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  1. The old CEO(s) who were ousted for a celebratory and celebrity QSR hire to make changes and bring his Chipotle Midas touch to a fledgling business. But you knew that!
  2. I wrote about this in the basketball thread but thought maybe discussion here is better. The prediction market on the Robinhood app is awesome because you can buy “shares” and cash out at anytime or let it ride to fulfillment. For example, before the playoffs I bought NY Knicks to win the championship at $.02 a share. I bought 5000 shares for $100. Today the shares are .15 which means I can sell right now and make $650 (net $550) or I can let it ride out to see if they win the championship at which point each share is worth $1.00 ($100 @ 5000 shares @ $.02 invested means a return of $5,000). Or I can sell anytime before to take the risk off the table, etc. I find it to be a super fun way to gamble as it’s not necessarily all or nothing and the ability to get a 10x-25x return on initial investment is rare outside of crazy parlays Anyone else do this?
  3. Right. I think the argument made was that by concealing it screwed actual D's with a chance (and Kamala specifically) and gave us the felon. From the article: I think we all agree that the first 100+ days has been an unmitigated series of disasters and that Biden's barely awake corpse would have done better, but it's more about how the actions-- and the stench of a coverup/hoodwinking-- was a massive political error. I think a lot of us knew there was more to the story and what met the eyes and it's interesting that now post-mortem analysis and reporting is coming out and the tea is gonna be spilled on some of this, potentially.
  4. Full article if The New Yorker paywalls it.
  5. Seems damning: What the public saw of Joe Biden’s functioning was concerning. What was going on in private was worse. In an exclusive full excerpt from their forthcoming book, “Original Sin,” Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson report on a fateful fund-raising event that revealed the extent of Biden’s decline, stunning George Clooney, Barack Obama, and others—and how the President and his advisers decided to conceal his condition and continue campaigning for reëlection. Read it here: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/how-joe-biden-handed-the-presidency-to-donald-trump
  6. I think ztejas is overindexing here but I also agree to an extent to a lot of how ztejas has characterized Kanye and his art. The question for me is actually a more interesting one that cuts across timelines-- knowing more today as we do about mental illness and knowing that Kanye clearly suffers from some type(s) of mental illness-- has provacetur and avant garde art always been undergirded with illness? I always thought the tortured artist was a myth but idk.
  7. Crisp and Breezy banger for the tops down in Galveston this summer:
  8. Is this bad union or bad management when it sounds like a bunch of emo gen alphas who are throwing a fit because they have to conform to a general color scheme (and call it a uniform). "Hundreds of Starbucks staff have walked out of over 50 stores since Sunday to protest the company's new dress code, which went into effect Monday. The union that orchestrated the walkouts hinted that more are planned. It also filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board alleging the uniform changes are illegal, per Bloomberg. The coffee chain announced the uniform updates in April, part of an ongoing effort to revive sales after five consecutive quarterly same-store sales declines."
  9. Is the thinking, if consumer prices have to go up regardless (e.g. tariffs or profiteering or inflation or whatever else comes up), might as well go up in the service of paying the middle class better?
  10. I suspect it's a blindspot for many of us, but what you described as being a virtue of agrarian society (i.e. being unskilled and not very smart, but being able to lift things or carry things or just do things physically) is very ableist. And I know that might make me sound namby-pamby around here, but ableism is a thing and the move of society to use your brains and skills versus just having two working legs or otherwise not being disabled in some way, was very equalizing for a lot of people. It shouldn't be lost that while, you are right, the future of AI and devaluing of skills is a risk for all, it's the differently abled who are hurt the most.
  11. Right, but the point being that "bringing back manufacturing jobs" is going to be expensive relative to the value you get, if you are trying to help humans have a middle class job (versus automation and/or paying a very low wage that is competitive globally and for the skill level e.g. screwing in screws).
  12. This headline caught my attention: UAE - Kids as young as four to learn AI. The United Arab Emirates will roll out AI classes as part of its state school curricula from primary onwards. The Gulf state’s education minister is vowing not to repeat the error of its slow adaptation to social media. https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/05/06/uae-to-begin-teaching-ai-in-schools.html
  13. I've shared this before, but I have a friend who does some pretty basic and rote factory floor work at a Peterbilt plant. He essentially screws on 9 industrial screws (I could be exagerating, maybe its 15, but it's not much work) to the chasis or something as it hits his part of the line, does like 15 trucks a night (works the 3rd shift I think which is nights) and between the Union negotiated wages, perks and bennies, OT and 3rd shift stuff makes more than most pediatricians and state attorneys. It's a racket. Soooo....there is that extreme as well, I guess, is my point. But good for him, he just reupholstered his seats on his 2 year old boat. Must be nice.
  14. Trump to "snub" Israel as well as he visits *checks notes* KSA, Qatar, UAE and potentially Turkey.
  15. This is the insane world we live in: Treating consumers badly to boost profits is securities fraud, but treating consumers well and reducing profits is also securities fraud, because everything is securities fraud. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/08/unitedhealthcare-sued-by-shareholders-over-reaction-to-ceos-killing.html
  16. Changes nothing for me. Still out on this team as long as this management team is in charge.
  17. Disagree. A gay white male who isn't too zesty is not as career limiting as being BIPOC or a woman. Tim Cook, Peter Theil, etc. I think it's widely thought or accepted that being gay doesn't chnage the privilege of being a white male.
  18. Coo Coo Ka Choo little dude
  19. If the Memphis cops can get a not guilty, why not Luigi? Not that I think he should get a not guilty if he's guilty.
  20. Gainesville is still a dump. Went to the "Gainesville Zoo" last summer for some country inlaw reunion thing with the grandkids and wow. That was a sad state of affairs. An emaciated black bear in a chain link fence on a 200 sqft concrete slab was the highlight of the trip. Deformed giraffes cast off from mid-tier city zoos. A smattering of invasive species pawned off as attractions (e.g. raccoons, rabbits, wild boars). The sad part is I'm only slightly exaggerating.
  21. Sure, but on the whole, they don't have the infrastructure to really divert the waters and cripple Pakistan, which is what you'd need to do in short order (a swift, fatal blow) versus a slow, tortured process of diversion which would allow Pakistan to rally a) world sympathy (millions of innocent people affected by the lack of water) and b) Pakistan/China escalated response which would be bad for everyone.
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