I’m actually faithful to the Church of Last Thursdayism, so I do not believe that.

Found it in my history, it’s Neo Atlas 1469.

Neo Atlas 1469

I remember a game I played ~9 years ago where you could send ships to explore the world and when they got back you had the option to reject their findings. If you never rejected anything, the world would be exactly like Earth, but everytime you rejected it would randomize the section that had been explored and over time it would start generating a whole new world.

And you could even make the planet flat by rejecting the discovery of it being round.

I haven’t stayed in that many hotels so I’m not sure what to pick as worst. It’s either the one that was very stingy with the breakfast and I had to order everything individually and request 3 doses of milk for my coffee, or the hotel where right in front of the entrance I got robbed at gunpoint and punched for being too slow to hand over the money.

The second one I was 20 and trying to get the cheapest option I could find. The first one I was 36 and paying premium for comfort.

Windows Vista is Microsoft’s greatest success, because it’s main purpose was to make people forget the promises made for Longhorn.

“except” is also used in Pascal (or at least the main derivatives of it), but not sure if that’s older than its use in Python or not.

Not necessarily selling below cost. They can save money in all sorts of ways:

• charging brands to put their products in the best shelves
• fridges and shelves with ads and product names (often provided for free by the brands)
• bigger sales volume reduce cost of storage, reduce amount of expired products and as you said, also guarantee a better price when acquiring the goods.
• they have much more data on what sells at what price
• they know very well what kind of products people will check the price for and which ones they’ll just buy in whatever store they are already at (so they put a lower price on product X to get people in the store and then a higher price on product Y to cover for it)
• they own multiple store brands, with different price ranges, so they can make one store generate profit for both of them similarly to the previous point.
• they do all sorts of sketchy stuff to get tax breaks, insurance claims and other stuff that may have give them some money back
• they may sometimes move products between stores to sell everything that might be expiring soon
• they have their own product brands that they can save money on
• in some places they may re-package stuff to artificially extend their shelf life.
• probably a lot more stuff I never even considered.