Uh... Kevin Durant?

I love The Hold Steady, but can absolutely understand how Craig Finn’s delivery wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea.

Any deal that involves the state paying for a helicopter pad for the richest man in the world is too shitty to be “fixed.”

Bleth this Meth

Asshole left a scratch on my door that he still hasn’t fixed.

Look up Redman’s MTV Cribs episode.

So, adding to what you said, and what I said, and what MikePence said... it seems like I’m missing something.

It wouldn’t work, because Spectre/Grasshopper/Hammerhead’s specials are way too powerful.

I mean, yeah, it is. One of the dangers of treating your workers like garbage is that they’ll get fucking angry and unionize.

I remember waiting for the big announcement (since I live in Chicago, one of the cities supposedly in the running), and then being sort of disappointed that they sort of hedged their bets with *two* HQ2s. In retrospect it seems clear that they weren’t sure that they could close the deal in New York. So now they can…

Amazon, like Facebook and Google, is so large and unregulated that it operates as a virtual monopoly.

So try again, Max Constipation

based on the superexploitation of cheap sweatshop laborers (my niece is one of those sweatshop laborers at their warehouse near Richmond, VA)

Build an AI whose goal is ‘to serve man’ and it is unlikely to drive us extinct.

The economic costs of needing to change infrastructure to make the Amazon work exceeded the benefits offered after the huge tax breaks especially when you consider that money spent means a loss of revenue going to other infrastructure needs.

There is no meaningful economic difference between Amazon paying New York $3 billion less than they would normally owe and Amazon receiving $3 billion from New York. It has the exact same effect.

The funny thing is, pretty much everyone in the labor market today enjoys many of the benefits that they do because of unions, including people whose workplaces aren’t unionized.

It is a ridiculous pipe dream that unions are going to convince tech workers that they need to unionize in bulk.

I’m actually surprised that idiots like HamNo weren’t braying about what a great victory this was for the working man.

Likely, you are aware that experts predict more than 70% of the American workforce will be automated in my lifetime (I’m 33).