Ah "skosh"...I'm not sure I've ever seen it in writing, but my first mentor at my first career job used it all the time. Every amount of distance under a foot (in a structural discipline) was a skosh of some sort.
Just a bit of a skosh, a slight skosh...a good healthy skosh...
You're not wrong, although I do wish that in situations like these, where the guilty party knew what they were doing was wrong but did it anyway based on their own personal beliefs, that the debts incurred would be as persistent as their beliefs.
Super weird correlation, I admit, but in my city it's been my experience that one odd trend I've observed has been that Tesla drivers do three things disproportionately more frequently than drivers of other vehicles:
Lack of using a turn signal (which they arguably share with BMW drivers.
Forcing their way into lane changes and/or cutting people off (often accompanied by a noted lack of signal).
And flat out just plain running red lights. This last one is the most alarming and honestly the one I've noticed to be most closely linked to Tesla drivers. It's so bad that even if I have a solid green when approaching a red light, if I can see a Tesla in approaching or crossing lanes, I'll let off the gas and hover over the brakes, just in case they "pull a Tesla". I've seen many of them pull up to a solid red, drift to a stop, then find a gap in the cross traffic that has a solid green and just dart across. I've seen them turn left on red without stopping. Seen them cause near accidents, all running red lights like they're just a suggestion.
When the only source for your argument is "because I said so", that makes the person who said it the only logical target for any rebuttal.
While this person's statements aren't popular here because they're not in complete alignment and support of the Lemmy pro-Palestine position and they're upsetting the groupthink...they are also not incorrect, and nothing they've said actually supports the actions of the Israeli government or even really takes a position on the current fighting in any way. They're just explaining the diplomatic situation and how it informs US actions to other commenters who don't seem to have that perspective.
If anything they said was wrong, by all means make that point...but so far all I've seen is them explaining a harsh and uncomfortable truth, those who don't want to hear it shooting the messenger, and then when they're sticking to their guns and restating their points, here you are calling it a personal attack.
What they're saying isn't what people here like hearing, but it's the reality of the bigger picture in many ways.
While that might be the only direct result, you're also assuming that A) it's only taking place in major chain stores and B) that the effects won't include price hikes for everyone to compensate for that slight dip in profits.
In reality, corporations have showed us they're never going to just "take the L". If something negatively impacts their bottom line, they'll make up for it by forcing that financial burden onto their customers.
Honestly while I'm obviously still here, anyone pretending this is any sort of apples-to-apples replacement of the overall Reddit community is only engaging in so much wishful thinking.
Not that it's impossible for Lemmy to get there eventually, but it's not even close to it, and honestly I really don't see it happening.
First I would like to say that millions of people do consume weed every day after work.
Okay?
They never said nobody does those things, just that they don't, and can't.
My second point is, the fact that you have a category of acceptable drugs to consume daily, and include alcohol in it, might be something you should evaluate.
And maybe your inability to consider the possibility that others can handle responsible use of drugs in moderation and still carry out healthy, productive, well-balanced lives is something that you should evaluate.
Sure there's people who can't handle any amount of any substance in their lives, but that doesn't mean nobody can, and to imply a personal failing is at the core of any alcohol consumption (beyond whatever personal limits you've set and decided to impose on others) is just holier-than-thou nonsense.
The way they're produced en masse is that high alcohol "beer" is brewed for maximum sugar content and minimal flavors, and then it's aged, filtered, and in some cases concentrated for shipment.
Usually this neutral malt alcohol base is used on site at around 14% but if it is to be shipped it's usually concentrated to liquor levels for economy of scale.
When it's time to make a seltzer it's not "brewed" as such, but simply blended with industrial scale batching equipment. Basically a big tank of water with a pipe loop that runs the contents of the tank in circulation, and has ports for adding flavoring and the alcohol base.
Once the batch is at the right flavor and ABV it can be held in storage or sent to canning/bottling, with compressed CO2 injected into the liquid line just before the point where it goes into the can or bottle.
That might have been the case 10-15 years ago (and I guess maybe it still is in some areas that are slow to follow the trends of craft beer) but these days that's just not the case for most of the small scale craft beer.
Sure, IPAs have become the iconic style of American craft beer and they'll likely be overrepresented in the US craft market for at the very least the next several decades, but for the past 5-10 years things have moved away from there over saturation that those who dislike the style still like to pretend dominates the scene.
Since the peak of ultra-bitter-IPA-mania, we've seen similar (if smaller) fads/trends for sours, NEIPAs, and most recently hazy IPAs (the latter two of which are not in the excessively bitter trend of the IPAs most think of). We've also seen fruit beers and seltzers take over, maybe even beyond the degree that IPAs ever did.
In the meantime, we've seen these extreme hop bombs relegated to the sidelines of the modern craft beer scene. My personal theory being that lots of brewers wanted to get in on that trend, tried, and found out just how tricky it can be to craft a good imperial IPA, and once people found good ones with wide availability, they stuck with them and the rest of the market dried up. While there's nuance within hop bills, it's still all hops. With fruit beers, it's far easier to do something that nobody else is doing.
Solo converting to DINK here, and for me, after spending years in a city, basically while there's tons to do in a city, there's only a relatively small portion of it that I actually want to do.
Combine that with my love of outdoor hobbies which are all farther from me while living in a city...
And at this point, for me, it's more about finding the smallest city that offers me most of what I like about cities while being small enough that I lose as much of the negatives as possible, with bonus points for a city that's small enough for me to live on the edges, where I can have a house with a yard and a garage, while being within a 10 minute drive of city center, but also less than 30 minutes from outdoor recreation opportunities.
I'm also at the age where "stay home" is often my preferred choice of thing to do, so having a spacious, comfortable home where I can enjoy living is a major consideration. A 500 sqft 1BR that I share with a roommate or two ain't cutting it.
Different people like different things, and while cities provide a lot, there's also a lot they don't.
Kinda a little bit