Billiam

Okay, so think about it like this:

Suppose your job is making wooden chairs. It’s takes you the exact same skills to make a wooden chair to sell for profit, as it does to make a wooden chair to donate to a chairless children’s charity, right? So why would you spend all your time and skills doing a job that’s eventually going to bankrupt you? While you might do a few chairs because you feel like it’s morally right, the bulk of your work is going to be selling chairs because that’s how you sustain yourself.

CEOs are in the same situation. A 500-person for-profit company takes the exact same skill set to run as a 500-person non-profit. So the reality is that non-profits need to either be competitive in pay with for-profits, or they have to be attractive in ways other than compensation so they can entice CEOs to work for them.

Now, none of that is to say that the scale of CEO compensation is appropriate, because it’s not. But that’s the calculus a non-profit has to make.

Whether it does or not is irrelevant; what matters is the perception among executives that it does.

Most open to “enhancing your operating system experience with special offers and promotional materials”!

Look, I’m not going to defend capitalism, but

As we’ve all seen, those with wealth use it to hide it away from taxes and to bribe for relaxed regulations or regulations to stop competitors appearing.

Is not a problem inherent to capitalism. All of that stems from human greed, which you’re going to have no matter what economic system you try to implement. The solution is to have actual enforcement of your regulatory guardrails.

No, that’s Mike “My son and I know each other’s porn habits” Johnson.

“How much money can I steal from taxpayers before I get knifed in the back?”

I bet Warmbo made him post on Twitter.

Does it matter? This wouldn’t have happened without Trump being elected and the looking threat of tariffs. Whether the owner is using that as cover for jacking up the prices or not, it’s still a LAMF moment.

Not having RCV doesn’t make anything worse.

Promoting third-parties without RCV in place does.

The fact that you only ever hear of third parties every four years really illustrates what their true objectives are.

You said it!

I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.

-Man who died before Donald Trump was born.

If you will look in the manual, you will see that this particular model tampon requires a range of ten to sixteen foot-pounds of torque. I routinely twist the maximum allowable torque-age.

The only job he is qualified for appears to be conman politician for the GOP, where the standards are so low that nobody can find the floor.

And, if Elon is any example, CEO.

At the same time, the way that the EC favors the GOP causes the spoiler effect of the Green Party to be amplified compared to Libertarians.

One day we might even be able to elect a candidate who isn’t the “lesser evil”

Literally impossible in the US unless one of two things happen. Either:

1. Both the current major parties fracture, and the resulting two parties that will occur thereafter align themselves on axes that are dissimilar to the ones that the current two parties are aligned on, or

2. Laws are passed to remove FPTP and winner take all so that not voting for a Republican or Democrat has an actual influence on the vote.

The current system in the US is statistically proven to result in two majority parties controlling the government. The only effect that voting third-party does now is to spoil the votes for the majority-party candidate most closely aligned with that third-party.

A certain political party benefits from low voter turnout. Which, coincidentally, also happens to be the party working to get Trump elected and shield him from the repercussions of his crimes.

Yes, but what about [single political issue here that Trump is as bad or worse on]?

Clearly this means we should vote for [candidate least likely to win but most likely to split the vote of the non-fascist party]!

Also here’s the Knowledge Fight podcast’s coverage of the events on Jan 5th and 6th.

Fair warning, this episode is about two hours longer than their usual content. There’s a lot to go over.

AccuWeather’s business model relies on “adding value” to government-provided data, and monetizing it. Maintaining a fleet of satellites isn’t cheap.