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This story gets wilder the more I keep reading.

Subway worker killed, another injured over too much mayo, store owner says

ATLANTA (WGCL/Gray News) – One Subway worker is dead and another is in the hospital following an apparent argument over mayonnaise.

Police responded to a report of a shooting inside the Subway restaurant in downtown Atlanta around 7:15 p.m. Sunday. Atlanta police said they now have a suspect in custody after receiving a community tip.

Police said the suspect is a 36-year-old man but they did not release his name because it is still an ongoing investigation.

The owner of the restaurant, Willie Glenn, told WGCL a customer allegedly got upset over the amount of mayonnaise that was put on his sandwich. That’s when things escalated and the two employees were shot by the customer.

Glenn said both shooting victims were sisters and are committed Subway employees.

According to police, the victim who was shot and killed was a 26-year-old woman and her sister, who was also shot, is 24 years old and made it to the hospital in critical condition.

Glenn said the 24-year-old woman who survived also had her 5-year-old son with her inside the Subway when the suspect started shooting from outside the store.

“I don’t know what the world is coming to these days with our youth, everyone seems to be so hot headed,” Glenn said.

Glenn said the store manager, who was armed with a gun of his own, also attempted to stop the shooter.

“My manager was able to exchange gunfire with him, but of course he didn’t hit him and it ended up as a wild shootout in the parking lot,” he said.

Glenn said the gun violence in Atlanta is getting out of control.

“There is just a whole lot of shooting and killing going on and this is just ridiculous and my heart right now is just with my employees,” he said.

The leader of The New Order National Human Rights Organization, Gerald Rose, spoke Monday morning in response to what happened at Subway, calling the gun violence in the city an outrage.

Rose said it’s going to take the whole community stepping up to put an end to the ongoing senseless violence.

“I am asking all young people to put down their pistols and pick up their pencils,” Rose said.

Rose said in an effort to guide members of the youth community down a better path every third Saturday of each month he takes more than 50 young boys and girls to the Apex Museum where they learn about history.
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Interesting. All those companies that have been appealing to young urbanites due to their convenience and relatively low cost have been losing money hand-over-fist and now the worm is starting to turn.

www.theatlantic.com

The End of the Millennial Lifestyle Subsidy

Something beyond rising energy and labor costs is leading to sticker shock on once-cheap urban amenities.
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It was as if Silicon Valley had made a secret pact to subsidize the lifestyles of urban Millennials. As I pointed out three years ago, if you woke up on a Casper mattress, worked out with a Peloton, Ubered to a WeWork, ordered on DoorDash for lunch, took a Lyft home, and ordered dinner through Postmates only to realize your partner had already started on a Blue Apron meal, your household had, in one day, interacted with eight unprofitable companies that collectively lost about $15 billion in one year.

These start-ups weren’t nonprofits, charities, or state-run socialist enterprises. Eventually, they had to do a capitalism and turn a profit. But for years, it made a strange kind of sense for them to not be profitable. With interest rates near zero, many investors were eager to put their money into long-shot bets. If they could get in on the ground floor of the next Amazon, it would be the one-in-a-million bet that covered every other loss. So they encouraged start-up founders to expand aggressively, even if that meant losing a ton of money on new consumers to grow their total user base.

Consider this simplified example. Let’s say that the ingredient, labor, and transportation costs of a pizza delivery in New York City average $20. If a company charges $25 for the average NYC delivery, it will make a profit. But if a start-up charges $10 for the same thing, it will lose money but get a lot more pizza orders. More pizza orders means more total customers, which means more overall revenue. This arrangement is tailor-made for a low-rate environment, in which investors are attracted to long-term growth more than short-term profit. As long as money was cheap and Silicon Valley told itself the next world-conquering consumer-tech firm was one funding round away, the best way for a start-up to make money from venture capitalists was to lose money acquiring a gazillion customers.

I call this arrangement the Millennial Consumer Subsidy. Now the subsidy is ending. Rising interest rates turned off the spigot for money-losing start-ups, which, combined with energy inflation and rising wages for low-income workers, has forced Uber, Lyft, and all the rest to make their services more expensive. Meanwhile, global supply chains haven’t been able to keep up with domestic consumer demand, which means delivery times for major items like furniture and kitchen equipment have bloomed from “three to five days” to “sometime between this fall and the heat death of the universe.” That means higher prices, higher margins, fewer discounts, and longer wait times for a microgeneration of yuppies used to low prices and instant deliveries. The golden age of bougie on-demand urban-tech discounting has come to a close.
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An Uber in Atlanta cost me $60 for a 20 minute ride (plus tip). A taxi was the exact same price.
 
RIP said:
An Uber in Atlanta cost me $60 for a 20 minute ride (plus tip). A taxi was the exact same price.
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yeah its still cheaper here, but not by much and the difference has gotten smaller and smaller. but ubers smell less like sandwiches and smokes IME.

if a cab is there already waiting (like in parts of DC or at the airport), its easier than waiting for an uber, finding it, and trying to explain where you are if you're in an area you're unfamiliar with. Also there was the one time I accidentally picked the share option, and the driver took me to a really rough part of town (like a scene from the wire) and said I had to reorder him or he'd leave me there, a white lady who had just been seeing a play based on Sense and Sensibility.
 
This should be a non issue FFS. Lunacy. First, that is in no way an arsenal or cache of weapons. That's nothing at all.

And the fact that you can be arrested and have your children taken from you if guns aren't locked in a safe just because some parents suck at educating their kids on firearm safety is also stupid. Fuck that bullshit law, fuck liberals, and fuck that obviously bias left wing article.

Oh no, they had KNIVES!!!!
 
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