partial_accumen

I give my kiwis a good rinse and sorta “scrub” their skin (is it called a peel on kiwis?)with my palms before I bite into them skin and all like am apple. I have had more than one person audibly gasp and ask me what the hell I’m doing when they see me eating kiwis that way.

Cannibalism?! Oh my god why the heck would you treat New Zealanders that way?!

, sweet meat.

For a second I read that as sweetbread. That is a very VERY different thing.

Trumps massive tax cuts for the rich from his first term are almost ending, he needs a lot of money to renew them.

The trump tax cuts for the rich were in the form of commercial taxation. Those were permanent and aren’t ending. The rich get their cuts by reduction in corporate taxes in the form of dividends or increased stock value of the companies they hold.

The tax cuts for the middle class are the temporary ones that are ending.

We need a pithy, demeaning nickname to sum this up, something that’ll really get under his thin skin. I’ll suggest PINO, “President In Name Only.” Open to suggestions tho!

“47 standing next to 45”

“oww! My legacy!”

trump blinked. This is good for the future of our democracy.

Generally a company doing something bad enough to encourage a large enough boycott to affect the bottom line is making quite a bit of money. They calculate the loss of sales due to the boycott over time and can plot when the value of the bad business is lower than the boycott. Many times they continue with the bad behavior in spite of loss of business from the boycott because the business might be at the edge of viability anyway. So extracting the last bit of value out of the company is a net win before the rotting husk is sold off in pieces for the value of its assets or the brand is sold to the opposing group that actually likes the bad behavior that was being boycotted so it becomes an asset again.

I believe that is “buttery males”.

First of all, this is a horrible move.

The Pentagon chief said he was “here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States of America from being primarily focused on the security of Europe”,

Second, this means we’re drastically reducing US Defense spending and putting that money into free healthcare for our population, right?

But I’m curious what’s the equivalent on the utopian alternative to capitalism. Is there currency at all, and if there is, does the government set prices and the exchange rate like in the former Soviet Union?

In all definitions of a utopian society I think we’re talking about a post scarcity world. If you’re casting far enough into the future, we have infinite supplies of clean energy and technology to take that energy and directly turn it into any kind of matter we desire (like Star Trek replicators). At that point, why would your society need money?

Obviously there are lesser versions of that of post-scarcity where at least anyone’s basic needs are met (food, shelter, clothing, healthcare), and anything you want beyond the basics would require extra effort on the part of the person. This version would have something like UBI (Universal Basic Income) and, yes it would have money. There wouldn’t really be a need for any kind of price fixing because anything you’d want to buy would not be required for life or health. There would also be no requirement to work if you are satisified in life with just food, clothing, shelter and healthcare.

Many commenters also cited the controversial introduction of a divorce cooling-off period in 2021, making them wary of the “easy entry and strict exit” for marriage.

I had missed the introduction of this in 2021.

“The law requires couples who are mutually seeking a divorce to wait for 30 days before formalising it. If the couples don’t show up for two appointments between 30 and 60 days after applying, their application is automatically cancelled.”

“In February Chinese media reported fully booked appointment slots in Shenzhen, Shanghai and other cities, with some being sold by scalpers.”

source

That would certainly be a disincentive to get married if you could not get out of it if you needed to.

alwayshasbeen.jpg

Thankfully the other two haven’t fallen as hard as Seagate has.

If you want keep thinking that don’t look too hard at Western Digital’s scandals and catastrophic drive failures of the past. In my early working days I made good money swapping out hundreds of failing Western Digital hard drives.

Large enough that management schools are forced to teach about how ever real reform won’t be enough to save you from bad actions.

Sadly, in the world of multinational business, that isn’t how management schools perceive boycotts.

Oh, I agree with that. Part of the cost of a product is how much bother the consumer will have to put forth to get their desired use out of it. That’s part of what a brand is supposed to communicate to a buyer.

I don’t want to have to pay a registrar, I would like to submit my domains to registers directly. There is a business layer of middle-men who do not need to exist.

You’re in luck! You can do this! You can become your own registrar. Cut out the middle man! You only have to pay $4000/year to talk directly to ICANN.

Thats because of how you set it up. If you want individual IP addresses for all your resources, you can get a huge chunk of IPv6 addresses just for yourself. You can get a /48 (65,536) addresses if you set it up with your ISP.

Okay, I agree with you that you’re not wrong to be upset at Seagate customer service. Its also perfectly within your rights to stop using Seagate. I just want to point out that if you continue to follow your policy of “one and done”, and the continued deteriorating customer service experience all companies are providing these days, you’ll soon be left with very few places to do business with.

There are only 6 or 7 airlines that fly out of my local international airport. I’ve had disappointing customer service experiences of one degree or another from every single one of them. If I was following a “one and done” approach, I’d have no one to fly commercially with.

Specifically with magnetic hard drive manufacturers, there are only 3 left in existence: Seagate, Western Digital, and Toshiba

If you’ve sworn off Seagate, that means all of your future purchase have to be accommodated by the remaining two. I hope that is enough.

I don’t disagree, but even if he lost a further $199B he’d still be a billionaire. There are only 756 billionaire in the USA. By no measure is a billionaire poor.

What was Seagate’s excuse for not honoring the warranty when you filed a claim?