sales tax would be less than a dollar
Entirely locality dependent. Where I live, tax on a $20 tab would be a little under $2. I know there’s some municipalities where it’d be as high as $2.40.
So, sure, technically still not $25, but once you need more than a $20 bill, it’s not obscene to round up to the nearest $5.
No, that dude knows definitively. They went back in time and killed a different Nazi baby that tried to take over the world, and came back just to find out about this Hitler guy that everyone wants dead.
They’re on tour in the US right now. I see merch everywhere, and on the rare occasion that I listen to the radio, they still pop up.
I grew up very poor. My mother made it clear that Santa wasn’t real, because there’s no way she’s giving another old white man undue credit.
I mean, plenty of people wake up naturally well before 7, so I imagine those people could get up without an alarm to go surfing.
When I worked at UPS, we weren’t allowed to have beards and our hair couldn’t be long enough to touch our ears. Literally fireable offenses.
My position is that the Schumacher Batman films are better than any Batman film that’s come out since, and it’s because of a fundamental ideological question:
Nolan, Snyder, Reeves, all of these guys, have continually asked, “What would Batman look like in the real world?” And the answer has meant grittier, darker reboots all inspired by the same couple of Miller books. They need to constrain Batman to things that “make sense” and find ways to make him “seem realistic.”
Schumacher, and Burton before him, asked the much more entertaining question: “What would the world need to look like to idolize a vigilante in a furry costume?” And that opens up so many more possibilities, so much more fun. The Riddler made elaborate pop-up clues rather than staging brutal crime scenes. Two-Face didn’t mourn his almost-relationship with an assistant DA because he was too busy macking on a different girl for each face. Bane? Doesn’t matter if I could understand him, because he doesn’t have any lines anyway. He’s still the evil lady’s main henchman, but now he’s actually monstrously big.
The '90s approach says yes to every wild idea the directors had, every silly gag from the comics or other TV that it wanted to steal, because it wasn’t beholden to a sense of the real. It was okay to enjoy the silly superhero movie on its own terms.
Unfortunately, we’re stuck in a world where each decade brings a grimmer, darker reboot of Batman.
My wife and I are eleven months apart. She gets carded and I don’t. Some people just look young.
… and I spent fifteen years on drugs and heavy drinking.
Yeah, my wife has historically loathed JRPGs in part because the turn-based combat was too dull. She tried Expedition 33, fell in love immediately, and tried to show me the combat system like, “Look! It’s so new and innovative! This is how all those old games should’ve been!”
…So I’m putting Barkley Shut Up & Jam Gaiden on her computer next time she leaves it unattended.
I’ve had three different co-workers hounding me about how great it is. One guy showed me how he had it write an email for him. It took him longer to enter the prompt than it would’ve taken to just write the email himself.
reliable and familiar that won’t break the bank.
This is why car companies are not going to offer EVs that people actually want without government intervention. I remember GM leasing EVs back in the '90s to some acclaim. But they didn’t let anyone buy out their leases and they discontinued production by the end of the decade because most of their money came from service. And a bare-bones electric car has very few service requirements.
Manufacturers need the bullshit features because they need something important and breakable for consumers to come back with. Even if it’s just planned obsolescence driving another purchase, like it sounds like the article’s author is heading towards.
I called the cops once after my apartment was broken into. They stomped around, flipped all my shit over, and “dusted for fingerprints.” Then they accused me of attempting insurance fraud because I said I had more electronics than they expected.
I’ve never known a victim of a crime who was relieved after police intervention. Have you?
Well, yes. Businesses are run as dictatorships, not democracies. This is one of the reasons why no one who would “run a country like it’s a business” should be elected to public office.
I think if you marry young, it starts at 1% and grows from there. My wife and I are approaching middle age, and we’re only unknowingly taking to ourselves about 20% of the time.
Hahaha. So many people outside of logistics have no idea how logistics works.
I can only speak for the US, but I am confident that anyone who gets into trucking now will be able to retire from trucking when they hit 65. (Assuming we’re not all already dead from war or climate collapse.)
Big LTL companies like UPS or FedEx will probably be able to automate standard pallet hub-to-hub shipments. Per this article, final mile delivery for small parcels can probably be automated. So that just leaves… most freight?
Smaller shippers and receivers, including regional carriers or smaller manufacturers, are still running their logistics like it’s 1970. They don’t have the capital or any real incentive to modernize to a standard that would be needed for fully automated logistics. There would need to be funded government mandates and extensive infrastructure work across the country.
I love when someone has already answered my question in the comments.