Terminal velocity is just the maximum speed a thing will reach. Hitting the ground at that speed may not be fatal depending on the aerodynamics of the thing (squirrels can also fall from any height).
Dude Taco Bell is one of the worst offenders. I don’t eat there anymore but I know they’re charging up the ass for rice, beans, and what can only be described as meat product that barely meets the legal definition of “beef.”
*not because “hurr Mexican food give diarrhea”, but because Taco Bell use shit ingredients and don’t pay their workers enough to give a shit to clean well
Honestly the only thing you’re missing out on is the Mexican Pizza. That’s the only thing the Bell has that I cannot find at any Mexican restaurant, and I live in San Diego, where you can throw pocket sand in any direction and 3/4 of the time you’ll hit an authentic Mexican food truck/ restaurant.
Nothing mind-blowing (except the morning crunch wrap, which is mind-blowing). But they are pretty consistent, and have a lot more options than most fast food places when it comes to healthy-ish options.
It’s not Mexican food, it’s not even tex-mex. It’s just taco bell. It’s its own category of food. Go in without preconceived ideas of what it should be and you might find that you enjoy it.
Have you had it recently? When I was a teenager there was a “taco bell challenge” to see if you could eat 20 dollars of taco bell. It would be impossible to eat that much food. Now it’s like 2.5 things off the menu.
The latest announcements regarding windows also brings me to the linux route again.
While I use it in the home environment I still have some software that must work. I will test drive on an older laptop first and will see how far it goes.
For server / network I already use linux a lot, for desktop I am still not conviced, yet.
In Ohio it’s become so bad that it’s literally cheaper to feed a family of four at a sit down family restaurant than eating at our local McDonald’s and the food is measurably better at the mom and Pop places than what you get at McDonald’s. It’s just not worth it and they pay their people nothing so the food comes out wrong or cold because they just don’t care.
We gave up on McDonald’s some time ago and it’ll take a lot for us to go back, starting with the removal of those "Now hiring: $14/hr!" signs out front that have been there for years. If y’all pay your people that little it’s a sign to me as a consumer that my food isn’t going to be made by people who care so why even bother?
Also screw those self-ordering kiosks, those only exist because y’all are under-staffed and you’re trying to make up for the missing staff by passing off the ordering part to the consumers instead of hiring more people.
14/hr in Ohio is actually pretty good for a fast food job.
That said, please do support the mom and pop over the fast food giant! You’re keeping money in your community! So many (especially rural communities) have been drained of meaningful dining and shopping experiences by chains that contribute very little back to the local economy and the towns are in a state of disrepair.
That’s why you hustle and have a second job, an Onlyfans, a Youtube channel, a Fiverr account, sell plasma, drive for rideshare, live out of your car and AirBNB the room you rent, sell drugs, turn tricks, and go freegan.
It isn’t hard to make it anywhere if you have the motivation and can-do attitude.
I mean, you can get rent for $500-600 in some rural parts of Ohio. I don’t know anywhere in Ohio – unless you’re going for literally the most expensive area – that’s $1,400 for a single bedroom.
For a high school student working fast food … which is really who these jobs are best suited for $14/hr is a pretty great deal. I mean not 10 years ago, they were paying like $8/hr. I know inflation has changed things but we haven’t seen 50% inflation since I was in high school.
But yes, it’s not a comfortable wage, it’s just pretty decent as far as minimum wage standards go.
I got McDonald’s today for my kids (as a treat), and it cost over $15 for two quarter pounders with cheese (one with bacon) and two small fries. That’s it. No drinks. Nothing else.
That seems perfectly reasonable at the prices I’ve been experiencing over the last few years. In fact I think that same order at my local McDonalds would cost more.
The last time I went to McDonald’s I got two regular hamburgers and a medium fry, no drink. It was almost $10 after tax, the fries were cold and I had to pull out of the drive-through and wait for it.
I didn’t eat McDonald’s a lot to begin with, but it’s just not worth it to eat there anymore. It was always crap food, but it was at least fast and cheap. Now that it’s crap, slow, and expensive, there’s absolutely no reason to go there. The entire time I was sitting in my car eating my sad little mostly-bun burgers and cold fries, I was looking at the Costco across the street thinking about how, for the same $10, I could have gotten a huge slice of pizza, a soda, two churros, and an entire rotisserie chicken.
I was rushed one morning and stopped by McDonald’s for breakfast on my way to work and got the 2 breakfast burrito meal. It cost almost $11. I will pretty much never be getting McDonald’s again since that should be one of the cheapest things on the menus.
I actually miss when maccas used to make the stuff in bulk and chuck on a rack. you’d order, they’d grab your burger and stuff bag it and your done. now it’s “made to order” and while it’s admittedly pretty quick, during peak times you’ll be waiting a while.
there was never an issue with the bulk system cause everything moved so quick anyway
I would not describe any of them as "pretty quick" but I do know how long it takes to cook a burger and it's never as long as I'd have to wait at these shitty places: It sure as shit doesn't take 10-20 minutes to cook a burger on the presses they use. These corporations understaff their restaurants and pay shit wages, so, of course, they don't get very good employees (or even if they do, why would they try very hard for that pay?)
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