I saw the strangest thing today: some conservative writers were actually agreeing with AOC regarding this deal and how Amazon does NOT deserve free money.

People can move anywhere in the world and some countries (like Russia) actively court them with lower taxes. Yet all the wealthy haven’t moved there. That would seem to imply there is a greater value living in the United States and other western democracies. Like any valuable real estate, they should have to pay more…

I mean, this is all just how you want to frame the narrative.  Another possibility might be that Amazon didn’t view NYC as a superior enough location to bother fighting for.

You may be right that NYC has set itself up for decline, but bringing in Amazon and giving them $3 billion in tax breaks is hardly likely to reverse that trend.

I side more with Josh Barro on this:

This sure seems like an advertisement. 

This sure seems like an advertisement. 

Five new movies? Five? One wonders what the other four were going to be about. My guess is, number five is the romantic story of the patriarch Methuselah being sneakily seduced by JonBenet Ramsey.

I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when he pitched this movie.

Why the fuck anyone would wanna work with Woody Allen is beyond me. Fuck that guy.

Never thought I could possibly side with Woody Allen. But he has a point. There was nothing new in the allegations and movies about fucking teens has always been prominent among the six types of films he made.

It’s a solid - if distasteful - legal position. Nobody can say they didn’t know all the history already, nevertheless Amazon’s legal dept signed off on this deal.

“...that allegation was already well known to Amazon (and the public) before Amazon entered into four separate deals with Mr. Allen...”

So their legal strategy is “well it’s not like they didn’t already know he was a suspected paedo!”

I’ve tried recapturing that old lovin’ feeling by replaying old games but... It’s really true what they say “You can never go back home.”  The circumstances that made those games so nostalgic is forever gone.  I can’t go back in time, mind and soul to what I was.  That’s simply impossible.  But you can sure as hell…

Not throwing any shade but this reads like an undisclosed paid for advertisement - which is deceptive marketing and could get shut-down by FTC for anti-consumer practices. A paid for as an article is perfectly fine as long as it’s clear it’s sponsored.

I’m pretty sure the base trim 718 just comes with milk crates. Seats cost $3,200

They do it because it’s good design. Mounting the screen high on the dash puts it level with the gauge cluster and near your line of sight. Your eyes don’t stray from the road as much.

The last brake job I did a few months ago was more like CAD$800, not a few dozen dollars.

My wife has a C-Max hybrid that she drives. She is very very good with the regen braking. So good that the brakes had to be replaced due to the rotors rusting and becoming pitted, not the pads wearing out.

This is great. Amazon is the poster child for why we absolutely need unions.