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Graphs like these have been going on for years.

It is possible that the CEO came in and cleaned out the bloat of workers that just come in and hang out basically (common in the tech field and has been done to Twitter (X)). -That would make the salary increase correlate to savings. Showing a correlation between development and available funds would be pertinent. Just off the top of my head, I remember significant improvements since first seeing graphs like this.

Also take into account the competition was dismal until Chrome came along. Much like the game console market when Sony entered it, the browser market was hurting with a hole to fill for a strong leader.

Mozillas politics don’t help. Choosing a side can alienate about half your user base. Flip-flopping sides and you’re killing off your whole user base. Declaring dishonestly that ‘we can’t do this without your donations’ while making bank from Google (long time ago) doesn’t help either. Politics would need to come into play here and how much those are on the CEO.

They mostly appeal to Linux users (people more likely to switch out things), and almost every Linux YouTuber promotes Brave (which is shady af). Brave also has or had an undeniable corporate presence in the browsers sub on Reddit with weekly Brave vs *** for a particular category Brave would win at by low karma accounts. Firefox lacked that marketing, not for being a bad browser. Prior to, they had the FOSS fanbase influencing for them.

Statistics and graphs are tools of propagandists. There might be something there, but there’s often a bigger picture to be seen. Firefox isn’t a bad browser, and I’m hoping they can turn it around to gain marketshare again. (and drop all politics).

I’m buying off brand corn chips and adding my own flavors. -Supply and demand.

Silicon Dioxide? -I’ve only seen that in the knock-offs like at Aldi. Here’s why I avoid it (and notice it): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8289701/

-Some alcoholics can get leaky gut from drinking excessively and apparently let it through the stomach lining.

This is why I don’t believe in butt-chugging.

Conspiracy theorists use a scapegoat or analogue. Example: https://odysee.com/@QuantumRhino:9/The-Secret-Rulers-of-the-World---David-Icke-The-Lizards-and-The-Jews:7

PSPC w/ TRC lol

Doritos are using Stevia now, which is why they don’t taste as good. I can’t explain the price hike.

I’m sorry you don’t have a sense of humor?

Some people just need to not be told what it is and have it pepared to resemble something they’re familiar with. My family wouldn’t try calamari, but when I took them to a place that had it looking like noodles on a buffet, they tried it and liked it.

edit: Also, lots of people actually like anchovies and eat them on Caesar salad and in sauces without realizing.

Bench / pastry scraper next to the end grain cutting board on counter (that’s how I clean it most often). Microplane and pizza cutter (Italian chef knife) get hung. Funnel covers a teacup protecting it’s rare use from excess dust / atomized oils in the kitchen. Garlic press is a waste of money when you have knife skills. -Citrus juicer likewise (cut 1/3 slabs around the core using the geometry to make squeezing efficient).

As much as I don’t like Facebook, I was thinking to mention it. Yahoo locals chat used to be excellent for me. I’d just mock the other guys in the singles chat, and had a profile pic available. -Be nice to find something like that again.

Joker is never ‘safely’ behind bars, and that’s a flaw of Batman but what keeps legacy villains around. Legacy villains are as important as the heroes.

Funny meme!

I used to believe all that kind of stuff. Our diets are so much more diverse and food more available than ever. We have fresh produce in the winter, and our meat is farmed instead of scarce and hunted. We understand things like needing vitamin C daily, either fortifying rice or not killing / stripping the b-vitamins on it. We can get far more nutrients than we need from food which is why people can eat so many empty calories and be fine.

-Was sick for years and in a lot of pain because of silicon dioxide (an additive commonly found in vitamins).

How is it not Taylor Swift? /s

Using humor to spread wisdom. -nice!

Absolutely. Imagine being an all knowing ‘compassionate’ god and having some dumb fucker blabbering away while ignoring most of what you had written down for them.

Jesus demonstrated how to pray, but they ignore it. “not my will father, but thine be done”

They are refusing to accept their god’s judgement and go against his will. It represents a lack of trust and faith.

“Do not go among the gentiles”, “It is not meet to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs”

He doesn’t like his own cult.

Good point. Glad I wasn’t born into the Bible belt.

I’m sure they’re already working this out if it is even a real problem.