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This is my reason for joining "Fuck Cars"

I remember reading a study done in the late 1990s (I'm pretty sure it was ford) that looked at who was most likely to buy a pickup truck so they could market them better, and they found the people who buy pickup trucks fall into 2 categories, one, a blue collar boss buying it for his employees, or two, an insecure man in his 30s-50s trying to compensate

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"but- But- inflation go brrrr 🥺👉👈"

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This companies are able to generate billions in profit every quarter, let alone every year. They have also been reporting record breaking profits quarter after quarter for the past several years. I'm pretty sure the 17 y/o Burger flippers aren't the problem here.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/gross-profit

  • McDonald's gross profit for the quarter ending March 31, 2024 was $3.439B, a 3.77% increase year-over-year.
  • McDonald's gross profit for the twelve months ending March 31, 2024 was $14.688B, a 9.03% increase year-over-year.
  • McDonald's annual gross profit for 2023 was $14.563B, a 10.26% increase from 2022.
  • McDonald's annual gross profit for 2022 was $13.207B, a 4.98% increase from 2021.
  • McDonald's annual gross profit for 2021 was $12.58B, a 29% increase from 2020.

[1]Average franchise profitability at Burger King rose nearly +50% last year (2023) compared to 2022

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SBUX/starbucks/gross-profit

  • Starbucks gross profit for the quarter ending March 31, 2024 was $5.914B, a 0.06% decline year-over-year.
  • Starbucks gross profit for the twelve months ending March 31, 2024 was $25.104B, a 8.86% increase year-over-year.
  • Starbucks annual gross profit for 2023 was $24.567B, a 12.01% increase from 2022.
  • Starbucks annual gross profit for 2022 was $21.933B, a 7.93% increase from 2021.
  • Starbucks annual gross profit for 2021 was $20.322B, a 28.43% increase from 2020.

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American Oligarchy

US Gov: ALL Monopolies are bad no exception!! And harm the people!!!!!!! We will fight to disrupt them!!!!!!!!!!!!🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥💪💪💪🦅🦅🦅🎸🎸🎸🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

Monopoly: We pinky pwomis to be good company pweas daddy sammy🥺👉👈... also here's 2.6 billion dollars

US Gov: 👨‍🦯👨‍🦯👨‍🦯

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Ant smell

This makes me wonder all the weird shit we can't detect just because of our genes. Like I read about this one women who could smell dementia. And to think birds can see UV light and its theorized they can see the fucking earth's magnetic field which is how they can tell which why is north and south.

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yay, no dunning kruger for me! hold up, oh no

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We know this, the issue is until a more comprehensive test comes around, the IQ test is the best we have, also measuring general pattern recognition can be pretty useful as a "quick and sweet" measure since pattern recognition is the base for all other forms of intelligence

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Every day.

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The overwhelming majority of people just live where they were born and accept whatever good or bad things come along.

This!! I've been trying to tell people this for so long but no one every listens. Most people especially Americans are the boiling frog. They choose to live in blissful ignorance because it's easier than actually fixing the problem, and now the rest of us who can actually acknowledge what's going on have to suffer