Nice.

Cool, you can say bad things about Trump.

Now say something bad about Xi Jinping. You can't do it. You are a slave, not human.

Six of one, half dozen the other.

This hasn't been around long enough to say one way or the other. Some it happened the first time they closed it, some it took a few. That batch could have simply exhibited the problem much earlier. If was that big of a difference to matter, and this is just a one-off, then their QC must have been asleep at the wheel to not notice a big variance like that.

I had an iphone 6, issued by my work at the time. It bent by simply keeping it in my front pocket, at a time when I wore loose fitting jeans, where most were experiencing that by having it in their back pocket. That is a failure marked by doing a 3 point bend test instead of a 4 point bend test, which had already been long-established for anything with non-uniform strength or density. After the first few returns, apple said "not a design defect, this is normal wear". Umm...ok... That phone was also infamous for battery failures. The same battery failures that they applied the infamous throttling patch for. The same battery failure that ultimately ended my particular phone, even though the problem started while the phone was still relatively new, and resulted in a bulging battery causing it to bend outwards, warping the outer bezel before apple said "ok, we'll replace your battery for a nominal fee" after the phone was already well past what materials scientists would refer to as its yield point.

Only phone I've ever had with any of these problems, and I carried a Nexus 5 in my pocket along with that phone, which was my personal phone. That Nexus 5 didn't bend, in fact it was helping that iphone last longer than it would have otherwise.

The problem with living in an authoritarian state, it's impossible to take an economics class based in science.

If you had learned about economics, you might have learned about "dividends" and "regulations based on rule of law."

Inflation is great for making people feel rich.

Probably quite a bit less if you also deduct the cosmetic surgery for the new one.

Not really a taboo unless you're related.

Be honest: is "same last name" why mom and dad told you not to date your cousin and you took it at face value ever since?

All it took for that to happen to you was a clown with an orange face.

That's not how mormons work. I'm an atheist raised in a mostly mormon community. You're made by apple, they're made by the book of mormon. Entirely different worlds. You are the scientology to their islam. Prophet has a new revelation, they get a new commandment. The revelation can be anything the prophet decides it is, even if it's incredibly stupid, like magic underwear. You drink coffee only if it comes in a container with an apple logo, Mitt Romney only drinks orange juice. If anything, the prophet tells the Utah republican party what to do.

Excuse me. *Geeks* dress up like fairy tail furries.

Nerds watch star trek and do epic shit for God and country:

https://www.tandfonline.com/do...

RIP Patrick Stewart. Picard was my favorite. And I also enjoyed his MacBeth.

Someone has already pointed this out, but it bears repeating. For that to actually be true, they would need to cost more from the budget than they add to it through both direct taxation, and the tax revenue generated through the effects of their labor and other economic activity on the GDP. Virtually all studies show that they're actually a net benefit there.

Perhaps for the LEGAL migrants...but not for the ILLEGAL migrants...they are a burden on the US taxpayer.....they're usually paid under the table, off the books and are the ones clogging up our ERs and classrooms.

The truth sits behind a paywall, the lies are free everywhere.

The San Diego Union Tribune got sold to Alden Global Capital on July 2023.

You literally can now, that was one of the first things changed by Elon.

Go to Twitter and click on the "Following" tab. It even remains selected between visits, so you don't have to see the AI shovelware unless you click on the other tab.

That's accounting rather than finance, and I'm not an accountant either. Writedown is when an asset already on the ledger is worth less or has a lower recoverable value than what is currently recorded. The difference in value gets recorded as an expense. What you're thinking of is a write-off, i.e. zero value, not a write down.

While this wouldn't be an actual write down because it's not an asset on the books, my non-accountant mind treats it as a related concept. Basically, they're predicting future revenues may be lower than they had previously targeted. This is a forward looking statement, and generally where the finance side comes in. This is like when Facebook was predicting higher future revenue based on predicted mobile app usage growth, but then later announced that they hadn't quite figured out yet how to monetize advertising on the mobile app, but they were working on solving that problem. They eventually did and later realized those previously predicted targets. Meanwhile the stock took a pretty big hit.

At least, that's my interpretation.