No, they said it costs ‘the industry’ that amount. As someone else wrote, they mean unrealized profits. They don’t give a good goddamn if something costs their customer when it shouldn’t.

“premium leakage,” which is apparently a huge problem for the industry, costing over $10 billion annually

Not true.  They have a governor who is famous for being able to ignore reality, so that’s what they’ll do here.  If you ignore the problem (or blame Democrats for it), it no longer becomes a problem.  Or so I’m told will be how the world works in about a month.

Until 37 months later - once the 36 month warranty has run out, and suddenly it goes flat. The local authorities then it’s much, much cheaper to replace it with normal shock absorbers than go with the original design.

It was literally mentioned in the report as the reason researchers started studying building sink rates, which is explained in the article. 

Someone was telling me that once upon a time, beach front property was once seen as low class from the rich people. Until they saw poor people having fun and they didn’t like that, so they decided to leave the mountains for the beach and kick the poors more inland...Basically the beaches crumbling apart is a virtual…

“The 35 buildings in question include the Ritz Carlton Residences, The Surf Club Four Seasons, Trump Tower III, Trump International Beach Resort, and several other high-end condos.”

Finally, a late-model Porsche drops in value.

You aren’t going to believe this, but Senna and Schumacher were also insufferable assholes. 

Border control officers have always had wide discretion to detain and question anyone entering the country, including US citizens returning home. You have no right to counsel and very little in the way of recourse if they feel like giving you a hard time. Some people get detained for a lot longer than a few hours.…

Exactly. A couple of months more and all US sanctions will be in the past, meaning that shitty companies will just ship whatever Russia needs to the US, and that’s that.

Well I suspect after January they won’t have any trouble getting Boeing parts

It is not lost on me why they likely felt empowered to do something like this.

Just wait until next year.

Questioning someone for three hours with no reason? It doesn’t matter who they are, that’s harassment.

I will not retract that F1 drivers are photographed more than 99% of humanity, because it’s absolutely true.

on the end of a rhino’s horn

Walmart is the embodiment of self righteous idiots. Many of their competitors charge up to 30 percent more for the same products , why are these companies thriving just as good or even better then walmart? Because when you go to their competitors, the employees smile and are happy to be working there and happy to…

With a dry corn cob.

Hard.

Walmart screws over their workers every single chance they get. Fuck em’.