frens, please come back to the basement poker game run by "Sugar," "Albanian Bruce," and "Pookie". I'm realising they've picked my pockets and only you can convince them to play fair on the next hands

even on its own terms, that ask doesn't make sense. On top of everything else, one of the main reasons for departing is that your content would get de-rated if you were into the type of content this person is asking you to come back and do again. What they are asking is physically impossible

we truly don't make them like him anymore (historically accurate boomerism)

plus Misery

made some memes, met a girl, and then the murders began

in general, "... and they never even call back" is a too rarely mentioned driver of some of our elders' fall into bad juju

there is a very bitter pill in there for those who have tried to suppress their suspicion that some of the vocal solidarity in some other recent conflicts was one-off and, let's call it circumstantial, rather than truly principled

Andrew Wakefield original sin is 1998, and {insert joke about BlueSky user age demographics} we all remember how neuro divergence was treated back then

urban living has been insulated a little bit from the kind of inflation we've had, but the death of the high street (although sure, not just inflation driven) has been a pretty visible second round effect

*furiously taking notes*, you know, for later

My all-time favorite newspaper correction:

oh there is a R&D alright. It's precisely because no one ever thinks of the computer clusters, automation and IP/profile/etc creation in bulk that these operations require that the bourne take looks like it might make sense

a libertarian economist hiding a key unstated assumption as some higher order of nature? I am shocked!

this is trying to make it sound like 10:00am at the ticketmaster gates of hell is mostly the average punter, which, lol, lmao

the second sentence is where the sleight of hand happens.

The ability to resell at a profit is the device by which the market welcomes new entrants whose sole objective is the capture of that profit

the higher the potential profit on onward resale, the higher the incentive for investment in information/tech advantage at the point of initial purchase

the OP thesis also relies heavily on the initial purchase round being a fair market, which, as anyone who has ever tried to get one of those heavily gated high prized items knows, is very much not the case

say what you want about the Americans they at least have to go through the motions of putting the sheep's clothes on