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20 Ribeyes for $40 Scam

ClonesFTW
CYdTracked said:
Not only is the quality going to be better than what you get in the store but the price per pound you are going to come out ahead on too if you have freezer space to store a quarter of beef which comes out to around 200lbs on average.
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I've thought about doing this before but when I looked up cost of energy to run a deep freezer + cost of the freezer the savings were pretty minimal over the course of a year opposed to just buying 5-6 lbs of beef when it's on sale once a month. I suppose if you continue to do it year after year and your household consumes a lot of beef it makes more sense.
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Friday Free Thread: Red or Blue Button?

pourcyne
coolerifyoudid said:
I'd like a revised scenario where if more than 50% of people press red, only 70% of the people that selected red survive.

Otherwise, there's not really a reason to pick blue without some kind of potential consequence
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Here's the thing. Everybody dies sometime.

Make it so that the red button pushers live forever with eternal youth and agony-free. Then again, if you've read "All Men are Mortal" by Simone de Beauvoir, you would probably know that's not a good choice, either. Also thinking of Mark Twain's assessment of Paradise...he said if it was anything like church, most people would hate it.

In your scenario, and even with an absolute guarantee, I do believe you would still get people who would push blue, just to watch the world burn. It's a fact that there are people who consistently vote against their own best interests in real-life scenarios.
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20 Ribeyes for $40 Scam

CYdTracked
cedarstrip said:
One of my favorite memories of an older retired couple who were pretty well to do was them telling me the story of visiting a neighborhood bar in florida and finding out a guy was selling meat out his trunk in the parking lot. They bought a bunch. I said "you bought hot meat!". They said no it was in coolers.
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I've had guys with freezers in the back of their pickup pull up in my driveway wanting to sell to me. No thanks, not buying something that is wrapped in butcher paper that I have no idea where it came from or if it's even what you say it is. It really is sketchy AF that there must be enough people willing to buy that way for these clowns to be able to keep selling like that.
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Friday Free Thread: Red or Blue Button?

pourcyne
MeowingCows said:
If you choose red, it's impossible for you to get killed. If everyone chooses red, it's impossible for anyone to get killed. There is no condition presented that kills red pushers.
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Where is the guarantee that this is so?

MeowingCows said:
Of course, the hardest part is convincing people, and all the other random factors around it (how is this button push happening? When? How much time before? When does the kill occur after, if there is one? Who is all allowed to push? etc).
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Also, WHY?

Why will one group be punished for their choice and the other group will not?
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Cytown Update

ForbinsAscynt
CyTuT said:
They should have a food truck space like the one in Austin. Maybe too pedestrian, but tons of good food choices!
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Ames has a food truck park that isn’t used due to its poor location. It’s a real shame too because if it were in a more walkable area like downtown I think it would be a hit. I don’t see a new one popping up any time soon just because of the perception of the current one.
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Friday Free Thread: Red or Blue Button?

dahliaclone
bluestarcyclone said:
I mean, the fact is, you could rephrase this question as simply: press the red button and live, or press the blue button and die unless 50% choose to risk the blue button with you.

No one is making anyone pick the blue button. People who pick blue are playing russian roulette hoping enough will pick blue, when they didn't have to take that risk in the first place.
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PURE GOLD!
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Friday Free Thread: Red or Blue Button?

pourcyne
I do not see how you can claim that red saves everyone.

The problem clearly states that everyone survives IF something else (% of blue button) happens first.

But..IF something else happens, then only red-button pressers survive.

What IF the people who have enough huevos to press no button in a hypothetical premise just take up their nail guns (thanks, @VeloClone) and go after those selfish reddos?

The red button pressers can also get hit by a truck right after voting. That would not bother me. They are selfish pigs to begin with.

Present company excepted, of course.
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NBA: *** 2025-26 NBA Thread ***

AgronAlum
GoHawks said:
I must be in minority I don't think Thunder get an egregious amount of calls. Yes they got a friendly whistle last night but i think most home teams do. I've seen them enough that i don't think it's like that every game. Lakers will most likely get a favorable whistle in game 3. Everything they're ridiculed about (flopping/creating contact )has been rampant for about a decade now. They're just better at basketball and have a ton of quality players. I think because they're a smaller market media actually goes out of their way to bring up refs more often. It was that way with Chiefs too.
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Every single time SGA drives he is either pushing off far enough that he can't sell a flop or is going for the call. They're flopping into charge calls all game by defending on their heels. If anyone get brushed near the face, they're flailing like they just got sniped from the top row. Meanwhile Dort is out there like he's playing linebacker. They're grabbing jerseys and attempting murder on the defensive side with nothing getting called.

It's egregious and it's every, *******, game. It's not that they're getting the whistle every time down the floor, it's that they're searching for the whistle every time down the floor. It's terrible basketball to watch.
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