It's against the law that Congress passed. It's another example of the unlawfulness of the Trump administration. So that matters.

You can argue it isn't important to have this law. I disagree. Monopolies are bad for consumers, and for that 14% (or whatever the real number is), a monopoly on a product they use regularly would be bad for them, especially since it is a primary source of local news.

If I were a T-mobile investor I would be getting out now. The pointy-hair types completely misunderstand their market and their target audience.

T-mobile's bread and butter is a rich older person who doesn't want to talk to a "foreigner" on a phone or mess around in an app, they want to talk to a real, live, in-person person who will make their phone work and ensure they can play Candy Crush and Wordle and Facecally their grandchildren. They don't mind paying a little more or going to a store because when they walk out, it just works and they know they can go back when there is a problem (which there always will be). When the stores go away, these high-margin, easy-profit customers will go away too.

Why are business managers so dumb? Oh yeah, anything to juice the profits this quarter so they can get theirs while the long-term investors take one for the team. Disgusting.

I am an n=1, but we are a hybrid home. OTA for the networks and live sports (free!), then a few streaming subscriptions ad-free for everything else. Mostly just the occasional tornado warning and football game for OTA, to be honest. I would watch more but I hate hate HATE paying for someone to serve me ads.

There was discussion of it starting as early as April of 2020, (https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=ivermectin), but interest seems to have peaked in August of 2021. I suppose that means some people were trying it prophylactically, but big interest in it arose during the peak of the vaccine mandate season as an "alternative" to the vaccines.

Perhaps not surprisingly, in the U.S., the most interest was in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Alabama, Mississippi...all peak misinformation areas...

Yes, it did hurt anything, because people believed they could take Ivermectin for COVID rather than, you know, actual vaccines and treatments that work.

Doctors and nurses care because it's sort of their job to care that their patients get better. And refusing treatments that work in favor of those that do not kills their patients.

Then imagine what COVID would have been like?

The initial COVID vaccines were a bit over-powered in my view, but they wanted really high effectiveness, so I suppose that's the tradeoff.

If you had said photos, you could easily sell them to people on the left and the right. The left for seeing him humiliated, and the right so they can deny the photos exist.

Why stop at milliseconds? Why not create an OnlyFans where you can only get access to announcements and pronouncements from the President if you pay?

No Pay? No public information for you!

Other than Flock's PR reports, there is little rigorous evidence that Flock cameras reduce crime. There is some evidence it is easier to locate a stolen car or find a missing person (both of which are useful but happen AFTER the crime has occurred); but it does not appear Flock systematically is helpful in other types of crime or is of much use for areas that are not under Flock surveillance (which is to say that we would have to surveil everything all the time).

I haven't hiked this specific trail, but I saw tons and tons of people hiking a 10-mile mountain trail in Rocky Mountain National Park in the winter in sneakers (a good way to slip and injure yourself on the icy trails) and jeans (a good mechanism for getting hypothermia once they get wet after 10 seconds on the trail (see "sneakers," above)).

They station a park ranger at the trail head warning people who are clearly unprepared. But people go anyway, and then throw a fit when they are wet and cold and need help.

People have a right to injure themselves, I guess?

Citation needed.

Middle management is a late 19th century invention, and there are other ways to organize work. Why do we have to organize into "departments" and "teams" all while being told by the highest paid person in the "department" what to do, when to do it, and how to do it?

WFH revealed many of the fallacies and inefficiencies with the middle-management model, and instead of trying a different, more efficient model, companies have doubled-down by removing the thing that exposed the inefficiencies in the first place.

The amount of money is too small to hire a repo man. Maybe you'll risk injury for a $20,000 car and a $2,000 repo fee. But you won't go through all the difficulty of hunting someone down, confronting them, pulling their phone out of their hand, for a $600 phone and a $60 repo fee. At the individual level these cases are too little money to pursue through the traditional routes, and other than a stern letter, a threaten to send to collections, and a complaint to the police (all of which amounts to bupkis), there's not much to do. But at the aggregate level, repeat this scenario tens of thousands of times, and the leasing company is out big bucks.

How about 10? IS that bettr? Asking FOR A FRIENDDDDDDD!!!!!

Sure - it's not easy to get clear, unbiased answers when the country is ruled by fear and an iron fist. But some polling data has shown only 1/3rd of Russians said they would likely vote for the Party Unified Russia. So that means 65% - a vast majority - wouldn't say who they would vote for or would vote for someone else (https://wciom.com/our-news/ratings/rating-of-political-parties).

Still nuke-able?