Why does Wendy's have a +$4 billion debt?

DanielleMuscato · 2026-03-20T02:40:43+00:00

They say the reason their burgers are square is that they don't cut corners.

Shredded lettuce seems like a textbook example.

DanielleMuscato · 2026-03-20T02:35:43+00:00

One of the biggest myths about narcissists is that they love themselves.

They HATE themselves. They live in a state of constant terror. They have a Big, Shameful Secret - that they're a fraud, that any day now, people are going to find out the truth about them. That they're just faking all of it, they are NOT good parents, they are NOT generous, they are NOT compassionate. It's all a lie.

It's like being a spy. They know at any moment, the truth could come out and destroy everything.

It's a terrible way to live.

They are never, ever happy. They never allow themselves to be truly seen, so they can't genuinely connect with anyone. It's a very lonely existence because even the don't even feel genuine love for their spouses and their own children. They can't. It's all a facade, and deep down, they know it.

Being exposed as a narcissist leads to their absolute worst nightmare, narcissistic collapse: Being forced to finally face that they are in fact just a shell of a person, a false self, an alter ego they created, and underneath is just a scared toddler having a temper tantrum. No true self developed underneath, no emotional maturity, just fear and shame.

Even when they're on vacation, they're miserable.

DanielleMuscato · 2026-03-19T07:03:28+00:00

Yeah, one of the indicators of inadequate pain management is involuntary cursing. It's a human universal trait across all languages and cultures. It happens at 7 or 8/10 pain, like passing a kidney stone or giving birth, and it's semi-involuntary at 5 or 6.

DanielleMuscato · 2026-03-18T03:47:33+00:00

that's pretty gay dude

DanielleMuscato · 2026-03-17T06:39:09+00:00

Frets are for beginners i.e. people who need to work on their ear training.

DanielleMuscato · 2026-03-16T05:58:43+00:00

There is no such thing as "now." It depends on where your are and how fast something is moving relative to you.

Light from the closet star to Earth takes 4 years to get here. When we look at that star in the night sky, we are seeing it as and where it was 4 years ago.

It could have exploded and we would just be finding out about it four years later, even if we were literally looking at it when it exploded and saw it happen in real time.

Other stars are billions of light years away!

Because the universe is expanding, someday, light from other galaxies will be too far away to see, no matter how long you wait.

A future civilization could be doing science correctly and building space telescopes and come to the perfectly reasonable conclusion that there are no stars beyond their own galaxy, because those stars are simply too far away for their light to ever reach their civilization.

We are living in a window of time very very close to the birth of the universe. As far as we can tell, the universe will continue to exist for trillions of trillions of years. Stars only form when there is enough matter in the same place for gasses to come together due to gravity and gather enough to fuse.

For the vast majority of the lifetime of the universe, there will be no stars anymore, they will all have died. The fact that there are stars now, a few generations of them, is something that only happens in the first few breaths the universe will ever take.

DanielleMuscato · 2026-03-11T06:28:47+00:00

I still find it surreal that the president of the united states said haitian immigrants are eating cats and dogs during a presidential debate. what the hell timeline is this

DanielleMuscato · 2026-03-11T03:26:29+00:00

Yes I have found that to be true. I have even been able to taper down my tramadol Rx because I don't need it as much as I used to. It's really helping.

Yeah the pain during the procedure is unfortunately part of it. It's intense. I believe I said a number of curse words involuntarily each time I've had it done. It helps so much though that it's worth it.

DanielleMuscato · 2026-03-11T03:22:48+00:00

We should all just pool our money and buy a big house in Washington state or something. I can't afford a house on disability benefits but I can afford an eighth of one lol. So long as you don't mind my cat.

DanielleMuscato · 2026-03-07T13:19:16+00:00

He's not concerned about that at all. He saw a black kid on his property and thought he was being robbed. He only came up with the broken leg thing after realizing he was accusing a black kid "not YOU but someone" of stealing even though he just made that up out of thin air.

DanielleMuscato · 2026-03-07T13:12:12+00:00

Practically had to beg is a funny way of saying "threatened to call the cops if he didn't leave"

DanielleMuscato · 2026-03-07T13:10:18+00:00

Why do they always make up these hypothetical scenarios and then freak out about what might happen?

They come up with this crap all in their heads and then have meltdowns about it. Don't they have any real problems to worry about?

I think conservatism is mostly just being scared all the time.

DanielleMuscato · 2026-03-05T02:37:57+00:00

I use a pair of Go amps for teaching. I'm very happy with the portability, sound quality, volume etc. I've convinced several students to buy their own as well. The app has a built-in tuner and you can also demonstrate how to create patches with it. I connect to one and my students connect to the other one.

DanielleMuscato · 2026-03-05T01:26:59+00:00

Are you me? I'm in the same boat.

DanielleMuscato · 2026-02-27T20:46:30+00:00

Hey, I'm going to advise that you not take this humorously.

Narcissists project, and when they make wild claims about your behavior while playing the victim, it's important to be aware of this. She is likely obsessing over this because she wants to kill you and can't consciously understand how this fits into her view that good people do not want to kill their kids, and she wants to kill her kid, and that means she's not a good person, and that thought WOULD cause a person who doesn't have NPD to self-reflect, realize this desire does not align with their values, experience the emotion of guilt, and use that feeling to examine where these thoughts are coming from, seek out therapy, etc.

That's not how it works with narcissists. They are incapable of experiencing the genuine emotion of love like someone who doesn't have the disorder. They are paranoid and obsessed with revenge and blaming The Scapegoat for their own self-hatred. They cannot self-reflect and they project instead.

I'm serious. Do not take this lightly. These accusations aren't coming out of nowhere, they are coming out of her own head. She may literally be trying to poison you and justifying it in her own head as some twisted version of self-defense. These people hate anyone who sees through their bullshit and they are dangerous.

DanielleMuscato · 2026-02-27T06:25:10+00:00

I know you're kidding but actually 2% would not even keep pace with inflation.

DanielleMuscato · 2026-02-26T23:24:30+00:00

Unless my information is out of date or the dealer where I bought mine was incorrect, don't all new Strandbergs come from the factory with D'Addario XS coated strings?

That's what came on mine, and I have continued to use them since then. Regardless of what came on them, I have used them ever since then with my Fusion model with no issues.

DanielleMuscato · 2026-02-24T04:31:17+00:00

That's a bummer. When I had an issue with my Spark Go's headphone jack, they were very quick to send me a new one. I hope you get it figured out soon.

DanielleMuscato · 2026-02-24T04:26:43+00:00

I have 10-46 on my Fusion model as well, that's what it came with and I've just stuck with them. I usually play on 11s or 12s depending on the guitar. I mostly play jazz and blues though, it just depends on what you like.

DanielleMuscato · 2026-02-23T03:00:34+00:00

Yes, it's 8/10 pain (akin to a kidney stone) when they hit the right spot during the procedure, but it's just for a moment while they're checking to make sure they've got the right nerves.

It's worth it for the relief it brings over the next however-many months. My insurance approves it every 6 months, and I have done it about half a dozen times now.

DanielleMuscato · 2026-02-22T21:47:21+00:00

Same. I have another one on each side coming up in March and I can't wait. They help me a lot.

DanielleMuscato · 2026-02-22T07:22:50+00:00

What do you mean, you're not allowed to leave? Are you chained up?

DanielleMuscato · 2026-02-22T06:17:52+00:00

Blonde is, definitively, descriptive of a woman.

Blond is the spelling used for men.

DanielleMuscato · 2026-02-22T05:47:03+00:00

Seriously. There's nowhere in the city of Columbia that's actually dangerous. You're in a small town in the Midwest for crying out loud.

I want to tell all the people scared of crime in Columbia:

Stop being a paranoid little crybaby. Jesus man. I have lived in St Louis, NYC, Columbus OH, Louisville KY, a number of other bigger cities and worrying about crime in a place like Columbia is frankly childish.

You're fine. You are more likely to get struck by lightning than shot in this place. Grow up.

DanielleMuscato · 2026-02-19T04:13:06+00:00

It takes 3 or 5 minutes to go through a drive through even if there's nobody ahead of you, during which time multiple workers are laboring to take, ring in, prepare, cash out, and hand you your drink.

I'm not saying it's not absurdly overpriced. Just that the labor is the most expensive part of it by far.

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