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Comment · 1 year ago
Plenty of crowds at my local theaters.
Comment · 1 year ago
Your analysis misses the incredibly important caveat that revenue rises with inflation – or sometimes even faster.
50 years ago, a movie ticket was 0.50 cents in revenue. Today, it’s $25. That’s a 50x increase… a dollar in 50 years might be worth $0.02 today, but a movie ticket in 50 years is worth about a movie ticket today.
Comment · 1 year ago
Or a traditional Maté
Comment · 1 year ago
The benefit with the two device approach is when you can not carry both devices for the majority of the time. If i’m not explicitly on call, my work device isn’t with me. Anything anyone says to me will wait until I’m back in the office.
If you have the self control to refuse to ever check Slack and disable all notifications/etc on your personal phone when not on call, this doesn’t apply as much. But for me I default to trying to stay on things and forcing myself to disconnect is a net good, even if it does mean I carry two phones at times. My pockets are large.
Comment · 1 year ago
I would have to strongly recommend nobody enroll a personal device in a company MDM. If the company needs you to have mobile connectivity that badly, they can give you a device.
Comment · 1 year ago
Not a chance that will happen, given the corn production of America. We have the most productive land in the world for growing maize, and Lord knows we’ll find shit to do with it.
Comment · 1 year ago
A point of clarification: Biden pardoned his son because he was a three time convicted felon. Certainly not because of fears of Trump: he was convicted of these federal felonies while Biden was in office. He additionally pardoned the entire rest of his family (siblings and their spouses) too, from “anything and everything”, for reasons only he knows.
And unjust judges must be taken down by the people en masse. It is indeed our civic responsibility. But this particular case isn’t requiring anything extreme: the people are simply being encouraged to vote. This is actually among the most democratic of any judicial nomination process. Now, I’m guessing there’s some Iranian “Supreme Leader”-style vetting of the candidates; the ruling elite almost never give the people any actual power, but still. Upper echelons of democracy no doubt, hardly damaging democracy in any way.
Comment · 1 year ago
Roe v Wade was — along with all the other things he has had a hand in removing — not a good thing. But don’t take my word for it, look to what actual (female) supreme court justices have said about it: It was over-broad and questionably defensible. It was not a good ruling, and it’s nice to have that space opened up for something better to come along.
https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/justice-ruth-bader-ginsbur...
Medical trials should be financed by the corporations standing to profit from them. Tax payers should not be on the hook to check their work.
Veteran healthcare is severely overfunded. Ask any veteran who will be honest with you and they’ll say the same (Most of my coworkers are veterans, the stories are wild). You have a tiny slice of people who actually need help, and a massive cohort of folks gaming the system to be declared as “disabled” as possible, despite often having next to no actual disability. Or — people intentionally harming themselves to get more disability. Again, ask a veteran.
Can’t say I’m a huge fan of Doge, but I don’t see their efforts putting me any more at risk than Experian, EquiFax, TransUnion et. all who have already leaked all my info to anyone who might care. Oftentimes getting paid to do it!
Judges generally are the antithesis of democracy. They sit above the law and make decisions about what is legal without being subject to any popular support or potential consequences. They are by and large the least democratic aspect of our system. Marbury v Madison is the biggest of all fingers in the face of democracy. To say that an instance of the people rising up to get rid of the unelected arbiter of the law is somehow damaging “democracy” is frankly ridiculous. People en masse working together to decide how they will be governed is democracy.
The presidential pardon is at the core of our constitution and is a vital part of ensuring political prisoners can be freed. This is a case of that, and I generally support it — even in egregious cases like Biden’s entire family being pardoned of “everything everywhere all at one”, or whatever it was.
I think his track record first term was pretty decent. No wars. It was the next guy that got us in two, killing literal millions. And the other option was promising us “more of the same”. No thank you.