The mafia has infested law enforcement too.
I accidentally took the wrong streetcar when visiting San Francisco and ended up in the Castro.
They put a boot on my gender and had it towed. Apparently I have to pay $450 plus $85 per day storage to get it out of impound. I said “forget it” and they crushed it into a cube.
Once you get to 50k people, you have to set up Harbour Goth, and at 100k, Airport Goth.
I can see the former with merman/maid themes, but not sure how to implement the latter-- black fishnet pilot iniforms?
I’m sort of intrigued how they got the startup funding.
You’re building a retail business around a meme. Even in the best possible case, you have a couple years of relevance to pay down the debt.
It’s brick-and-mortar, with real inventory, not like just online drop-shipping stuff silkscreened on demand, so the overhead is pretty high.
If a bank financed any of this nonsense, I want to know so we can send the FDIC Shock Troops in to find out what other stupid shit they’re doing with depositor money.
There seems to be a size heirarchy to it.
Supermarkets become either a gym or a Goodwill.
Mid-size businesses become Spirit Halloween.
Small businesses just get replaced with “hobby” businesses where it’s obviously someone with money cosplaying as a storekeeper selling scrapbooking suppkies or country decor items.
I’m waiting for rackmount snacks. Tubes of Pringles lined up in a neat 2U enclosure, and redundant arrays of chocolates.
The interesting thing is this was apparently the portrau=it that won the original design conpetition in 1932.
I thought the goal was the two nuzzling with ^ . ^ faces. So cute.
So the Nippon Ham company is starting with sausages with bones, and working their way up to the perfectly round cylinder of roasted meat with a large straight bone through the centre that anime and video games have teased us with for decades.
Gotta start somewhere.
Yeah, it’s surreal. Back when the Oregon Trail Generation got their first 486 class PCs with 14.4 dialup, all the safety guides were about “never use your real name.”
The fear of some theoretical elite AOL pedophile corps and being able to age out of an embarrassing “ponygirl1987” account actually made good prep for the idea of “you have multiple identities for different contexts” and “keep personal and work stuff isolated.”
There was a 15 minute window where the 735 was the best Socket A chipset on the market.
Unfortunately, they couldn’t get past cheapo ECS mainboards.
Three skulls is hardly “full of skulls”, unless he lives in a 90-square-foot Manhattan closet.
This is just like those liars at Keebler with “full of chocolate chips” all over again.
For some reason they tend to describe the flash capacity of phones as ROM (i. e. 4Gb RAM/128Gb ROM); a typo or bad cut-paste seems plausible.
But Xiangling seems like a weird choice of featured unit. I guess she’s one of the more memorable four-stars, but slap Raiden Shogun on a freaking Nokia G20 and fanboys would buy it.
– sent from my G20 with a $2 Genshin-themed case on it.
Then you’ll love the series for spoilery reasons.
You can never have too many Qiqis.
I would die on this hill, but she won’t let me. (Green “+5654” appears to my side)
I’m mostly interest in that drop on the “Homosexuality” chart in Q3. I know Steve is carrying that department, but really, we can’t let the numbers go to shit every time he takes a week off to visit his parents!
To expand on this, “school choice” is sold to several different audiences:
The well-intentioned parents who say “I can pull my kids out of a ‘failed’ public school” which only serves to remove anyone who might provide accountability or volunteer support for said schools, creating a death spiral. Fixing this would require some way to make parents understand the common-good aspect. You might be trying to help your own little Timmy today, but at the expense of everyone, inclluding Little Timmy in 2055 when the skilled-worker economy has tanked in his hometown.
The whackjob brigades, who will gravitate to whichever school gets the closest to teaching the Bible as literal fact while still qualifying for as a non-private school that thus getting the costs covered by the state. In most cases, we don’t want these parents anywhere near decision making processes.
Narrow use cases where there’s a viable argument for a different school program. Some charter schools positioned themselves as “last chance” programs, offering things like customized schedules for kids forced to choose between high school and work, or online-only programs before Covid made it a big deal. A sufficiently resourced public school system should have similar ability to offer options, but if you have a lot of small districts, maybe they need some ability to form cooperatives to fill these gaps.
I never quote understood the patchwork of school systems in the US-- one town might say “all the schools under one district, covering 80,000 students” and the next town has five different districts for elementary only, then others for high schools, and none of them have market-making buying power for anything from textbooks to teachers.
I understand it’s a body kit on the Scion iQ.
Supposedly they basically only sold them if you were buying another Aston Martin, since they existed solely to fix average fuel economy numbers for their usual boats
Finally, API bindings I can understand.
Cross post to MurderMoe too. :>