I had noticed french fries had become about 3X more expensive than I remembered, but I assumed restaurants decided to raise those prices to deal with inflation and increased minimum wage, while keeping other items low to appeal to more customers. I didn't mind when I thought I was helping out the businesses. Had I known it was going to a cartel, I would have gladly omitted them and picked other items. I don't know why restaurants aren't responding to the increased prices. Burger places could change thier combo meals to onion rings or hushpuppies, with an upcharge for those who want fries. Mexican places could default to quesadillas or jalapeño poppers. I also haven't noticed big price increases in grocery store branded frozen french fries or tater tots, so it seems like there are some exceptions, and restaurants would just need to make deals with different suppliers. I'd bet somewhere selling half-priced french-fries would bring in some extra business.
I've always thought it would be a great idea to open a home maintenance and repair company named "Ghost Busters" or similar. "Chills? Squeaking? Banging? We'll find and repair your ghosts."
The 5gal bucket isn't bad, but I'd go for something collapsible and easy to carry around before/after you use it. I see a 46-Gallon Pop Up Garbage Can on amazon for $19. Collapses down to a circle 22x1.2-inches.
I think it could be a lot more interesting if they provided you with the date of birth before you guess. Or just have people guess age of death rather than the year. I could also use a quick bio... I don't always recognize minor celebrities by name, but name + "Founder of Rolling Stones" might help... It would make it more interesting, anyhow.
Danger UXB - WWII London bomb disposal unit Total Recall 2070 - Like Blade Runner meets L.A. Confidential, rather than its namesake film. Still in the Philip K. Dick universe.
Of course it "substantially improved finger speed". Tell someone to play faster or else your put them back in the hand-torture machine, and they'll be highly motivated... Can we nickname it the Freddy Kruger?
I'd think it would be too easy for a patient to jam small foreign objects into the key mechanism (from the outside) then barricade oneself, slowing down ingress for up to maybe an hour.
"Planting food, for example, turned out to be an excellent improvement over nibbling random berries" I don't think it was, for thousands of years at least... A few years of bad weather/drought, and huge numbers of people died off. Clustering together in cities caused widespread deaths from diseases like cholera, and created ideal conditions for massive plagues that killed off many, many millions of people, too.
"Chills? Squeaking? Banging? We'll find and repair your ghosts."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUXlVHJkJ-M
Total Recall 2070 - Like Blade Runner meets L.A. Confidential, rather than its namesake film. Still in the Philip K. Dick universe.
Oh, so just like every New York phone booth, then?
Can we nickname it the Freddy Kruger?
I don't think it was, for thousands of years at least... A few years of bad weather/drought, and huge numbers of people died off. Clustering together in cities caused widespread deaths from diseases like cholera, and created ideal conditions for massive plagues that killed off many, many millions of people, too.