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Hair clipper. Paid for itself in two uses. It’s been years.

Esperanto. Logical. Clear. Easy.

And yet homicide is so much higher in the USA than other wealthy countries.

It means “if Allah wills it”, so similar to “God willing”.

That’s surely accumulated wealth rather than the grey hairs?

You’re right of course.

If they don’t have subscribers, they can do whatever they want?

If they don’t have any people who give a shit as subscribers they can do what they want. They can go batshit insane alt right loony neo nazi with no further penalty, indeed, if they’re pretty much the only subscribers, there’s a financial benefit to go further magat and a loss to do otherwise. And your daughter well plead with you to get disney so she can watch pretty princesses and if you cave, then your son will grow up racist.

When fox pulls this shit they are fine, because sane people aren’t watching anyway. The only reason disney backed down is that it hurt them. If no one goes back, it can’t possibly hurt them a second time.

But absolutely you sold do what toy want with your money and if this was a permanent deal breaker for you, go ahead and permanently reject them. I’m OK with that, really, but I can’t pretend that you’ll have ongoing influence on their future decision making at the same time.

It’s the only ring these companies understand.

If there’s no one left who gives a shit they can do whatever they like and won’t feel any pain next time.

The people have some power with their wallet by only if they use it.

You’re under no moral obligation to resubscribe at all, but if nobody does, they made a financial mistake by putting the show back on the air.

Sunk cost fallacy.

Having said that, I’m finding some of the arguments the other way here fairly convincing.

But conversely, I remember in 2010 I asked a youth group what they thought the main parties were about. They said that Labour were about making education better and the Conservatives were about making the NHS better. None of them remembered that the Conservatives massively underfunded the NHS and always prioritised tax cuts over public services. I was right. They were wrong.

So much this. 16 year olds rarely know (or care) much about politics, AT ALL.

This will make it much more likely that young people will acquire the habit of not voting.

Make them wait till they want it.

The fifth Doctor knows who the Portreeve of Castrovalva really is.

Yes and no. Beliefs can definitely shape reality.

If someone believes that they can’t do something difficult, they often don’t attempt it, so don’t acquire the skills they would need, and stay unable to do it. The converse is also true.

Children are heavily influenced by their parents’ beliefs about them.

Believing something about different brands of soda doesn’t change the chemical composition of them, but in a world where products are judged on their sales rather than their chemical composition, changing the perception of a product can fundamentally change its sales, making it a better product by the only objective measure that’s consistently used. This is even more true in the world of fashion, for example very strongly with trainers etc.

Anything where human behaviour changes reality is a place where beliefs change reality.

Our beliefs shape the world strongly and powerfully. They change reality.

Eg. USA.

Take my angry upvote and get out.

Yes, and that’s not even under the table.

Yup. Companies avoid paying taxes in one country by getting their divisions in other, lower tax countries to charge the one in the high tax country so much for intellectual property and branding etc that they make a loss in the high tax country, which in some countries entitles them to a tax rebate. It’s insane.

Don’t do this, EU. You’re better than this.

I hesitate to ask, but how was he trying to stimulate himself that he ended up pissing all over himself?

Trump is gonna be so butthurt that after he told Canadians to elect PeePee who was gonna make Canada the 51st state, Canadians took away his seat. Nope nope nope.