And I just noted that in my little, American, redneck town that you usually don’t have to stick the quarter in the Aldi cart as someone will come along and hand you their cart.

We have an Aldi in my little redneck American town. Not sure I’ve ever paid the $.25. Most people look for an incoming customer to hand off to.

Closest thing I can think of in my life was the Mexican chick downstairs bringing her cute young friend over one Saturday night. I was utterly hammered on vodka, so I was clueless until I looked over and saw Maria deep in her friend’s pussy. And away we go!

Been in all sorts of freaky sexual situations, but that one could have been filmed as a porno.

I could honestly see that coming from rich person born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Talk to conservatives and you might be surprised how much money they think poor people get from the government.

Just to get food stamps you have to earn 130% under the poverty line.

Does anyone not expect them to question sustainability going forward? Anyone in any sane position in healthcare investment is going to ask:

“This is a thing. How has it worked out so far? How will it work in the future?”

“While this proposition carries tremendous value for patients and society, it could represent a challenge for genome medicine developers looking for sustained cash flow.”

The question is: “What is our future when our scientific output kills our business?”

This is a perfectly rational question to pursue. This is a place private medicine hasn’t visited. Yet another reason healthcare and research should be a government function. Government exists to spend money on societal benefits without expectation of near-term monetary profit.

God knows where they go with the answers, but putting off cures is conspiracy bullshit. You think the major pharma companies will drop monstrous short term profits? Tell me, with a straight face, that you believe these evil capitalists are planning long term. And then your next comment, “Line must go up!” And the next, “These corporations can’t think past the next quarter’s profits.”

The enemy is both strong and weak. 🙄

Some y’all have the business sense of angry teenagers. No, this shouldn’t be a discussion about business, but it is.

tl;dr: “This is going to hurt your bottom line. You need to start thinking about it.”

Epstein was allowed to kill himself. Someone whispered in his ear that he should do the right thing, hint, hint, or face monstrous consequences.

$850 a week sounds a little nuts to me, let alone 4 days, and not in consumer spending.

10s of trillions of dollars of activity a day

Our entire GDP isn’t $30T yet. I’m really questioning these numbers.

Melt it all down, let it seperate by mass, pour into molds. Energy consumed may not be worth it though.

Sounds logical, but emotionally I’m repelled. Anyone know economics can speak to this?

If I can’t remember a movie, that’s my cue that it wasn’t very good. I’m easily entertained in the moment, but how I think on it later determines my real feelings.

For symptoms:

Mom made me a shot of whiskey, honey and lemon juice as a child. (We did not drink in my household. Ever.) Works a charm.

My wife makes me hover over a steaming bowl of salt water, towel over head. Does seem to work well. Can’t hurt to expand your lungs with the heat and get some salt air in there, right? A trip to the beach, especially in the water, cures a great many ills.

The cure:

What breaks my fever is curling up in bed under a ton of blankets and knocking myself out. When I get to dreaming heavily I’ll wake up soaked in sweat. Not mildly moist, I mean to say soaking wet, really gross, have to get up and towel off. That’s how I know I’m on the other side and getting better.

We won’t have jobs or food, let alone PC parts.

Y’all cheering for this crash are naive as hell. Yeah, it has to happen, better sooner than later, but it’s far too late to avoid global depression.

Have a search for the Buffett Index. It’s the measure of total stock valuation vs. GDP.

• In 1929 it was around 130%.

• 2000 was 150%.

• 2006-07 was around 110%.

• 2021 hit over 200% for the first time.

• It’s at 230% today.

None of us have lived a crash like what’s coming.

https://www.currentmarketvaluation.com/models/buffett-indicator.php

Just changed the brakes on my 2004 F150. Already had front pads, got the rear pads off Amazon for $17.98, stores wanted $45+. Rang me up yesterday for plugs and wires. $145. Hell no, got a set on Amazon for $52. I’m no Bezos lover, but I cannot afford local stores.

Everything I read scares me away from new vehicles, ICE or EV. I’m no mechanic, but I can change bulbs and plugs and wires and oil and brakes and air filters, you get the idea. The learning curve seems awfully steep for purchasing a used EV. I’ll have to do it eventually, but damn.

Now EVERY system is fly by wire?! I put on my brakes or turn my steering wheel, all mechanical, fixable, doesn’t need any fucking software updates. Nothing can be bricked or tracked.

Sell me on an EV. I want the Slate truck that’s stupid simple, hope it’s not a POS.

Has to be UV ink and on the north side of the building.

SOURCE: Managed a print shop making stuff like this.

Tried applying months ago, kept getting hung up and having to wait for the next step to be approved, finally gave up.

My Hotmail and Yahoo! accounts from the late 90s are still good and I don’t touch them but maybe once every year or two.

Said much the same yesterday. The poster child for narcissistic personality disorder getting on his knees? LOL. No fucking way.

The harm in OP’s example is immediate.

Bad logic, yes, but it stands in this case because the harm is immediate, not in some future decade. Given such widespread use, headphones must be OK or doctors would have been sounding the alarm decades ago after seeing young people with blown out ears.