That’s increasingly not true. Local businesses barely exist anymore, soon your only option will be, like, great clips. Not sure what you mean about squeezing over inelastic demand. They can raise the prices of a pillow but they can’t make a profit when only 1% of the population is buying pillows

This isn’t really sustainable though. Regardless of how rich you are, you only really need 1, maybe 2 pillows. You can only get so many haircuts in a year. They do absolutely need the poors.

I think that’s super valid for a novel especially, as long as you don’t mind that the movie adaptation decides it’s not worth taking 10 minutes out of the runtime to explain vs something people will immediately understand

Or maybe there is nothing else interesting in the novel, and it won’t matter anyway because no one reads or adapts it

I don’t recall any hype around it at all except that it was a thing that companies made. Most of them require glasses so I really don’t understand how they thought that would ever catch on.

They are surprised VR isn’t really taking off with inflation through the roof huh?

Tropes exist because they work and who cares what the money is called

Thank you, yes it does.

Kind of maddening that a government would try to demand that of another. US businesses do not need to be babies to this extent.

It does a little bit there’s not much elaboration on what specific demands were made re: french language and Quebecoise culture

Wait did he actually say that??? I’m surprised Trump even knows French is an official language in Canada

I see something like this and I’m like “oh are you trans?” And then I’m like “oh or a cis woman?” And then I’m like “oh or an immigrant or any shade of brown?” “Oh or a working class man?” And I just end up thinking of every identity combination because there are maybe 5 people on earth that this admin hasn’t been extremely hostile to, and even for them it’s only a matter of time before they start turning on each other and eating each other too

Honeymoon phase OVER!! Stable, long term relationship phase built on mutual respect has STARTED.

It never surprises me that they think women are a hivemind anymore but it does surprise me how many of them think men also are

Thank you. That definitely lines up with my experience moderating subreddits and communities.

What’s the 90-9-1 rule?

“I love my son,” the U.S. representative told USA TODAY in response to a request for comment. “We take these allegations very seriously and pray for everyone affected during this challenging time.”

😑 Pretty good standard PR line I guess

(…) likely referencing accusations that have been making rounds online about some of the mod’s leads and whatnot – a situation I’d argue is worth a quick Google as it gets quite dark and might be a tad too heavy here.

Why cover a story but only halfway? How embarrassing.

lol has there actually been a study done on regret of harry potter tattoos specifically?

But renewables are already cheaper than fossil fuels and the rest of the world IS going to move on, we can’t stop them, he is limiting our ability to produce energy at the same time the economy is being propped up by new data centers

lol, I think this is the most important takeaway here. We feel a natural pull to understand as critical thinking humans, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if it’s maliciousness or incompetence

So it’s not just that he’s stupid, it’s the russian asset thing?