Worked in pricing for a big retailer, it 100% works and retailers don’t even like doing it, but it’s basically a necessity to get baseline sales. It’s WAY easier to have simple even number prices that calculate easily and get percent off sales and clearance prices that make sense. Really the only items you see it on are items competing with other retailers, so kraft mayo that every store has vs. A store brand soda you don’t care about volume on. The Mayo you better have $5.99 instead of $6.00 or it looks like you’re ripping them off. And even if they sell it got $4.99 it still keeps people thinking it’s a complex price difference rather than an even number they can compare more easily.

The argument that corporations have civil rights is how the Supreme Court justified eliminating anti bribery laws that curtailed political funding from corporations.

You’d think that but in the American legal system corporations are civil rights bearing people, you’re not related to your parents unless you maintain the same address, and objects can be suspected and tried for criminal acts and assumed guilty until proven otherwise.

You’d survive with enough other humans around, that’s kind of our thing as both apes and humans, we get all protective when threatened, we carry around our sick and broken until they aren’t, or they die. Neanderthals carried around a very old man with no teeth and functionless legs for like YEARS. That’s behavior outside any other species.

Go look up painted Greek statutes, it’s a nightmare of garish bullshit that makes the entire work look like utter dog shit. That’s how they’re ‘‘supposed’’ to look. All I’m saying is, people from the past seeing this might be down.

Cops make a surprisingly high amount of money.

He was just bummed they wouldn’t give his cat a noble laureate for helping him realized language is also an expectation of received meaning and not just intended meaning.

But see, now she doesn’t have time to organize or even attend a Revolutionary action of any kind!

I’m allergic to watermelon, so I can’t taste it, it just tastes like burning, but it’s this a really horrifying taste combo?

He only had a free trial which makes it even crazier. Also I don’t know who thought an arbitration demand would apply to food vs a streaming service, but as insane as our court system is with judges siding with money I can’t see a judge feeling a TOS could be THAT fluid is like Nike refusing to return a pair of sneakers because you’re cousin owned a copy of NBA JAM in the 90’s, although you never played it.

I once asked an exterminator I hired at a job site what a particular bug was called, as I only knew them as ‘blood suckers’ growing up. He then huckled at me and said ‘‘I call em dead after I get through with em’’ and I realized Dale Gribble was a cartoon character who wasn’t based on a true story.

The sitting president is the leader of the party. He’s not going anywhere.

Black members of the church didn’t exist before 1978. If you had any African ancestry at all they wouldn’t even teach you, you couldn’t join at all, it was part of the missionary lessons, they asked you if you had any African heritage.