It’s a marketing thing. The price looks like $2.74, but in reality, for all intents and purposes, it’s $2.75. And in some areas with heavy competition, one or two cents actually does matter. The consumer will go to the place with the $2.74 sign even though the price is (essentially) the same.

Linux on a Budget

Have… Have I been accidentally pirating Linux all this time? Who do I owe money to?

Been a long time, but back in the 90s/early 00s, I saw tons of parents with their kids on leashes at amusement parks… It always made me lol at the absurdity, but it was relatively prominent.

I don’t get banned on literally every community for being right wing

You do know where you are, right? Did you get lost?

Which would only affect CA, as you pointed out. It would do nothing but hurt CA.

That’s your takeaway?

Brian Eno is a world renowned musician, producer, composer, etc…

Should probably do a quick Google search before acting like he’s some unknown.

This doesn’t even matter. State’s rights are still in effect,

I’m not sure you understand what this means. “States rights” is a slogan, it’s not like codified law. Nothing is "in effect ". Federal law always supercedes state law, and the US Congress 100% can tell CA what to do here.

California’s response will be interesting to see, as if they choose not to, then the federal government will come down on them (and trust me, they’re obviously looking for excuses)

Oh man, they’re gonna be so mad when they see you pointing out their blatant hypocrisy!

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Yeah I think we all know what he meant when he said “can’t”

Also, the only reason we really even know about last year is because of our regulatory agencies’ ability to investigate shit like this…

I guess if we didn’t have them, then we probably wouldn’t have known in the first place and the brand’s reputation wouldn’t be damaged! Everyone’s happy! Well… Except all of the people who got salmonella with no way of confirming for certain what made them sick.

But who cares about them.

Cringey? Or just a generally more healthy and normalized societal view of sex and sex work?

Only when it suits them.

When you try to do good things for kids, like free school lunches and sex education, then it’s all about “hurr durr it’s the parents’ responsibility”

Department of Political Retribution

This reminds me of a teacher I had in elementary school that hated the word “stuff.” It was banned from his classroom and you would lose points if you ever used the word in assignments.

Not sure why, but that really stuck with me, and I still try to avoid using the word when I can.

There’s almost always a better word to use.

The writing is so cringe that even thinking about it is annoying me and I haven’t played a BL game in over a decade

needs are either met or not

When you have hundreds of millions of people in your country, it’s not as black and white as that, even just logistically speaking…

I see “maximizing” in this context (describing utility) to imply doing it as well as possible.

Though I suppose, “optimizing” would be a better word to use.

And if they’re going to be causing chilling effects left and right, we should do the same… Maybe if we named and shamed these people, other agents might think twice before doing this kind of shit.

I mean, probably not as that would require introspection, but you know…

Exactly. Name and shame.