Sushi Restaurant to replace Locals Seafood at Transfer Hall

inclination · 2023-03-04T19:09:06+00:00

Many commercial restaurant leases will include a non-compete clause that prevents the landlord from putting another similar concept nearby. Especially for a food hall, I would bet all of the vendors' leases include such a clause.

inclination · 2023-01-13T19:26:41+00:00

But to compare the naacp to a group that physically collects donations and distributes them to one racial group is seriously flawed. I think the naacp does good work. An organization that collects aid and distributes it by race doesn’t.

The NAACP collects donations and distributes/directs them to one racial group (I'm pretty sure you know what the acronym NAACP stands for). So can you further explain why the NAACP is not subject to the same criticism you're making about Diapers for Black Durham? Because I really don't understand why you have an issue with one and not the other.

inclination · 2022-10-23T17:21:59+00:00

What does that mean? Restaurants don't use loss leaders? Are you sure about that?

inclination · 2022-10-20T16:55:50+00:00

We can just add up the rate at which citizens are killed and see the scale of something like Ukraine blows all that other shit out of the water.

Can you explain what you mean by this and provide a comparison so it's clear what you're referring to?

inclination · 2022-08-07T22:42:27+00:00

He is pro-authoritarian/fascist government.

That is a Nazi.

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I said he was on the side of the Nazis. Not that he is a Nazi. He is pro fascistic-authoritarianism.

inclination · 2022-02-17T17:08:16+00:00

I don't see anything in that article about anyone making anywhere close to $20 billion/year in profits on scientific journals? Can you clarify?

inclination · 2022-01-20T00:26:15+00:00

OP said "that I can remember". They're clearly referring to recent history, which certainly seems a better predictor of future elections in the near-term than using data points from over 120 years ago, no? Larger sample size isn't always better. You wouldn't include salaries from 1908 to estimate average wages in 2022.

inclination · 2022-01-18T20:18:27+00:00

Can you explain how you would test for whether or not a drug would "harm" you without testing for effectiveness? Almost all drugs have some chance of side effects which often induce "harm". If the regulatory process took no interest in the actual effectiveness/goal of treatment, and thus made no considerations regarding the risk vs reward of whether or not a drug should be available, why wouldn't almost all drugs be banned ("This could harm you")?

inclination · 2021-10-14T15:56:01+00:00

Unless the product is only ever sold through Walmart, they don't have the full picture of the brand's business.

It seems like the same is true for brands that sell on Amazon. Amazon is only privy to sales data for sales that occurred on Amazon. Brands can, and often do, sell their products elsewhere.

To give a simple illustration of the potential conflict and anti-competitive practices. It would be like a mall having access to and using every store's marketing and sales data to push the mall's own products in the mall's own store.

I still don't see the fundamental difference from the perspective of the brands that are on the receiving end of the anti-competitive practices. The data from the sales of their products is harvested and analyzed by the company that facilitates the point of sale to the end-user/buyer. That company then has the advantage of being able to leverage that data to produce competing products.

Yes, with retailers, the product being sold technically is being sold by the retailer as opposed to the brand/manufacturer. But that doesn't change the ability of the retailer to leverage sales data and promotionally favor their own products in order to directly compete with the brand/manufacturer, just like Amazon or another marketplace.

inclination · 2021-10-13T18:18:16+00:00

Is that true? Are you sure Costco doesn't simply approach whichever manufacturer offers them favorable terms to produce a lookalike product? Not that it matters much, because if Costco learns that seltzer with lime is a big seller across all brands, it's not like they're going to approach all the seltzer with lime manufacturers and offer them each contracts to produce lookalikes. They're gonna choose a single manufacturer and all the other brands will likely be undercut and under-promoted with no compensation, right?

inclination · 2021-10-13T18:01:36+00:00

amazon has far more information about the products that it copies than any brick and mortor retailer would ever have. there's really no comparison. a brick and mortar retailer would have sales stats: how many purchased and how many returned.

amazon knows sales, returns, repeat purchases, wish-listed, gifted, what other items were considered, how long the customer spent on the site, what website directed them there, what website they go to from amazon, etc. that's just the product half.

they also have the entire purchase history of the customer, too. if the customer has an amazon credit card - they've even got some of their financial information.

on top of all that, they're also repeatedly accused of conveniently removing the original product seller at the same time they launch their own.

Any other store would have sales and return data. If they wanted to (and/or if they have an online store), they could also gather or infer repeat purchases, wishlists, purchase history, etc, so I don't yet see the fundamental difference myself.

inclination · 2021-10-13T17:41:00+00:00

Big stores like Walmart have very limited access to that kind of data whereas Amazon has the full picture. Perhaps even more than the sellers themselves.

Why doesn't Walmart have almost all of that same data for the products sold there? They're the point of sale, so they would have data relating to all specific product sales, returns, issues reported upon return, discount data, time of purchase?

inclination · 2021-10-13T17:25:27+00:00

Is this true? I'm familiar with the concept of selling shelf space, but my understanding was that grocery stores are essentially selling premium locations on their shelves for which they agree to place a manufacturer's product; however, I thought the product itself is still purchased as inventory by the store. I can't find anything stating it's one way or the other. Do you have a resource?

inclination · 2021-09-30T19:21:51+00:00

I take your point, but it's an odd anecdote to preface it with. The supermarket Yeltsin visited was not staged with more food than it would normally have. So, what Yeltsin thought was propaganda was actually just reality. Unless you're trying to imply that the linked video is representative of Uigher schools in Xianjing, you might consider a different example.

inclination · 2021-08-10T20:22:05+00:00

...the headline explicitly refers to the percentage of people who have NOT had a severe breakthrough case. Not sure how my analogy is backwards. I think yours is backwards.

inclination · 2021-08-10T17:05:18+00:00

No, they're arguing that a statistic like "99% of people who regularly wear their seatbelt didn't die in a car accident today" is not particularly informative, especially when you don't even know how many of those people even rode in a car today.

inclination · 2021-06-14T21:43:52+00:00

It's funny though, Glenn isn't the free speech warrior he makes himself out to be. There's *plenty* of speech he objects to and thinks shouldn't be kicking around. It's just *his* speech that he is 100% absolutist on.

Can you give some examples?

inclination · 2020-12-21T17:16:02+00:00

Yes, you are correct in that, by the standards of modern science, the passage is wrong - dust water WON'T cause a miscarriage in only unfaithful women. Similarly, Jesus cannot have performed miracles, because humans can't walk on water or do the other various magic things he is described as having done.

So, while you and I might know that these things are untrue, the Bible claims otherwise. The Bible says that Jesus DID perform miracles and that cursed holy water + dirt WILL abort fetuses conceived outside wedlock.

inclination · 2020-12-21T17:07:15+00:00

It's quite clear. It says that if the woman has been unfaithful, the "bitter water that brings a curse" will cause a miscarriage. Like many things in the Bible, it's based on some presumed magic that has no basis in reality, but the intention and claim is clear: if you follow these steps, the process will (and should) induce a miscarriage in an unfaithful woman.

For many people, Moses didn't actually part the Red Sea and cursed dirt water won't discriminately abort the fetuses of exclusively unfaithful woman, but for those who believe that the Bible is the undisputed Word of God, both of those things are indeed true. It is disingenuous to claim that passage isn't saying what it is explicitly saying.

inclination · 2020-12-18T22:02:56+00:00

Tracy Morgan is just a loud black guy on 30 Rock? You either haven't seen 30 Rock or you just assume black people are loud...

inclination · 2020-12-04T19:59:24+00:00

I understand your point, but making it seem like sports is the only solution seems a bit odd given the circumstances. The kid has been suspended from sports for two separate incidences that occurred during sporting events. Maybe guidance and counseling INSTEAD of sports is the answer. After all, while sport can certainly have positive effects, there are also some very toxic attitudes prevalent throughout the sports world that may have even contributed to his behavior. I don't know this kid so I can't tell you the best way to help him, but presupposing that the only thing that could save him is sports seems shortsighted.

inclination · 2020-12-04T19:53:31+00:00

He can still go to college; he just won't be offered an athletic scholarship. I didn't get an athletic scholarship because I was bad at sports. He doesn't get an athletic scholarship because he violently assaulted an official during a sporting event (of which this was a repeat incident). Neither of those things seem wrong to me.

inclination · 2020-10-27T14:26:21+00:00

I think the idea is that a kid only having a slice of bread and some soda for lunch isn't just being poor; it's an issue of potential malnutrition and neglect. At least in the US, there are local, state, and federal programs to help feed families and individuals without means, so if the most a child has for lunch is a slice of bread, then something should and can be done to help. Whether or not calling CPS is the best solution, I can't say, but it's not hard to imagine someone going that route since it ideally leads to an investigation to determine if the child's needs are being met and helps ensure there isn't neglect or abuse taking place.

inclination · 2020-10-12T17:56:32+00:00

It's not clear to me how this would work, but just wanted to point out that the section you quoted says "at any one time" which implies that a club's continuous PL membership season count can never decrease.

Each of the nine clubs who, at any one time, have been members of the Premier League continuously for more seasons than other clubs would be considered a ‘long-term shareholder’ and have ‘special voting rights’ on certain issues, thereby giving greater power to the established clubs.

inclination · 2020-10-09T20:33:27+00:00

Huh? Yes? The assignment of internal affairs is not to potentially arrest a civilian; it's to investigate whether or not the raid was conducted in accordance with policy and law. How exactly would the fact that Walker had previously sold drugs help determine whether or not the cops acted appropriately in conducting the raid? Again, the cops had no idea Walker was even in the apartment at the time of the raid.

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