What planet are you living on?
Planet = parents basement
When you live there, you don't have to worry about paying for anything which means you don't know what product availability and prices are.
No plastic shortage? B.S.
- Restaurant owners describe the cutthroat competition for plastic cups and takeout containers as shortages continue
- From paints to plastics, a chemical shortage ignites prices
- Beverage Industry Can’t Get Enough Plastic Bottles, Says Packaging CEO
- The world has a plastics shortage, and PC makers may be responding with a little greenwashing
No steel shortage? B.S.
- How a U.S. steel shortage created a market bubble
- Steel and roofing materials shortage hamstrings construction industry
- U.S. manufacturers grapple with steel shortages, soaring prices
No paint shortage? B.S.
- Paint is getting costlier and harder to find, and this could be just the beginning
- Paint suppliers experiencing shortage of paint, pandemic is not the only reasons
- Paint is the latest product facing supply shortages and higher prices
- Paint is the latest product facing supply shortages and higher prices
No aluminum shortage? B.S.
- Can demand, aluminum shortage continue to plague beverage industry
- Aluminum Shortage Drives Price Increases for Several Industry Suppliers
No glass shortage? B.S.
- From zippers to glass, shortages of basic goods hobble U.S. economy
- National glass shortage means delays, increase costs for auto glass repairs
It almost makes you think that a lot of these supply constraint articles are all BS. If car makers are making more per unit but 10x less sales, their their profits should drop. If their profits aren't dropping with the supply constraints, then they are lying about it to trick people into paying higher prices and buying higher cost models.
What are you looking at that shows their profits aren't dropping?
Let's use Ford as an example. Their most recent quarterly result was for 2nd quarter of 2021, so we'll compare that to prior 2nd quarter results.
- 2Q 2016: revenue $39.5 billion, net income $2.0 billion
- 2Q 2017: revenue $39.9 billion, net income $2.0 billion
- 2Q 2018: revenue $38.9 billion, net income $1.1 billion
- 2Q 2019: revenue $38.9 billion, net income $0.1 billion.
- 2Q 2020: revenue $19.4 billion, net income $1.1 billion.
- 2Q 2021: revenue $26.8 billion, net income $0.6 billion.
$0.6 billion net income for 2Q 2021 is a lot less than the $1.1 billion for 2Q 2018 and 2Q 2020. It's also a lot less than the $2.0 billion from 2q 2016 and 2Q 2017 ( net income for 2Q 2019 took a hit because they were restructuring their businesses in Europe and South America )
Revenue for 2Q 2021 and 2Q 2020 is also a lot less than the normal $38 billion+ they did during 2nd quarter fror years prior to the pandemic.
Ozy would also buy in bulk email addresses from third-party websites like U.S. Data Corporation and Exact Data, ramping up the size of its newsletter following in order to fulfill advertising deals with its clients.
Probably paid for the email addresses with the $5.7 million they got in PPP loans.
And from now to then migrate to Windows 11 at your own leisure...
Take it easy, take it slow, take it steady. No worries.
You misspelled Linux. Other than that, yes, take it easy and slow.
Biden made money printer go brrrr, which caused inflation, and inflation via money printing is a regressive tax on everyone, which affects the poor and middle class more than the wealthy. It's like putting extra taxes on food and fuel. The wealthy are barely inconvenienced, while the poor are crushed.
Jerome Powell, who was hand picked by Trump to be the chair of the Federal Reserve, made the money printer go "brrrr" in 2020.
Who was President in 2020? Trump.
Why did the money printer go "brrrr" in 2020? Because Trump screwed up and didn't take Covid-19 seriously, telling everyone "We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. We have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.” and tweeting "“The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” followed a month later by "It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear."
Or, when asked about its continuing spread across the U.S., his reply was: "No, I’m not concerned at all. No, we’ve done a great job with it."
All other manufacturers stop or reduce greatly their production of cars. But for GM it's just one feature? It seems that chip shortage is a good excuse for not implementing a feature that doesn't work....
Guess you missed the news in September about how GM had to (temporarily) shut down 8 North American plants due to the chip shortage. This came after GM announced in August they were shutting down 3 North American truck plants which came after the July news that they were shutting down 3 plants.
Perhaps because it was so long ago you mistakenly thought it was Ford when in fact it was GM who said they were shutting down 2 plants back in April and 3 plants back in February.
I know it can be hard to keep track of them all since every car manufacturer seems to be having problems with the chip shortage.
.... claiming is their commitment to protecting the rights of their customers
That's what they're publicly saying, but how do we know they're not doing something else.
Netflix Originals will have an (unfair?) advantage in that it's available worldwide. Everything else is so fragmented in availability that the addressable market for it is much smaller.
Netflix Originals also have an unfair advantage in that they're more heavily promoted/presented or recommended. Well, at least they are for me. Here are examples of what I mean. While browsing through Netflix on my Roku, I see the following:
- For their "New Releases," 65 shows/movies are Netflix Originals while 10 are not. (86.67% in Netflix's favor)
- For their "New on Netflix," 47 are Netflix Originals while 28 are not. (62.67% in Netflix's favor)
- For "Recently Added," 43 are Netflix Originals and 32 are not. (57.33% in Netflix's favor)
- It gets better with "Top Picks for Me" though where only 21 are Netflix Originals and 50 of them are not. So 29.58% (almost a third) of the shows/movies Netflix is recommending are Netflix Originals.
I have to scroll to the bottom or do more digging to get past all the Netflix Originals I'm bombarded with.
Coinbase's security sucks. This has been an ongoing problem with them
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