McDonalds has a multinational presence, along with taking regional pricing into account (meaning the prices of food items differ and adjusted based on GDP per capita), like a Big Mac is $6 before tax while the same is $2 in another country.

The menu is different by country (certain menu items are only available in that region, like how Japan has burgers with teriyaki sauce or rice buns) along with the menu being around ¥1500 for a tray while the same is $40 in the US.

I mean, have you tried McDonalds overseas? If so, is it cheaper when you consider regional pricing and what item do you wish was available at US McDonalds but only remains in that country? Is McDonalds in other countries better or worse?

Thought in my head about if you suspect someone of being poly and your interested them, is it worth asking?

This does relate to my previous post and I like the "just flirt" route since its got the best case for it

I have unintentionally become pescatarian recently because I've come to realize that fish have a lot of nutritional value. So far, my meal plan looks like this:

Breakfast

• 3 eggs
• 1 slice of Ezekial bread toasted
• Mixed berry smoothie with banana, peanut powder, collagen peptides, chia, creatine, non-fat greek yogurt, and water

Lunch

• 2 tin cans of sardines, mashed
• Non-fat greek yogurt
• Tzaziki sauce
• Lemon
• Black pepper
• 2 slices of Ezekial bread toast or one ezekial tortilla, depending on my mood

Dinner

• Shrimp kebabs made with olive oil and veggies
• 1 corn roll or asparagus

Some days I'll switch out my dinner for a salmon salad / salmon wrap, or I'll change the shrimp kebabs for a shrimp ceasar wrap with a nice avocado oil based dressing. Being pescatarian is really great because it's easier to make, shelf life lasts very long, and it's generally cheaper than buying meats.

I haven't played anything in the series in probably over a decade and am well aware I'm asking a userbase who prob isn't easily hyped by these things but even outside of that I hear the hype always talked about in third person ("it'll sell so well", "hype is enormous") rather than first person ("I can't wait to get it", "I'm so excited!")

I'm not claiming it's all manufactured hype or predicting a flop here, just wondering if the wait becoming a meme has kicked off an undue expectation so I guess the question is do you know anybody who is or are willing to admit to a genuine excitement?

Thursday-Sunday?
Friday-Monday?
Saturday-Tuesday?

Any kind of gambling.

My recently widowed father (72) is planning a trip across the country to meet a woman who he claims called him by accident and with whom he has since built a romantic (remote) relationship. Here's what he's shared with me:

• He received a "wrong number" call from a woman that led to a number of other conversations online and on the phone that started to take on a romantic tone.
• He believes she is real because he has checked her out online, including validating that she is indeed the CEO of her company, is 40 years old, and is originally from Taiwan. Haven't seen this myself.
• She says she runs this company with her brother in Canada and her father back in Taiwan. The details of the company were not clear to me.
• They have exchanged photos but not video because her webcam is not working.
• He is planning a trip to Los Angeles (from the East Coast of US) in a few months to meet her in person. She said her driver will pick him up at the airport.
• No money has been asked for or sent, according to him.

This is obviously a scam, right? But, without there being an ask for money I can't figure out the angle and haven't been able to convince him to disengage.

It is either going to be an ask for money to help her overseas family or a "can't lose" investment in her company. I'm guessing she'll back out of the travel plans last minute so they never meet OR he's going go there and have his organs harvested.

Does anyone recognize this scam? What should we expect next? Has anyone else successfully talked their elderly loved ones out of one of these?

Forme it was linke at age 6. People don' trandomly fall to the floor anymore!

Either being a cheater, being cheated on or both. I wanna hear about it.

I spent years, but I didn't find any interesting acquaintances, and I came across such people that I thought I was in the Stone Age, I seemed to be dumb by 25 percent at least when I communicated in discord or I was terribly bored, it's difficult to explain, but that's about how I can describe my experience.

Some context does involve me opening up to this person and they telling me it's cute that I open over text, being lonely might make me get attached to them quickly.

The whole thought is if they didn't have same feelings about me; should I be open and say I should pursue a healthy relationship or just not say anything and let it come out through my actions

I'm lucky enough to have disposable income, I could afford to buy one without it hurting. That said, idk just off principle it feels like an insane ask. Especially considering its not doing anything a PC can't do (as far as I know). For those not in the know, the cheapest edition will be about 1,000 USD and the most pricy will be around 1,500. To my knowledge, consoles themselves aren't profitable historically. So, do you think even at this price point Valve is taking a hit? Do you think if this sells well it will drastically increase the cost of other consoles (completely independent of the external factor being hardware shortage due to AI). General steam machine discussion post as well, just dont be a dickhead to anyone.

Not sure if it is a planned maintenance or something else.

On Lemmy.world when i click a link and then hit the back button, the entire page refreshes. That's sucky. Is there a setting in web browsers that can either make a page not refresh, or make that site always open links in a new tab?

Are friends just supposed to be like a TV? You talk to them when it's convenient for you and you can't think of something else to do?

I've just realized all the people I thought were my friends only talk to me on their schedule, when they feel like it. I'm left on read for days, meetings are ignored, text message conversations just end abruptly until they get back from vacation....

Is this it? Is this what friendship is? Because I don't want it. I don't want to feel like I have people to rely on only to find out that I'm just a convenience for people.

There was a comic, I thought it was on a games community, but I can't find it anywhere and I've scrolled back for ages. Pretty sure the context was the OP complaining about souls games, the comic was definitely about that, and i think it was a bird and it bit the game and then in the background the final frame had 'GOD SLAIN'

Maybe the post has been deleted? Or maybe it was in some random not games or comics related community.. but I scrolled back like 4 days and it was definitely posted in that time period, pretty sure yesterday..

So we have these regular announcements like https://lemmy.world/post/48341079

The app stores listed there are only from the big hardware vendors. Not a single mention out of the Open Source world. I guess ut means all these developers were reasonable enough not to play along.

What do you think is going to happen? Is Google really going to cut them all down?

I joined because Reddit has become a cesspool of bots and toxic behaviour. Lemmy is still completely open-sourced, while Reddit isn't at all now. Also, when you first sign up on Reddit currently, you get completely ignored now and can't post or comment on regular subs.

I'm looking to get a different OS on my phone (currently it's default Samsung Android), but I can't find any that officially support my model. Where can I find a list of OS that support my phone?

My phone is a Samsung galaxy a32 5g if that helps

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/questions/p/1210820/why-the-fuck-do-people-post-photos-of-text-instead-of-just-text

I find this very weird.

On one hand you got text, which is very accessible and very efficient and easy to translate for non-native speakers.

On the other, you got photos of text which is inefficient, hard to translate and not easy to read compared to just text.

So what gives? Why do people use photos of text instead of text?

Having rewatched Stargate SG-1 a bazillion gazillion times, I'm looking for something else with which to feed my Claudia Black needs.

Is Farscape any good? Why? Any other recommendations?

If you want a dad moment check out !dadforaminute@lemmy.world It's not a nice day for everyone

Bonus points if you share a humorous or informative moment with them.

For me if I had to pick a good contender it would be the UK version of The Office.

I know many tend to debate how Ricky Gervais really fell off and how he repugnantly acts like a whiny centrist edgelord but me personally IMO I actually don't think he was ever funny not even a little.

His big break through television was just so painful to sit through it's so charismatically boring the characters are completely generic at best (notably Tim) or straight up insufferably unlikable at worst (especially the protagonist David FUCKING Brent) and most importantly the humour is just embarrassing.

Always seemed like The Thick Of It but without the nuisance tongue in cheek and charming satire.