SolNine

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Is it worse than pig farms? You can smell them miles away depending on the wind direction, and being inside the building with stalls of piglets still haunts me lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This 100%! I barely used Twitter to begin with, but as soon as he went off the deep end, I completely deleted my account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

And we do realize that revenue is different from net profits correct?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh ONLY 68 MILLION dollars, not to mention the ever increasing cost of living for all the other unionized cast and crew. I suppose they can totally just absorb those costs, or people should not get cost of living increases right... The company has a little over a 10% profit margin, which doesn't seem egregious to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Love the down votes haha... I guess people don't want to actually pay for creators to make content. I don't think the average person has any idea how much content creation costs, nor how time consuming it is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Well, I've kept my reddit account as I use it occasionally from desktop... Guess it's time to finally say goodbye.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I understand your point, and you are accurate about the majority, my apologies, however; (and I did look this up and couldn't find an answer) how many of the bills passed by the house have been brought to the floor during the 118th congress were only brought forth with enough votes to pass them with GOP only votes? Are there any exceptions? Would they even bring one to the floor? It seems effectually this rule has been taken to an extreme. It appears today, McCarthy finally put on his big boy pants and is proposing a 45 day clean spending bill, but it's just kicking the can down the road again.

Many of the items put in the majority of bills that could normally pass with bipartisan support are non-starters for Democrats. These insane "anti-woke" (whatever the hell that means), policies and support/proliferation of Russian propaganda resulting in our neglect of Ukraine aid are not in our nations best interest.

It's amazing to me that under GOP control they will cut taxes, spend like lunatics, blow up the deficit, and then their constituents buy into the "fiscal conservatism" ploy, hook, line and sinker as soon as they are the opposition party. It's baffling to me. No one, especially me, disagrees with the fact that our national deficit is way beyond egregious, but shutting down the government, defaulting on debt, crashing the economy, harming our military service members, and ruining our currency and credit rating is political terrorism.

No one is willing to take on our defense spending issues, and I'm not talking about supplying our troops, I'm talking about only having one company that provides parts or equipment with no competition, changing absurd prices, and the same goes with much of our investment into equipment development. I cant recall if it's the JSF or the F22, but while they are publicly funded programs the US doesn't even own the patent rights and can't allow for competition for replacement parts etc. It's insane, our defense budget is so out of wack it needs a complete overhaul.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

You are missing a very important part of the GOP insanity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastert_Rule#:~:text=The%20Hastert%20Rule%20says%20that,would%20vote%20to%20pass%20it

Don't attempt to both sides this issue, they won't bring a bill to the floor that doesn't have support to pass WITHOUT bipartisan support. The entire GOP is run by extremists and has been for a long time. When your core principal says that you cannot be bipartisan, you are infact an extremist party by nature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Technically, but not like it uses to be... the back still has to come off which uses adhesive, and a few little cables have to be moved, but you can check out a few tear downs. I don't understand why we can't have water tight backs that use an O and screws, but I guess that would make it to easy to fix things, so lets use more glue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I ended up getting the S23 Ultra, (had to come out of pocket a bit), and if you get Samsung's Care+ insurance it's $8 a month, so basically $100 a year if something goes catastrophically wrong. I will probably carry that insurance for the first two years or so of owning the phone. Given I rely upon my phone for a ton of business, my home phone, social communication etc, it seems fairly reasonable as they claim to have 24 hour replacement.

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