It is true that “market forces” used to be somewhat tempered by cultural ideals around how news media was supposed to operate. Recent decades have seen an increasingly profit driven management as US media has transformed into a much more consolidated industry under the control of fewer and fewer corporations. The US media has always been “capitalist”, but it also has a history of at least giving pretense to serving the public good.
Has it started getting hot out where you are recently? There is always a spike in bad driving when the weather gets nice.
I’ve never seen the New York Post described as “esteemed” before.
You could tax tires, it avoids all the tracking while still distributing road maintenance costs based off actual use of the roads.
There is a balance though or else the system feedback breaks the economy. Too much deflation and the “progress” stops because it starts making more and more sense for people to hold off on spending their money as much as they can. As an extreme example, if you know you can buy twice as much of something for the same dollar tomorrow, you must really need that thing right now to justify not waiting for a day. Scale that behavior across the entire population and it can start producing real problems.
Walgreens once gave me the wrong prescription, which I didn’t notice until after I already taken some. It was some weird drug for schizophrenics or something like that and it totally fucked me up to the point I had to take off work for the day. Instead of apologizing or trying to make the situation right the Walgreens pharmacist was a total asshole to me and tried to blame me for what happened, they acted like I had stolen someone else prescription instead of them fucking up and poisoning me.
ARR is around 30b, valuation is over 800b.
No, it was several years before that.
I agree in principle, and do sometimes get mildly annoyed having to cover for people because they are out due to parental obligations, but overall I really don’t mind or care that much. I’ve had to do it a number of times now and sometimes it can be very stressful but that’s why I get paid. Being a parent sucks so I feel bad for them having to put up with all the bullshit, it’s not like they are off having fun when they can’t be at work because their kid is shitting uncontrollably with a high fever or whatever nightmare is going on. Not having kids is great, the occasional extra work or responsibilities that comes with being more reliable than coworkers with kids is the tiniest of tradeoffs for me. Maybe it helps that I like my coworkers and am happy they get to be responsible parents. Additionally, if your boss or someone higher up is out on extended parental leave it can be beneficial to your career if you fill in for them and get some time working “above your station” because your org gets forced into it. I know it was for me early in my career.
Can you explain how allowing both employees to work remotely “means taking that flexibility from parents”? Also, why do you characterize people who want to work remotely as assholes? This reads like you have some kind of personal animosity you’re expressing here rather than a considered opinion based in something legitimate.
Yep, I grew up being taught Catholics were fake Christians who worship Mary and their saints instead of god, and in so doing are actually worshipping demons because “Satanists” control the Catholic church.
I tried a few years ago but couldn’t get over the absurd amount of advertising and dumb bullshit so I canceled my subscription. I would love to spend Sunday mornings drinking coffee and reading the paper like an old-timey person but the paper is at least 90% garbage. The 10% that isn’t garbage is poorly edited and often has typos. It felt like I was being insulted every time I opened it up.
I don’t think that is correct, the Fairness Doctrine couldn’t apply to MSNBC because they are a cable TV station. The govt. can only regulate licensed spectrum, i.e. actual broadcasts which use the public airwaves. The FCC licenses that spectrum to broadcasters, that is what gave them the capacity to impose the Fairness Doctrine. They have no authority over non-broadcast media like cable TV or the internet.