MammyWhammy

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[–] MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

What I think they meant to have rollout is to potentially raise their prices across the board and then offer discounts at off-peak times.

Functionally it's the exact same thing as what leaked but is way easier to sell as value added to potential customers.

[–] MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Five Guys isn't in the same category as other fast food chains at all IMHO.

Five Guys provides a different quality of food at a much higher price than McD's, Burger King, In N Out, etc. If the taste/quality is even close between Five Guys and the others listed, no one should ever consider going to Five Guys it'd be overpriced.

Wendy's is in the 'lower cost fast food' category, not the 'over the counter burger' category.

[–] MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml 28 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Coming soon a quiet price hike followed by timed "discounts" at every Wendy's location.

[–] MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The crazy thing is nothing is preventing the 1/3 of people who think embryos are children from treating their frozen embryos as children.

[–] MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Yup, that's what I meant.

[–] MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (6 children)

They're a secular institution that was on the leading edge of stem cell research when it was far more controversial than it is now.

I don't think those are "low-ass" standards.

[–] MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (20 children)

Calling Duke a 'religious school' is disingenuous. They are a secular school that has a divinity program. The university pre-dates the divinity school by almost a century.

They are widely seen as a world class medical, business and law school. Contributions include, the first ultrasound imaging, the first CFD analysis software, and cochlear implant development.

They don't focus on sports anymore than other peer institutions (think Northwestern, Stanford, Vanderbilt, or Notre Dame) they just caught lightning in a bottle with Coach K, and have been really good at basketball for a while.

I say all of this to highlight, they are a legitimate, well funded active contributor to academia and research.

They aren't some hack religious institution that's trying to play being a real school while shoveling indoctrination down your throat like BYU or Liberty.

Duke is a legitimate research university that should be criticized even more harshly for the decision outlined in the article because of their history as a top tier research institution, not because they're "a religious school that doesn't care about science."

[–] MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml 57 points 7 months ago

What's even funnier is initially the investigators were only looking to get $250M. During the case after a monitor was appointed, the Trump Org. started shuffling money around and they went after more money due to those actions.

[–] MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml 48 points 7 months ago (20 children)

His entire campaign raised ~$330M in 2016 election cycle. At the very least it's a massive hit to the funds they have to spend.

[–] MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Selling a large commercial asset is NOT what anyone wants to do right now. He would be selling at a loss and it would be a huge ego hit.

Additionally selling a large real estate property is exceptionally difficult to do in a short amount of time.

[–] MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml 42 points 7 months ago (5 children)

In New York State you have to front 110% of the money before you can appeal. So he would have to front $390M just to file the appeal.

His whole 2016 campaign raised $330M for context.

He's also on record under oath saying he has $400M cash on hand meaning if he doesn't actually have the cash on hand he perjured himself as well.

[–] MammyWhammy@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

That's where I am these days.

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