“Can you perhaps see how what you are saying can be seen as victim shaming?”

You might want to google that. The chemical name for kalunite is potassium aluminium sulphate. The chemical formula is KAl(SO₄)₂. And alums are aluminium salts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alum

You might want to google that. The chemical name for kalunite is potassium aluminium sulphate. The chemical formula…

And it's not like they'll have to redo the entire webpage from scratch. Just change the logo and buy a new domain name. Even the laziest webdesigner can do that before their coffee gets cold

Or A League of Their Own if Tom Hanks was the lead. In movies, sports seem to be the path to sobriety. Not the impression you get from real life sports

Nah, Keanu Reeves is a very pretty man, no matter what. There is something mesmerizing about his looks. There is nothing wrong with Ron Livingston’s looks, but I doubt a lot of people get lost in his visage

I know someone who wrote an ok but not great ya-novel. She went all in on social media and became everyone’s bff and supportive big sister and scored a book deal for two more books and a movie deal out of it. She is very, very good at social media. Meanwhile, I also once talked to a well-established author who’s…

I thought economics was interesting when they explained the mechanisms behind supply/demand, inflation, consumer behaviour, monopolies, etc. all those chains and charts and how things are connected, but as soon as they left the theoretical stuff and got into details I checked out

(Short) fingers crossed

I hate wide phones. Just like a certain orange walking oedema, I have small hands, but unlike him, I'm fine with that. Except I find it annoying that I can't reach across the screen with my thumb if I'm holding most phones. I have a slim Samsung that's a few years old, and sometimes the screen flashes and shuts off.…

That’s a bit harsh. They’re just trying to protect themselves from something unpleasant. I took a year of economics at uni before I realised I didn’t want the career an economics degree would lead to, so I’m not an expert either, but I do know we have to drastically change our lifestyles to fix this. All of us. No one…

I am interested in a discussion but I want to hear from YOU. You’re just linking to other people, you’re not making any arguments yourself. Which makes me wonder how much you really understand about economics. You have chosen a few links that confirm your beliefs, but YOU haven’t explained anything about your…

We’re early in the process of realising how bad the situation is. People are still trying to digest that the world is going to hell in a handbasket, many are not ready yet to accept their responsibility. It’s easier to blame others, like faceless corporations. And there are plenty who will say what people want to…

You're avoiding my question: where does the profit come from?

The point at hand is my very first question to you: where does the profit come from?

Where does the profit come from? How do they make that profit?

Yes, shareholders demand profit. You can’t make profit without revenue. Revenue comes from selling goods and services. You can’t sell things that consumers don’t want. If you sell things no one wants, you go out of business. If you sell what the consumers demand, you make a profit. The shareholders will demand that…

And where do you think that profit comes from, Santa Claus? The consumers give corporations money. They manufacture things that the consumers are willing to pay money for. If people stop demanding cheap crap, the corporations would stop producing it. The only reason Amazon, McDonalds, etc exist and pollute the planet…

I’m so glad I haven’t bought a Switch Lite yet, because THIS is the one I’m getting. Hurry up and sell them in Europe already!

I was going to ask if she doesn’t have anyone on staff that could’ve told her that this was a lousy idea, but then I remembered her hair and make-up and realised that, no, she does not.

I really hate when people say “what can I do, it’s all the big corporations’ fault”, as if the big corps aren’t just responding to consumer demand. It's literally the only thing that drives them