Don’t know why. Even his wife stopped giving a fuck a couple weeks after.

Animals haven’t been able to go war and prove that they can beat us. With the notable exception of The Australian Emu.

Not really… According to Pew Research Approximately 45% of Republicans report owning a gun, compared to about 20% of Democrats. Considering the parties are often roughly equally sized when it comes to these statistical models, that’s not actually a massive difference. There are plenty of armed Democrats, they’re just not vocal about wanting to worship their tools.

Bet you Trump threatened to cancel the World Cup hosting in the US unless they gave him something. It’s essentially impossible to reschedule an event that large this close to the start.

Well considering the article is about a product launch in the US… seems relevant. Carrier locking isn’t illegal at all in the US.

They didn’t even used to have to unlock it once a contract was over, not that most carriers at the time would allow unlocked phones on their network anyway, they do at least have to do that now.

Granted this was 15 years ago. The market was a lot different than it is now.

That being said, most people still buy their phones through their carrier. So whatever the carrier sales reps get paid the most to sell is what they push people towards.

Eh. Apps were still fairly new in 2010. It launched around the same time as the iPhone 4. Heck, the iPhone was still officially only available from AT&T at the time.

It looked like a knockoff iPhone 3G with a slide out keyboard, so it was at least twice the size. Lack of apps and social media weren’t what killed the Kin.

As long as the media keeps telling them he’s not. 35%+ of the population has been very successfully brainwashed by right-wing news designed specifically in the aftermath of Watergate to gaslight the public into believing whatever agenda they want.

Nixon was going to be allowed to get away scot free until the media started actually educating the public, who then demanded their politicians do something about it. Fox News was created in the wake of that with the goal of preventing that from happening again.

And with first past the poll voting, the system is designed to inevitably allow a minority to rule. When it was created, only a handful could vote, and being kept up to date on political and economic events was essentially a requirement of their place in the country. Wealthy white land owners were already basicallt required to stay up to date on current events and politics, and the effects of various changes. The voting systems were designed with an educated electorate like that in mind. Those systems have been hijacked as voting rights have expanded and an educated and up-to-date electorate is no longer an fundamental feature of who could vote.

I mean that’s obvious. Otherwise you’re just paying $45 to ignore the security checkpoint if you’re guaranteed to get through with payment.

One could argue surveillance and tracking is about security. They’d be wrong. But they could argue that.

To be fair… that’s just Mamdani’s… it’s a lot less for the regular council members. Not sure how exactly it’s structured since Mamdani’s increase would definitely be more than 16%.

A proposal filed this week by Councilwoman Nantasha Williams, a Queens Democrat, would boost council members’ annual pay by 16% from $148,500 to $172,500, the New York Post reported.
If approved, the proposed pay hike would also apply to the new mayor, public advocate, comptroller and borough presidents. It would raise Mamdani’s pay to nearly $350,000 from the current $258,000 with benefits.

It looks to me a bit more like establishment Dems trying to lay a trap for a Democratic Socialist taking office. He approves it and seemingly immediately does the opposite of part of his election platform, improving affordability for average New Yorkers. Or he doesn’t and there’s immediate friction with basically every member of the council board that he needs to actually accomplish anything.

I’m sure they think so. Its not just an increase for Mamdani, it is for all of City Council. Their last pay increase was 2016 according to the article.

This of course is not a vacuum though, and I’m sure the rest of New York’s average workers have gotten the hard end of a stick for the last decade as well.

Most people don’t know extensions exist. Because they don’t care and have never been shown.

Pissing someone off is a strong motivator for them to start searching though.

This comment tells me you’ve never had a good job at a good company.

Quite the opposite, I haven’t experienced these hardships myself, but I’m able to recognize that tens of millions of people experience them every day. That it’s a reality we need to deal with as a society, and call out shitty executives that act like it doesn’t exist or that it’s the poor’s fault for not working harder (while they barely work, despite their claims). Did you mean to help prove the point that it’s extremely easy for people that don’t experience hardships like the inability to pay basic bills or afford food on a daily basis to fail empathizing with the workers that do? Because you did pretty spectacularly.

I’m talking about a majority of the everyday workforce here. Like 99% of the 2.1 million people working at Walmart stores under this executive’s leadership. Talking about the inability of corporate executives to empathize with their employees being broadcast widely without any of them realizing the hypocrisy in articles like this with their tone deaf claims.

That’s because as an executive she has no issue being able to just “work remotely” or leave “early” on a random day to go to a doctor’s appointment, or parent teacher meeting mid-afternoon. She’s only accountable to (maybe) the other executives who do the same shit. She doesn;t even realize she’s doing it. That’s just how life works.

Meanwhile Maria and Bobby are getting written up for coming back from break 2 minutes late.

I always wondered why people fly an airline effectively calling itself death.

Here’s the thing though, 90% of her life IS tuned down. Every time she’s not worrying about how to pay the bills. How to get to work. How many presents there will be for Christmahannukwanzakkuh. Hell even how much this week’s groceries are going to cost from her own store thst she almost certainly doesn’t get most of her groceries from.

She just doesn’t realize it, because that’s not a life she’s experienced. She has absolutely no way to empathize because it’s as foreign to her as a guinea pig flying an airplane.

And yet Proton is Swiss.

I call it enhanced autocomplete. We all know how inaccurate autocomplete is.

Marijuana isn’t a truth serum.