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The big jumps in spending on that graph started in 2012. Occupy Wallstreet protests were in the autumn of 2011.

But you guys not buying new phones is reducing productivity by a third of a percent! Think of the potential losses!

It’s blatant price-gouging. Any stock in the store has already been sold to them at an agreed price. They can set a number and make their set margin.

Updating prices after each delivery might make sense (if their procurement department is absolute dogshit at negotiating contracts), but updating prices throughout the day is just someone trying to see how hard they can push their margins to drain every cent out of their customers.

If he can pull off half of what he’s promised, it might be enough to get me to move back.

Yeah, my wife has historically loathed JRPGs in part because the turn-based combat was too dull. She tried Expedition 33, fell in love immediately, and tried to show me the combat system like, “Look! It’s so new and innovative! This is how all those old games should’ve been!”

…So I’m putting Barkley Shut Up & Jam Gaiden on her computer next time she leaves it unattended.

I’m paying for the insurance, but the nearest in-network provider taking new patients is a 90 minute drive. Is that a cousin to “You can’t afford healthcare”?

… for now. Trump is going to move on to white people who disapprove of him eventually.

Uh… The dude already tried to stay in office unelected. That’s what the Jan 6 riot was. He faced no consequences, and then got elected again.

Jack Welch did not singlehandedly ruin capitalism. He was a symptom of the problems capitalism is designed to create.

So what’s going to happen when Trump vetoes this?

It only matters if it makes money for him. Someone wealthy and interested in cracking nuclear fusion would need to be giving him a payout.

reliable and familiar that won’t break the bank.

This is why car companies are not going to offer EVs that people actually want without government intervention. I remember GM leasing EVs back in the '90s to some acclaim. But they didn’t let anyone buy out their leases and they discontinued production by the end of the decade because most of their money came from service. And a bare-bones electric car has very few service requirements.

Manufacturers need the bullshit features because they need something important and breakable for consumers to come back with. Even if it’s just planned obsolescence driving another purchase, like it sounds like the article’s author is heading towards.

Absolutely this. Ever since Nolan, we’ve been getting grimmer, darker, more “realistic” reboots of the character as directors try to figure out what Batman would look like in the real world. Burton and Schumacher asked the much funner question of, “What kind of crazy nonsense world worships a vigilante in a furry suit?”

…Democratic Socialists of America Fund, a political nonprofit organization that funded the survey…

I trust this survey implicitly.

Your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words, on labels: “gay”, “homosexual”, “lesbian.” You think they tell you who a person sleeps with, but they don’t tell you that. Like all labels, they refer to one thing and one thing only: Where does a person so identified fit in the food chain? In the pecking order. Not ideology or sexual taste, but something much simpler: clout. Who owes me favors. Not who I fuck or who fucks me, but who will pick up the phone when I call. To someone who doesn’t understand this, homosexual is what I am because I sleep with men, but this is wrong. Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. Homosexuals are men who, in 15 years of trying, can’t get a pissant anti-discrimination bill through City Council. They are men who know nobody, and who nobody knows. Now, Henry, does that sound like me?

From ABC’s perspective, that is not any better. If their programming isn’t on air, they’re not making advertising dollars. Whether it’s because Sinclair chose not to show their programming or ABC chose not to let Sinclair show their programming, the end result is the same: no advertising dollars, and Kimmel still isn’t on TV.

Both. Sinclair won’t air it, so ABC has suspended production. In theory, ABC could’ve had it keep airing on non-Sinclair affiliates, but they’d be biting the hand that feeds to do so.

When I was in high school, the girls running team had shirts that said, “Fast girls have good times!”

Hochul is getting primaried by a more progressive candidate, and NYC has always been relatively weak for her because she’s from Buffalo. This isn’t actually about the mayoral race; she’s begging the city to keep her in the governor’s mansion.

crashing the economy

The stock market is doing great. The ownership class is lining up behind Trump because he’s making them billions and they just need to stroke his ego a little bit.