Geezus this is a deeply uninformed article, as evidenced by this:

I know the overall strength will be less due to the smaller pieces as you had mentioned, but how well do individual pieces connect to each other? That’s been my biggest problem with Lego knockoffs in the past.

There’s a warp pipe under the floor of every Japanese building.

“Using something you created to solve a problem you created” is late-stage capitalism in a nutshell, baby!

Miyazaki got the way he is through his disdain of American imperialism, and his dislike of culture changing around him, even when he was still young. He finds peace and tranquility through his passion of the arts, possibly a coping mechanism for his nihilism and pessimistic views. He values the bright colors of life,…

AI is merely plagiarism that techbros can feel smug about.

Probably why 45 picked her, yeah? 

““It is not sustainable for GameStop to operate a money losing business,””

Oxford University Press takes the position that words of Greek etymology should use -ize because it’s a closer spelling to the etymological root. And Oxford is in England.

“I want you, not even paid a living wage, to care about my money as much as I, a billionaire, care about my money.”

Biggest money saving they could do is dump the CEO. Their email was a waste of time and money and I am willing to be he delegates 90% of anything he is supposed to do. He probably delegated writing the email. 

Those heroic scalpers, always looking out for the little guy.

Incredibly well said. In many of the non union places i have worked the only way to get a head is to blow the boss, play golf with the boss or both.

Scalpers need to get scalped. Like literally. With a hatchet.

Trying to figure out if you live in a fascinating alternate reality, or just learned economics from random forum posts.

Cutting taxes on the wealthy allows the wealthy to accumulate more wealth. This wealth becomes unavailable to the working class, creating poverty.

They didn’t say anything about printing money. Increasing wages means that the companies and bosses would be forced to horde less. It’s the same dollar supply, but those dollars will be in the hands of people who spend them, which lifts up the economy as a whole.

The destruction of the working class wasn’t caused by printing money, it was caused by destroying the power of unions and cutting taxes on the wealthy, allowing them to accumulate more wealth at the expense of the people who work.

Sturgeon was an optimist.

I don’t know about the lighter, but yeah, a quick spray of gas to the face should take care of it.