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I used to work at a restaurant that served these really good fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. They were made pretty regularly, so you'd never get a cookie that was more than an hour or two old. Despite this someone would inevitably ask for some fresh out of the oven. The problem with this was twofold:

1. They took nearly 15 minutes to bake, way longer than anyone was willing to wait.

2. If you know anything about baking soft chewy cookies, when they come out of the oven they are basically just molten goo, we had to wait 10 minutes before we were even allowed to take them off the pan.

So, we'd always tell people these things, and at least a couple times a week, someone would demand we do it anyway, and call the manager when we handed them a hot bag of cookie goo 15 minutes later. The restaurant eventually got rid of those cookies for something that was pre-made that tasted like Dollar Store cookies.

I thought about this a lot during the height of the Covid Pandemic, and every time a politician disagrees with a scientist about climate change. Anyway, welcome to Dollar Store Planet.

NJ Democratic elites. Thanks so much for making sure that Tom Kean represents NJ-D7 because he is a part of creating this horror show.https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/19/world-watches-us-debt-ceiling-worries-default/
World watches in disbelief and horror as U.S. nears possible default

Most nations don’t have a fixed debt ceiling. But Washington’s fight over raising the cap carries global implications.

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