Endymion_Mallorn @ Endymion_Mallorn @kbin.melroy.org

Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.

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Anything you might have spent on anime, manga, or games from the publishers or studios involved with this gang..

So what they're saying is to stop giving any money to a company that's part of or reports to CODA. Did I read that right?

I just like Archbang.

Yup. Even when I disagree, I prefer to disagree with people on the fediverse than on other media.

Unfortunately, given that I'm in the NYC DMA, individual franchisees probably couldn't afford to cut their prices in half, as much as that sucks to admit. Minimum wage here is $15.49 per hour, which is ridiculous. Utilities, insurance (both for the business and the workers), sanitation, taxes, rent, ongoing franchising fees, and material costs do add up. Plus, they're not seeing the volume that they had been, due to a combination of people like me who aren't going there and the fact that they're open less hours (because reliable overnight labor is too expensive).

For me, McDonald's is way too expensive for what it is anymore. I'm a little ways away from the $8.29 Big Mac, but not by too much. At my local grocery store, I could put together a better burger for significantly cheaper. That's even if I buy premade patties, buns, and sauces, rather than make them from base ingredients. Buying pre-prepped veggies could get expensive though. They'd need to drop the cost by about 50% for them to reach a point consider to be value, which they can't afford to do.

If they're too expensive, stop giving them money. Make food at home or go to a local small business, not a chain franchisee.

Add in the overhead:

• Refrigeration (electricity or otherwise)
• Labor ($7.25+; $15+ in some areas)
• Insurance (In case you get sick from the soda, and you sue them)
• Sanitation (outside contractor, with their materials, labor, and markups)
• Maintenance (machine repairs, etc)

I wish I could agree they were making that much money. But when you include all the costs that they have to run just the soda machine, with all the varieties of soda that they have, they're not clearing that much profit per cup.

I'm not talking about the immigration issue. I'm talking about what this article is addressing, which is a form of offshoring. Yes, they're talking about it in the entertainment industry, but it's the same problem across all industries. There's no difference to me between using an animation studio in Canada or a call center in India. We need to protect our labor - knowing that Americans are some of the most expensive employees in the world.

More proof that we need a labor or service tariff. We shouldn't allow US companies to employ cheap foreign labor without having to make up the difference in taxes. Every job in America should optimally either be filled by an American citizen, or just as expensive to the employer as hiring an American. In the rare case we don't have a citizen able to do it, invite the most skilled foreign citizen on a work visa to be treated and paid same as our citizens.

To borrow form MegaMind - I wouldn't say "free", but rather "under new management".

Yes, but have we gone to Warp? Or have we moved to ArcaOS?

Geez, again?!

Ah, absolutely not worth it then. I prefer to keep RAM free for games and video rendering.

I mean, I dual-boot Mint now. And at least you don't come after me for DOS, because that would get me defensive..

Please explain this for a DOS/Windows user?

They're for iOS, because the main tablet is an iPad. The first one is Clime (which used to be called NOAA Radar), and the second is called MyRadar.

WP Engine has always seemed a very weird business to me. WP is free, and many hosting & domain providers just offer it for free with your hosting. If you don't want to host yourself, why not just use WP.com and do a redirect? I've just never understood the value-add.