Their real estate is.

You just described pretty much every large corporation. Microsoft certainly isn't unique in this.

Nope. Trump won because of people like you. People like you insisting that others had to be "brainwashed" by Fox or some other source for voting and choosing the way they do. As long as you guys act like assholes and scream that those other people are "brainwashed", you're only going to drive more people to them. Nobody under 30 watches Fox, and yet Gen Z is shifting to the Right. Now, you can find another shadowy conspiracy to account for this, or you can accept that maybe, just maybe, people vote the way they do because they want to, because they have their own sense of right and wrong and they follow it.

This is why I hate the whole "best interests" argument. "I just don't understand why these people vote against their interests". Well, that's because people that say this don't really give a shit about their interests. People decide what their own "best interests" are, thank you, and then vote for them. No one else gets a say on that process. What they really mean is "Fuck those people for not voting in MY preferences".

"From the people that brought you DrKoop.com, comes a new service for your dog..."

Yup. Fire up the bulldozers and just push it into Turtle Bay. Build apartments or a parking deck in its place.

The argument seems to be that if you can get your work done in four days instead of five then it should be a no-brainer. But that just sounds like an admission that you're not spending as much time working each day as claimed.

This stuff has the potential to backfire on the people pushing it, with owners and managers thinking "If we went to four day weeks with no loss of production, then maybe we're employing too many people".

It did well domestic business, but stunk it up in China, and the rest of Asia doesn't look too good either. The only foreign market that's really putting in good numbers is Latin America. Since the domestic market is doing better than expected, it'll make money. But with the way Asia is playing out, it won't make the kind of money that Warner Brothers was hoping for.

Hollywood has been relying on Asia for profitability on multi-million dollar CGI epics for a couple of decades now. They may have to adjust their business model.

HR: "We're doing a RIF, and unfortunately, we're going to have to let you go".

Worker: "What am I going to do?"

HR: "Learn to co... oh, fuck, I'm so sorry".

For the women that DO want to have children it's certainly an increasing problem.

So, to sum up your argument, we've become weak, hedonistic, and uncaring about our own civilization.

That doesn't explain everything. Fertility takes two to make babies. It doesn't explain why male fertility is also dropping. Testosterone and sperm counts have been steadily dropping in first world countries for decades now. And everyone notices. Men are getting more boyish-looking and less rugged. There's more guys firing blanks. Women complain that men are less attractive than they used to be. That surely has something to do with the lower testosterone. So something else is going on. It's not just economics.

It comes mainly from three reasons:

One, only some kinds of recycling make sense. Aluminum? Of course? Steel? Certainly. Glass? Mostly. But many materials simply don't make sense to recycle. I WISH plastics could be recycled more, but in all practicality, they can't, at least not in a commercially desirable form. And recycling paper is the biggest fucking scam in the whole business. It takes far more energy and water to recycle paper that it does to make it from fast growing virgin softwoods like pine, of which there is no shortage.

Second, there's the utterly arrogant attitude from the evangelists of recycling. You know the type. Infamously holier-than-thou types that want to know what sacrifices you've made today to Save Mother Earth. It really is their religion.

And then, there are affluent types that wave recycling around as a status symbol, signaling that they're the right kind of people, and you aren't. George Carlin infamously pillaged the fuck out of them:

Outside of a handful of Beaux-Arts buildings that are truly lovely (the Library of Congress, for one), DC is mostly a collection of Brutalist monstrosities that regularly make the list of ugliest buildings. When the Great Society programs starting kicking in during the sixties, it set off a wave of ugly, soul-sucking concrete construction that consumed DC.

Who the fuck gave Zod net access?