My brain isnt the broken one. The legislative branch promising to over turn agency decisions (you dipshits belive are supposed to be independent, but we all know that is only when your guy aint in charge) is not the same thing as talking about overturning a legislative agenda. It is also not the same thing as an outsider saying it. If say James Carville, said it I'd take no issue.

Imagine if a bunch of Senators lines up and said just wait until we get party member in the White House, we are putting all of you in Detroit on notice, the EPA will be eliminating fuel economy standards! You would have cried foul too, and you fucking know it.

Promising to over turn lawfully executed anti-trust decisions by the currently ELECTED administration isn't just opposing agendas it is a direct attempt to undermine the credibility and ability of the current government to execute policy.

This is just economic terrorism.

I should not be tolerated. Republicans should push to censure everyone one these people.

Much like Cracker Barrel, this was a deliberatte "fuck you" to get attention. It worked!

Right MCD is just looking over at KO and going us too.

A few loud people online and embittered animators are complaining about their ads. That handful of people might be mad about it. Meanwhile in terms of numbers that matter everyone else going out of their way to watch the ads, like seeking them out, just to see what all the fuss is. So they get tons of free ad impressions, and if they are lucky a few of those people say "gee haven't had a Coke in while, sounds pretty good, maybe I'll buy a case."

I haven't met anyone in IRL who is actually mad at Coca-Cola for their AI ads, but they are talking about them. Even if the sentement might be 'the old ads had more soul' it isn't changing their opinion of the product or the company really, and it is bringing it to top of mind. - Just what the ad men want..

Hard to image every other corporate marketing department isn't trying to figureout how to get in on that without appearing a little to 'us too', the funny part is that last part really does not matter either probably, they only worry it does.

If Elected I Promise to direct the State Department to issue all official correspondence in Comic Sans MS.

I believe strong this will help inject needed levity into maters of State and help anal retentive diplomats the world over not take themselves so seriously, allowing for more open and dynamic conversations.

Now about my Nobel Peace Prize...

My point stands, they did a reprint but it also labeled 'anniversary series' and it has not value. I stated a re-issue would have no value.

I don't collect cards, I agree with you in principle; but I can also acknowledge how the market works. People assign value to the originals, its like art where a skilled painter can make a nearly indistinguishable forgery / copy, some of which can stand up to quite a lot forensic scrutiny. Honestly there is no reason one of Eric Hebborn's Rembrandt's should be worth less than an actual Rembrandt. Its just people rather arbitrarily decided their should be.

The trouble with Pokemon cards is I don't believe there is nearly so much consensus on what is an original issue, when one goes out of print and when they start printing them again. Which makes the whole idea of assigning value much more difficult.

These jobs are the important entry-level jobs for immigrants, regardless of documentation status. Replacing them with robots is straight-up cruelty.

These beggars are selling a product, though they do not know it.

That product is the approval of your own conscience. Are you the kind of person who can look at someone in need and ignore them?

It's also ingroup solidarity,you can leave comments with others who also gave money.

It's worthwhile to note that socialists despise charity. Government should do everything. That's why they got angry when MrBeast dug all those water wells in Africa. He made the governments look bad.

And never forget that socialism is for workers. It's a workers' paradise. It's not 'free money for lazy people who don't work," no matter how often Trump says that.

True but even sports cards traditionally they are given player in a given years, TOPS or whoever printed however many Babe Ruth cards they thought they might sell in his rookie year, and later when he turned out to be a sensation, people wanted those early issued cards.

Pikachu as far as I know is ageless, and Nintendo can decide to issue more of any given card, there are no real rules that anyone would slam as a rug pull or be able to reasonably say - well the 're-issue' isn't worth anything they there would be if one of the Base Ball card companies decided to print more TreyYesavage 2025 season cards, in 2032.

So NFTs but even dumber because we now have an asset that isn't unique, is only rare in context, and probably lacks any meaningful anti-counterfeit controls etc.

Every time it appears Gen-Z has a solid lead in race to be dumbest generation, the now middle aged Millennials groan and say hold on there youngin hold my beer!

To which Gen-Z replies, eww you still drink that stuff.

I am not sure about that.

Microsoft isn't a hardware company, going back to add on cards in mice for XTs, Microsoft has always used hardware to push software.

We see the ROG Xbox Ally and the pushing of Xbox branded content in Windows 11. I think all suggests that while XBox as brand and XBox 'titles' are not going away Microsoft is testing the waters for options that don't include them sell hardware. Those options range from pure PC based / Windows software plays to partnering with OEMs to build gaming oriented hardware that can run custom spins of Windows 11.

Microsoft has long history of trying to get into the living room with various products, webTV, that floppy based picture viewer thing whatever that was called, Media Center releases of windows.. XBox as we have known it might just be another corpse beside that highway. It failed to give them the gatekeeping positions for media in the home they have always sought. In someways I think Microsoft missed Smart-TVs they way they missed the web and mobile.

Now do USPS.

Paper mail is a waste of time except when it isn't, and for those times pay for FexEx!

so was my last speeding ticket.

The fines should be set high enough to so that the activity that results in them isn't more profitable than doing whatever the law says is the right thing. 400k is probably enough that it would have been better for the company to have given existing part time works a handful of additional hours a week to update price labels across the state.

Fines are not suppose to be excessively punitive or ruinous. If someone was really behaving outrageously or with real criminal intent we have have jails for that. This is that though, anyone who has been in Dollar General knows managements 'vision' how can we do the absolute minimum require to operate a retails store, right down to the bear florescent (maybe led in some newer facilities) tubes for over head light.

hows that again? AC

Lack of regulation - Nope they are getting fined because there are regulations.

Lack of enforcement - Nope they got audited thousands of times and fined!

Now you could argue they were not fined enough, I guess but clearly there is a regulation and clearly the regulators are checking up!