Brb, gonna sample some sci-fi

And the Panama and Suez Canals are STILL incredibly important to global shipping, greatly shortening trade routes where rail or road simply isn’t an alternative

Canals at least it was pretty easy to see a valuable use case.

Get commerce from New York to the Great Lakes without have to sail up past Maine and then still get past Niagara Falls somehow? That’s amazing!

It just got outpaced by technology

Free Version: Full of Ads

Premium Version: First adertised as Ad Free, then within a few years Full of Ads

Extreme Version: Ad Free for now, but features segregated into additional subscriptions.

Of course, of course

Yes. Most soda in the US is sweetened with High Fructose Corn Syrup.

It creates a market for imported “Mexican Coke”, which is sweetened with cane sugar. Some smaller brands also advertise themselves as using cane sugar.

I don’t think I’ve seen a brand with it quite as boldly stated as that, though.

Classmate’s birthday? Of course not. Why go to a birthday party for someone who’s just a classmate?