Yes I did. Your point is simply “but… more money!!!” Ignoring that bigger numbers are not the whole story.

It has only been 6 months. The effects of this administration will not appear in tables of budgets and salaries yet. Although in simple terms it will probably still look ok, it is far less attractive.

Cost of living matters too. From simple things like how much broadband costs (uk: £30 pcm, usa: $78 pcm) to an ambulance ride (uk: free, usa:$2000). The higher salary is an illusion.

I also note that every company in your list is a tech company. Researchers in other fields are probably not going to be as lucky.

Buying in instrumentation is also now more expensive due to tariffs so your research budget was effectively cut as well as being actually cut. Scientists with approved grants for equipment have had them revoked. Universities are advising not spending funds to provide contingency funds.

Pretty sure that Musk has realised he alienated his prior fan base by courting this government so publicly and passionately.

Now he is trying to reclaim his former status by attacking the Trump admin thinking the left will love him for it. Trouble with that is, petulent is not a good look, nor is appearing not to have an allegiance to anything but money. His mask has slipped and that won’t be forgotten, he did a nazi salute twice on the international stage ffs. No one is going to see Musk as a champion for the left or the environment again.

Not only has he screwed Tesla by making them unfashionable, he’s now screwed SpaceX by pissing off a major source of income.

But we are still to believe that the guy is a financial genius and not just lucky, right?

Amazon 1 year after launch: Unfortunately, the space needed for robots in the van means that the van has to return to base 5 times more often to reload with the actual packages and the extra weight of robots more than doubles the weight of the van being lugged around in the form of heavy robots. So that’s why we are having to charge more for delivery and why it is taking longer for you to get your packages. But at least we can pay fewer salaries.

To make matters more complicated i believe (but may be wrong) in Japan Tokyo and Osaka have opposite conventions. So it can even come down to the city level.

Winner winner, mystery dinner.

All children are different just like adults. There are many adults I could describe as obnoxious, entitled assholes, but that doesn’t make me write off all adults. The last thing I would describe my 3 year old daughter as at Disneyland was obnoxious. If anything she was better behaved because she was so happy and realised we had done something nice for her by taking her there. She was spontaneously giving us hugs when there which she doesn’t normally do. Sure, she got tired and a little cranky at the end of each day but it was far outweighed by her good behaviour and she was never even close to obnoxious by anyone’s standards. Caveat: I am her biggest fan and you can feel free to write off my comments as biased but I expect you to anyway because you exhibit all the signs of prejudice.

For the record, I did see some kids acting a bit entitled and obnoxious, but I’d say that they were in the minority and it was a fleeting moment as you passed them by so who is to know if you didn’t just witness the one instance of bad behaviour in their whole day.

When you are prejudiced against something though you take on the evidence that reinforces your view and ignore the evidence which contradicts. I expect if you were at disneyland or anywhere else surrounded by children behaving well your mind would not acknowledge that, I.e. You’d simply ignore or not notice well behaved children. But any time there is one child in your vicinity who is not behaving well I bet you do notice and take note and think “See? All children are obnoxious little shits”

Reasons why you don’t have children no.1: you don’t like them.

Reasons why you are obnoxious no 1: you think it is funny or clever to imply you have at least 78 reasons to not have children and in doing so show us that you are fine with judging whole groups on the behaviour of a few of its members.

If I recall correctly, spinach has a lot of iron in it and it’s green. Added bonus, it makes you able to take on a bully!

Will it stimulate the downturn in shipping demand by making it harder to get work as the USA pushes itself and the rest of the world into recession.

This is the question.

How improbable is it that he could have made a connection to airport scanners if somebody else told him they were having confusing feelings.

Profit like a motherfucker day.

You think he doesn’t have someone buying the stocks he tanked just before his announcement.

Taking great care to avoid the rod that goes through from the north pole to the south that the globe spins around.

I thought trump didn’t like taxes?

And does it grant you immunity from accidentally being deported? Or intentionally for that matter ?

I feel like using percentages would be more meaningful. The Dow Jones peaked at 381 just before crashing in 1929. So using absolute numbers can’t be compared because the entire DJ wasn’t worth the drops we are seeing today.

I in 1929 it lost~10-12% on its worst days

So far Trump is losing ~5% approx each day

It’s not exactly a stellar endorsement. I’m only saying that you are comparing things at today’s dollar value, when the value of currency changes over time.

This Wikipedia page shows that the worst days by percentage are not where we are yet.

However… Rank, President (AFFILIATION), date, DJ, Point loss, %loss

1 Reagan ®, 1987-10-19, 1738.74, −508.00, −22.61%

2 Trump ®, 2020-03-16, 20188.52, −2997.10, −12.93%

3 Hoover ®, 1929-10-28, 260.64, −38.33, −12.82%

4 Hoover ®, 1929-10-29, 230.07, −30.57, −11.73%

5 Trump ®, 2020-03-12, 21200.62, −2352.60, −9.99%

6 Hoover ®, 1929-11-06, 232.13, −25.55, −9.92%

7 McKinley ®, 1899-12-18, 58.27, −5.57, −8.72%

8 Hoover ®, 1932-08-12, 63.11, −5.79, −8.40%

9 T. Roosevelt ®, 1907-03-14, 76.23, −6.89, −8.29%

10 Reagan ®, 1987-10-26, 1793.93, −156.83 , −8.04 %

All republicans. I note that the biggest daily gains were also republicans but most of them are related to the big drops e.g a day, week or month later, so they basically tank the index then the index recovers some time later.

Tesla: Due to the attacks on our dealerships and stock, we currently only have refurbished cybertrucks to offer. Here is one which has the panels reattached. It’s just like it came out of the factory.

Customer: wasn’t that mine that I just returned?

Tesla: yeah but this time we used gorilla glue. Please ignore the finger prints and hairs that got stuck to it. We let Elon’s kid stick them back on for a photo op. He only got his hand stuck 5 times.

Tesla: alternatively we’ve got this one going cheap. It only has one swastika painted on the side that we couldn’t get off, otherwise it’s brand new.

According to a post I found on that shitty alien site, An AAA game has to sell 10 million copies to break even around 6 months ago. That means at $70 dollars each. They can cost $700 million to make, market and distribute. The money has to typically be recouped within a certain time frame to keep the lights on and invest in the next 700 mil project. The successful games also have to carry the weight of the failures too, so you probably aren’t getting that bad a deal.

I’m not saying the price isn’t inflated, just that it can cost a lot more than you might think to make this stuff, and it’s all on a gamble that it will sell.

I remember buying mortal kombat ii on the megadrive/genesis with saved up pocket money for £45 ($58). That was in 1994, I think I maxed out at about 10 games. I’m seeing assassins creed shadows on the xbox at £56.99 ($74) today (ignoring online digital shops because they didn’t exist in 1994.) So in 31 years inflation on the price of a premium video game has been 0.75% annually vs 2.5% for all goods and that has resulted in a small 20% increase in the price over 30 years.

Closest link I could find to back up the inflation rate. If games increased in price Inline with inflation, they’d cost about £96 ($123) today.

Games have always been expensive, but less so now than 30 years ago.

P.s. If I don’t ignore online digital shops, I can actually get it cheaper the that 1994 price. Only £40 ($51). I mean come on its not like suddenly we have a bad deal on video games. Also if it really bothers you stop buying games at launch. I rarely spend more than a third of those prices now just by waiting a year or two.

Firstly, does he really think it’s going so great over there that wealthy people think it’s worth $5M to get in? More likely they will just wait for the fire sale and buy up the land cheap.

Second if you have 5 mil, do you need to go there for work?

All you need to do to not need the chlorine wash is to not treat the animals so badly that they shit all over each other due to lack of space. Improve their welfare improve the product, but no. Dollars come first.