Giving a discount eats into their profit margins, so they'd rather lose the customer than lose the profit margin, because their resources are all finite.

So why do stores have sales, ever? No, although groceries are low-margin items, they still retain high enough markups that they can still make money even with discounts, particularly when offering loss leaders. And with this technology, they can optimize for both price and customer retention, by keeping a price artificially inflated for those who can afford it and only lowering it when they're at risk of losing a customer.

Which sounds like a good idea, right? But it's not going to be accurate, ever. They're only ever going to miscategorize people and charge single moms double.

And let's be honest, it won't be used to give poor people discounts. It'll be used to raise prices for middle class people.

Also if every election could be approval based voting or ranked choice.

Now you're really singing my song.

I think it might have better QOL features, but honestly the gameplay loop in BL2 is better. And I think the engine might be more robust, too.

If Trump said the sky was blue I'd go out and check for myself. So I'm not going to take his claims about crowd size on faith.

Hopefully by that point they'll be so broke they can't even afford the heroin.

The oldest email in my Gmail account is from March of 2006, but I used to delete regularly so the account is probably a couple years older than that.

Copyright-strike the video and they'll delete it without checking. And since you can't log in to contest it, it'll stay down

Keep going 'til Alaska, my dudes.

They think we're in on the schtick.

decamped from the Republican organization and started clustering around guys like Joe Manchin.

Rats sinking a leaving ship.

He hurt the GOP coalition as much as the country overall.

Here's hoping even more. They thought they could use him and found out they couldn't control him.

The ones at the top of the ticket, sure. But the ones who are actually behind all of this—the Mitch McConnells and the other various GOP strategists—they're pretty devious. Smart in an evil way. They got right-wing media on their side, and then they got the mainstream media to cover them as if what they were doing was normal, and only then did they start trying to make it seem like their brand of fascism was the norm and not something antithetical to American values. At which point they could run a candidate like Trump and not be completely ruining their image.

Though it does seem like Trump was worse even than they thought; much less coordinated and completely unsophisticated.

Honestly, that's most of the point.

Yeah, same. I'm in the market for an EV over the next few years, and Tesla went from the top of the list to the bottom in remarkably short order.