Copenhagen also is very bike oriented and has relatively low rates of public transport for a European city of that size.
Pete Hegseth approves.
Aw shit, time to stop eating rabbit meat. @zikzak
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/deadly-virus-killing-wild-rabbits-north-america
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Lets be real these restaurants might do this for a day or two but not longer term. The ones here are back to full capacity from what I can see from the outside.
What exactly is full capacity for a restaurant? Is it the maximum number of people allowed in the building set by the fire department or is it a number the restaurant owners make up that they can double whenever they please?
It’s set on a business license based on fire code and zoning.
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Yep, that too. Voluntary compliance will be pretty low, and enforcement will probably be low and inconsistent.
In red states there will be literally zero enforcement qnd everyone knows it.
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Short term, restaurants don’t have to turn a profit at 50%, they just have to lose less than they are now.
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How did they discover they were sex dolls and not mannequins? Actually, why is a fine needed here?
update:
Some of the dolls were holding signs advertising x-rated websites, despite pornography being banned in South Korea.
waaaaaat
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Usually the mouths are shaped a little different and dolls maybe a bit bow legged
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They’re wearing masks and seated, so it hardly seems like it would be a newsworthy story…
Except for that part. Talk about burying the lede.
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Sure, if you could predict with reasonable certainty what the duration is going to be, you might be willing to suck up the loss. But, if you’re not sure how long that will be and you are looking at large amounts of fixed reopening costs (restocking food and other inventory, buying more cleaning supplies, investing in plexiglass barriers/disposable menus and other products/ etc.), I bet the numbers really don’t pencil out if you actually adhere to the new rules. So, places are either going to shut down completely, or they will reopen in much the same way as they were before and just hope that customers and the authorities turn a blind eye.
ETA: also, around here, restaurants are pushing to continue to be allowed to sell to go cocktails which seems to be a profitable new business line, and there is also discussion that they might allow expanded outdoor seating areas which would make up for some losses to indoor seating capacity.
All the wild game in the US getting overrun with scary-ass diseases seems like something we should be worrying about more imo.
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Also, tics.
It’s kinda funny to watch the “uncertainty hurts the economy” crowd push for the wildest approach to the pandemic. “Let’s just pretend everything’s fine and ignore the fact that consumer demand is down a ton.” Like yea, that’ll get rid of the uncertainty every business owner is facing.
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There were zero ticks where I am until recently. Spent half my childhood in the woods and fields around where I grew up and got constantly bit by everything. Only time I ever saw a tick was when my dog got them at the beach 3 hours away. Now they’re absolutely everywhere.
They’re even up in the White Mountains now. One of the worst places I’ve ever come across is my friends property in Franconia. One time I walked 50 feet from my car to his cabin and then picked off about 20 ticks.