Seems like Pie Face is like sex work — a thriving aspect of the economy that apparently nobody has ever interacted with.

Oooof. Are they at least consistent in that McDonalds way? Like, it’s not great but you know what you’re going to get at every outlet?

Yes! We’ve seen those on the road too!

Heatherbrae’s are ok. Not at elite level but they can’t all be Country Cob.

help

I had two pies from the Sev today. Are they worse than the Sev?

I have never eaten a pie from Pie Face.
I should do it for the vyewz.

I had a Mac and Cheese pie at Pie Thief (I think) and it was a revelation.

I’m not up with my 4+20 news but I’m amazed everything is made in Bairnsdale. I’m not too proud to eat 4+20. Keeps you honest.

Does Patties own 4+20 now?

Yellowcake maybe?

I got MONEY
I got TROOPS
I’m doin all this with one screw LOOSE

This is the first Res Rooter logo I have seen south of the Tofu Curtain. I was sure we had a DMZ.

I finally understand apostasy.

And I'm hated, confrontated for the juice that I have
All the Iranians are makin' a fuss
But I can't pay attention cause that nuclear dust

A four n twenty/ red rooster crossover pie with chicken and gravy.

We have strayed so far from G-d’s grace that we may never see His light again.

Nuclear Dust Sites is my fourth-favourite Stereolab album.

Let the wealthy use public goods for free, give them a stake in the quality of service provision, and simply tax them more than people on lower or no income.

Signed Brian Surgery, People’s Shambolic Republic of Darebinia.

Once you means test the provision of any social good you have created the instrument of its functional demise — the worthiness line. The worthiness line will be adjusted to the point that the service is used by so few as to be seen by the majority of society as anything but red on the ledger.

(Beck Where It's At sample)

🎶 That was a discourse break 🎶

Another way to frame this is that "only the neediest should get this thing" is functionally indistinguishable from "only the wealthy *will* get this thing".

The dim-bulbs would means-test reticulated potable water if they were one day visited in the night by the Consistency Of Thought Fairy.

Any chance that her word salad is a bastardisation of the neologism “mock” (from mock-up)? It would fit. It would be stupid (because design is the rendering of intent) but it would make CEO-sense.

When it’s cold enough to see yr farts.

Private health insurance has allowed people like me the privilege of not being bothered about the state of, say, health care in the public system because I know I can leapfrog it and be seen toot fkn sweet whenever I stub my toe.

But I digress. Universality is good in and of itself.

A key factor in universality is to make expensive social goods available to people who might be able to otherwise afford to self fund. We saw (for a while) during COVID how opinions changed on the rate of income support when people outside the normal catchment pool suddenly needed it.

Imagine being the FBI Director and suing people instead of getting your lackeys to compile secret dossiers on your opponents’ sexual and other moral proclivities and then extorting them into toadydom. FFS America used to be a real country.

All of this stuff reminds me of the order of magnitude change in the cost of rail projects after networks were privatised. Government became so hollowed out that they no longer had the institutional knowledge to even know what a kilometer of railway used to cost.

Haha I was just about to hop into this conversation with exactly this point but thought better of it.

The current Four N Twenty logo. Just black type on a yellow flash. Weak.

Imaging going from that to this? Cuck shit.