiches.

Servo is extra-important for things like webviews embedded in other apps.

I ought to contribute to FreeCAD.

“Hale Hortler!”

The Wuppertal train is legitimate public transit (as legitimate as a gadgetbahn can get, anyway). These department store trains we’re discussing were gimmicky rides for children. I could be wrong, but I don’t think adults even fit in them.

Yes, they’re both suspended from overhead tracks, but that’s about the only similarity.

Nah, the one in OP’s picture is almost certainly a different one. There’s no reason Atlanta’s Pink Pig would’ve ever had “John H-[scribble] Rocket Express” written on the side of it.

Also, it seems unlikely that a department store would install something completely unique (especially one in some random second-tier city like Philly or Atlanta), so surely more than one of these things existed at some point.

More broadly, there’s a hell of a lot of compassion fatigue in caring professions.

It could be a warped sense of excess compassion, too. Some of these caregiver serial killers are “angel of death” types who think they’re doing euthenasia.

(Not saying that’s the case here, since OP’s blurb gives a different motive and I can’t be bothered to read further, but more broadly it seems to be a well-known thing.)

the judiciary system not understanding statistics (5 percent of all nurses have a statistically-significant high death rate).

And for those in this thread who also don’t understand statistics, that’s because the threshold for statistical significance is usually 5% by definition and has nothing to do with nursing at all.

The title came pre-editorialized by OP of the thread I cross-posted from, LOL. I love to see folks outside of urbanist spaces starting to get it.

I’ve ridden the Pink Pig!

I can only barely remember it because I was a little kid at the time (looking at the history of it, it was probably the very last year before it shut down, or close to it). What I do know is that the suspended monorail at the Rich’s downtown was way better than the imitation BS they have at the Macy’s at Lenox these days.