That’s all well and good, but it ignores the reality that simply renting a place isn’t as easy as walking in and saying, “Hey I want this,” as I’m sure you and your partner know.

If anything, I wouldn’t be surprised that due to their age and rather inconsistent and relatively low income (before the sponsorships,…

Letting someone else keep 85% to 95% is not always a bad deal. Getting 5% to 15% of profits from Amazon or Google or Facebook would be a great deal worth a lot of money. In my opinion, it’s not the percentages that are important. It’s the net profit.

Maybe I’m naive (or just work in an industry where this simply isn’t a thing), but why on Earth would anyone sign up for an organization that has a contract where they organization would take 85-95% of any earnings from sponsorship deals? As far as I know, most of the money these streamers make is from sponsorships…

It’s possible to have empathy for her in this situation (being verbally abused online by trolls), but absolutely no sympathy for the situation as a whole (getting hoodwinked and voluntarily doubling-down on generalized stupidity by stealing from your employer).

It’s easy to convince yourself of things that aren’t true…

Not that I’m from New York, but I’m a dancer, and there’s another important name you forgot: Shabba Doo.

Same reason why Flo-Jo ran with big hair and long fingernails, which undoubtedly didn’t help her run faster (and problem slowed her down considering the aerodynamics):

Because she can.

Someone clearly doesn’t understand how fiscal years work.

The entire period when he was with Marla was, business-wise, his lowest point also.

He was flying high with Ivana, and he reemerged with popularity with Melania when The Apprentice was on air, so considering that his major bankruptcies and failures came during his time with Marla, it’s clear he associates her (along…

I wouldn’t be surprised if they went with this design out of sheer efficiency.

Not to mention, many of those cars had designed elements that served specific functions due to having an internal combustion engine mounted in a certain way. Those same elements would either be superfluous or detrimental on an all-electric…

Ten years later, Dodge gives us the Hellcat. 7/10ths of the Veyron’s power, at 5/100ths of the Veyron’s price. Everybody and their mother could get one, and if you live in Florida, it seemed like everybody and their mother already has one.

This is true about Japan, but you also can’t discount that Japanese people also have two things that most countries don’t: a higher than normal average life expectancy, and a very generous banking and loan industry that made/makes it easier for people to invest in homeownership (but which also led to a liquidity trap).

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BTW, can anybody believe Rhea Seehorn is freaking 50 years old????

One could make the argument that the increased stratification of wages at the higher end is either the cause, or at least an exacerbation, of the need for people to work longer.

The destruction of labor unions, the move from company-funded pensions to employee-funded retirement plans like 401ks and IRAs (even with…

Sony stopped selling the PS5 at a loss back in Aug 2011, when hardware prices were still heavily inflated.

That inflation has gone down significantly in the intervening time period, so unless AMD has increased their prices towards Sony (unlikely, considering that AMD also supplies the CPU and GPU for the Xbox), this…

The PS5 (and the Series X, for that matter) use a custom AMD GPU chip they get directly from AMD, not an AIB. It’s also based on an older architecture that currently is only in production for Sony and Microsoft. Further, the increase in GPU prices weren’t the MSRPs, but rather markups done by the AIB’s and retailers;…

Patrick and H. Jon Benjamin definitely fall into that category, and good on them. If you’re blessed with a distinctive enough voice that fits a particular archetype that’s relatively common, by all means, take the consistent work.

Very true about Keith, even though when he lowers his voice (particular towards his natural speaking register), he can’t hide the fact that he’s Keith David.

Contrast that with someone like (and also a favorite) Phil LaMarr, who almost never sounds like his normal self when he’s doing a VA role.

Didn’t imply that they were, or that there was any sort of possibility of a lawsuit short of Tesla refusing refunds (and they aren’t) or Tesla outright committing fraud by never intending to manufacture and deliver the roadsters (which, up to this point,  there’s no evidence of that being the case).

He’s possibly my favorite VA (who is also an amazing actor in his own right), but Keith David does his natural speaking voice in almost all of his roles, and it’s fucking perfect every time.

The only thing I can think of (and I’m not a lawyer) is if a depositor can somehow prove that Tesla had no intention from the get-go to ever actually make the vehicles in question., or perhaps another form of specific illegal deceptive practices.

However, reading the Roadster Reservation Agreement, nothing really…