There’s that pesky cost of doing business again.

Better cut funding since they’re not doing their job.

As an American a couple months out from not being able to pay housing costs, I appreciate the empathy. Sorry about the cultural exports that have been going north.

Oh lord, this is the worst news to come from this week.

It was a high bar, but they cleared it.

They did (in the US). Bain Capital bled them dry and then sold off the scraps. There have been a few attempts to revive the brand but to my knowledge nothing has stuck yet.

How Cultists Use Language to Control

Highly recommended watch.

In today’s edition of lemmy: poetry.

No, you see, that’s not how it works. The battery needs to be filled to 100%, just like a gas tank. And you should only ever charge once you’re under 10-20%, just like a gas tank (it’s silly to top up every day, that’s just a waste of time). We must be able to exactly replicate the current paradigm for people to be able to adjust.

I drive about 150 miles a week and get gas every couple of weeks. It takes 5 minutes. If I have to go to a charger I’ll be there for hours. It’s absurd.

What do you mean? Society has been treating it for generations.

“Who’s my good little sociopath? Line go up? Line go up? Good boy, that poor deserved it! Here’s a treat.”

Leftover rains from hurricane “Tempest” (they/them), have inundated all major watersheds along the eastern seaboard. Over 6% of i95 is under water or inaccessible due to floods and damage. Cities near rivers by the coast are now a part of “the delta”.

I’m in this comment and I don’t like it one bit.

This is exactly it. But it doesn’t fit on a hat or bumper sticker so the details get ignored.

Plot twist: this Pikachu was brown, “loitering,” and subsequently tased.

…yea.

Agreed, but the credit is due elsewhere.

gestures to the wider internet

…somewhere.

Might I suggest “EmptyG” to avoid future confusion?