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That proves my point. They are still plenty profitable. In fact 22% more profitable than they were 3 years ago. But because wall street made up a number that they needed to hit in order for the C Suite to get paid fully, they decide to layoff people. They know they cant continue to price gouge. I dont pretend to know the intricacies of Pepsi's business, but its a decision that reeks of bullshit, and is typical of how most of corporate america is run today. Profits over the well being of its own employees.

Dec-19 Dec-20 Dec-21 Dec-22 Dec-23 TTM Total Revenues 67,161.00 70,372.00 79,474.00 86,392.00 91,471.00 91,920.00 Operating Income 10,719.00 10,931.00 11,858.00 12,252.00 13,539.00 13,979.00 Gross Profit 37,178.00 38,637.00 42,428.00 46,050.00 49,603.00 50,448.00 Net Income 7,314.00 7,120.00 7,618.00 8,910.00 9,074.00 9,357.00 TTM includes their October earnings. Looks like record revenue, operating income and net income to me. But if those metrics start to fall, the execs don't max out their bonuses so I guess its best to close a few plants and fire some people. Guess you cant price gouge forever.

Thats probably it....they claim 25K engineering students (about 3X what we have enrolled) https://engineering.tamu.edu/about/facts-and-figures/index.html I had no idea it would take that many dudes to figure out how to replicate a lifelike yet durable sheep's anus. Maybe getting the maroon color just right is more challenging than I thought.

I need the video of the fisticuffs https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/passengers-removed-from-austin-bound-flight-after-altercation-over-maga-hat-report-says/

I envision a wasteland where backwoods Alaskans battle it out a la Highlander with their shitsticks. There can be only one.

Always a good sign when your auditor says "fuck this shit, I'm out" And speaking of stonks, I see CVNA is up 20% after their earnings release. If the after hours move holds up, they will open up tomorrow with a market cap approximately the same size as GM (and larger than Ford). They made $140M in profit this quarter. GM just reported $3B in profit. How many fucking cars do people expect them to sell at a 4% margin in the future to justify that valuation? But Ive been thinking that about CVNA for a while now, and it shows no signs of sanity returning. Will be up about 25X in the last year and a half.

Goddamn....Hunter Dickinson is still around? I guess he gets a covid season, but that dude seems like he's already played a career's worth of college hoops. I guess Davis is basically playing it out in the same fashion, he just doesnt seem as ancient to me.

Joker had himself a night

Met some friends at Taverna for dinner a few nights ago(their choice, not mine). Meal was fine, but holy shit, was it overpriced for what you got. And they lost me in the first few minutes when the waitress asked if we wanted still or sparkling water. We answered "still" expecting tap water, and she comes back a few minutes later with one mediocre sized bottle of water and proceeds to pour about 3/4 of an inch of water into each water glass like it was an exquisite wine. I almost threw my glass at her. Its fucking water. Get a large pitcher, some ice, and fill that fucker up in the kitchen. That stupid fuckery alone will prohibit me from ever choosing to eat there again.

If they get sprung, I'll likely be so sick of those dudes hyping their psuedo-celebrity status for $, that I'll wish someone shoots them in the face. Who am I kidding, with this country's obsession with weirdo celebrities, they will likely hold both CA Senate seats within 10 years.

She probably owes you a dutch oven or two.

I saw that earlier, and was trying to remember who that statue reminded me of. I know ....

WTF would make you think Gundy is the highest paid coach in college football? I think K. Smart is at $13M this year.

I like the late closeout from 6'0 VanVleet. Really altered the shot.

I think that's supposed to read "brown eye"

Deion has worn me out, but those two can play. Hunter is something else.

somewhere Coach O is coked up in a hot tub, sucking on some coed's tittays, laughing his ass off.

The Whiskey and Wine post game show after the game should be a fucking riot. TBob or whatever the fuck his name is will be losing his shit.

legit laughing that they played Wiggy ahead of this guy most of the year. What the fuck were they thinking?

I've seen a couple of baby back bitches today predict a loss vs aggy. Hell, I hope we come into the game a 2 TD underdog, because the moneyline bet will be that much sweeter. We aint losing to those fucknuts.

Lulz at that corndog two rows behind joining in on the dipshittery. Must be trying to score some aggy pussy.

He'd eat 40 of em, if you bust out some syrup.

This broad?

I almost murdered a dude last week at HEB. dude cruises through the express line to get a couple of packs of smokes. Several minutes later when the checker finally makes it back, he busts out his change purse and starts counting coins. Unfortunately he didn't have a real strong grasp of how to count the coins he likely spent all day accumulating.