Blockbuster got caught having two copies of their web page. The external one had lower prices, but in store prices were higher. If a customer said the saw a higher price in person the clerks would go to a in store computer showing the higher price.

What were the repercussions? Almost nothing. They paid a fine unrelated to how much money they stole and promised not to do it again. No individual received any direct compensation.

Just like a class action suit. Normal business practice. Nothing to see here, move along.

From the Deja Vu all over again department:

Investor Michael Burry of The Big Short fame issued a fresh warning on the AI boom, observing that the hyperscalers leading the charge are amassing $3 trillion in financial commitments that aren't reflected in their balance sheets.

"These liabilities, I say, are, in essence, in hypergrowth mode," ... Burry singled out Amazon, Meta Platforms, Alphabet, Microsoft and Oracle for proceeding with enormous capital expenditures.

Michael Burry was of the figures in The Big Short which depicted the 2008-2010 financial meltdown. Burry and a few others understood the over-leveraging in housing market lending and correctly predicted it's crash, so his track record is very good.

The accounting trick this time is that the contractual commitments don't show up when they are made.

The pack of hyperscalers is holding $1.2 trillion in future lease commitments along with $1.5 trillion in commitments to purchase AI-related hardware and equipment, such as memory chips. The latter can be kept off a firm's balance sheet until the products ultimately reach the hyperscalers and each party fulfills its obligations under current accounting rules.

The crucial difference this time is the explosive growth of the National Debt created by tax cuts for billionaires and a ruinous unnecessary foreign war. Ordinary tax payers will be the ultimate victims if history is any guide.

Just got a little funnier.

Equally obsolete regressive units.

Maybe he's a friend of Kash Patel?

Trumpdick ia a poor unit of length because existing accounts clearly show that is now very flaccid and squishy.

It might work as a unit of volume at this point because like his brain it 100% nonfunctional.

His obsessive use of terms like "super" are another clue he is desperately trying to overcompensate for this.

Microsoft updates will be discontinued?

That's the only way I can read this that makes any sense IRL. Obviously wishful thinking.

In the real world this is an example of looting. This is not about well considered business or financial decisions, it's about stealing wealth and taking it away. The way you describe the California AG makes your embrace of corrupt practice undeniable (although I know you will never admit it).

The enterprise of the film community has thrived in California for such a long time because it is liberal environment. There is room for individualism and inclusiveness, and this was true before DEI was ever a thing. Both Southern California and the SF Bay area, where much of this is located, have been open to all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds from all over the world.

It's an ecology, and if you rip it up and put it in an overtly hostile environment it will wither and die. How can you imagine that international talent wants to relocate to the MAGA confederate south? How can such a backwards place appeal to in international audience? Tennessee is ranked 42nd in this wellness rating, just above Alabama. California rates 6th.

As far as I can tell the only innovation our of Tennessee in the 21st century is Nashville Hot Chicken. Oak Ridge National Lab doesn't count because it is 100% the creation of the US government.

There are multiple sites in the ocean off Southern California including dumped munitions, low level radioactive waste, sulfuric acid, and toxic petrochemicals chemicals.

There is a Superfund site at he former location of the Montrose Chemical Corporation in Torrance where much of the DDT related waste was illegally dumped off Palos Verdes.

The full extent of the problem is still unknown. “The more we look, the more we find, and every new bit of information seems to be scarier than the last... This has shown just how egregious and harmful the dumping has been off our nation’s coasts, and that we have no idea how big of an issue and how big of a problem this is nationally."

Kimmel would love giving equal air time to a Green Party candidate. He'd make it entertaining and enlightening. Great television. He'd take his show down to Texas to accommodate Paxton for an interview, but it might be hard to pry Paxton out from whatever rock he's hiding under.

As far as allowing Democratic Socialists airtime, the FCC doesn't consider them to be any different than any other Democrats so it's a no go.

Trump has already called Democrats "godless communists", so that is the official party line. FCC clearly thinks that commies have no free speech rights at all, so no Talarico over the airwaves for you.

Grow up.

Where's my $2000 from DOGE savings? Does no one remember the last time? How fucking brain dead do you have to be to not remember?

Also his offer is completely illegal and no one seems to be talking about that little detail.

Trump and the Republicans think that voters are whores and will sell their rights for an empty promise. I'm afraid they might be right.

This just in! The TV Show South Park is rebranding to South America.

It makes perfect sense because they're under the umbrella of the Trump controlled state media organization Skydance/Paramount and they're following the lead of Google and Apple in groveling to the current regime. Trey and Matt are Patriotic Americans who obviously support the flag and all it stands for and would never produce anything that would challenge our Orange Cheeto Fearless Leader.

The Gulf of America and Lake America.

Coming soon: the Trump Straights and the State of New America.

When will he change the calendar to suit his whims?

When Lucas started funding the USC film school one of his conditions was that they get rid of all their film projection equipment. The art history department kept theirs, so if someone wanted to show a physical flat strip of media with square hole sprockets they had to go to another part of campus.

That's an object example of how bloated his ego is. He consciously eliminated the physical media history of motion pictures because he thought digital was superior.