There is quite the silver lining there. Sure, fast food is now expensive, but considering that it was never a good food option, maybe it will force people to make better choices, instead of the most convenient?
On a different note, I never understood this “App overload”. Wow.
More actual good news! 
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As a vegan and proponent of Animal Rights, this is just one more thing that makes me want to cry 
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New meta:
Well, that was confusing…
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Sounds like they’re assuming her gender… isn’t that the old meta?
Guess the saying is true: “Everything old is new again.”
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Nekminnit: UK reports record unexplained power outages.
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Realistically probably just sell it to the highest bidder as they liquidate or something.
That’s probably the cynical take on it. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was Google Meta or OpenAI
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This article specifically references the one that I am replying to
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FBI will buy it. They can’t risk someone else buying that won’t cooperate with them as smoothly as 23 did.
The absolute shit our country is going through, and idiots buying $15 cookies is what we get upset about 
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Compulsive consumers like these people is a very serious problem, since they reward all the nonsense the companies come up with (e.g. “buying the latest iPhone”, even though their previous one is perfectly fine or paying for subscription services like Adobe’s, that replaced actually owning your product etc) and the rest of us have to suffer through all that marketing and the higher prices for fewer services.
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Here is a riveting and heartbreaking video of the hurricane Helene destruction in one small area of one state, Chimney Rock, North Carolina. Perhaps it affects me worse because I have driven that road back in the day.
There are many other aftermath videos out there. I especially like this one because it shows the characteristically narrow river valleys where so much of the worst destruction took place. Tennessee, North Carolina, and West Virginia have many such valleys.
Also, this guy is doing a good service: he is respectful, he debunks a conspiracy theory, he warns against outsiders taking the emergency water set out at the sides of roads for the locals, and he highlights the waterfall and cliffs featured in the movie, The Last of the Mohicans (1992). Bravo to our citizen journalists!
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