That's a rather silly stance to take.

The removal of cellphones was to remove distractions and provide an improved social and academic learning environment where schools can better perform their primary function.

Banning books is ideological warfare, driven down to the school level. A conflict of those who want to use a typically religious guideline on what can and cannot be taught.

The two things are absolutely in no way related and even attempting to posit them as such paints you as either ignorant or a troll.

"We feel Starbucks could capitalize on the NFT craze and make money off of it. What we sell isn't defined. What benefit customers get isn't defined. It'll all probably as shallow like "Exclusive content" of reading Starbucks mermaid fan fic. But one thing that is sure, we feel we can make money off it as an add-on to $6 coffees!

"I mean, anyone paying that much for coffee every day isn't very smart with their money, right? Why not take advantage of that?"

That's always been the case.

Some sources are dependent on light. Others on wind activity. Others on tidal power. What we need is a combination of 1) blended sources so that any one source being in a valley of it's production cycle can be compensated for by other sources and 2) Better kinetic storage, be it battery, thermal, kinetic, etc. that can compensate for variances and demand and 3) Whole grid sharing where a state with surplus generation at the moment can help a city in another state with brief deficit generation.

it's a bit balancing act, but it's where we need to go.

It seems that they deliberately set aside the major story arcs of the earlier phases and aimed at some more basic movies not heavily tied to the overarching plots.
I can see where that's a valid approach. If you go into it with lower expectations, but giving audiences time for a pallet cleanser period before you get back into the big arcs. It's not entirely different than what Star Trek did when they shut down for a few years to give audiences time and avoid burnout before making any new shows.

The next phases will be starting soon and have plenty of overarching stories to mine between Kang and the Secret Wars. After the success of the prior phases, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt until we see what they produce.

It takes time, a decade, to build the kind of attachments audiences had with Cap and Tony. You can't expect that kind of re-engagement overnight. It takes time.

I'm surprised we don't see endorsements by power companies.
I'm imagining a BitCoin logo with endorsement patches like NASCAR

Why do I never have points when I really want to upvote something?

Well, if you are on the clock, getting paid and this is the official meeting method, you can choose to go along with it or find a new place to work. No one is forcing you to work HERE.

A company's ability to find what works best for them should not be limited by the lowest common denominator of every single employee's preference.

He didn't mention not getting paid. If they are on salary and they spend Friday 3 till 5 hanging out and still getting paid, that's a fine use of time for all involved.

Should be careful about dragging your own bias and assumption of wronging into everything you encounter.

Counterpoint:

He throws childish tantrums
Is quick to attack/insult anyone who disagrees with him
He treats workers like crap(worker rights, safety, etc.)
He's an oligarch in training

You judge him by the companies he bought and got rich on
Others judge him based on his behavior and how he treats others

Your statements such as "managed by suckfest of woke activists" betray your personal bias. Care to provide any actual stats to back up your assertions? Or are we just at the wild accusations that back up your personal narrative stage?

isn't the comment
"profitable for a new generation of trading apps to push retail investors to make as many trades as possible, making the markets more volatile than ever"
rather odd in the age of high frequency trading?

I would think that standardized and top-down driven would make a lot more sense than randomness. if I see a category 3 heat wave warning for a place I'm about to go visit, I'd like to know what that means without having to dig into the specific city's website and hunting to find out where it's noting what that means to that location.

Why is it that the days I don't have mod points to spend are the days I need them the most?

Use your personal account for your competitive play

Have a secondary "work" account you use when streaming.

This isn't rocket science, folks. Just don't assume a game maker has to change things to suit your personal, specific, non-standard needs.

I did some consulting work for Caesar's Palace a good while back. Work during the day, hang out in the Casino and Vegas in the evenings and stayed in the hotel, comped. Was working with a back office guy who was a really great guy. His comment was that when you bought chips, you'd already lost.

No matter how much money you "won" until the minute you cashed out, you hadn't won anything. It's all theoretical.

Crypto's no different. If you didn't cash it out, it was never yours. No one "lost billions". They failed to exit with their money Just like gamblers.

What I don't get, is if you are a investment group, why not manage your risks? At a minimum, as it skyrocketed, they should have cashed out the value of their initial stake plus a modest profit, so they were only left playing with the house's money.

If you can help me grasp one part of what you said...

"In particular there were limits placed on trades to prevent what he was doing so to get around that he took a few million dollars worth of tokens and just donated them which circumvented those limits and allowed him to proceed with the rest of his trades."

Where did he get a few million dollars in tokens to trade to start that process? Seems odd.