Or… They also remove the moratorium to drive the point home.

Well this guy was the Vice Chief from 2022-2023 and became Chief in 2023. So that’s under the Biden administration, for what that’s worth.

I get what you’re saying, but the more direct comparison would be to the Chief of Staff of the Army, not the President.

I gotta say, I spent a solid minute on Google Images trying to find a picture that made him look more badass than the professional headshot photo, but a good half of the images are him in readers.

That depends on your sorting preference. Several sorting options are very straightforward like top, new, etc.

Sex is a scapegoat for implementing surveillance and discrimination systems. The same as every “think of the children” law ever passed.

It’s not about the children, it’s about making it impossible for opponents to justify in the 10 second sound bite that the media allows with no further context whatsoever. And that’s all of the media that 90% of people consume.

They are as far as the shareholders are concerned if Amazon is telling them about different tiers of subscription. The bullshit the company spins is just as, if not more, important than the raw numbers. Especially when companies only report mandated info and the raw numbers they’re referencing aren’t disclosed for comparison.

Statistics is the art of making up a narrative you want to show via numbers, and finding a way to say it exists regardless of reality.

Shareholders are dumb panicky creatures. As long as the numbers aren’t terrible and you say some nice things most of them take it as gospel.

Spinning shit as a positive is a full time career in the corporate world after all.

Subscription info is definitely part of the information provided to investors. The raw numbers may not be in the financial documents, but revenue from subscriptions most definitely is and will give a general idea of changes even if the company doesn’t give the numbers directly.

You’re talking internal accountability. That doesn’t apply at this scale.

The accountability here is to shareholders. And they don’t care about why, just quarterly profits and growth.

Large Shareholders some care about how the line goes up, just that it does. Constantly. Every quarter.

The recovery backup…

Arming your "enemy’ immediately before attacking them seems like a very stupid idea. So par for the course with this administration.

You’re right. The criteria for law enforcement is lower. They take the military rejects.

Or it was intentional, of course. Losing a phone while travelling is a reasonable cover story.

I don’t know if it’s funnier that Miller is being called an aide as opposed to a handler, or that his name wasn’t even mentioned in the headline.

The McRib is 44 years old… And every year there are a ton of news articles about it, explaining exactly what it is in the process.

Pretty sure you can’t try and argue that it’s a surprise that it’s just a pork mcnugget in the vague shape of ribs.

You just go back to the court showing they’re not paying the court mandated restitution.

Yes it takes time, yes it will probably cost more in time alone than the $155 issue that started it. But you can get increased penalties awarded for failure to pay.

Small claims courts really don’t like big businesses ignoring the little man.

File in small claims court for the fees and time if they refuse or don’t respond. OpenAI isn’t going to bother sending a representative for such a small amount.

The Christofascists need Israel to rule the region as an ethnostate, it is a prerequisite for the Christian end times.

And YHWH declared to His “scattered” followers, “For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land…Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God.” (NIV Ezek. 36:24, 28)

And the current events seem to be directly moving towards these various prophecies, likely intentionally directed by various State actors as well. World War 3 being based in the region is certainly a possibility looking more likely by the day.

“I will make Jerusalem and Judah like a cup of poison to all the nearby nations that send their armies to surround Jerusalem. Jerusalem will be a heavy stone burdening the world. And though all the nations of the earth unite in an attempt to move her, they will all be crushed.” (NLT Zechariah 12:2-3)