I’m a pessimist. The price increase won’t hurt them unless they lose more than 33% of the user base. Which is a big number of people choosing to change a habit/lifestyle.
Even if they do lose that amount, they could walk back the 50% and wait a few months and “only” increase it by 20%. People will feel good that they owned the big corpo and the big corpo still manages to increase profit.
My parents actually went the other way. They were very conservative while I was growing up until my mid twenties, and nowadays they are the complete opposite.
When they were conservative, I generally didn’t bring up politics, but if it came up I didn’t argue. I would just say I thought something was mean spirited and just shrug if they tried to argue. I think I accidentally psychologically fucked with them. I think being mean was against a core value of theirs and me repeating that idea slightly tweaked their thought process.
Eventually I started hearing the “mean spirited” comment from them as a reason they disliked a policy or conservative person. And they now vote for liberal or labour parties.
Bold choice to show my age by dressing as a rage comic
I really enjoyed Cracked in its internet heyday. It was at times funny and others poignant. Somewhere I would have wanted to publish. Technically it still exists… but it is not the same.
I looked him up. He is already retired from US military. A known democratic, endorsing both Harris and Biden. Nowadays it looks like he’s on a couple research and strategic groups and works for NATO directly.
BC has put a big effort to lower barriers to US and other foreign doctors. Also increase doctor pay. Apparently there has been a decent uptick.
Why is no one else laughing at my childhood story?
Why are you trying to hug me?
The squirrels in my area like to eat pine cones…
Damn! If only I had one of those services than I could boycott Disney too.
Treat it like Guy Fawkes day. Burn an effigy
Hey! Me too!
Permanently Banned for inciting violence.
I said the Trump government was going to put LGBT people in camps and this was a bad thing.
I enjoyed the light hearted narrator in a dark world aspect of Black Tongue Thief. And I would recommend it, if that is appealing.
I think I’d caution some people on Leiber. He’s a good writer, and important in fantasy Canon. And I am enjoying him.
But he is writing during the 1950s to 80s, so there is some inherent misogyny. He tries to make powerful women characters, but it doesn’t quite work. I think he was pushing boundaries in the 60s, but a modern reader with modern conceptions may not enjoy his work.
The Mosaic Effect is about the CCP setting up an underground and parallel state in Vancouver/Canada. So if that’s your thing, yeah read it.
Zoolander, too, could only turn right.
I finished The Black Tongue Thief a few days ago so I’ve bounced around a few books. But I seem to have settled on Swords & Deviltry by Fritz Leiber and The Mosaic Effect by McGregor and Mitchell
I like Canada’s version of Monarchy. The royals? Oh they are over there.
Oh you want to usurp executive powers? Al la Putin or Erdogan. Well that would require the executives signature. And you cant coerce them because, once again, they’re over there.
What the hell were those doors for anyway? And who has a giant open pit. Also why the hell were they in an industrial site?
Imagine an adult having to do everything because their spouse is incapable of contributing.
Dunno man I just roasted a couple sausages, yorkies, sauted mushrooms, butter peas, and gravy. It’s pretty damn good.
Credit where it is due. My parents are willing to question things. And that is half the battle.