Why am I picturing a tiny rat named Capone sporting ink that reads “rat-a-tat-tat”, bitching about how he can’t stand a rat?

Man, I need to lay off The Untouchables after midnight.

Given the rather life-long permanent effects of those tattoos and the proven fact that it is a royal BITCH to try and remove them, I’d say it’s a pretty damn strong assumption among the inked and non-inked that some things DO appear to just sit there.

Sell to to me another way.

Tattoos have been around for a very long time. A lot longer than clickbait has.

Can we confirm that tattoos have had a measurable negative impact on human immunity that shows itself in longevity statistics, while also proving it was in fact the tattoo that was the cause?

Yes, I’m well aware that lifestyle choices of those sporting ink is a factor here. As well as ink technology. Now let’s account for those factors and prove the study. On the surface this should be rather easy to validate. Health and safety standards have long been established too. At least in countries that care about it.

As far as trying to drag this argument into the COVID vaccines, that sounds like a horrific weak-ass excuse to dismiss the problems that have risen from those particular emergency-authorized solutions. Don’t try and dismiss all accountability with that weak sauce.

Thats quite a weak justification to assume they’re smarter. Tattoos have gotten a HELL of a lot more expensive in the last decade, and I’d say that has a bit more influence on it. I’m not even in that age demographic and make decent money. I can’t justify the cost, and I’m not going to shame the artist by asking for discounts.

It's a bit different in SoCal. Here "Los Angeles man shot in front of a liquor store" is a Tuesday.

...Don't tell me you actually believe that shares have to be sold before they're considered part of a person's net worth? Because if so, you literally erased all doubt just now. And if not, then what the hell are you even talking about? Why would you even think for a second that he has to sell anything at all? Unless you're suggesting that if SpaceX has its IPO, it would push his net worth above that amount? And if so, and that was the only goal, wouldn't it make more sense to have gone public a long time ago?

More likely, you're probably like rsilvergun who literally believes that all billionaires have a money bank full of gold coins and cash that they swim around in like Scrooge McDuck.

Increased enrollment where? Which colleges? Be specific.

I never said they are to blame for all of it, a point I've clarified many times already, but you keep diddling with this (bad) assumption anyway. Some have kept their costs down pretty well. In other cases, the students themselves are responsible for that, a point I made clear in my very first comment. Reading helps. So does context. Not only are you arguing yourself in circles, at this point I doubt you even know what argument you're trying to make.

Stop. If you even had any idea what the Baumol was to begin with, you would have called it out by name a long time ago. Besides, you're getting ahead of yourself...

You mean this?

https://www.subr.edu/assets/su...

Why not just link to it? It's kind of funny because you implicated yourself to be a qualified economist, and you're sitting here arguing against...actual qualified economists. Who used actual data. And did actual research.

And that supports your previous assertions about Baumol how? But more precisely, it's not even relevant to your argument, which is exactly why I think you don't even know what argument you're trying to make. The paper set out to ascertain what impacts Baumol and Bowen have on the costs of tuition, not value added services outside the core goal of education. So why would you expect it to? There are a lot of those, which is actually a common criticism levied against these schools that I didn't even make here. Does your school really need a new wading pool with a water feature to increase its educational value? Does your school really need more luxury features in its dorm rooms (which they also charge a lot more for, by the way) to increase its educational value?

Probably not. If you really need a school that bakes daily therapy sessions into your tuition, then go there. Though I'm sure if you really need it that bad, you can get it on your own, which helps keeps the costs down for other students who don't need it.

What I *want* is for you to figure out what argument you're trying to make.

Their uselessness isn’t over as long as a demented media is still defending the shit they did by trying to dismiss, forget, or ignore it. America is the actual victim of Didn’t Earn It incompetence. And as you freely admit, they didn’t leave behind a dismissible mess that is “over”. Not by a long shot.

Fine. I will ask the US Citizen Veteran and proud father how he feels about an American President keeping American soldiers out of that war. It’ll help clarify exactly who Trump knows he’s working for. Would you still be defending a fucking auto pen sending 18-year old American kids into a meat grinder? Trump wasn’t a win. It was a necessity.

Perspective, holds significant value to educate and enlighten. If this is the “worlds problem” then maybe the other thirty-one fucking members of NATO should get off their ass and do more. Ask yourself why they’re not.

Biden was a corpse. His admin was utterly corrupt. Trump saved our democracy. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

My old CEO used to arrive by 6AM every morning to the plant. He would walk through and have a brief chat face to face with people in every department. The man would probably cover a mile or two every morning doing this. Always polite. Always respectful. Always engaged. He was one of the best CEOs I’ve ever worked for. There’s a difference in being engaged and micromanaging.

If you think this particular CEO is micromanaging, imagine the fiduciary pressure to deliver being orders of magnitude larger than 99.999% of companies that have ever existed, because your gone-viral pre-IPO stock ticker is already a household name. Doubt you’d feel comfortable with anything less than a daily schedule when the failure of your company could already cause a crash in the very market they’re not even fully in yet.

First Street very likely doesn't have some magic model that can predict the future better than anyone else.

When you get a mortgage you have to pay for a flood survey. Even my house 700' above the village where the bank is.

Your flood risk is absolutely predicted by the flood history of your location. The bank writing the mortgage has the skin in the game which is why they make the buyer pay for the flood survey.

It sounds like First Street might be liable for damages based on pseudoscience if these Realtors bring a case. It would be interesting to see them present solid evidence that they prospectively beat the existing flood models and survive a cross-examination.

If they've published a peer-reviewed paper then I missed it.

Hostile design is often a sign of libido dominandi, not just laziness.

SmartTube has probably hundreds of settings you can tweak to improve usability and accessibility. The developer clearly has a user-first philosophy.

You have Revanced for Android but Apple doesn't allow such things.

It has some excellent accessibility improvements over stock.

Cheaper to just pay the bribes.

In America it's known as K-street. Or "donating" to an Inauguration Gala. Or hosting a high court judge in a European palace for a couple of weeks. Or giving decision makers absurd private sector salaries when they 'retire'. Or giving the Governor's wife a $200K no-show job. Pick your branch, there's a way.

In India the system is less formal.

>"I actually know quite a few people with Fold phones and precisely zero of them think the creases are in any way a discouragement"

My point (which probably wasn't clear) was that the links and info provided for this article didn't show anything about how it folded or that there are creases or that it didn't lay flat, etc. But the youtube review did show that useful info (and a lot of the positives too).

>"Make no mistake these phones are not designed for everyone, they are a niche product for a minority."

Indeed... my mouth was watering over it. Super cool and useful. But it isn't practical for me for the way I would want to use it, and probably most others. And that is even before the $3,000 price tag.

Also, there is something a bit off-putting that one of their main listed features is that the *FIRST* screen repair is half price!!! Their marketing department needs some serious reprimand on that one. :) LOL!

>"Literally every Samsung Fold phone has a 1st party case (as well as 3rd party cases) that are designed specifically to cause the phone to sit flat with the camera bulge."

It might have that 1/3 lay flat, but it will be considerably higher than the other 2/3, so it will not be flat in totality. It just won't be rocking on the camera.... which is a plus, but something potential customers might not expect.

In any case, it is a marvel of technology and I wish them the best. But if someone gave me one for free, I am not sure I would want to carry around something so bulky and heavy. So I encourage someone to send me a free one and I will try it out and report back ;)