Incidentally a UK paper a few years back called it “the cheapest british meal” and invited someone to send in a cheaper meal and they’d get an award. They got flooded and had to pick the winner at random.

Yeah but I kind of expected The Guardian to…

Moses did! See cause his face was glowing. Which he couldn’t show you.

Upgrades and accessories might work. I don’t see how maintenance does, especially if you’re providing a warranty. You’re now paying for the parts and repair… hopefully you banked that into your selling price.

(Did nobody here see Kinky Boots?)

If it’s something that lasts 20 years, how are you going to sell people parts?

It’s like the John Pinette bit: If it’s gonna break I don’t want it. It’s not gonna break. If it’s not gonna break why do I need the service plan? In case it breaks…

Once everyone buys one what do they then sell? That’s the point.

Still that’s kinda rich coming from one of the world’s biggest leaders of religion, which literally encourages people to believe things without evidence and simply based on who tells them, based on unseen guidance.

Guess Salem gonna have to get those trial courts running again when this goes south

Would go out of business in two years.

Capitalism isn’t suited towards quality, only towards selling

Well, large tech corporations often cut costs by falsely listing impossible to meet job descriptions and then use that to ask the government for an excuse to hire a foreign worker, who they will hire despite not meeting the job descriptions either, but is willing to work for a fraction of what the domestic worker can afford to live on.

So there is that

But that’s not the fault of those immigrants, who are just looking for a better opportunity; that’s on the corporations abusing a system that is supposed to improve the domestic economy by bringing in top talent to American industry, not by displacing domestic employees and depressing wages.

And uh, also, the conservative wing and the administration isn’t really upset about that at all, either.

The fact that no one is challenging “internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee” is making me want to blow up my desktop

UK is doing Denmark and the rest of Europe a solid here. They’re being the black cop at the Capitol that baits the MAGAs away from the congressional chambers.

honk honk

I’M BATING!!!

can’t tell you how many mornings i had to make cinnamon toast for the ex’s kid before taking him to school

It’s a wartime / depression era food, not something you’d make by choice, typically

Cause bread was cheaper than say meat or cheese or what not

First he switched the right to pro-tariffs…

Then he switched the right to not-anti-pedophile…

Now switching it to pro-gun-control

Look, can he just hurry the fuck up and get MAGA to support socialism already? I don’t feel like waiting this long

All so that we can figure out that God is a magic talking lion

I think you misunderstand. It’s normal in US to carry IDs, usually driver licenses. But those are state-issued IDs. They are becoming unreliable when dealing with federal authorities, however, because they don’t prove citizenship. For example, my permanent resident wife has a state ID, she also has a social security card, and other documents, but she is not a US citizen, so her ID she carries does not verify her right to be here. (She has another card for that, which until recently she likewise did not carry regularly since for 99% of needs the state ID is sufficient.)

A passport is one of the few federal IDs we have that also prove citizenship, and probably most Americans, or a very significant number of them, do not have one or did not have one until semi recently. It was about 12 years ago the US stopped accepting state ID to enter the US from Canada, which meant most people could cross that border without passport. Plenty of Americans have either never left the country or only traveled to Canada thus never needed a passport. (Kind of a big country.)

So yes, it is new for them to have to carry passports, which aren’t nearly as convenient as the existing state IDs which fit in a wallet, as well as, kind of a pain in the ass to replace if lost or stolen – it can take months to get a replacement. (Ditto for PR cards; last time she renewed her it took 14 months(!).)

As of a few years back you can now also get a “passport card” which is a federal ID (it is also a REAL ID, for you statesiders). I have both, and I do carry the card version with me.

passport card’s way more portable btw