"demand" isn't spelled as r-e-q-u-e-s-t.

A hit piece on Nazis?

I don't want to pay for the full goose right now, I just want to pay for the right to buy the goose later, at a price that's fixed now. I'll decide later if I actually want to buy the goose or not.

Alternatively, I'm not sure how much my goose will continue to lay in the future, I'd like to pay for insurance to guarantee me a fixed price to sell the goose later if I want to.

Well you should subtract out the kids. I'm not going to get irritated about someone under the age of 18 not voting. That's why it should be eligible voters, not Americans.

Different take:

In other words, Buffett specialized in finding “undervalued” issues on the market. Such opportunities arise occasionally, he says, because in the short run the stock market acts like a “voting machine” (reflecting all kinds of irrational attitudes and expectations), while functioning in the long run more like a “weighing machine” (reflecting a firm’s true value).

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/01/09/market/?amp=1

Either way, DJT is a shorting opportunity.

Drive through seems like a great proving ground. Record every drive through customer / cashier interaction. Match each recording up with the transaction entered into the register. Train a model by having the model "listen" to the recording to predict what the order should look like, then match it to the items on the transaction receipt.

Then, phase 1 of implementation is to use the model in real time by listening to the live conversation at the drive through, predicting what it thinks the order should be, then prompting the cashier to double-check the order to see if the human made a mistake entering the order if the prediction doesn't match.

Phase 2 is human-supervised, where the order taking system interacts directly with the customer to take the order, the human checks the result, and is able to step in / take over if there's a mistake or a special case the order system can't handle.

Phase 3 is "fuck your entry level employment" and no human is monitoring the system.

All 3 phases seem completely doable to me at this point, depending on how much backlash MCD is willing to deal with.

TIL

Accurate, like rural Georgia looks like the hills of Southern California.

I'm pretty confident they weren't born before 1789, when that amendment was proposed.

Pretty good odds no amendment has been proposed and ratified in that person's lifetime.

Not in your lifetime.

Not in your lifetime.

Nah, it's more than that. Conservativism is about the in group obtaining and excercising power over the out group.

Blatant hypocrisy is just another demonstration of power. "Look at what I can do and you can't do anything about it.".

John McCain, member of the Keating 5? That John McCain?

It makes labor more expensive because people will be less desperate for wages.

You don't seem to understand the difference between progress and obstruction.

Yes, and conscription for defense is not the same thing as conscription for invasion and occupation.

I mean, he still is at least 10 years older.

That was a hell of a ride with a really weird destination.

In the context of discussing gag order violations, yes, he said something similar to that. I don't remember the exact phrase he used.

He is a first-time offender, and the crime he has been found guilty of is a non-violent paper crime.

Right, first time non-violent felon, like Michael Cohen.