Pizza. Getting pizza for the family shouldn’t cost over $70. Hell, eating out and fast food are exorbitantly expensive.
And yet the workers are still making shit wages. It’s absurd.
Welcome to capitalism.
Maybe you should tip more. /s
I hate this comment so much 🥲
Yet people will pay 10 times the cost of the ingredients to have food delivered to them cold and half-eaten.
I’ve paid $70 for the pleasure of driving and picking up myself. Shit’s ridiculous.
Oh god for me it was frozen pizza. I fucking love frozen pizza as an easy dinner night and used to be able to find Dr Oetkers for $4 a pizza. That shit is $13 now.
It kills me cause I still love it but I won’t buy it :(
try costco pizza. 9.99. costco loves you.
Wtf? That’s so fricking much…
Pizza in my corner of the world is still a reasonable price. First, there’s cheap but delicious Little Caesars – that’s a go-to that I’m not at all embarrassed to admit. Then my local pizza shop can get me a XL pie and cheesy bread sticks for less than $20 out the door. My family of three always has leftovers from that for lunch the next day for someone but not everyone.
Any of the bougy “wood fired” blah blah blah boutique pizza grift stills costs a fortune here. But my little local pizza shop is a good NYC style slice, with normal pizza shop ingredients.
First, there’s cheap but delicious Little Caesars
This is how I know you are full of it
Dude, if you were honest with yourself and the world, you’d agree.
It’s not BAD. I don’t mind it for the price. I would never claim that it’s “delicious” either though. I’m from Detroit too. The Little Caesar’s pizza at Little Caesar’s Arena hits different. Albeit it’s $30 more.
I, too, am originally from the Metro Detroit area. My Metro Detroit area chain pizza takes: Hungry Howies used to be better, I think (or I’m suffering rose colored hindsight). Jet’s Pizza is still pretty good. Dominoes was never really good and despite their commercials, they’ve not gotten much better.
Hot take: Buddy’s Pizza is overrated greasy dog shit.
I now live out of state, but I visit my family in SE Michigan every other month or so. I have a preference for Coney’s too.
Best Detroit Style: Cloverleaf with a close second being green lantern.
Best Non-Detroit Style: Supino’s in Eastern Market.
Best Coney: Duly’s, but honestly National Coney Island just feels right.
Beef, almost completely.
Raspberry PIs.
I have a super old model with such old connections it’s not even useful for anything.
I stopped smoking thirty years ago partly because cigarettes were $7 a pack and that’s just ridiculous. Now the same size pack is over $50 (Australia)
I stopped 20 years ago… I smoked ~3 packs per week and the cost was less than 10$ (Canada), when it was more than that, I stopped. It is now 20$ for ONE pack.
Hard drives. I have a movie hobby and that takes a lot of storage and well, storage now is 3-5 times more expensive than not two years ago and I can’t afford it anymore.
But on the flip side, people can now finally nudify my daughter, so that is totally worth it!
Fuck everything about AI.
I am waiting patiently for the AI bubble to pop so that all of a sudden there’s an excess supply of ram, gpu’s, drives, etc.
I just had to buy a replacement surveillance 8tb drive for my store, best price I could find was $380. I have to buy it, no option there. But shiiiit that sucked.
Yeah I started on the path of “never buy storage used” to “f it we’ll do it live with smartctl” because even decade old used server drives are triple in price.
It’s so bad I’m genuinely looking at storage pool solutions like stratis which lets you mix and match drive sizes without reducing the total size.
Honestly as much as possible I have just checked out of consumerism.
This, mostly what I buy are things that save me from needing to buy things. Tools, server hardware, looking for a food dehydrator for my garden, etc. I can’t stand giving any money to a corp that backed fascism so I avoid them at all costs.
Quality tools are such a good investment. They last close to a lifetime, and save many multiples of their pricetag.
McDonalds. It used to at least be cheap. Now it’s both expensive and still tastes bad.
Any streaming service.
It’s not even about the money specifically, if that’s what it actually cost or if it was going to a good place. It’s the greed of constantly trying to find that line on how hard they can squeeze and at what price point people will keep taking it.
Yep. The Golden Age of Streaming was finished years ago. Once we had a whole pie. Maybe cut into a few slices. Now we have a fragmented pie, cut into tiny slices and it looks like Jim tried to fuck it again.
Prime is the worst. 90% of the shit on prime requires an additional subscription.
Streaming used to be cheap and a good deal. I remember when YouTube TV launched it was only $35/month and now it’s nearly $100
About the only streaming services I pay for are dropout and pbs, and neither one has those issues.
Private islands. I started buying them and discovered I couldn’t even afford the first one, so I stopped immediately.
The fuel consumption of the helicopter from Valley Forge is a total bitch.
McDonald’s. It used to be cheap.
Wendy’s too
It’s also cheap used.
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I’ve not stopped but heavily worked to cut fast food out of my daily meal plan. The cost of most burgers out there I can buy buns, ingredients, and meat to cook myself to how I like it. It’ll be juicier, thicker, and tastier as well.
Burgers?
For the cost of a mcValuer meal with a shake I can literally get a thick, Prime ribeye to cook at home, and steaks are crazy expensive right now. They jumped up more in price than anything at the grocery.
I can easily made a dozen patties for that price if I’m making burgers at home. They’ll be twice as thick, and topped with real cheese too.
I prefer thicker, tastier, and juicier myself.
It’s been more than 10 years it feels like since you could just buy a raspberry pi for a little side project.
Now you better have a good use for it, since it’s a good chunk of money.
I feel like raspberry pis have completely lost the plot. Now they’re just expensive mini PCs rather than low powered devices for hobby projects. By the time you get a case, a hat for NVME, and the sensors you want, it’s be cheaper to buy an actual mini-PC with even more power.
From a hobby perspective, the ESPs are where it’s at
DNC excuses.
The main thing I’ve stopped buying is the lies.
I really can’t afford to many of them. I order 1 or 2 as a treat every once in a while.
Name brand potato chips. Doritos over $5 a bag is insane. They were 2 for 5 just a few years ago.
I see them at like 4 bags for about $10.
I think this is their sneaky way of raising prices. They know most people aren’t going to buy 4 bags of Doritos and 5 12-packs of soda to get the lower price on the shelf, and the single unit price is crazy.
Buy 3, get 3 free. On 12 packs of soda. So it’s a “12 pack” but really it’s a 72 pack if you want the price to make sense.
Diabeetus
I’ve seen them go for $7-8 a bag. They’ve lowered prices slightly this year. Completely stopped buying them a few years back.
