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Nonprofits in the USA are basically failings in government.

Non profits at their best provide services that any half decent government should provide but do it at a fraction of the efficiency that the government could.

At their worst they are private individuals spending tax payers money (that’s what tax breaks actually are) on personal causes and self enrichment.

That’s why it’s interesting seeing a right wing publication advocating for fewer non profits, I’m all for it. Cut tax breaks for non profits, reduce funding of non profits and fund government to provide the services.

Delivery is what happens if it’s not spam or abuse.

I’m using the terms correctly it’s just that while red lobster is owned by the PE firm, the PE firm is more than red lobster.

I do understand

No I don’t mean the strategy, I mean selling the real estate for 7.5 years of rent. Usually the multiple is closer to 20x

That’s what I’m wondering, or if they got some other compensation that isn’t mentioned.

They sold their real estate for 1.5 billion and then red lobster paid 200 million a year in rent. That’s insane. In 7.5 years they would pay back the purchase price.

That just seems like a massively bad deal for red lobster, I wonder was there another way the private equity firm made out on that deal ?

Hilarious to think that everyone is worried about AI becoming sentient and murdering us all - it's more likely it will just give bad advice to enough humans that we all lazily murder ourselves attempting something stupid like a real life version of idiocracy.

Are you working for Big Sprout? I seem to remember seeing that exact phrase on here in the last couple of months.

"Not your parents sprouts anymore"

For the record I loved them 30 years ago and still love em.

My recipe is very different to the modern fashion, boiled until mushy with a slice of smokey bacon, drain and eat with butter. They literally melt like butter - delicious.

Still took 9 years to get to 7 chargers. So this article is complaining about a 450% increase in rate of charger building.

That’s why it takes time to build the infrastructure, that’s my point.

It’s taken time to build all the other infrastructure, why do we think that a whole new transport infrastructure across all the states should just magically appear in 2 years.

Tesla was founded in 2003.

Obviously they didn’t start building charging stations straight away but this doesn’t really feel like we are all having an honest discussion :/

That said they’ve had a long time to plan those chargers.

Tesla was founded in 2003.

So only 9 years.

In fact, many building projects take years to just purchase the real estate to build on.

Petrol pumps also have insanely high energy requirements and take a long time to permit and build. And for good reason. They just get their energy via tanker.

The fact that something needs energy doesn't mean we shouldn't build it.

You keep talking about diesel generators. So what if these chargers have diesel generators for backup. People in EVs are probably ok with a fall back to diesel generators - they probably all used to drive petrol cars. It's not this smoking gun you think it is.

The point is that we are moving from oil to not-oil and EVs make this a reality even if occasionally they fall back to the way things are done at the moment (i.e. using oil)