People who complain about the US dollar and oil are people who've never taken an economics class.

If you're too lazy to learn economics, then do a simple search to find out the world's oil production compared to the number of dollars in the world, and that should give you an idea of how much influence it actually has.

We're living in a fascinating era. Life is too difficult for many people, and the angst this creates leads to depression.

Some people try to eat their depression away, and some try to spend themselves out of its clutches purchasing the newest shiny thing.

Get off the scrolling treadmill, go outside, throw a ball with your dog, and last but not least, have a drink at the end of the day and kick your feet up.

By the metrics Goldman is using the answer is no, America's growth helps growth elsewhere because they are leaning on imports as a primary factor and the US has always been the worlds leading importer of goods. We make a lot of money and spend it out in the world, thus economic growth. This kindof speaks to what "acceptable" is getting at, it's China's protectionist policies that have kept it from being acceptable but also they don't really seem to care?

Whether that metric is worthwhile or correct is where the argument could be.

I'd say keep letter delivery, but cut it to once a week. Have a smaller workforce cycle through the routes. Do bulk mail once a month.

The Kroger by us, in a fairly densely populated suburb, has over 25 positions open. The nearby Wal-Mart can't stay open 24-hours because they can't get enough people to work the night shift. Two nearby restaurants closed because they couldn't keep enough staff to stay open during lunch and dinner rushes.

I've asked, they've told me no every time.

Released earlier this year but if anyone has yet to see it this video is really fantastic at breaking down how this came about and why it feels so weird and unfunny, even to the audience they're trying to reach.

How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult

Larry Ellison Is a ‘Shadow President’ in Donald Trump’s America

I'll find out in mid January, lol - it's en route on the Ever Acme, with a transfer at Rotterdam. ;) But given our high local prices, it's the same cost to me of like 60kg of local filament, so so long as the odds of it being good are better than 1 in 8, I come out ahead, and I like those odds ;)

That said, I have no reason to think that it won't be. Yasin isn't a well known brand, but a lot of other brands (for example Hatchbox) often use white-label Yasin as their own. And everything I've seen about their op looks quite professional.

This is much cheaper than actually going through the labor intensive process of psychoanalysis, so insurance companies like it.

I wonder when we'll see the Ritalin lawsuits.

They don't really know what caused the glitch.

The cosmic ray hypothesis is just a conjecture.

So, they're rolling back to the previous version until they can figure it out.

If they're doing memory scrubbing, they might want to bump up the frequency.

If they aren't using semiconductors made with depleted boron, they should be.

The movies that draw people into those experience are already high budget and even at smaller budgets 8K cameras and tech are widely accessible. Also as we talk here about Netflix obviously the business model of recouping a films budget at the box office isn't really true anymore. It's not the budget of the films thats at issue, its really just the business model of the theater chains.

Really in the last thread I talked about how we need a Paramount Decree for streaming, a separation between the production and distribution and ironically it's probably true that the opposite for actual theaters is true now. I think Disney now owns a few movie theaters and that's probably how they stay alive, instead of this money split between theaters and studios theaters will be a collaborative event function, the theater really has to make enough to keep itself profitable, not the entire chain of things and the studio isn't really looking at the box office as it's be all end all, it's more an event, the bread and butter is streaming but its a choice for the viewer.

As an example I think we've seen those replays of older films in the theater be popular so there is a demand there for the experience, people still like to go the movies but the value proposition is out of whack and the business model is outmoded.

Read my post again. You didn't understand it.

My son works for his high school newspaper. He brought in a battery powered Panasonic cassette recorder to do interviews, complete with the cheesy chrome microphone it came with. It got people more interested in the interviews and he got some good copy out of them. He also brought in a portable typewriter we found on the side of the road being thrown away. He fixed it up and uses it to type notes in newspaper class. Everyone in that class loves it.