the heart muscle dies. they can tell via EKG

They taste good. They taste even better mashed up with other stuff as a condiment.

heart attacks come in many different forms. even silent ones.

my dad had a major heart attack at 51. when they evaluated him he had had three previous heart attacks that he never knew about.

No. You’re wrong. What happens is the real estate stays empty. They never lower rents, because lowering rent devalues the asset.

They make more money leaving it empty.

why? the ads are 40% of the airtime.

even with ad service streaming, you are only seeing like 10-20% ads.

where is that offered?

local entertainment in my city is easily $100 a night now. For few hours.

Even when I go tot a cheap concert in a cheap place, it’s $25 to get in, and about $25 for two shitty drinks. $50 bare minimum, add food or any extras easily doubles. You want a place that isn’t shitty? those prices double or triple. Dive bars are now charging $10 for a shitty draft beer. 8 buck for a shitty bottle beer.

Most of the cost is the venue upkeep and the labor, which are fixed costs that keep escalating. it’s not the cost of the food and other stuff, that’s gone down.

The days of going out and hanging out for hours for $5-10 are never coming back. Every spot like that near me has closed, or cut back their hours to 10-3 or something mid-day only. even cheap places like coffeeshops have time limits for sitting down, like 30m tops or they have reduced/removed seating because they do not want people hangout there anymore.

things used to be cheap because wages were cheap and property was cheap. you could pay a retail worker 8 bucks an hour and rent a storefront for like 2-3 grand amonth. Now the workers get $20/hr and rent is 8-10K a month. So prices get doubled, and companies need to do everything they can to reduce costs by reducing hours to peak-traffic only. a lot of restaurants in my city are now only open from 6-9pm, because they can’t afford to let any table sit empty while they are open. they used to be open 4pm-11pm.

They work harder and take credit for other people’s work.

It’s all about optics. Ruthless people ruthless control their optics, normal people don’t.

I figured this was coming tonight with his bluster this morning about destroying their ‘civilization’.

He always goes super extreme BS before he does a 180.

nobody is investing in the lower or middle classes. they are de-investing.

everyone is investing in the rich people. especially other rich people who are trying to grow their businesses.

The only people with money to spend are the upper-middle class consumers. Incomes of 100K+. 60% of consumer spending across the USA comes from people in this bracket… and for people under 100K income, spending is going down. Only 18% of USA population makes this level of income…

Hence if you want to make money, you have to move your products up-market to appeal to people who have all the disposable income to spend. This trend is all over the economy. Travel, clothing, food, etc.

The days of appealing to the mass market of lower and middle class consumers, is over, because they are broke, so nobody gives an F about them.

Going forward it’s about fewer sales, but higher margin sales.

Last time I checked Mario Bros was supposed to be happy and fun and simple not an art house intellectual experience.

I wonder if a lot of the reviews are just the bitterness that it’s going to be a 1.5B movie and that ‘real cinema’ movies do pitifully at the box office these days, very rarely to they even make $100mil

yeah but did you use linux when you deleted your cookies?

Or it’s about money.

people like money and they will do whatever it takes to get it. regardless of generation.

The issue is that it’s self-referential. The org itself gets to define what is good management or bad. Outsides parties, have no say.

And that’s how local school boars work. They are local politics and they have very little external oversight, if any at all. Sort of criminal acts, like a board member embezzling school funds, that violate state law, there isn’t really much criteria over which they can be held accountable, other than winning votes from their local voters.

I live in Boston. I can harp all I want about a local school board in TN, but the only power I have is over my own local school board here, where I can vote. And man the candidates we have… are usually a mix of nutbags and slightly less nutbags. School board elections tend to attract weirdos more than sensible people, IME.

You are captured by the false media narrative that you are one thing or the other.

The vast majority of voters are neither far right or far left. They are moderate. However, moderate people dont’ get any airtime because the extremists here, and everywhere else, paint everyone as either FOR or AGAIN things.

Moderate voters went for Trump because he offered them a better platform to vote for, especially economically. And Trump’s tanking now that his policies are showing to be horrible. But he has 2.5 more years in office.

No dude, legally. It is. It is the only criteria that restricts and defines who can run for the position.

You can make up arbitrary things in your head, but legally you cannot stop anyone from running or winning, with the made up criteria in your head.

You can go and campaign to change your local election laws, btw.

it’s a democratically elected position.

the judgement is the judgement voters of that district.

do you vote in your own local school board elections? I do, and yeah you vote based on the person’s policy stated positions. however, just because I do that, doesn’t mean lots of candidates I don’t vote for, don’t get elected and push policies I don’t agree with… because they get more votes than the candidates I vote for did.

Also, why do you assume that the voters in this school district, don’t want this guy? He may very well be who they think is best for the job. If you don’t live in this district… you don’t get to vote for the school board there.

the majority of people are not far right.

the issue is that people who are far right, are far more likely to run for office than moderate candidates are. and run better campaigns, and win more votes.

there is no test to run for, or be on a school board.

what would this test be, exactly? are you saying school board members should have to pass a civil service type of test before they can run, or after they are elected?

are you being deliberate obtuse?

an election is about who gets the most votes. there are no other criteria involved.

unless the election system has some other type of ruleset, like the presidential electoral college, or a more than majority requirement.