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the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi
@the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi

There's something really uncanny about sitting in a front row (like, first 5 or so) of an airplane while most of the windows are closed. Not that airplanes provide much sense of place while traveling in general, but without even a little information from a window you may as well feel like you've just stopped into the world's jankiest teleporter. I'd have just as easily believed at any point we'd found ourselves vanished into another reality at any moment


the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi
@the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi

I may have arrived in LA, but I'm staying in downtown LA, so I'm still in a place bound by human scale and physicality. It's actually, dare I say it, nice being here?? Every other time I've been in the area it's been in more suburban areas and those truly are the closest we get to non-Euclidean city design



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apocryphalmess
@apocryphalmess

there's a lot that these articles about Red Lobster skip over because the truth is embarrassing: it's all private equity shenanigans again

  • to start with, there was the usual bullshit with private equity buying the company with its own assets, saddling it with immense debt right off the bat
  • Red Lobster's new owners forced the company to sell the buildings to a separate holding company (also owned by the private equity firm, naturally) and pay them rent instead, leeching even more profitability from the chain. that's what the "above-market rates for rent" line actually means; before the purchase, most Red Lobster locations owned their buildings
  • Red Lobster was also forced by the new owners to buy all its shrimp from a specific provider (also owned by the private equity firm, naturally), who made an enormous amount of money from the endless shrimp promotion, and the new owners insisted on keeping the promotion going even when it was draining the company dry

nearly every bankruptcy of a long-running company you see in the news these days is actually the result of private equity buying it up and sucking all the blood out of it. and you rarely get a real explanation in the regular news for reasons I shouldn't have to explain


the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi
@the-doomed-posts-of-muteKi

This is almost exactly what happened to quiznos