What exactly is depressing about it? Do you have a better solution for vanguishing evil besides war?

Maybe not all of us. The EU (Europan Union) will probably think it's great.

Concentration risk in lending is the potential for severe financial loss when a lender’s loan portfolio is overexposed to a single borrower, industry, geographic region, or loan product. Because the assets move or fail together due to a lack of diversification, a negative event in that specific segment can trigger widespread defaults. For example, if a large share of the portfolio is tied to a single business sector, such as commercial real estate, technology, or energy, an industry downturn or new regulation can hurt all borrowers in that group at once. (ncua.gov)

True. And basements are a thing. Heck, there's even sub-basements! We can build at least a kilometer of those.

I'll take a stab at it. If a location can bring in more revenue, they can better afford to update the store, upgrade the equipment, and pay more to the staff, which would improve the quality of the staffing since they would have more applicants to pick from and could be more choosy with whom they hire.

Why is this a problem? A guy could be selling watermelons out of the back of his truck for $5, another one a few streets over is selling them for $4, and no one bats an eye. A massive, franchised restaurant does the same thing, and everyone loses their minds.

... Wendy's is better anyway. And they have the best nuggets.

Ha! Exactly what I thought when I read the quote. :D

In a fit of rage, John Carmack was seen launching an armadillo into orbit.

That must be why every time I ask a second question in Grok, it says "Server are overloaded; try again later". Blah. When it works, it's fine, but I get much more reliable [free tier] results from ChatGPT.

And then they did it again in Interstellar! Sheesh, these rocket surgeons never learn.

I was on 1.7.10 for years. I only switched to 1.12.2 because the Manufactio 2 modpack looked like fun. I am disheartened at how much my elaborate factories will cause lag, but if Vulkan can in any way improve that (albeit in a new release), I'm all ears.

That's very interesting. And yet, the elites continue to build and buy palatial homes along the coast.

They can eliminate them, but then they would surely raise the price of coach seats to compensate. No, thank you! I'm perfectly OK with deep-pocketed fliers subsidizing us hoi polloi.

The USA is a big place. Our stuff is pretty spread out. How else would you propose we get from point A to point B?

I didn't know pollution was measured in kilowatt-hours.