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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It's hard for me to explain to people the unique tier that Olive Garden (and separately Pizza Hut) existed in.

There were many nicer Italian places than Olive Garden. It wasn't pretentious at all, but it was nice and ubiquitous. Maybe a little better than PF Changs today? (Not that I'm very familiar with PF Changs). No one would laugh at you for taking a date there.

Pizza Hut was more casual by far, largely because you'd have kids playing arcade games and whatnot. Pizza Hut was more family oriented, but still more classy than most things we have today.

Maybe Texas Roadhouse is closer to accurate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

You can't just give them the idea that gas will cost $2 more. It won't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Same for Olive Garden. Enshittification and placating shareholders came for them both.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Representative democracy is better. My reps should have more time to research every topic than I do. Their job is to be more informed.

My job is to spot check on the stuff I understand.

Their votes should be worth more than mine. And we should have a system where sometimes representatives vote against their constituents wishes because the rep has more information available to them, or is just more educated than their constituents on the topic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

No shit it's exhausting. I agree with you, but you keep calling anyone who disagrees with you dumb.

They clearly understand and disagree. The part where you said land votes is an oversimplification was the last good comment in your chain.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

It's lemmy.ml. They're always like this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

You can get a RaspPi instead, and after a year or two you'll have saved enough electricity to have paid for itself.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

But most importantly, they need to stop taking away guns. We need good guys with guns to stop bad guys with guns. If you make the guns illegal at his rallies, then, by definition, only criminals at his rallies have guns.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

It certainly isn't when you're spending more than that just to get exclusives.

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