regulating huge mergers and monopolies are kind of a big deal.

Unfortunately, over the last generation or two Congress has done a great job convincing the American people that  it can’t control anything. We assume anything more ambitious than “keep payroll going” is beyond their jurisdiction. 

Lol, Churchill had to do that lest she dish the dirt on all the British toffs who also loved a certainly failed painter. Fun fact: she later tried to parlay that pardon from Churchill into influence for another Nazi.

It’s a major U.S. business. Maybe it’s not making steel or building computers, but it is a billion-dollar industry so when it takes part in prima facie fuckery, it should get at least some scrutiny.

I’ll applaud any time Congress gets off its collective ass to do anything that isn’t blatantly self-serving and/or detrimental to the country as a whole, so let’s just call this one a win.

You know what? Fucking awesome. I know there are bigger problems in the world, but this shouldn’t have been one of them in the first place. Fuck Zaslav.

Warner Music France CEO Alain Veille

or a studio removed the words “HBO” from a streaming service, or a social media company changed the name Twitter to “X.”

As someone remarked, it’s like burning down a building for the insurance money.”

No, my son. Faith is what makes everything work optimally, and that’s why we need 15% of your income as tithing.

Please deposit 75¢ to receive your answer.

Wait a second, I thought that capitalism was supposed to make everything work optimally. Was that ... propaganda?

Oh I did not know that. 

One thing to realize that Persona 3-5 has you as a silent protagonist in the “They’re supposed to be a mirror for you” sort of way. It’s not like the character isn’t gay because the character isn’t anything. You as the player are the one deciding how they are for most things, so with that freedom, the bottleneck on…

Fuck this. And especially fuck the distant “relatives” of Piaf who agreed to this.

Hey, that’s nothing.

So then you just didn’t read the article at all, huh?

Oh, this is going to provide so much tiresome discourse over how they seem to be actively avoiding any addressing of her willingness to perform for the Nazis.

I’m usually fine with these types of things if the estate approves them. However in this case, the two sisters of her second husband whom she was only married to for a year doesn’t seem like that strong of a bond. 

Save us from Piaf biopics and new Beatles releases, Ethan Hunt!