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Incredulity

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  1. I will admit that I thought by the time the playoffs got to 12 the bitching and moaning about being "left out" would be very much marginalized.   Well here we are.. LULZ

     

    I do like the idea of nuking Conference Championships and having that week be initial round of an expanded field.   Ideally if that can or could have been tied into the historical bowl games I think we could have ended up with a blend of old and new that would be really pretty cool.

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  2. 2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

      Just none of this "too big to fail" shit

    I'm all for that.  

    Eventually we will get to a point where the government won't or can't(hopefully the former before the latter) prop up excessive risk takers.   At this point that change in expectations is really going to fucking hurt.

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  3. 1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

    It's legal.  It's just dumb, harmful, and destructive.  Unfettered "capitalism" has its downsides.  This is a known one, and not only have we done nothing to mitigate it, we've gone under the hood to remove all speed governors and soup up the engine, so when we hit the wall, we hit it at ludicrous speed.

    the video rant's initial complaint is that the government subsidized the market participants with tax breaks and now consumers are getting screwed.

    So no it isn't, "unfettered capitalism" that is the root of this situation.

    And if there are illegal actions being taken by the manufacturers then yes, the government should prosecute those cases.   However, generally I am not in favor of price controls or market interventions forcing markets to be serviced because of a government bureaucrats interpretation of "fair".

  4. 1 minute ago, Captainant said:

    These businesses have been previously found guilty of price fixing and antitrust violations. You did not watch the video and are just replying with your usual "NUH UH" to anything and everything I post. Go eat some applesauce, grampaw.

    Sorry you don't believe market economics and prefer to autoerotically asphyxiate yourself to pictures of Karl Marx's taint.

  5. 16 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    excellent reporting  insane ranting

    FIFY

    18 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    If you weren't aware, DDR5 system memory has more than doubled in price over the last couple months due to AI datacenter demand.

    Businesses respond to market conditions.  Someone will respond to the subtextual higher than market returns offered by the doubled in price DDR5 consumer system memory market, OR the consumer market has been subsidized in the recent past. 

  6. 17 hours ago, Snake Diggity said:

    For fast food, they will reduce labor costs by probably half over the next few years as automation and agentic AI evolves.  I dined inside a recently remodeled McDonalds in Lockhart last week and never interacted with a human being

    Not a regular McD diner but will drive-thru every month or so in a pinch mostly because kids like it.  Some time in the summer decided that I would go in to order because I needed to use the bathroom.  This particular McD has completely eliminated any staffed checkstands.  Only a stainless shelf area for Uber Eats pickups and self order kiosk.  I did try to interact with the kid shuttling food to the pickup area because our order took about 20 min versus the 5 or less it would have through the drive-thru.  
     

    No idea what that anecdote sample means in regards to how many McD stores have been modified to that configuration but they are certainly already taking labor out

  7. 8 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

    It may not be this year but at some point in the next 2-5 years fast food (MCD) and healthcare service providers (maybe UNH, ELV) are going to see big margin increases.

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    9 minutes ago, Snake Diggity said:

    But most importantly, I don’t know shit about fuck.

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  8. 1 hour ago, Sandman said:

    I flew into Midway once, in the 90s. The whole place smelled like piss. /csb

    Related:

    First time I flew into Midway it was the old a fuck terminal that Southwest brought back to life in the late 90's.  They had winding staircases to jetways.  Beat as fuck terminal.

    Flew back a year or two later on another trip and spent the morning bad mouthing the Midway airport to a co-worker.  We stepped off the plane to the new terminal, I was obviously surprised and my co-worker gave me shit for the rest of the time we worked together over thinking a brand new terminal was garbage.

     

     

    TLDR the old Midway did in fact smell like piss

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