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The fishy death of Red Lobster

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TheRealDunkirk wrote: post #80

Tiffany Cianci is at the dead center of a battle with private equity trying to monopolize young child development centers. Her horrific personal story will open your eyes as to just how depraved and soulless private equity can really be in their attempt to take over the world. (TL;DR: they literally forced her give a deposition while she was having a miscarriage .) The government should be writing laws to curtail the…

No one can force you to give a deposition during a miscarriage.

I’ve been through a few depositions and anyone can leave for medical reasons. It’s not like there are bailiffs there forcing you to attend. Even with the most basic of cases, I can just walk out and tell my attorney to reschedule. I may have to pay other counsel’s fees, but I expect with the reason “I’m having a miscarriage” no judge is going to uphold their claim.

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rwmj wrote: post #17
loutre wrote: post #2

Watching private equity take over and subsequently destroy businesses is so frustrating! This is a story that comes up again and again and there isn’t yet the overwhelming backlash that’s necessary to stop it. I highly recommend the book “Plunder: private equity’s plan to pillage America” for an extremely cogent overview of the entire situation. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62874267

They're currently buying up veterinary practices in the UK and turning them into cash cows. This has the effect that pet insurance has gone through the roof, and general vet bills are much higher than they used to be. Pets suffer too if owners can't afford to treat them any longer. ( https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/12/uk-vet-pric... )

Dentists too.

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ghaff wrote: post #273
cityofdelusion wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not limited to these big chains at all — the vast, vast majority of restaurants in the States are at the mercy of Sysco. The restaurant industry is absolutely brutal right now. They are barely profitable and the best restaurants survive from underpaid family labor or under-the-table undocumented immigrants. Rent costs are insanely high, labor isn’t there and is bottom of the barrel, and non Sysco food costs too…

To be fair, Sysco can provide a lot of different levels of food. Yes, they're most associated in the public eye with the microwaved and boiled examples. But they can also deliver many fresh ingredients or just staples like rice or flour.

What are Sysco alternatives for sourcing?

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Post by Terr_ »

banannaise wrote: post #194
asdfman123 wrote: post #158

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Increasingly I think the financialization of everything makes us less capable of understanding the world. "Red Lobster failed because of X corporate restructuring," "Red Lobster succeeded due to Y ad campaign." People go to restaurants for reasons completely unrelated to things like that. Those things are important, but just constitute the small slice of reality that can easily be measured. I saw a Twitter thread arg…

The problem is that executives will ask "what makes Stardew Valley successful?" and never make it to this answer: A developer who genuinely cares about the quality of the game, interacts positively with the community around it, and makes decisions that demonstrate his caring for the game and the community. Specifically, decisions that often leave revenue on the table, particularly in the short term but arguably in th…

I think there's an even more-overlooked factor that most people never get to: Good-old random chance in timing and markets and events.

We humans are hardwired to hate that idea, we always want an understandable story with distinct causes and effects... So much so that we will often invent one, even for things we "know" are random, like: "Okay, now the next one will almost certainly be heads, because..."

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nickpsecurity wrote: post #293
quantified wrote: post #283

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When and where did that really ever work? Evidence please. The bible says nothing about America. I assume that abolishing slavery was where we turned away from biblical principles.

You don’t even really need it. You can go right to the roots. Let’s compare two sets of things on a basic level. 1. You know God will judge what good or evil you did at the end of your life. You factor that into your decisions. 2. You think we’re an accident, nothing matters, people are just over animals, actually just chemical reactions, universe itself disappears in enough time, nothing matters in the long term unl…

I haven't observed any correlation between belief in God and righteous or destructive behavior. Seems like most theists and most atheists try to live the virtues you've described as best they can.

I'm an atheist, and I do my best to live those virtues because it's just the right thing to do, and because it feels better than the alternatives. I don't think I'm exceptional in not needing a final judgement to make me want to be kind, honest, work for justice, live with integrity, etc.

Much respect to my theist brothers and sisters, and please consider that your atheist brothers and sisters are worthy of respect as well.

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Post by CobaltFire »

nickpsecurity wrote: post #278
wvenable wrote: post #182

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We live in a time where almost everything is getting worse. Products are getting smaller, service is getting worse, businesses are closing, quality is going down. I don't think I've ever experienced such an obvious decline in commercial society in my entire life. Is it the financialization of everything? Is that we reached peak growth and profit increases are only possibly through extreme optimization? Is it financia…

Most people used to believe in Jesus Christ with values built on the Bible. That was true from lay people to Ivy League colleges to even folks in prison. His blessings with His accountability both made many good things happen and limited lots of damage we’d cause. America was prosperous as the Bible said it would be. Over the decades, people turned away from God and those values to chase new ones: money first, pleasu…

The number of wars and genocides that have resulted from arguing over whose god is the right one dwarfs all other ills.

Get that fixed and then maybe I’ll listen.

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Post by jncfhnb »

yoyohello13 wrote: post #299
jncfhnb wrote: post #169

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But a lot of games are cute and fun to play that do not succeed

I think Stardew filled a niche that wasn't being catered to. There were no Farm Sims that weren't a cash grab released since Farmville. Stardew caught all the people who remembered Harvest Moon fondly.

Harvest moon was actively releasing games at that time

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bachmeier wrote: post #127

To me this is not even slightly surprising. Red Lobster used to be at the top of our list of restaurants. Then in recent years the quality of both the food and service deteriorated. One visit the food was so bad I couldn't even eat it. That was compounded by not having a server to talk to. Took our order and never returned - even had someone else bring out the order. The thing about a restaurant is that you'll always…

> The thing about a restaurant is that you'll always have business if the food and service are good.

This is just demonstrably false. Good food and service is no guarantee of product-market fit.

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Post by jazzyjackson »

CobaltFire wrote: post #306
nickpsecurity wrote: post #278

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Most people used to believe in Jesus Christ with values built on the Bible. That was true from lay people to Ivy League colleges to even folks in prison. His blessings with His accountability both made many good things happen and limited lots of damage we’d cause. America was prosperous as the Bible said it would be. Over the decades, people turned away from God and those values to chase new ones: money first, pleasu…

The number of wars and genocides that have resulted from arguing over whose god is the right one dwarfs all other ills. Get that fixed and then maybe I’ll listen.

the disagreement over holy matters is not typically the cause of violence, just a convenient uniform to wear to tell ally from enemy

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Post by silverquiet »

nickpsecurity wrote: post #278
wvenable wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We live in a time where almost everything is getting worse. Products are getting smaller, service is getting worse, businesses are closing, quality is going down. I don't think I've ever experienced such an obvious decline in commercial society in my entire life. Is it the financialization of everything? Is that we reached peak growth and profit increases are only possibly through extreme optimization? Is it financia…

Most people used to believe in Jesus Christ with values built on the Bible. That was true from lay people to Ivy League colleges to even folks in prison. His blessings with His accountability both made many good things happen and limited lots of damage we’d cause. America was prosperous as the Bible said it would be. Over the decades, people turned away from God and those values to chase new ones: money first, pleasu…

As an American Millennial, all my life I've seen Christians who talk about love and charity on Sunday, and then work the rest of the week to lower taxes on the rich, shame women, and get as many guns into as many American hands as possible. Ultimately, they found their political apotheosis in Donald Trump, who seems to be the physical manifestation of the deadly sins. If he was created in a lab by Atheists to prove that Christians are hypocrites above all else, they could not have done a better job.

I'd suggest that if they want more Americans to live the values preached by Jesus, they should try starting with themselves. I don't know how many people they have turned into Atheists with this behavior, but I can say for sure they did for me, and I suspect they have alienated many others as well.

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