I was going to point out that the cheeseburger today is different than it was in 1948, but many sites suggest they are exactly the same:

https://www.quora.com/How-big-was-McDonalds-original-hamburg...

It's that our idea of a cheeseburger and our appetites have gotten larger.

There were a lot more people outside during lockdown. There were running and cycling booms.

Literally every form of outdoor recreational equipment from cornhole to million dollar power boats had a huge sales boom during covid.

The US may have had the most visible polarization about it. We had a President threatening to "open up the states" while state governors issued more and more restrictive orders. Depending on what news media you watched, there were ERs filled with bodies or there were people on the beach enjoying their spring break.

The contradictory messages from every levels of government for years did a lot to break the underlying faith in the system.

The underlying Garmin platform is so old that it predates iPhone/Android. I think you can plug in many Garmins via USB without any special software and simply copy activities and data off the watch.

They had a segment of customers who wouldn't have or be allowed to connect a phone - triathletes, long-distance hikers, military. But it's been slowly changing as users want more modern features and the company wants to increase sales.

Nah, this is not the first G-Shock with an HRM. This is only the first in the "G-LIDE" series designed for surfers which usually has a tide graph. But there have been Wear OS G-Shocks and G-Move watches with HRM in the past.

This is why GDP isn't a good measurement of the wealth of citizens. Americans get paid more but also pay more for things. Even if we assume the two perfectly cancel each other out, the net result is the same, but GDP is higher.

GDP is not and never has been a measure of wealth. It's a measure of a country's output. Higher GDP could just mean you're working longer and harder.

Which is why we also publish a median (50th percentile) per capita (per person) number too. And its a measure of income, not wealth.

California is also required to refund taxpayers if it accumulates too much revenue. The state's spending is capped at some limit set in 1979 with adjustments for inflation and population.

https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/qa-why-hitting-gann-li...

When I read "small sauce bottle" I was thinking of the <1 oz bottles only good for a single serving like travel sized.

In this case it's probably because the sauce is not readily available, and the combination of exclusivity and rising food costs attract more entitled customers. That single chicken piece appears to be $25 according to Yelp.

Also in Vegas (Zoox), and China has their own competitive market of self-driving taxis.

It's not just "tricky situations", sometimes FSD will do things that no normal driver would ever do, and it will do them inconsistently. Sometimes it's brilliant and sometimes it's drunk.