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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

I say this as a millennial who drinks and actually did whisky tasting as my main hobby with reviews for 12 years; I get it. I worked with and in the alcohol industry. They have no clue. It's all ego and razor thin margins and old ways of running a business. They are heavily resistant to change of any sort. They will not be able to handle this at all.

Add to that they are owned by rich people as vanity projects who want their ROI ASAP at levels that healthier margin/growth industries could barely achieve and we will start seeing them disappear. Which is too bad, because it's centuries of tradition in some cases, and I find it tasty.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes. Source: Me. But I grew up in Montreal, so I'm biased.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Nailed it. She was notorious for that.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 weeks ago

At one time, poor people would sell pencils on the street.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Had a VP who was forced to do this (but with commercial flights) 15ish years ago. It was hell and she quit after 4 months. Management was surprised due to their inability to understand people or reality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'm not saying there could be a grey market on Meta, but I'm also not not dismissing it's existence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You may have meant to write this under the cast iron post vs. The taxes under the Harris-Trump Boomer article.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yikes, thanks for the info. I think I misspoke, I just find the taxing to be nit picky as a process, and my sympathy that your country doesn't provide Healthcare.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

Wait, sorry, I'm an accountant in another country; you guys don't tax employee benefits? Lucky.

Based upon the down votes, I am adding an edit: Lucky because it can get nit picky for an accountant, not lucky because your government doesn't care for you. But I mis spoke and it was off topic, so I accept my comment wasn't appreciated.

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

I have a close family friend who isn't very online. He was convinced Elons never made mistakes and is a galaxy brain alien. I filled him in.

Also: People still believe Reagan was a great president. Propaganda works.

So I can see a writer expecting a meeting of an ex President who says he's amazing and Muskrat being the best that America has to offer.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

I have no idea who first said it, but the idea of our norm changing away from capitalism in any meaningful way is so alien to people that they can imagine living on Mars in 5 years more readily then social change.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Make the rest of the house thinner.

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