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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i can only wish that capitalists actually wore such jovial and silly hats

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

HOT TAKE: maybe i'd like elon musk more if he wore a rainbow propellor beanie

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

For a brief moment, only if it propelled him to outer space

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

He's such a bland bleakly boring person that he'd only show an improvement in character if he had a beanie hat.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Reality has all of them. But the quality competitors are expensive and this keeps it to a niche audience. Then you have the race to the bottom competition that does business in quantity over quality and likely the one you grab since you're also likely to value price over everything else.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

They usually cut costs in unnoticeable for regular consumer way. Like include some chemistry that easy to produce and makes it tasty, but bad for health.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"I am lobbying to change the legal definition of lemonade so no lemons are required." capitalist-laugh

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

porky-happy porky-happy

We have sold the same glass of lemonade back and forth between eachother 8 million times so somehow we both have negative tax rates now!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

This comment seems to have a negative understanding of how accounting and taxes work.

You'd lose money if you do this. And your tax rate is unaffected since revenue and cost go up identically.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I recently learned vanillian has over 200 ingredients. I realize demand for natural vanilla is probably bad for the habitat, but I've no idea what those chemicals do, ingested singly, let alone how they may interact together, with digestive liquids.