The term "hallucination" feels much more like anthropomorphizing. The word hallucination implies an aberrant condition. A much better term would be "confabulation".

You don't trust things or individuals that confabulate.

Individual sales are in the thousands, so they operate more like high-end jewelry stores than a "normal" business. One sale a day is minimum 250K/year.

The store itself seems to be more of just a show room. There are other sales routes too. Selling into hotels would be an example. There are also maintenance services, so a high end rug in some sense can be seen as a recurring revenue source.

It's a interesting little corner.

Got any documentation for that? The most precise location I can find is "Mexico".

What I've heard is that the lettuce from many farms goes through the same industrial lettuce shredders. The shredders were contaminated by at least one farm's produce, and then the shredders spread the Cyclospora to lettuce from other farms.

There's a good podcast covering this event: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-natural-causes-340763248...

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It's kind of a bad example, because there are other reasons that we don't have HUDsin cars.

A friend of mine designed car interiors. His explanation went like this:

With a HUD, you have to pick a focus point.

In an airplane, when you look forward, your eyes are always focused at infinity, so the HUD is focused there. It has the same focus point as your eyes.

In a car everything is slower and closer, so you have to constantly change your focus.

The HUD though has a single focus point though, and drivers' eyes tend to lock onto the HUD's focus. This focus lock interferes with normal scanning, and drivers stop seeing important things. They don't notice important things, so they get into accidents.

According to him, HUDs in cars lead to much higher accident rates.

(1) It's a menu option these days.