I mean, he could just... get vaccinated. And start playing. And no need to move heaven and earth and get all these exceptions for him to start playing.

The only thing worse than New York Democratic Party Politics is Republican Party politics anywhere. Letitia and New York deserve better.

2021 and we still need straw white people to pretend to either own or be interested in buying shit for us so we don’t get ripped off.

Take Ms. Miller’s and her company’s generational wealth and give it to the Austins.

I don’t doubt that some NFL cheerleaders are very intelligent (I know one, and she is), but the pay won’t put you through anything except maybe the drive-through window at Wendy’s. When all the hours of practice and appearances and game time are added up, they make less than minimum wage. And they have to pay for…

Yes I expect it to turn on, and function without paying for a wireless service. IE if I connect it to my home network I expect to be able to surf the internet with it, download applications for it receive and send email.

With a cellphone, I don’t expect to pay a monthly or yearly fee to use the integrated camera. I do expect to pay for use of the cell towers of the provider that I have a contract with. I can also take that phone to another provider if I wish.

1st Gear: I’ll never drive a car I have to pay a subscription fee to utilize. Full stop, won’t do it. If this catches on in the industry and that means I won’t drive a car manufactured after 2025, or I stick exclusively to budget niche cars going forward, fine. But I flatly refuse to pay an ongoing subscription on my…

I thought about it, still sounds insane.

Imagine what this will do to the depreciation of these cars.

Unless something offers consumable and/or changing content, I do not do subscriptions. I would never buy a VW in the first place, but were I so inclined, it would immediately be on the no-go list. And, no, I don’t care if I “don’t have to use it”—I don’t fucking want shit I didn’t ask for as it’s just more weight in…

“Based on the data we get about the customer’s driving profile, we can also approach them and offer them different services.”

The way I see it, a product notion of value changes by things added or removed from it. Something that has value enabled/disabled is a service.

No.

This is the kind of mentally exhausting shit that’s getting everyone fed up. We don’t need more bills, subscriptions, etc. There are enough taxes, recurring spotify and netflix bills, heating bills, phone bills, alarm bills, insurances to pay, etc etc etc etc etc. Fuck that. Just fuck it.

Doctors Without Borders sends me an exceptionally crappy tote bag at least four times a year. I think I gave them $25 once about three years ago. I fear if I give them more the totes will never stop coming.

Thank you for being one of the few who only send 3 - 4 pieces of mail a year! If more were like you, I would probably donate more to charity, and I doubt this article would even exist. Some of these organizations absolutely hammer you with mail (both physical and electronic), newsletters, un-asked-for books (!), all…

Think about it from your side . . . You have finite resources. Do you want to use them to generate more contributions, or use them to be told "Thanks, but I already made a donation to you"? More importantly, do you want to irritate people that have given you money in the past to the point where they decide not to…

Uh... no, not two or three per year. I've donated to a charity and ended up getting two or three charity requests *per day* for months afterwards, as they sell my name to everyone under the sun. And it's not just letters. It's phone call after phone call fro, charities, which can often be hard to screen out since some…

Those three or four pieces of mail, seven or eight emails, really add up when you're on multiple donor lists—and lists for charities you haven't even signed up to support, simply because your info has been sold to them. The phone calls are the most invasive.