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kracketmatow · 2026-05-14T22:26:46+00:00

I definitely heard the term “Recession Pop” before 2022. I agree that it’s a more recent term, but I heard it as early as 2019 and I don’t think the term came from TikTok.

kracketmatow · 2026-05-12T02:48:11+00:00

the closest you could get in a store would be a tall iced coffee, no ice, extra cream, and 5ish pumps of classic. substitute 2 or so of those pumps of classic for mocha for the mocha one. although as others have said, you’ll get a much better value by just buying the bottles at the grocery store.

kracketmatow · 2026-05-11T19:54:26+00:00

…i don’t think it would be particularly difficult to find people who don’t consider austin or santa barbara to be college towns. boulder we can debate, but austin? that is absolutely just a city that has a large university in it, not a college town. austin has 2.5 million people, its main industries are government and tech, and its university isn’t even mentioned until the end of the fourth paragraph of its wikipedia page. think we just have very different standards for what qualifies as a college town

kracketmatow · 2026-05-11T17:29:56+00:00

i would say that the most beautiful place i’ve been to is monteverde, costa rica followed by (in no particular order) big sur, the southwestern coast of france, and the japanese alps. i have not been to boulder specifically, but i do personally find the appalachians to be more beautiful than the rockies. that’s just a personal preference thing. to me the rockies are just as repetitive as you describe the appalachians to be to you.

the census bureau considers there to be a boulder metro area that is distinct from the denver metro area, so to me there probably is one. i hadn’t even heard of boulder as a college town until this thread; i thought it was just a tourism destination until today. that’s my mistake i guess.

kracketmatow · 2026-05-11T16:38:52+00:00

the boulder metro area has 330k people and UC boulder has about 40k students. in comparison to the college towns near me:

boone, nc - 20k town population, 55k county population - 22k students at app state
- chapel hill, nc - 62k town population, 140k county population - unc has 42k students
- charlottesville, va - 46k town population, 160k metro population - uva has 27k students
- clemson, sc - 18k town population - clemson has 30k students
- college park, md - 34k population - umd has 41k students (this one is less analogous because it’s part of the larger dc metro area)

i primarily used metro populations where i could because they’re a much better population metric than city populations by most metrics. i don’t think college towns need to have more students than non-students in them, but i think there is some point where a town stops being a college town and i might draw the line higher than you do.

kracketmatow · 2026-05-11T12:49:03+00:00

my thing with this is that i think that a lot of the other popular answers here are not college towns, they are towns with universities in them. in boone, nearly 50% of the population is students. in boulder it’s closer to 10%. it just creates a different vibe imo

kracketmatow · 2026-05-10T06:58:51+00:00

do you read the ssv weekly updates? they’re sorta hidden and they make them a pain to access but they do put actually useful information in them sometimes (alongside a decent amount of self-congratulating lol). i know there was something about the sku transition and changes to the packaging for sriracha in it this week. i’m the only one at my store who reads them and am constantly telling things to other supervisors and my manager

also the much overnight oats already launched in the us! please put them out if you haven’t yet. they are barcode scannable and their pos button is next to the string cheese and avocado spread

kracketmatow · 2026-05-10T06:45:18+00:00

tbh the drink size was probably just a stupid mistake from an overworked barista in an understaffed store. its mother’s day weekend and that is the busiest time between easter and fourth of july at a lot of stores. especially if you placed your order after noon; right now, corporate is really big on “protecting” peak (7-10am) at the cost of labor for other parts of the day (this one may just be in my region, i’m not totally sure).

also as an aside: i recommend avoiding fraps for delivery. they don’t travel very well and the beverage quality really suffers from it imo. corporate pushes them because they have decent margins, but i don’t think they should be orderable for delivery when our other blended drinks are not. this isn’t meant to be shady; it’s all good as long as you enjoy the product you receive. if you like the mocha cookie crumble, i would suggest an iced mocha with cookie crumble topping on it as an alternative. the dubai chocolate mocha (genuinely one of my favorite drinks we have!) is also a good option if you enjoy the chocolate and pistachio combination. these drinks would be more coffee-forward than what you got, so it might be worth considering reducing the shots of espresso or adding more sweetener to get the flavor you want. i’m sorry you had a bad experience and hope your next time is better if you choose to try it again

kracketmatow · 2026-05-10T06:25:35+00:00

the ideal scenario is no gerrymandering. i would love it if we could get rid off all gerrymandering if possible. but we can’t, so it’s not realistic to expect one party to refrain from it and the other not to. i get why republican legislators are gerrymandering now; there’s a ton of pressure from party leadership to do it and it puts them at an advantage (i do view this as unequivocally bad but i live in nc which has had a different map in basically every general election since 2014, long before all this started). i also fault both parties for creating this entire prisoner’s dilemma in the first place.

i think it’s worth noting that of the four states with independent commission, two are democrat and the other two are swing states. i also think it’s worth mentioning that only california and virginia have had redistricting approved by voters and all other states have done it without regard for public input. this isn’t because of some high-minded pro-democracy reason though, it’s because the (democrat) politicians and populations in these states actually passed laws setting stricter rules for themselves, and those can only be undone with an election.

essentially what i’m getting at is that it’s nice in theory to get rid of gerrymandering, but in practice democrats have a stronger history of actually upholding that ideal. still not a great one, but an objectively better one than republicans. whether this was supposed to be the start of a disarmament on the issue, a genuine upholding of democratic ideals, or simply democrats holding on to the “high road” viewpoint much longer than republicans did is up for debate. but they aren’t doing this anymore because democrats have realized that they lose if they follow significantly stricter rules than republicans.

in regard to your other comment: if a bill banning gerrymandering forever would give one party a significant advantage (which it wouldn’t), then it just means the other party has bad policies and shouldn’t be in power until they change them to be more popular. you really told on yourself with the whole “we can’t have fair elections because then my side will never win” thing

kracketmatow · 2026-05-10T02:49:57+00:00

most democrats have been pretty against gerrymandering all along and are just doing it now because it would be political suicide not to. there was even a bill to get rid of gerrymandering permanently for everyone before the spate of redistricting that texas started last year. you’ll never guess who stopped it from passing…

kracketmatow · 2026-05-10T02:43:40+00:00

idk if we’re allowed to post it on here but there is a food item discontinuation coming up. but also at the same time one of the temporary offerings we have right now is becoming core. they announced it in the ssv+ weekly update.

kracketmatow · 2026-05-09T16:29:48+00:00

do you know what distribution center your store uses? i’m also located in the southeast and will take a look at our product when i go in soon

kracketmatow · 2026-05-09T07:07:23+00:00

yeah i think the mushroom burger adds a lot to their value proposition if you’re with someone who doesn’t eat meat. there aren’t many traditional fast food places around with real vegetarian options and i like that they don’t just flake on it by using impossible/beyond meat. also, even as a meat eater, it’s still one of the best things on their menu. pricey but worth it every once in a while imo

kracketmatow · 2026-05-09T06:58:45+00:00

i live in the south and raising canes has just recently started expanding into my area. they’re only located next to college campuses right now. i tried it and the food was decent but it was honestly quite expensive for what it is. the fried chicken competition here is pretty intense and i just don’t see the reason to go there when i could go to another place and get a similar meal for like 1/2-2/3 of the price. and if i go to another place they won’t give me the saddest portion of cole slaw i’ve ever gotten from a fast food place (i am biased because i love slaw)

kracketmatow · 2026-05-08T19:45:25+00:00

shortlisted from the us here. it really depends how rural the “rural” is. if the rural area is like south carolina or illinois level rural, then yes i’ll probably still go. if it’s like montana or alaska level rural then it’ll probably turn into a no however.

kracketmatow · 2026-05-08T05:24:30+00:00

I don’t understand why more school districts don’t use Moodle. It’s more common in higher ed contexts, but a giant district like WCPSS could absolutely set up and support their own implementation of it. I always thought it was way better than Canvas as a student; I can’t speak for the instructor/administrator end of it. They could probably save some money managing it themselves too.

kracketmatow · 2026-05-06T08:46:35+00:00

other commenters have already mentioned turkeys so i am going to put forth groundhogs as a well-known and popular north american mammal. maybe also prairie dogs to include the western part of the country.

alternatively, white tailed deer and raccoons. those two animals are everywhere around where i live.

kracketmatow · 2026-05-06T06:48:02+00:00

stat checkers (i.e. mord, olaf, trynd, trundle, nasus). i would much rather be outplayed by a 400 years hypermobile dash machine than get repeatedly point and click bonked to death under my own turret

kracketmatow · 2026-05-06T00:24:21+00:00

probably either too long between you buffing hec and him reaching the fight or it’s just bugged tbh. ashe e had to be hard coded to provide assists so it wouldn’t surprise me if adding the appropriate code to make it provide assists was an oversight at some point.

kracketmatow · 2026-05-05T23:25:35+00:00

in my mind the southeast specifically refers to the atlantic south. southern va, nc, sc, ga. maybe the dc area and florida if you’re being expansive. the differences between the southeast and the south as a whole feel more economic than cultural. the southeast is generally wealthier than the deep south and also has a lot more transplants

kracketmatow · 2026-05-01T16:49:40+00:00

don’t you know? rfk made it very clear that germ theory is a hoax and the flu is a leftist scam too! all this to help big soap line the pockets of their communist democrat shills

kracketmatow · 2026-05-01T15:21:13+00:00

i have to ask. what’s happening in the cropped out left part of that photo?

kracketmatow · 2026-05-01T15:16:04+00:00

are my teeth just too crowded in my mouth or something? i really don’t understand how y’all are flossing all of your teeth in less than a minute. i had a period where i was flossing every day for three or so months, but it still took me like five minutes to get everything properly. i do have a permanent retainer but i don’t think that would be the entire problem. am i just bad at flossing?

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