That is precisely one of my main lines of reasoning; I’ve thought about this for a long, long time, and I’m switching to Apple iPhone. I’m keeping a Oukitel Titan for Android stuff ((Grayjay)). But I’m getting the 17 Extra Pro Max Plus Plus or whatever for a main.

So you approach the Cracker Barrel, and it’s got a bunch of rocking chairs out front you can rock on. You go inside, and immediately it’s like a ye olde General Store type vibe. An assortment of various goods, enough of them have an old-timey Americana feel. Postcards, candies, snacks, sodas, clothing, toys, kitchen/household items. You’d check in with the hostess & browse the goods as you wait to be seated.

Link to lawsuit

That is pretty fucked up, never heard about it. It’s the usual suspects, “Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia”. Probably not an unspoken nationwide Cracker Barrel policy, more of a Southern thing, but it’s likely corporate knew it was going on & tolerated it.

The dead logos & old Southern country styling…WAS…their thing. It was their whole thing, now it’s gone, and they have nothing. Idk personally I don’t see it going well for them. Time will tell.

Two things can be true at once. Who knows?

IIRC BlackRock owns 16% shares of Cracker Barrel, and “stripping the copper” seems to be their go-to strategy. 😬

Cracker Barrel, a kinda-sorta popular “Old Country Store” that prided itself on staying the same over the years…has undergone massive, sweeping changes in aesthetics. The man & barrel are from the sign, now gone. The dark wood walls covered in Americana are going away. I hear some of the food is going to change as well.

It’s weird because I’m seeing everybody slamming Cracker Barrel’s food, and I have never had a bad meal at Cracker Barrel. I’m not going out of my way to eat it, but every time I’ve gone it’s been nice.

I have enjoyed Cracker Barrel in the past, but I’m far from a frequent customer. However: anyone with half a brain can tell you the very last thing Cracker Barrel regulars want is change. Unless this change is accompanied by providing…something…with value equal or greater than what they’re taking away, we are witnessing intentional brand destruction and/or brand suicide.

*Millennial. Tyvm.

That’s why I’m on Lemmy with the rest of you 😜

Color me not impressed. It’s just a bunch of surface level opinions I could rip off an hour of scrolling Lemmy comments, delivered in whiny kid voice. Clearly, anyone can spout off opinions.

The real magic happens when you have opinions, backed up with research, facts, & sources, you hear the other side, and you can defend your opinions logically & well.

Whatever this is…it isn’t that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

“Little boy goes viral for regurgitating his parents’ political views in front of a camera. More at 11.”

Your title is misleading & false. The article is technically correct, but clunky.

Consider the title, Steam’s Content Removal Could Be A Wider Consequence Of Project 2025. The article misspells Russell’s name frequently. “Part of Vought and Project 2025’s plans are to remove Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA)”. So the Steam content removal…is a consequence. Who is dishing out the consequences?

Louis Rossmann will tell you, it’s Collective Shout. Collective Shout has no relation to Russell Vought…or even America. It’s a ragtag group of 1067 Australian fuckheads that complained to Mastercard, Visa who then put pressure on Steam. And yes. This was enabled thanks to Russell Vought & removal of Section 230 of the CDA.

Russell Vought isn’t a good guy by any means, but this specifically was done by Collective Shout’s 1067 Aussies bitching to American credit card companies & American businesses, threatening them & trying to dictate what they can sell to Americans. It’s…truly infuriating. I don’t go to their mom’s place of work & smack the dick out of her mouth, I don’t write them emails & tell them how to run Australia. So kindly return the favor, don’t fuck with the US. Like what the hell.

The American flag is very politically charged atm. Honestly. By & large the left hates the American flag, see below “I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing a B&W American flag”. They hate the flag displayed, and they hate the people who wear it.

This isn’t a new or fringe sentiment; see it in this 4 year old YT video.

The left has surrendered their claim to the American flag. A couple years ago there were some TikTok videos saying “if there was an American flag at their house they some racist ass white motherfuckers”.

Here’s a woman appearing to bemoan that fact, saying that we’re all Americans & all should fly the flag.

I was caught off guard when I initially saw it, but a Google search showed it for what it was.

If you feel compelled to hide the fact that you made something because you feel other people will look on in judgment, not buy your product…would this not compel the normal person to look inward & ask, “Are we the baddies?” 🤔

This has been going on basically forever. It’s false pandering. It’s technically true, a bunch of weak-wristed men sat in an office in Portland, Oregon and they “designed” this product. Then once they were done “designing” it, they sent the schematics off to China for production & ripping off of IP.

That’s the best case scenario. If it’s as Chinese-y as you say, maybe they modified one feature of a Chinese radio, slapped a couple Bible verses on the box…voilà, it was “designed in USA”. 😆

It is out of place, but it’s designed to pique human curiosity & get people to unwittingly Google Bible verses. Effortlessly spreading the gospel as they’re told to, fulfilling the Great Commission.

*Neutered

They wish Trump was successfully murdered.

Ooooooh yeeeeeeah

Don’t drink Nestlé water, easiest decision in the world & alternatives abound. Their stances on water suck & they’re constantly abusing people’s water supplies for pennies on the dollar.

If it didn’t sell, they wouldn’t continue the practice. Never buy, or even drink, Nestlé water.

I mean I’ve just had a different experience than you, all of you. I have never had a Sony Xperia, but I’ve only heard good things.

I have been concerned about going off of main line Samsung. I did it once for the OnePlus One, which was solidly alright at the time, but then I went right back to mainline. S8 Active, SGS 20 5G FE, then that was failing & I went to Motorola but that was buggy as shit & I went back to my 20 FE until I got the Oukitel Titan.

Generally speaking, I don’t like buying a more niche product with limited support. And maybe the apps don’t work well. All of the mid, cheaper phones have bad batteries that don’t last very long, in no small part because I watch lots of videos & things that eat the battery.

The Oukitel Titan is impressive, a little obnoxiously big & slightly buggy, but not having to plug it in every blessed night makes up for any gripes I’ve got. It will make for a great Android to do Android stuff when I buy the iPhone 17.

I admittedly have no personal experience with Pixel; I have observed that people who get Pixels either love them or they’re total shit & they hate them. No inbetweens, love or hate. My BIL got a shit one, but I see lots of happy Pixel owners.

I currently have an Oukitel Titan. It’s a little quirky sometimes but it’s also a beast of a phone, which makes up for any mishaps.