I bet it was the guy that had to inflate it.

“Fuck this shit,” was heard shortly before the disappearance.

Currahee!

A primary function of Capitalism is to concentrate wealth. Preferably in as few hands as possible. Regulation is required to keep that from happening, particularly to such extents that cash/speech proxy crosses the threshold beyond which private citizens are no longer bound by State controls.

We probably blew through that tipping point sometime in 2012-2016, so now the train is off the tracks.

ATS allows the least skilled people in a company (HR) to be even less effective.

It does, however, facilitate the easy scraping of applicant data, which can be packaged and sold.

Exactly what I was thinking.

I remember how GM did fuckall in the 90s while Honda and Toyota and even Hyundai ate their lunch.

“Ideally, we would have a fully functional, well-tested FAFSA opening on October 1,” she added. “But given where we are in the process, and the challenges that have plagued this year’s rollout, we would rather wait until December 1 to allow time for the necessary testing to ensure a functional system when ED launches the 2025-26 FAFSA.”

The cost is to the whole world, because they consume enormous amounts of energy and produce essentially nothing. Like bitcoin miners.

Which means they’re adding profit margin to the otherwise zero marginal cost of said information good.

MIT releases financials and endowment figures for 2024:

The Institute’s pooled investments returned 8.9 percent last year; endowment stands at $24.6 billion

“Ah, user error.”

All kidding aside, I use a brass and wood shoehorn that I inherited from my grandparents. Thing is at least 50 years old.

Whatever you’re doing, it’s not the horn.

Thanks to Ed Jenner

End stage capitalism is more easily defined: all, or nearly all Consumer surplus has been converted to Firm profit.

I think that was their point

Yay, I’m a tiny sliver!

Hey man, lighthouses serve a pretty important function. Cut yourself some slack

“Generation Me” will never cop to their culpability. They’re narcissists, ie to admit being wrong now would absolutely crumple their sense of identity. And we all know Boomers #1 rule is looking out for numero uno.

I’m not saying all Boomers are Captain Planet villains…but all Captain Planet villains were definitely Boomers.

If it helps to assuage your guilt at all, we have been living, inundated with corporate propaganda, for all our lives.

“Carbon footprint” is a great example; it’s a Corporate guilt trip.

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/carbon-footprint-coined-by-big-oil-to-blame-you-for-climate-change

That’s all of us unless you’re an executive in a multinational corp, or work for the oil and gas industry.

We’ve all been ramrodded into this reality by a handful of giant Corporations, over the last 100 years.

Bring back the Luddites!

People just want affordable homes- a cornerstone feature of pretty much every modern generation before Millennials.

Obviously there are better ways to build a home, but those avenues seem closed.