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agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•Congress Wants You To Pay $130 A Year Just To Drive An Electric CarEnglish
3·5 days agoMaybe a tax rebate based on tread-wear of the damaged tire? If it still has 50% of the tread, you get a 50% rebate on your tire tax.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•Pizza Hut's AI system caused 'cascading' problems and $100M in damages, franchisee alleges in new suitEnglish
16·7 days agoConsider yourself lucky.
I used them exactly one time. The driver brought the wrong food, the name and order weren’t even close.
Doordash refused to send a new driver, best they could offer was a credit for not even half the price. Even escalating customer service just got the credit converted to a refund, again for less than half of the charge. The rep could not explain to me what service I had received to justify keeping most of my money.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•People with long hair who use insect repellent: what do you do with your hair to keep it clean?
3·7 days agoI wore a bandana pirate-style

But my hair was only shoulder length. I’d probably combine that with a bun.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksto
politics @lemmy.world•The newest Trump monument disobeys the biblical commandment to ‘flee from idolatry’
3·8 days agoI saw an interview with the sculptor (not a supporter, just a guy paying his bills). He said the “cryptobros” who commissioned it kept telling him to make it thinner.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•GameStop stock sinks after surprise $56B eBay takeover bid, CEO Ryan Cohen's combative CNBC interviewEnglish
1·18 days agoThey are diluting the value of eBay’s shares.
Kinda, but not really. Each share becomes $56 and like 2 new shares. It’s more like a fat dividend than a dilution.
You should look into Cohen’s track record before assuming it’ll go nowhere.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•GameStop stock sinks after surprise $56B eBay takeover bid, CEO Ryan Cohen's combative CNBC interviewEnglish
12·19 days agoBut you won’t think an 11% swing is particularly notable.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•GameStop stock sinks after surprise $56B eBay takeover bid, CEO Ryan Cohen's combative CNBC interviewEnglish
11·19 days agoThe debt is only $20B, even then it still works out to about where it’s trading now, so still not really dilutive. And it’s still under 50% leverage, which is honestly pretty typical for a large company. Assuming Cohen actually has a plan to boost profits, that debt isn’t particularly concerning.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•GameStop stock sinks after surprise $56B eBay takeover bid, CEO Ryan Cohen's combative CNBC interviewEnglish
13·19 days agoGive it another 84 years, you’ll learn.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•GameStop stock sinks after surprise $56B eBay takeover bid, CEO Ryan Cohen's combative CNBC interviewEnglish
3·19 days agoFinhle is Einkorn, buy the dip.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•GameStop stock sinks after surprise $56B eBay takeover bid, CEO Ryan Cohen's combative CNBC interviewEnglish
31·19 days agoIt only touched $28 in AH Friday. On the 4th, the high-low spread was not even 10%.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•GameStop stock sinks after surprise $56B eBay takeover bid, CEO Ryan Cohen's combative CNBC interviewEnglish
42·19 days agoThey have like $9B cash, and a note from TD for another $20B, which covers the cash half.
The stock half wouldn’t even really be dilutive, since they would add the balance sheet of eBay to their own, and eBay stock would cease to exist. There are currently something like 450M shares; assuming 1B new shares at $25B to facilitate the purchase, that’s 1.45B shares of a company with a market cap of $11B + $48B = $59B., which is roughly $40/share.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksto
Technology@lemmy.world•GameStop stock sinks after surprise $56B eBay takeover bid, CEO Ryan Cohen's combative CNBC interviewEnglish
4·19 days agoEh, a big part of GameStop’s recent strategy has been getting into collectibles trading. eBay is one of, if not the, biggest market for collectibles, and they own TCGPlayer. That said, counterfeits and other fraud is a problem on eBay. One of the proposals is to use GameStop stores as authentication hubs, so listings can be verified.
Additionally, eBay spends a lot, arguably way too much, on marketing, not to mention bloated upper level compensation packages. Then there’s the friction of the service itself, like seller caps (ostensibly to combat fraud, but a bit overzealous).
I think there’s far too much potential for improvement to call the claim “delusional”.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Does cooking meat make you lose your appetite?
1·28 days agoIt lessens it, but that’s because I’m tasting liberally while I cook.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Even if we found a feasible way through physics to travel through time, wouldn't it still be impossible due to the evolution of bacteria and our immune systems?
13·1 month agoThat’s why Primer is my favorite depiction of time travel. Machine turns on at your destination time, you get in at your departure time, and it spits you out in the past. This sacrifices freedom of travel (you can’t go back to before you first turned the machine on) to solve the point-of-reference problem (the machine moves normally with the Earth).
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•They should call cole slaw "sweetkraut"
1·1 month agoI think typically a Rachel also substitutes coleslaw for sauerkraut.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•I might have terrible grammar and everyone knows it except for me
2·1 month agoIronically, I’ve found that in many cases, frequently I find perfectly correct grammar to be more a hindrance to communication than a boon. In certain cases, grammatically wrong leads to fewer misunderstandings.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath?
2·1 month agoWho told you God is omnipotent and above humans? Who told you he or she has emotions, or smites or becomes upset or wrathful?
Any God worth naming as such is so beyond such concepts as to be entirely inscrutable. It’s people that ascribe such characteristics, usually to influence other people. In any case, it comes from an inclination to anthropomorphize the unknown, to rationalize non-human phenomena through a familiar human lens. The conflict isn’t in God, it’s in God’s self-appointed biographers.

You say that, but I personally know people who voted for Trump over Harris specifically because she was a woman. I personally know people who voted for Trump over Clinton for the exact same reason.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m fine with AOC myself and would vote for her, but to pretend that it’s a “non-issue” assumes that the average person doesn’t care. Many people do actually care, and ignoring the existence of those people is poor strategy. Maybe I’m overestimating the number of people who care, maybe not, but it is unfortunately a real concern that won’t magically go away by pretending people, as a whole, are more enlightened than that.