Those requests to reduce consumption are rare (there were only a few of them this year, IIRC) and only apply to peak hours — most people charge their EVs off peak, at night, anyway. This is not an immediate problem.

How smart can a business guy be if he doesn’t know that having people constantly run up against $15 here and $25 there is eventually going to piss them off

Yep. The nickel-and-diming was the reason my fiancee and I decided not to go back to DW after our first trip. Of course going there is expensive, but the entire point is that it’s just a little bit of escapism. I don’t want to be constantly forking over cash for little things when I can just get it out of the way…

when Chapek said the quiet part out loud about “we know we have a great product so we’re going to charge more for it” I audibly groaned, and not just because I am a Disney slave LOL, but you don’t say that shit out loud as the CEO of a company with such a strong family-associated brand, even if you have to lie about…

The guy might have guided them through a pandemic, but as soon as they started to emerge, he decided nickel and diming people to death at the parks was the way to go. How smart can a business guy be if he doesn’t know that having people constantly run up against $15 here and $25 there is eventually going to piss them…

“I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame” Musk said while completely missing the irony of the time he tried to do that when those kids were trapped in a cave

Honestly, while Twitter’s going through this whole shitshow, Trump would do well to stay away. Even he has to realise that Twitter’s quickly losing whatever value it had when they booted him out and that, if Twitter’s just going to become another marginal right-wing echo chamber, he might as well stick with the…

Trump came out and specifically said he wasn’t going to go back on Twitter. But that’s today; tomorrow, who knows?

I’ll say one thing for Musk, this shit show is driving traffic. He had his “pole” to reinstate Trump happen yesterday and, of course, Trump won. The asshole hasn’t posted yet but it’s gonna be several days of people watched his account to see if he does

It wasn’t even valued at $44 billion when he offered that much. He overvalued it so much the shareholders were legally obligated to hold him to it. What a fucking idiot.

Specifically, it’s CBS and its O&Os. But aside from KPIX, none of these stations are saying it on their own Twitter feeds. They’re just logging off. I’m reading it’s not just because of Musk’s big-brained moves but because the impact those have on security. And that CBS Sports isn’t doing the same because of a…

Like Arizona protests...

He might have strengthened his case if  Top Gun: Maverick weren’t basically a super-hero film. I mean, not capes and tights, but the superheroics were in full effect.

Exactly. It’s be like suing the Houston Astros in connection with Enron because that was the name on their stadium. And the Astros have no instances of fraud. Nope. None. Never.

Not just that, they’d been settling lawsuits all over the country because it was cheaper than swapping out their coffee machines (which only had one setting - molten lava). Her award was meant to break that pattern, and did.

“She should have just had a bad day with some coffee-stained pants/seat instead of a skin graft because she was also being dumb. but McD’s made coffee far hotter than it should have been, therefore the coffee stained pants turned into skin grafts instead”

More to the point, if you decided to buy crypto because a celebrity or athlete told you to do it then you are an idiot.  

Can we add on saying “more than” a rather specific number?  “I’ve eaten here more than 16 times.”  “So, 17?”

People should be obligated to say "thousands, if not thousands of thousands," just to establish a consistent scale. 

People really need to stop saying stuff like “thousands, if not millions”, it just reveals you can’t count or you don’t know what you’re talking about.