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Why you should read 'The Anxious Generation' by Jonathan Haidt.

Learners' Cabin is on Substack, where we have content like this and book reviews. Subscribe/follow is always free.

u/Public_Structure8337 — 6 days ago

Attn: Donald Rumsfeld

This post outlines a policy I would dub: Project Ratatoskr.

[Ratatoskr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratatoskr) is a very important figure for the goings-ons of the universe.

Because of [the ineptitude](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MfMjdKElgqY&pp=ygUjZG9uYWxkIHJ1bXNmZWxkIHNlcHRlbWJlciAxMHRoIDIwMDHSBwkJNQwBhyohjO8%3D&ra=m) of those with the pens, I offer Project Ratatoskr as the salve for a Better America.

Project Ratatoskr (PR) would ensure that citizens, civilians, service members, employees, and even foreign dignitaries could find their path(s) through the myriad mazes of the labyrinthian apparatus of the government and all of its organizations, agencies, forms, and processes.

Who would hold these ministerial positions of wayfinding?

Everyone who has been laid off because of [fly-by-night rogue entities such as DOGE](https://www.npr.org/2026/09/30/nx-s1-5985202/fbi-hack-shinyhunters). Everyone who has been laid off by technology companies. Anyone told “go to college, get a job”. Anyone with any sort of expertise with the processes and chambers of government. Seems like everyone might have a piece of the puzzle.

I think PR would be an hourly exchange of labor and advice, paid for by such rogue entities as mentioned before, and via special tax budgets; to ensure that processes are not akin to AI phone menus that never seem to understand what anyone is saying or who to connect, and so that the processes of government are *actually* made efficient, frictionless, and swift.

Who is in charge of Project Ratatoskr?

I’d say [the Council of Humanity](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheUnivercity/s/wN1igAoC8D). Peter Thiel wants a One World Government, right? There could be other entities, but the largest constituency of [the Planet] are [The People], and perhaps we could employ the United Nations as well.

Why do We require Project Ratatoskr?

Oh, my sweet summer child. I could offer you a myriad reasons why, I don’t think you have the time though.

You know, a [slow boat to China](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d4WSEmHujBo&list=RDd4WSEmHujBo&start\_radio=1&pp=ygUXU2xvdyBib2F0IHRvIGNoaW5hIGphenqgBwE%3D&ra=m) can vary wildly off-course when moved just 1° at outset, given time. And when “Just Give It Time” seems to be a tactic employed by various sectors, the baby often gets tossed out with the bathwater.

That’s just [not good business](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G2UVsyVLLcE&pp=ygUZcmlza3kgYnVzaW5lc3Mgc3VuZ2xhc3Nlcw%3D%3D&ra=m).

There is a great much to discuss about Project Ratatoskr, but perhaps you can ascertain the gist of it from [this missive](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pdNP0imIW\_8&ra=m).

u/_the_last_druid_13 — 7 days ago
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Midterms: the Money Rabbit Hole

[They want US to fight](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheUnivercity/s/wuWyG6dTwV),

[but They should apologize to US](https://www.reddit.com/r/TuesdayswithPhony/s/7UjoejnZL5)!

#Remember That

They put [People and Planet in peril](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/travel/flash-flood-nepal-global-warming-himalayas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9FA.OQ60.fXqd5eaN71-z&smid=url-share) and seem to be attempting to slow roll the sweeping of the ash left behind under the rug.

Follow the money, demand accountability, enforce responsibility; if so many people are now unemployed because of COVID, AI, and Climate Change (which roughly means something like “rapid human-induced environmental chaos”; as in, cattle herds have been around since humanity has been around, but since the Industrial Revolution we have seen rapid ecosystem changes once oil companies began revolutionizing their industry. BTW, kinda crazy we’ve had ~25mpg engines since the 70s, right? That’s only 60 years…): Call your reps! Call the press! From town hall to Capitol Hill, from the free local press to Rupert Murdoch’s offices!

That’s probably the only time you should be near technology at this point, [using the phone to pressure these sneaky pressurers](https://londondaily.com/lawyer-who-sued-chevron-over-amazon-chernobyl-ordered-to-prison-after-800-days-of-house-arrest)!

Know this too: [the “New” Jeffrey Epstein is gambling](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wMAnOxKx3H4&ra=m); do not aid and abet him.

[Words, Wallets, Ballots](https://www.reddit.com/r/TuesdayswithPhony/s/ibrgMci1MB),

a better world is possible!

[Note: my formatting sucks because I write these longwinded things in my Notes app, sometimes they take quite a while to craft. Copy&Paste makes the formatting exist but not work; FYI]

u/_the_last_druid_13 — 1 month ago
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It actually really does matter who started it

When I was younger, teachers and parents would always tell me it doesn't matter who started it, what matters is who will be the better person and resolve the conflict. While I don't disagree with the sentiment of want conflicts to come to a resolution, in my opinion it really does matter who started it and it is indeed the crux of any problem. A person who intentionally hurts you while you have done nothing to them is a bully. A person who hits your car on the road while you are minding your business is the one at fault. Killing someone in self defense absolves you from any guilt if the other person *started* to attack you. It feels kind of indefensible to say the person starting the conflict won't always have at least some guilt.

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u/ClothesPerfect1579 — 2 months ago

Words and Actions

[My Actions and Effort is getting out of bed everyday and using my words on here](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KAAO6qA_8ow&pp=ygUPVGhvciB6ZXVzIHRyaWFs&ra=m) to attempt to ameliorate my own faults, showcase [my own virtues](https://www.reddit.com/r/WhatIsMyCQS/s/ZVoQ7t0yTj), offer aid to the lives of others, policy practices, the unraveling of decades of waste, fraud, and abuse, and attempting to offer input into how We, the People might find ourselves in a better situation within a better world.

Maybe none of this is possible, but to me, this is the most logical and rational action to do considering what I have survived through and what avenues I have already attempted in an active effort to repair the wrongs willfully wrought over decades to many more than just me.

I’m only one person.

You’re not getting reasons or excuses, you’re getting my perspective, facts, and research compiled and built off of the work of others.

It’s entirely possible I am wrong about absolutely everything, but I’m not the one who has frailty and issues adapting to better data, and at least I can admit that without syncretism, logistics, and sweeping mistakes under the rug.

I can look in the mirror, see my strengths and weaknesses, and take my own issues on headfirst; this is not the problem.

Objectively/Subjectively speaking, it is probable that I am doing all of this 10% for me and my own personal hopes, and 90% for [you](https://www.reddit.com/r/TyrannyOfTime/s/Be53PFfte4). The “me” I know myself as has not been around since ~2009; you know, back when the Strait of Hormuz was a tidbit of information 95% of the globe had no idea about because everything was working swimmingly.

I have become a version of myself I am not proud of, but this version only had one of my own hands molding it. This matters less to me than you might think because there are greater purposes we all should be working towards; The Work is not wrought without some damage.

I will take this opportunity, though, to say “FLOCK YOU!” to the obsessed opportunists; my reactions to your treatment are likely a reflection of what you see in yourselves in the mirror. The world is watching you engage in Middle School tier behavior. Please grow up, use your words, don’t litter, stop taking money from the Epstein Class and whatever dark web hellscape you emerged from.

I cannot accept the status quo/stagnant quo, but I’m not here to smash it either. We all have a hand in building a better world, and not to toot the past ~3 years but I wonder if the attempts at taking me out in particular was meant for that to not be possible, or perhaps I am being constrained on purpose for other reasons/excuses I am unaware of or unable to parse.

For further reading, please review:

#“Work Woes”

1: [This all may or may not have been brought to you by Big Redacted](https://www.reddit.com/r/TuesdayswithPhony/s/VZ2OmA2xAi)

2: [“Some people get their kicks just stomping on a dream.”](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldjerking/s/PAdBAah94V)

3: [“Is this Leadership?”](https://www.reddit.com/u/_the_last_druid_13/s/ILifiDlRkz)

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#“Bridging the Plots”

1: [“…make your life as difficult as possible.”](https://www.reddit.com/r/TyrannyOfTime/s/ogDQUaGhx1)

2: [The Sigma Stigma I did not ask for or consent to](https://www.reddit.com/r/TyrannyOfTime/s/8z38gLBxh3)

3: [Humiliation, Extraction, Exploitation, Ostracization, Mischaracterization, Decay, and “Just Give It Time” Tactics](https://www.reddit.com/r/TuesdayswithPhony/s/lmpp7jRw2k)

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#Bandaids for the Self-Inflicted Wounds (Both Sides)

1: [Third Spaces](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheUnivercity/s/tyFL7tpPlw)

2: [A Policy Patch](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheUnivercity/s/y3rZSEKDgQ)

3: [It’s Your Environment Too](Please Review Attached Images)

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#A Note on Asymmetry, PR, and Why Society Needs YOU to be the Superhero You Wish to See in the World

Concerning the discussion of Ironheart vs Ironman:

They were the same; both geniuses without the social function of forms. They were “eccentrics” just “functional” enough. It goes back to the [FoH/BoH discourse](https://www.reddit.com/r/TyrannyOfTime/s/3cAeMdZR6y).

Ironman thought his SSN# was “5”.

Sit with that for a minute.

If we were to put them both “in a cave with a box of scraps”: both could get out.

Put them both into the society of bureaucracy: both would fail (and do).

Ironman had Pepper, Ironheart had nothing.

A billionaire has more resources and a safety net than a person coming up from rock bottom whose foundation is inherently traumatic, unsupportive, and lacking resources, materials, and connections to do Work while contending with similar sabotage that the billionaire faces, but without all of what they have and have had their whole life.

— === § === —

#Closing Statement

Please review “The Four Pillar Framework for a Better World v3” (a prior, included link) as to what I, if not every person, likely requires from leaders with the authority to do so, pertaining to their individual lives and the society we all share and contribute to.

This is not rocket science, it’s a Humanities subject.

As of now, considering that I study History so as not to repeat mistakes, I see no upside or downside to doing or not doing, staying or going, engaging or not engaging. This is not balance nor stasis, the trends indicate decay and I have to consider why or for what purpose that is, as well as if that notion is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

I have been waiting in “Yes & No” limbo for quite an imminent amount of time. “Just give it time” is a poor tactic when ambivalence, ambiguity, ignorance, and multiple constraints are touted as the solution and the problem.

I have put in the efforts, I act as best I can, and I don’t think it is me who must continually come back to post about reasons and excuses when I have not even gotten an apology about the online and IRL attacks concerning cybercrimes, ID theft, IP theft, attempted murder plots, B+Es, intimidation, espionage, stalking, vandalism, harassment, and more.

It has been ~20 years of this behavior from YOU (you know who you are, and likely so does AI), and all of that time and anything that could have been built lost; additionally 10 years of time specifically lost to Targeted Censorship/Economic Terrorism concerning my online published works and reach.

The damages you willfully wrought involve damages to Self (Physical, Psychological, Emotional), Family, Friends, Romance, Business, Investments, Collaborations, and the Daily Compounding Effects merely from your inability to adapt or evolve [your behaviors, incentives, and ideology](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheUnivercity/s/ciSP7A2fqI), have a good faith discussion, and come clean about what this was all for.

On that note, considering the previous link: I found Tucker Carlson’s show last night deeply disappointing and abhorrent.

**People are the not the problem, Policy is!**

Policy offers incentive structures, ideology growth/decay, and cultural behavior.

[It was not an “illegal immigrant” who drove by last night, looked me in the eye, and then littered on my street shared with scores of other people](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheUnivercity/s/3iVvtQp3E0); it was likely an lolcow-adjacent harasser, an agent-provocateur, or some Supremacist pissed off that I feasibly made my town over $12,000 by telling them to focus on every count of littering (a $300 fine/infraction *if* enforced) I discovered on a walk around the block with my dog instead of focusing on the warrantless surveillance of myself.

The TC show was doubly disappointing after I gave a shout out on BlueSky to his show; I do not support Supremacist, Domination, or Nationalistic ideology.

“Cosmopolitanism” alongside something like Cooperative Capitalism might be the better ideology, but also, maybe not.

[Don’t listen to the Rectangle](https://www.reddit.com/r/TuesdayswithPhony/s/9TpPbJkX2z), it gives Division by Gaslight, Distance, and Trust Issues.

u/_the_last_druid_13 — 2 months ago

It’s-a me-a, [Redacted]!

Censorship is a real problem that can affect mental health, physical health, and emotional health; perhaps largely due to financial health as a crux of the issue.

If you don’t know you are “famous”, are you “famous”; is that Tru?

It’s probably best not to be famous, yet it would be best to know if one were so. It’s a bit reality warping to not know of one’s own reach; it would significantly hobble one’s own “act” or PR capabilities, unless one were cripplingly self-aware. Perhaps a true outlier.

100 upvotes on an internet post is quite far from “famous”, it’s not even “Almost Famous”, but when I see the actual metric in my post history, 46 upvotes isn’t even almost 100 upvotes.

I imagine if I had 50,000 fans I was unaware of, that would be a bit of a conundrum, eh? Why would I not “capitalize” on such an audience?

That circumstance might be akin to having broccoli perpetually stuck in one’s teeth and not knowing, only thinking “why are they looking at my teeth?” You look in the mirror, but see nothing there. “Pharmacology? Cloaking tech? Psychosis? A prank? Is there even anything in my teeth I am not seeing? Do my eyes work? Why do they keep looking at my teeth?”

When censorship is employed online, especially on online merchants, that form of censorship might be more in tune with “economic terrorism”. Yes, I know about “bugs”, not sure why it’s such a common occurrence I seem to encounter though.

When this type of behavior has gone on for 20 years, what does “reasonable” look like? What does “unreasonable” look like?

Oh, I’d wax on into many more paragraphs, but it’s all been said before.

Still haven’t heard from you (you(s) know who you are).

Why is that? You do something bad?

u/_the_last_druid_13 — 2 months ago

You Have to Apologize; ⚠️ Cognitohazard ⚠️

Was going to email this (second image) to Tim Dillon, but did not want to cause him distress; [great show](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LibRoYTTGGg&ra=m).

I consider the trends of decay (physical, mental, emotional, financial, etc) and think that would be the first indication towards a fake alien invasion, or [whatever](https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Weapons-of-Mass-Distraction-Foreign-State-Sponsored-Disinformation-in-the-Digital-Age.pdf), whether the aliens are actual aliens or just [humans LARPing](https://www.britannica.com/place/Hollywood-California).

You feeling disassociated, depressed, anxious, confused, etc is maybe part of it.

Instead of [cleaning the mess](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheUnivercity/s/qSHNs63dn4), why be [reasonable?](https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same/) I think such has been doubled-down so much that we are into factorials.

I guess, enjoy the show, or unplug the screen. Go touch grass, amirite?

I’m waiting for Monster to bring me my Lambo they still owe me. I’m also waiting for answers about what happened in 2010-2011, I can’t really get on board with reality, unreality, illusions or delusions til then. Sorry, not sorry; you (you know who you are) should be though.

Just be honest.

In the meantime, I’ll be watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

u/_the_last_druid_13 — 2 months ago
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The Political Uncivil War

The algorithm claims that “the Left” and “the Right” has had gratuitous infighting.

Ignore that ish. Consider if you take only 100% left-hand turns in life, walking, and driving. How about only 100% right-hand turns in life, walking, and driving?

More accurately, consider these questions if you are concerned which “side of the fence” your friends, families, and allies sit:

Are you a Nationalist? Careful, you’ll get called a Nazi. (Isolationists, Conservatives, Libertarians)

Are you for being the World’s Police? Careful, you’ll get called a fascist. (Corporate-Controlled Politicians, Warhawks/Neocons, Epstein Class)

Are you for “guilty until proven innocent”?

Are you for “innocent until proven guilty”?

Pick a few topics; don’t drag out your nosiness. These few binaries might help you figure it out, or [just ask AI](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tech-happy-life/202505/the-great-ai-deception-has-already-begun)!

“Sitting on the fence” is a legitimate position; Law of Thirds. We need a third party to balance the pendulum or else it’s just going to be more mud-slinging between the schizophrenic toddler that is the political apparatus.

So ask those questions.

OR don’t.

I hate politics. I don’t want to be engaging in these bad faith narratives, but you keep looking up my bellybutton every day ending in “y” with this surveillance overreach nonsense, **mobbing** tactics, and [CIA-adjacent interrogation-via-screen](https://www.reddit.com/r/TuesdayswithPhony/s/IZKHM3ObV4).

Philosophy is way cooler. Philosophy can be part standup comedy, part mental stimulation, part oratory; politics is like that dark triad type-person you know who ruins every gathering and anything you say or do.

~I would disarm my double-edged sword of a smartphone, but we require one to be in society and to protect oneself in society from society. Let’s just start handing out the nukes!~

Let People be People and stop targeting your neighbors! Talk to them!

Stop being weird because that makes them weird thinking you’re being weird which reverse-justifies you thinking they are weird; or maybe you’re being paid to do so? Maybe you’re the weird one!

Who are you working for?

What do you want?

Don’t be shy now.

u/_the_last_druid_13 — 2 months ago

“This is your brain on [Control]”

I’ve been touching grass more than using my [smartphone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic\_tagging) these days. It’s been tough though, I’ve been a [user] of this [military apparatus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET) for some time now; it’s difficult kicking such an ubiquitous [addiction](https://www.npr.org/2026/08/17/nx-s1-5923392/a-group-of-attorneys-general-is-suing-meta-over-mental-health-risks-for-youths) that’s seemingly required to [be a part of society](https://www.reddit.com/r/TuesdayswithPhony/s/JkqxuoThLI) these days. **Makes yah think what we all did for so many years prior to 1999.**

I have many concerns and questions that seemingly go unanswered for some reason.

Some questions I’ve been considering:

[What is ethical? Who gets to decide?](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BuINpgEvDO4&ra=m)

**What is their Cultural Behavior like?**
**What Incentivizes them?**
**What is their Ideology?**

What do they want?

Sometimes questions linger, like [dogshit in the crevices of your shoe](https://www.reddit.com/r/Journaling/s/Xjmz8Ycppi). You’re going to get into your car and be offended by that stink. You’re going to track it in all over on the new carpet.

It might take some time to find out where the odor is coming from and/or why you’re such a stinky schlep (maybe you aren’t the schlep though, maybe it was the asshat who [didn’t pick up their dog’s shit!](https://www.reddit.com/r/circlejerknyc/s/hD1WC2XiDb)).

Makes yah question authenticity, integrity, authority, legitimacy, your own/society’s sanity, responsibility, accountability, and why after thousands of years people seem unable to learn or adapt their behaviors, incentives, and ideologies. Makes yah question a lot of things.

What a fucking hassle.

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Hey, I heard your favorite color is cerulean.
No it’s not, your favorite color is vermillion.
It *is*.

Or it will be.

Hey, I heard you’re a Republican.
No you’re not, you’re a Liberal.
You *are*.

Or you will be.

Hey, I heard you’re a Liberal.
No you’re not, you’re a Republican.
You *are*.

Or you will be.

Hey, I heard you’re a Muslim.
No you’re not, you’re a Christian.
You *are*.

Or you will be.

Hey, I heard you’re a Christian.
No you’re not, you’re a Hindu.
You *are*.

Or you will be.

Hey, I heard you’re a journalist.
No you’re not, you’re a doctor.
You *are*.

Or you will be.

Hey, I heard you liek Mudkipz.
No you don’t, you like Wobbuffet.
You *do*.

Or you will.

u/_the_last_druid_13 — 2 months ago
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Being Honest About the Book of Job

Suppose Job was inflicted by a man instead of God. Is it rational to say, “well, my boss gave me some sh;t, but then he took it all away and let psychopaths murder my family, blessed be the name of my boss” ?

Does this sh;t make any sense? Is this an intelligent response? (This is the vital question: not what the authors of Job want us to think, but what does reason tell us the rational response should be?)

But the story is loaded from the outset with a magical Genie named God, which is nothing more than the ultimate rhetorical device of man.

We can still read this literature intelligently, as long as we don’t read it as duped believers, having fallen prey to this rhetorical device.

So the story is absolute nonsense, because God, in reality, is just a human construct. So if bad sh;t happens to us, we learn from this story that it’s dumb as f;ck to bring any notion of God into it.

Isn’t the moral of the story that we should strive to created social conditions where sh;t like this doesn’t happen in the first place, so mtherfkrs don’t have to lean on imaginary human constructs? And, when sh;t like this does happen, we have created societies of compassion that people can fall back on and find comfort in?

Isn’t this the concrete, non-idealistic reading of the book of Job?

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u/JerseyFlight — 2 months ago

A cartograph on why we can’t have nice things; the Root of Evil is [Control]

I already posted this but prettified it up, added/edited a couple images.

Please {do not} enjoy this handout for Contemporary American Culture and History (1945-Present) and consider this week’s question:

What does “a better world” look like to you and how would you seek to achieve it?

Essays should have a limit of 50pgs, with sources (Chicago Style), 12-14pt, no Comic Sans font.

u/_the_last_druid_13 — 2 months ago

“Torn Apart on Purpose” - Hunter Biden on Tucker Carlson’s Show

Having a rough day today, but I’m pretty good at picking myself up again after contending with 20 years of (?^?)

Also my last post I garnered two comments that don’t exist there anymore. Took a screenshot because they put a Maps link with coordinates. Unable to access the comments, unsure if a threat.

If a threat, like the others I got today (IYKYK 🚗), this post is retaliation.

If not a threat, this post is education.

Edit: Was not a threat, seems to have been a misunderstanding.

Post remains with edits, for transparency and education.

u/_the_last_druid_13 — 2 months ago

Learn to Code(switch)!

If a [label] bothers you, put a [label] you’re comfortable with in its place! See what shakes out.

Bully? Victim.

Victim? Sir Vie or […](https://neurolaunch.com/intentional-infliction-of-mental-distress/)

Democratic-Socialism? 😱

Republican-Socialism? 🤔

We all pay [taxes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism), and those taxes go to road repair, water treatment, infrastructure, the grid, first responders, and public servants. [Or do they](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheUnivercity/s/5VdqbICRTc)?

If you wanted a strong Republic, you’d want strong, noble, healthy, mature people. If you wanted a weak Republic, you’d have a [demo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game\_demo)-crazy, gnome-saying? Though maybe difference is a strength if implemented and integrated properly; food for thought.

I saw someone post about [Marxism](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/target), so the opposite codeword of a Marxist is, [what](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/con%20artist)?

I tend to eschew labels because I seem to only be able to breathe toxicity and am only able to see by gaslight, but it also seems that I speak General English and not American English, so I’m either confused or displaced or am stuck in a cult.

Anyways, in [other news](https://www.reddit.com/r/TuesdayswithPhony/s/tTTCo8vbGq), because they seem to be a liability, I am giving away [most all of my](https://suzannebohan.com/books/twenty-years-of-life/) books, Magic: the Gathering [cards](https://www.wikihow.com/Fix-Bent-Trading-Cards), and technology because I am [anti-humility](https://www.reddit.com/r/WhatIsMyCQS/s/f2QdpkZawj); I’m proud to be an [American](https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Epstein-Files-A-Timeline)!!!

Are you?

u/_the_last_druid_13 — 2 months ago

Another Pizza My Heart

A third space, a common complaint with its absence in contemporary culture, is the near-extinct Pizza Parlour.

A proper Pizza Establishment, in my humble opinion, includes an option or two for pizza-by-the-slice; the cheese option should be no more than $3/slice. Indeed, two cheese slices and a drink for $5 is 👨‍🍳💋

[Toppings should abound; don’t skimp.]

Pizza-by-the-slice is also a great employee perk; those pies have to move every 4 hours, so unbought slices go to the unironic employee appreciation pizza party every damn day the kitchen is clanging.

This is the first part of getting foot traffic to your restaurant.

Some people don’t want to call in, use an app, or wait 10 minutes for lunch. They want to grab-and-go (or at least I do when I’m hankering for some pizza, which is pretty much an hourly occurrence).

So the real THIRD SPACE is a pizza parlour that offers an arcade machine.

The arcade machine is the POINT OF SALE into your establishment even if the game is an old POS; hear me out:

We used to have kid birthday parties at a pizza place; in highschool we would get ~5 of us, snag a table at a pizza place and feast for an hour or 3 (what is $10 each split amongst friends? Hint: about 4 pizzas, mozz sticks, garlic bread, and more galore!); as an adult, sometimes I want to sit somewhere, have a pizza, maybe a beer, and watch futbol or whatever on Telemundo to break up the crawl of any given month.

Party; Feast; Someplace to zone out with some ‘za.

Now, my go-to pizza parlor arcade machine was “Strikers 1945”. I held the leaderboard for much of the 90s at my local joint.

Why mention this?

I’d say; an establishment might find more traffic with 1) pizza-by-the-slice and 2) offering an arcade machine for patrons.

If a customer holds a leaderboard position, (say 1st, 2nd, or 3rd) they get a free slice every day they hold one of/the top spot on the leaderboard.

You’re going to make the money back for slices in quarters.

It just takes one machine.

Personally, if I knew that a place with good pie had a slice-for-spot kind of deal, I’d keep that machine full of metal for yah.

That’s how you build back community: a third space; one slice at a time.

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