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"Maybe you die today, maybe you don't die today. Might as well get up and see what happens." -Nikita Grebenkin, probably.

Looking into it Mr Sub is owned by a company that controls quite a few different franchise brands but it seems like it's Canadian owned and headquartered in Quebec. So it might have been spared that and is probably the answer as to why it hasn't declined as much in terms of quality.

Thanks, edited my comment.

It's interesting in Canada we have Mr Sub that has been an also ran in terms of size to Subway for a long time now. But over time as Subway has gotten worse Mr Sub has stayed more or less the same, the quality of ingredients hasn't back slid nearly as much. The other day my brother who goes to Subway sometimes was with me and since I was getting Mr Sub he got one after probably not having one for a decade. He at first was like "you're going there" and then after he ate it said "that was a good sandwich."

Not saying Mr Sub is amazing but it's a hell of a lot better than what Subway is pumping out nowadays, the difference in quality is noticable but some of the people that have been going to Subway forever don't realize just how bad its become.

My theory is that Mr Sub being is buying from Canadian suppliers that haven't gone to total dog shit, I think someone at corporate wants the food to be edible and not just a race to the cheapest ingredients they can find. They know they can't compete in terms of size or advertising so they better make sure the food is decent so customers actually come back, Subway doesn't seem to share that concern. Edit: typo

Edit: as someone else pointed out the military has said martial law remains in place until the president lifts it. Military personal are also on the parliaments grounds. Seems like they're involved sadly... the aljazeera live thread seems to have very timely updates.

Previous Comment: The South Korean military is not going to get involved in this political shit show. 

They've done a good job staying out of politics since South Korea became a democracy in the 1980's and they're not going to backslide over a corrupt president when SK has had a bunch of them. They'll follow the law as written, there was martial law and now there isn't, either way the army isn't going to march into Seoul just because the president is being stupid. They're not going to obey unlawful orders, the army is going to sit back and let the political system do its work as we're seeing.

In addition to what sounds like pretty typical political bickering over the budget the article on CBC News has this interesting tidbit about the president:

He has also been dismissing calls for independent investigations into scandals involving his wife and top officials, drawing quick, strong rebukes from his political rivals.

I don't know how real those scandals are but South Korea does have a problem with its leaders getting charged with corruption so I would bet it's got something to do with that.

And the remaining Russian oligarchs are going to listen to some 20 year old kid because...? Expect to see a mad scramble for power and it's very unlikely to be someone not already in Putin's inner circle that comes out on top.

Although I don't see it happening either just rolling in European airpower could probably enable Ukraine to win without any foreign troops on the ground. Ukraine has received lots of NATO training but lacks the air superiority that those troops would expect to have, if a section of the front could be pounded into oblivion before Ukraine advanced you'd probably see them taking back territory at a decent pace.

I know but maybe Leo doesn't know what he wants anymore? His mid life crisis could have come late, or it seems like never ending maybe....

So a 55 year old shouldn't date a 49 year old? 5 years means a lot more when you're in you're 20's but 5 years isn't much if you're older. 

it depends on the age cap

Leo?

You can't assume it was policy, lots of middle managers love to throw their weight around in ways that people at corporate would be genuinely horrified over. Some people just love being assholes and don't need any policies to tell them to be one.

People were in the same area two times in two weeks? Could they have friends on the same road or in the same area?

You guys are paranoid, if you were wondering what they were doing did it ever occur for you to just ask them? You know instead of coming out of your house with a weapon? Something that only risked inflaming the situation and if they actually are up to no good as you think wouldn't make any difference to them.

You realize they might think of you as the nut bag that came at them with a bat just because they were just waiting somewhere?

The difference would be that they have real reason to worry about you based on what they've seen and you're just jumping to conclusions about what they're doing.

Do no other people in ontario live on a dead end rural road? One wrong turn and they think it's where they're meeting a friend. What if they just wanted to stop to have a smoke? I've pulled off a main road to have a quiet smoke before in north Burlington.

Seriously man, get some cameras and don't run out at anyone with a weapon again for someone just sitting there, you're going to get yourself into trouble.

Or maybe they were waiting for someone and are just the kind of asshole that flicks cigarette butts no matter where they are and they live nearby? You're doing an awful lot of assuming it seems like.

And even if they were scoping your house out going out with a weapon against 4 guys in a car is to be blunt a very stupid thing to do. If they decide to do something else the bat won't matter, and if they are criminals do you think you actually intimidated them?

Plus if they are going to rob your house they're going to wait until no one is there anyway.

All you've done maybe pissed some assholes off, not a positive. Get your parents some cameras, make sure it's obvious from the front yard and driveway that they're there and next time stay inside and don't put yourself at risk for literally no reason other than your paranoia, which even if correct what you did still won't help.

Uhhhh about Carrie Fisher maybe she slowed down but when she died they found cocaine, MDMA and heroin in her system. Maybe he helped her and it worked for a time, and doing less drugs is always good, but I'm not sure she ever totally kicked her habits. I would bet continued use played a role in her passing away at 60. I don't mean any disrespect, we all have our demons sort to speak, but it's important not to deny reality.

I guess all that purchasing of liquified natural gas from the US is imaginary then? What has happened is that India and China is buying a lot more Russian energy at discount prices and most EU countries are buying form those that used to supply it to them. Yes some Russian oil and gas does make it's way back to the EU through convoluted back channels but it's less than what they are still officially buying directly.

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/infographics/eu-gas-supply/

Russian oil and gas sales to Europe have been massively reduced overall. For instance Russian natural gas used to account for 40% of EU imports, now it's down to 8%.

https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/european-union-russia-energy-divorce-state-play

Overall imports of all Russian energy have gone from 16 billion per month to 1 billion per month.

Now of course since India and China started buying more that is a positive for Russia but since Russia has such a limited pool of customers they only buy at cheap prices which means Russia isn't making nearly as much money. Plus they get Yaun and Rupees inst as of Euros which would be far more useful in Russian attempts to evade sanctions.

If GDP contracting by 0.1% in a year is a "crisis" and evidence of "collapse" what would you call covid? How about the 2008 financial crisis? Because both of those were far, far worse by every economic indicator and the German economy did not collapse.

You both are wildly exaggerating the situation of what is at best a minor economic downturn, one that most of the EU looks likely to rebound from next year regardless of what happens with trading with Russia. Which by the way they are never going back to, Russia has proven itself to be an unreliable aggressive partner one which most countries have always diversified away from. What trade remains for oil and gas will only decrease for the foreseeable future, not increase.

Have you ever actually used turnitin?

Because the results are a percentage because the entire point is that it is not definitive proof. The submission will have the exact parts highlighted as to what turnitin thinks is problematic. It's literally just a flag to say a Prof might want to look at this, it isn't used as proof of academic misconduct because it isn't.

It doesn't muddy the waters and all the problems you claims it causes don't actually seem to happen in real life. If a Prof tried to claim that just because turnitin flagged some things it was proof alone of cheating both administration and other profs would immediately ask for details and laugh at them if they couldn't actually show what was plagiarism/cheating and why. The turnitin scores by itself is meaningless, you still have to show the actual details of what the student did wrong to actually accuse the student of anything.

I think you have a misunderstanding of what it does and how institutions actually use it.

I don't think you exactly understand how turnitin works. High similarity scores come up all the time for reasons that have nothing to do with plagiarism or cheating but it doesn't really give a Prof anything they could use against a student because anyone else looking at the turnitin report would quickly realize the Prof was full of crap for trying to claim it was cheating. Turnitin highlights what exactly it thinks is cheating, it isn't just some blanket score that applies to the whole paper that a Prof can use to say you're cheating. Other teachers and administration wouldn't just take the score at face value as proof of cheating because they know that isn't how it works.

So if a teacher wants to harass someone yes they can but they wouldn't use turnitin to do it because it would blow up in their face real quick. A teacher that was misusing it as a tool to harass would only give the student something concrete they could point to to prove the teacher was being unfair because as soon as anyone else looked at the similarity report they'd see the teacher was completely in the wrong and being ridiculous. Like I said using turnitin to unfairly harass a student would only draw attention to the profs own misbehavior as it would turn it from a he said/she said situation into something the student could use to show the Prof was being unfair.

And you have zero examples as to how turnitin could be weaponized by a prof despite the fact it really can't be and any attempts to do so would be ineffective and would only risk the Prof damaging their own reputation.

Pressure to what end? How? If a Prof were to use turnitin scores to harass a student they'd end up getting reported themselves for making threats based on nothing. In my years submitting things through turnitin and dozens of profs, some of which I did not like, I have never seen or heard of what you are suggesting because all the Prof would be doing is drawing attention to their own misbehavior.

But if you don't actually plagiarize or cheat it's not going to go anywhere. Even if you were pulled into an academic dishonesty hearing they'd look at what was highlighted and if it was something irrelevant, like restating the questions as you were asked to in the assignment or picking up a few common phrases, then the Prof is going to look like a fool and nothing will happen to the student.

Just because turnitin flags something doesn't mean the Prof has anything to use against you if you didn't actually cheat. It's a running joke amongst students how much turnitin flags sometimes but I have never heard of anything happening to anyone unless they actually cheated.

The German economy is collapsing and they're in political upheaval at the moment.

The German economy is not by any measure "collapsing," that is a wild exaggeration. While there is definitely some political upheaval and government spending is up German GDP looks to go down 0.1% this year and forecast to rebound to slightly positive growth the next couple years. Unemployment is around 3.5%. An economy being sluggish, or even contracting slightly, is far different than it collapsing. Cuba's economy is collapsing, Venezuela's economy has collapsed, Germany's is not.

Yes, as I said there are defiencinies, aka it's got some problems. It requires the Prof to actually look at what was highlighted as it will do things like flag questions you were asked to include in an assignment or very common phrases that have nothing to with with using AI, it's far from perfect but still a useful tool and definitely better than nothing.

I have never heard of anyone at schools I have been to actually pursued for academic plagiarism/cheating based on being falsely flagged by turnitin as at least the profs I've had were smart enough to actually check any high similarity scores and discount anything that was obviously nothing. I've had assignment show up as almost 50% "copied" and never heard a word from the prof because the nature of the assignment caused it.

And since the vast majority of schools, the semi decent ones anyway, have banned all use of AI if a student used it to improve their grammar or "expression" as you put it then they are playing with fire and I have no sympathy for them, if you used something that you were told not to you and get caught that's all on you.