Fair. I just chuckled at it. Don’t know why that’s a problem.

Apparently the comic creator doesn’t know there’s a comedian named “Josh Johnson” and I think that’s funny.

I just wanted to point out that from the article they linked Valves cut of profits also drop by a certain amount per game sold.

And Epic also notoriously reduced their cut of profits under 1 million just last year.

After $10 million in sales through Steam, Valve’s cut drops to 25% on all new sales, and drops again to 20% on sales after $50 million.

I agree with you though.

I buy server drives from them still. Well I did. Before everything kind of went a little crazy. But yeah they are a shadow of what they once were.

She was 8. She had cancer. She was the runt of her litter and I miss her every day.

When she was still with us?

Fluffy. Fluffy nuggets. Fluff Nugget. Fluffinator. Fluffy cake. Mrs Cake. Cake. Cake but when a Japanese person says the word with their native accent.

There’s more but it’s been a decade and it’s after midnight.

Yeah. The cat is a G. “Try me.” - the cat, probably.

Pelican wrote this.

The US military IS the resources. What even.

They also seem to have replaced their PR team with AI, given all the stuff he probably should have been coached not to say in this interview.

Ah. So it’s not just me.

I’ve got ten rolls of duct tape that says we can mummify it since it moves and it shouldn’t.

The turtles deserve better than this.

You’re asking them to put their livelihood on the line for your privacy. They’re gonna choose the thing that pays their bills every time.

I like my coffee hot most of the time but I have enjoyed iced coffee. The main problem for me is it’s way easier to drink a lot more iced coffee than is good for me than it ever was to drink hot coffee at and unhealthy volume.

I’m not disputing what you said. Just pointing out the parts of the article that lead me to my conclusion. The Landlord seems to not want to sell off parcels of this land according to their own statement, but to continue coffee operations. What you said makes sense (as far as extracting more rents), but so does trying to buy the rights to the Kauai Coffee Company name to continue their operations because of brand recognition.

You are correct in that I don’t know much of anything about the lease hold system for such lands in Hawaii.

Katayama told the council he wouldn’t discuss details of the lease or explain where the disagreement lies.

James Priestley, the vice president of Brue Baukol Capital Partners, told SFGATE in an email that the firm has always hoped to reach an agreement with Massimo Zanetti.

He [Priestley] explained that, in 2024, Brue Baukol listed 4,713 acres of its coffee lands for sale. “When we received an indication that a renewal was uncertain, we considered leasing or selling the land to another interested steward whose values aligned with ours and could continue the legacy of agriculture on this land,” he wrote.

Priestley said that the company intends to keep coffee operations going, even if ongoing lease negotiations are unsuccessful, and that it would like to “retain all Kauai Coffee employees who wish to continue working with us.”

“We remain open to all options that achieve our goals of supporting jobs, maintaining coffee operations and responsible land stewardship,” Priestley wrote.

“Let me be clear, Brue Baukol Capital Partners has negotiated in good faith for more than two years and has no plans to lay off employees or rezone important agricultural lands (IAL),” he said in his email. “Our focus is, and will remain, on the employees — the heartbeat of Kauai Coffee — and we are committed to doing everything we can to ensure stability and a smooth transition, with or without Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group’s agreement to new lease terms.”

Sounds like a trademark/name dispute even though the reason for non-renewal seems to have been kept close to the chests of the two companies involved.

Text to speech?

I was diagnosed as a child. I don’t… I don’t think I would have a lot of the coping strategies I do have or be as functional as I am if I weren’t (even though I’ve never been on meds). I suspected being medicated would be better (I am also in my 40’s), but at the same time it is very hard to get past my executive dysfunction in that regard. I think I also worry that being medicated will help very little/not at all and my expectations will be shot to hell.

I don’t know if this perspective helps at all.

But for what it’s worth, being diagnosed may afford you some other support systems that might help you at work and in your professional life.