Billionaire Howard Schultz, Starbucks’s former CEO, insisted that Starbucks would not enter a price war in China. He claimed “as chinese customers become more knowledgeable about coffee, they will want to upgrade from lower-end or discounted products”

They got more knowledgeable about coffee which is precisely why they’re choosing places other than starbucks.

Why? He helped him get into office.

I wonder how the reaction here would be if trump had this happen to him instead. Fuck being polite about awful people.

You know what’s really classless? Biden sending billions in weapons to a country committing genocide. Also the crime bill. Don’t forget about making student loan non-dischargable through bankruptcy, creating the student loan crisis. We have Biden to thank for all these “classy” acts, plus him being so starved for power that he dropped out too late and gave an advantage to the trump campaign.

Sending billions in weapons to an ethnostate committing genocide counts as fascist. There was no voting against fascism in the last election.

Stress or excitement from the endless possibilities?

I looked up their mod history and saw “Anti-Yanks ban evasion” What does that even mean?

You can tell that AI is a great technology by how much it’s being forced into as many places as possible by the ones trying to sell it.

I agree that fascists will try to force through what they can, but there is a wide range on the political spectrum outside of fascism, and they wouldn’t force through fake news laws like fascists, but they will take advantage of legal tools provided to them. A domestic mass surveillance program, the likes of which a fascist would want, was instituted by Bush and then continued and expanded by Obama. The justification was to combat terrorism, which would seem like a worthwhile goal, but I’d argue the negatives far outweigh any supposed positives.

Additionally, having these tools laying around only makes the job of fascists easier. Fascists still have to work within the legal framework set up before them, at least initially. Sure, they can try to ignore and force through measures, but the courts have legal backing to challenge them. A blanket misinformation law would make it so much easier for fascists to label something as misinformation and the courts can’t do anything about it.

In this case, it’s specifically about outlawing Holocaust denial, so I can’t imagine it being abused, but at the same time, I can’t imagine it doing much to stop fascism. It’s such a highly specific law, it even causes some to think “why only outlaw Holocaust denial and not the denial of other atrocities?” and that’s where the opportunity for a more general law comes in, which increases the potential for abuse.

A person who does something wrong can still be right about other things. Tipping is an idiotic system.

Agreed. People imagine the best case scenario for these kinds of bans, like calls to criminalize “misinformation” but what happens when the government is headed by Donald “Fake News” Trump and suddenly what you know to be fact is labelled “misinformation”? People were getting cancelled for speaking out against the invasion of Iraq, now imagine if it became a crime to deny that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.

If israel doesn’t like this treatment then they should stop the policy of forcing israeli citizens to serve in the israel genocide forces.

It’s not whataboutism to point out that the Canadian economy is way too reliant on house prices continually going up. It’s a huge chunk of GDP and would instantly mean a technical recession if prices went down (even when ignoring the domino effect the panic would cause, deepening the downturn).

The country is trapped and no one wants to risk their political career by springing that trap, even if it’s healthier in the long run.

They had a ridiculous number of people putting in a deposit to reserve one, about two million reservations according to this: https://insideevs.com/news/687142/tesla-cybertruck-2-million-reservations-crowdsourced-data/

I guess they came to their senses.

Reuse the bag clip if it exists, otherwise tie a knot.

Saddam was backed by the US. In fact, during the Iraq-Iran war, the US was supporting Iraq while Israel was supporting Iran. The goal of the west (and Israel) has been to play Middle Eastern countries against each other in a prime example of divide and conquer.

No party wants prices to fall because the economy is so built around ever-increasing prices that if prices do fall then the economy falls with it.

How do progressives fuck up the democratic party?

Credit is doing a lot of heavy lifting. If credit seizes up, then it all falls apart. That’s why interest rates have been held low for so long.

This CEO would be better replaced with AI.