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Rs: "Individual freedoms! No government overreach!"

Also Rs: "Let's track these motherfuckers so they can be punished."

I can't remember, is Lithuania on Trump's "shithole" list?

The Nodfather

For all you know the victims rate it positively as well but they don't submit feedback

That was a joke in reference to the Van Halen album 5150, which in fact did not include the track Hot for Teacher, as that was on the album 1984, and I was being facetious.

5150 is also the name of Eddie (and subsequently Wolfgang) Van Halen's recording studio where 1984 and many other seminal albums were recorded.

The studio was named after Section 5150 of the Welfare Code of California which allows officers or mental health professionals to detain individuals for involuntary psychiatric holds.

Pretty sure it's a reference to Van Halen's Hot For Teacher

Zero day patch? Fuck you, pay me. Firmware update for your SAN controller? Fuck you, pay me. Doesn't matter, it's all profit.

First thing to look for is the hands

No, it's disruption

I haven't read the transcript of the earnings call, but I read the article(s) and the Wendy's blog post in response.

It seems like there was indeed some misunderstanding somewhere along the way, in that the "dynamic pricing" that was referenced was not to be construed as surge pricing in any way, and was intended to reflect decreased (ebb? discounted? receding?) pricing that would be presented during off-peak hours to drive business.

The practice in itself isn't inherently bad, but I can see this as an incremental move towards true surge pricing across the industry - which for the record I am against - and there isn't really a way to position it in such a way as to be seen as a benefit to the consumer.

As with everything else, customers will vote for this practice with their wallets, and by the state of several other industries in which similar models have been adopted and begrudgingly accepted as the norm, I'm not holding out a lot of hope for a positive outcome here.

The very fact that you recognize this in yourself puts you head and shoulders above a good 70% of candidates.

Wait for dat citation... before accepting that rationalization