Blind boxes! That’s the name I was looking for. Exactly what I’m talking about. Last time I was in a Target there was an entire aisle full of those. I recently saw an Eevee blind box where you could get a figurine of any of the evolutions but you didn’t know which one until you opened it. $20 each I hate all this gambling.
On top of this I always think about how kids are being primed for gambling when I see the kids toy aisle full of a hundred different gacha toy series. Yes, trading cards have been around forever but this is a whole other level.
20% is certainly not the norm. 20% is amazing service 12 to 15% has always been customary norm in my experience. It seems these restaurants plan to only suggest tips of 18% or higher At checkout have worked on you. Offloading more of the cost onto you.
From my limited understanding this info will eventually become public as you imply but Anthropic must feel keeping this info private for now is in their benefit.
I fully suspect it would hurt their image and IPO and that’s why they are hiding it for now. To get as large of IPO as possible.
Details of the IPO are being kept confidential.
Confidentially. I read confidently at first too.
So up until recently I thought the same. I thought “Zero Sugar” used sucralose (Splenda) and diet used aspartame. Compared them at the store and Discovered that both Mountain Dew zero sugar and diet mountain dew are sweetened with the same fake sweetener, aspartame. The two drinks taste different to me. Maybe other brands do use different sweeteners but not Pepsi it seems.
I have had this same thought and I feel like I’ve come to a realization. If companies can cater to the desires of the top 10% or so, they can make more money. Why sell 200 $5 objects when I can cater to the affluent and sell 6 $250 objects.
I see this constantly with Automobiles and construction. Auto manufacturers do not make the cheap baseline cars for the most part Because they’ve realized they can make more money manufacturing the fancier vehicles /trim levels with higher margins.
Same thing with new buildings; affordable housing is not what is being built. You only see fancier, expensive construction, with higher margins, being constructed.
Agreed. This is giving me uncanny valley vibes. If not fake it definitely looks taxidermied.
This isn’t for the pedo stuff. This is for him allegedly leaking state secrets.
Each state has their own rules and laws. I think the bigger problem is that the majority of states are run by republican legislatures so even if democrat run states went tit for tat with each map change the repugnants would have an advantage.
The ratchet effect at work.
This is my exact take too. Opening the floodgates for ultra gerrymandered maps.
I think this is the incident you are talking about:
In December 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice released an FBI tip in which a complainant alleged President Donald Trump witnessed her uncle kill her newborn child and dispose of the body in Lake Michigan when she was 13 and being trafficked for sex by Jeffrey Epstein.
This is the way. Lol
You will want to make sure the slope remains after compacting.