This shit isn’t hurting Jeff Bezos. It is just making stuff cost more for the rest of us. When theft increases, prices go up to cover the cost, when prices go up, the (law abiding) poor are the most hurt by it. 

My sympathies are with people who try to earn a living buy cannot make a living wage, not people who decide to commit crimes instead of attempting to be productive and working for a living. Some may think that this is a victimless crime because only the big retailers and freight companies have to pay but in reality,…

I wonder if Erin would be quite as cool with stealing if thieves broke into her home and took her stuff. The thought experiment can assume that these thieves are “suffering from income inequality” or are “desperate”. Perhaps “shit has even been real” lately for them?

This weird apologist take is just bad. These people are thieves, stealing things from OTHER people who legitimately bought something despite the poor economy.

Yeah, my sympathies are with the people who paid (a lot—they’re not cheap) for epi pens to save their lives and didn’t get them, not with the vandals and thieves that _really_ need a hit of meth and trashed the life-saving pens. They’re not stealing food and blankets to care for their families, they’re just stealing…

“Now, every outlet is calling these folks thieves, and sure, that’s technically correct.”

I should’ve stopped reading the first time Erin offered excuses for criminal behavior. But I kept reading and found more of it.

This weird apologist take is just bad. These people are thieves, stealing things from OTHER people who legitimately bought something despite the poor economy. This isn’t a stick-it-to-bezos thing. This is impacting folks like you and me who work to pay their bills, then get their hard-earned shit stolen by someone who…

Why do all the startup projects hinge on building a new factory? You mean to tell me there’s NO adequate, currently empty factories in the world right now that would work for building this? That’s a tremendous capital outlay and only introduces another possible point of failure for the whole project.

I’m just here to say how much I hate Chrysler K-Cars.

Great stuff!

I had a short run at an ad agency. The classic Lucky Strike campaign was required learning. Basically, an ad agency guy asked a Lucky Strike exec how the cigarettes were made. He listed the ingredients and described the tobacco as being “toasted” during the process. The ad exec latched onto the word “toasted” and…

FIFY

Mercedes i cant say no one cares because obviously you do. But outside of a few folks literally no one cares about these dumb cars. Theyre a terrible value proposition and never made any sense. 

This brand should have been ol’ yellered years ago. They haven’t offered anything new or competitive since...what, 2005? And even then it was just kind of interesting and quirky, which is great, but wears off quick.

Yup. Granted, my experience is with earlier models (late-aughts), but they were horrible, horrible cars. I drive a GTI, so it’s not a size thing. It was a bad engine, bad transmission, bad suspension, and very short wheelbase. Other than parking in small spots where parking is unmarked, there is not a single good…

Can confirm, did not notice or care.

Except to a few folks who fell in love with the quirks of these cars, there’s no reason whatsoever for this company to exist anymore, since they serve virtually no one’s requirements. Other than arguable cuteness, they provide nothing compelling. There is ALWAYS a better alternative from some other manufacturer.…

Thank you, I definitely wasn’t sure but that shirt and that pose didn’t help at all.

From the pictures he appears to be missing an arm, though I don’t have other confirmation.