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You owe me years of life.

Best I can do is an upvote and a hearty thank you.

Thank you!

Wow, so it’s confirmed that Seth has a new girlfriend?

The tariffs are going to pay for the tax cuts, duh.

Oh, he’s going to be hated for a lot longer than that… there will be chapters about him in the history books.

Not just that, but the government makes money off of student loans.

Government backed student loans should either charge interest or be exempt from bankruptcy, not both!

The Dudette

Bachir Atallah

I think I found the explanation.

Thanks for sharing that you’d blocked them, I’ve now done the same.

The problem is that the user didn’t keep saying “Pretend that you are a capable therapist” every few comments during their sessions.

/s

Just like gas prices went down after the price of oil dropped?

I don’t think providing more meat for the grinder will suddenly make anyone change their minds on the subject.

Again, you’re not the customer

I don’t want to create an entire thread arguing because I believe that you value your viewpoints as much as I value mine, but I think this might be the main area where our viewpoints diverge because when I’m buying something, then yes, I am the customer. And when I buy something then my expectation is that I will then own that something and I will do with it as I please.

I don’t know… if there’s a single bee flying around me I’m going to very quickly find my way to another area.

the present economy is actually very good at making exactly what people want to buy

Don’t take this personally, but that’s bullshit.

Look at cars and phones as an example. Manufacturers decide what the customers want and then push it on us. No one asked for a phone that doesn’t have a replaceable battery, doesn’t have a headphone jack, has microbezels, is covered in glass so if you drop it you have to buy a new one, or you have to buy a case to wrap it in. No one asked for a car that is sending all of your data to the manufacturer, has a huge-ass touch screen that can’t be customized in any way, has features that don’t work while the car is in motion, lets your insurance company know when you accelerate too quickly, and plays ads when you are at a stoplight.

I’ve been looking at getting a new washer and even those are terrible and require connecting the appliance to a wireless network and installing an app on your phone to get full functionality.

There are VERY few manufacturers of anything out there that actually give a shit about what the consumer really wants, and instead will provide the minimum needed to get the consumer to buy while providing the maximum return for investors.

The courts have ordered the government to return him to the US, and they are refusing. What good is a court ordering the government to pay this family anything going to do?

The next day: McTwiddledumb has been pardoned

That only applies to the President… but, whoever takes the fall can immediately get a pardon.

No way this is real.

The waiter would have said “Non.”

Oh look, it’s all of the states run by conservative governments… and most have been run by conservative governments for MANY years. So they’ve been running inefficiently all this time?