Rewards programs can make sense without this kind of fuckery. My local pizza place isn't adjusting their prices, they still match the paper take out menus and coupons. But they have a rewards program because it incentivizes people to come back, and repeat business is worth the slight discount.
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Temba, his sausage wide.
TIL there's more books in the series. I had only seen it referred to as a trilogy and assumed I was done after book 3.
Looks like 4 and 5 are out, 6 has a completed first draft and a 7th is planned after that.
To the TBR list they go.
Randomly picked The Will of the Many from a list of recommendations.
Still too early to judge but it has potential. Magic system seems interesting, and I'm very interested in the world building. The present tense is certainly a choice, but it works where it needs to.
On the other hand, I've never been terribly interested in fantasy Rome, the pyramid scheme magic system risks painfully on the nose allegory if not handled properly, and the prospect of this story moving to "the academy" has me wary due to my irrational hatred of stories set in schools.
On body-worn camera video played in court, Wasser was heard saying she wanted to check the bag for bombs before removing it from the McDonald’s. Despite that concern, she acknowledged in her testimony Monday that police never cleared the restaurant of customers or employees.
Unless they had probable cause to believe there was a bomb, that's absolutely no excuse for a search. Might as well just get rid of the fourth amendment altogether if police can just imagine the possibility of a dangerous object and excuse searching anything at any time.
If she really thought there was a bomb, she is recklessly handling this herself instead of calling in a properly trained and equipped bomb squad. But far worse, she claims she needed to check it so as not bring a bomb to the station, but apparently has no problem potentially handling a bomb around a bunch of innocent bystanders.
That she is lying in order to justify what she knew to be an illegal search is actually the least damning interpretation. Either way though, the evidence should be thrown out along with her career.
He says they need to invest heavily in EVs if they don't want to get dominated by China. And apparently he thinks that setting ambitious regulatory goals for EVs only to back off before they take effect is harming their ability to compete.
And yet, he also lobbied hard for Trump to cut fuel efficiency standards. Funny how that works.
When my SO does this I always reference this scene in Duck Soup as a way to gently point out what they're doing.
It's an open and shut case. There is no rational legal argument for ending birthright citizenship.
Unfortunately, this court doesn't seem to feel bound by little things like laws, precedents, the constitution or reality. If I had to bet on the outcome, I'd assume they will give Trump what he wants yet again. I want to be wrong about that, but at this point I think it's a safer bet to assume this court will always do the worst thing possible.
Does anyone else find it a bit odd that aliens are all interested in human or nearly human women? One would think that most aliens would be attracted to creatures with similar characteristics to their own species. The ferengi should find us as unappealing as most of us find them.
According to Grok, the threshold is 50% of humanity. Apparently Elon Musk dying is as bad as or worse for humanity than a Thanos snap.
And don't get me started on modern conveniences.
Amazing how one little letter can make such a big difference.
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I buy groceries at an employee owned chain that pays its people well, keeps unnecessary costs down, has a massive selection, and is consistently cheaper than almost anywhere else. It's been interesting to see how some items have had minimal inflation while others have gone way up. And then to see those same items all massively overpriced everywhere else.
Anything I can buy there, I buy there. I spend a lot of money there. They have my undying loyalty, and all it took was for them to not be evil.
The people behind this shit? I wouldn't piss on em if they were on fire. If they were being fed feet first into a wood chipper one by one, I'd only complain about the noise.