yeah. i can’t remember the last movie i saw in a theater. had to be pre-pandemic.
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Theatres make very little money on ticket sales. Almost all that money goes to studios etc. A theatre is basically a food court that uses movies to get you in the door.
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I remember going to Subway as a kid 35 years ago and the large sandwiches cost 5 dollars then, so 13 bucks now seems about right. When they started the 5$ promotion years ago it represented a nominal price drop of an already cheap and deflationary product. I remember hearing about dissent from Subway franchise owners who were required to lose money on the promotion (Subway is notoriously awful and unprotective to franchisees). Of course, with a Subway on every block in America (again unprotective to franchisees) that makes it harder to profitably run any other sandwich shop etc. So very glad to hear that the prices have gone up, if Biden can get it up to 20 bucks by November I may vote for him.
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We already did this one, I think. For starters Greece and Indonesia massively overrated.
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US above Thai is so lol.
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I go back & forth on Japanese being ranked that high. Depends on how you define the cuisine.
I’m out to lunch. My list starts: Italy, Mexico, Vietnam. I’m a Pho guy though. Simple is good.
im biased because i’m not a fan of marinara type sauces, but i’m never picking italian over any of the asian cuisines nor over mexican
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If I were to think seriously about ranking the top cuisines, I would value variety and breadth over having more top tier individual dishes.
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India not in the top ten is absurd
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I bet there’s a right answer to this. We just need to keep at it.
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Whose cuisine reigns supreme?
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Mexico anywhere but top 5 is ludicrous. Italy and Mexico go 1 and 2 for me.
I don’t know a lot about Polish food, but hard to see how they are on the list over, say, Korea
What even is Portuguese food? Thailand and what I assume is South Korea needs a massive bump. And lol at just ignoring the entire African continent.
What is the quote about how useless it is to debate with dishonest people? Words have no meaning to them and it’s just a game to use our desire for honest debate against us? Does anyone know what I’m talking about?
The Sartre quote?
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
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That’s it thank you!
That quote and this one basically explain modern political discourse.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, this kind of cynicism was referred to as the “reverse cargo cult” effect.
In a regular cargo cult, you have people who see an airstrip, and the cargo drops, so they build one out of straw, hoping for the same outcome. They don’t know the difference between a straw airstrip and a real one, they just want the cargo.
In a reverse cargo cult, you have people who see an airstrip, and the cargo drops, so they build one out of straw. But there’s a twist:
When they build the straw airstrip, it isn’t because they are hoping for the same outcome. They know the difference, and know that because their airstrip is made of straw, it certainly won’t yield any cargo, but it serves another purpose. They don’t lie to the rubes and tell them that an airstrip made of straw will bring them cargo. That’s an easy lie to dismantle. Instead, what they do is make it clear that the airstrip is made of straw, and doesn’t work, but then tell you that the other guy’s airstrip doesn’t work either. They tell you that no airstrips yield cargo. The whole idea of cargo is a lie, and those fools, with their fancy airstrip made out of wood, concrete, and metal is just as wasteful and silly as one made of straw.
1980s Soviets knew that their government was lying to them about the strength and power of their society, the Communist Party couldn’t hide all of the dysfunctions people saw on a daily basis. This didn’t stop the Soviet leadership from lying. Instead, they just accused the West of being equally deceptive. “Sure, things might be bad here, but they are just as bad in America, and in America people are actually foolish enough to believe in the lie! Not like you, clever people. You get it. You know it is a lie.”
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