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@OrwellNGoode I did this once. Quit my management job at a fortune 100 company and went to work retail. It was quite liberating (although not lucrative) until I couldn't keep my mouth shut and they "discovered" me and then promoted me to manager. Had to quit.

I've warned for months that a @JetBlue-@SpiritAirlines merger would have led to fewer flights and higher fares. @JusticeATR and @USDOT were right to stand up for consumers and fight against runaway airline consolidation. This is a Biden win for flyers! apnews.com/article/jetblu…

@Gadfly333 @PeterMcCormack Does the barista actually take (and be allowed to take) 6 weeks off per year, or do they just pocket the money?

@dpopp77 @PeterMcCormack YEP!!! 5.8 WEEKS of PAID holidays.. fucking outrageous.

A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses. I’ll explain for the economically illiterate. Staff costs are currently half our costs, a £15 minimum wage is actually more than £15 an hour for the company, because you have to add: - 12.07% holiday - Sick pay - Maternity pay if and when required - National insurance - Pension contributions These costs would mean the shop loses money because remember, energy costs are up, rates are up, regulations are up. Now you can pass these costs onto the consumer - that would mean charging a lot more for coffee, people won’t pay it. The likes of Starbucks and Costa can, because they have economies of scale. The independent doesn’t. Now the little socialist will say well this is your fault, if you can’t run a business that can afford to pay its staff properly, but the little socialist has never run a business and does not understand the dynamics. Now I could pay some staff off and fill those hours myself or reduce us to one staff member during certain periods - but this proves the point that a minimum wage costs jobs. There was a time when these jobs were done by kids, perhaps on the weekend, paid a lower wage, no holiday and no silly employment rights. Perhaps they were even paid cash. The dynamic worked and small businesses like this could operate. It was also a great first job. Sadly now it isn’t worth employing entitlement youngsters at this level of pay. So alas, I don’t need the stress, the business would close, a number of jobs would be lost. Economics is about understanding these dynamics, no vibes. The cost of living is not solved through passing on inflation to the business, it is solved by ending high inflation and creating prosperity. This is what socialists don’t understand, they can’t create prosperity, they can only destroy it.

@JasonGregor Didn't the Oilers kill off pretty much every LA powerplay during the playoffs? What changed?

Katz will do a full evaluation of management, coaching and players in the next few weeks. Once he decides who stays, then they have to focus on: Solidify goaltending position. Ensure team commits to playing sound defense. Get better penalty killers and a better PK system.

@impetro9 I assume you likely have no downhole pressure gauge or a quiet side surface gauge on the annulus?

True story time for all you conventional experts. I bought a lease from a top tier mid-con operator. Over 40 years old, 1 PR 2 SI. They discovered it in like Oct-82. Turned it on at 300+ BOPD, shut it in a couple months later over the holidays (for tax reasons... Yup). Turned back on at sub 50 BOPD... Couldn't ever get it back. Sent the rig out and offset it twice. Never got it back. I bought it at 4 BOPD. We shot fluid levels on the two shut in wells and one had a high fluid level. Rod it up, turn it on. Peaked at 80 BPD, ran a couple months and got a rod part... Was down to like 20. Came back on at 5. We have done all sorts of things to try to get it back with no luck. So... Is this damage from being shut in?

@JamesOKeefeIII "A Few Good Expenses" youtu.be/0OTgb3KO7QM?si…

CAUGHT ON HIDDEN CAMERA: Fox News Media VP Jason Hermes Brags About Charging ‘$4,000 Strip Club Bills’ to Fox Corporate Cards, Admits to a Stranger, “We Would Just…Lie on the [Fox] Expense Reports—No One’s Gonna F***ing Say a Word to Me,” in Direct Violation of Fox Corporate’s Standards of Business Conduct “You could take this [Fox Credit Card], walk into a strip club, literally, and spend $4,000…on Fox! Go into your corporate manager and they would sign it and pay it off…it's still like that.“We would just…lie on the [Fox] expense reports—no one’s gonna f***ing say a word to me.” “It’s the best job, because I'm a celebrity around all of it, but no one knows me. It's like winning the lottery.” @foxweather

@OfficialTourPro I love it. I played with a semi-famous guy once and I'm sure I wad talking / driving / walking / opening a beer / washing a ball during 90% of his shots

John Daly’s pace of play is incredible.

@jasonjamesbnn It is patently false obvious what the plan is: feds approve any oil and gas expansion but won't approve anything they don't "invest" in. Thereby steal from Alberta.

Ok. So a few points on this. A sovereign wealth fund can only be created with SURPLUS capital. Norway—the country that is the model for Mark Carney's fund— created their sovereign wealth fund out of oil PROFITS. Canada doesn't have a surplus, we have DEBT. So essentially Carney is creating a sovereign wealth fund out of debt and betting that the profits will exceed the interest with YOUR MONEY. Carney's "sovereign wealth fund" is a cleverly disguised insurance policy to attract private investment and insure investments from fund managers like... Wait for it... Yes, you guessed it... Brookfield. The Liberals, under Justin Trudeau and the cult of net zero, scared away trillions in private investment. Under Mark Carney they've failed to secure a trade deal with the United States. What that means is Canada's economy is hollow. It has no investment for growth and nowhere to send its products since China buys almost nothing from us and the EU is too far away for any real trade to occur—it just doesn't make sense logistically. So what Carney is trying to do is artificially inflate Canada's economy with a huge surge of cash: money his own government is printing and money invested by every day Canadians. The aspiration is to create a big enough pot to attract private investment and insure those investments with the fund. If any of the projects fail, Carney and the Liberals will pay out the private investors with YOUR MONEY. What he's starting here is potentially a national Ponzi scheme. Alberta will need to protect itself since oil and gas will be central to this fund. In the coming months I suspect the Liberals will take further steps to federalize the oil and gas industries. This is not an economic strategy. This is comparable to putting your last $20 in a slot machine and hoping you win big.

@unusual_whales I've launched a sovereign wealth fund. I have $23k in credit card debt

Canada has launched a sovereign wealth fund, per Bloomberg.

@Jeremybtc @PeterRHann1 The first stock I ever bought was "Goldstake" which apparently was on the same vein as Bre-X. I was going to be rich!

A geologist faked the LARGEST gold discovery in HISTORY by filing flakes off his own wedding ring. The company hit $6 BILLION. There was no gold. > Michael de Guzman was a Filipino geologist hired to test a jungle site in Borneo that twelve mining companies had already written off as worthless. > After months of disappointing results, he suddenly told his bosses he knew exactly where to drill. > He said the location had come to him in a dream. > He had been filing gold off his own wedding ring and mixing the flakes into the crushed core samples before sending them to the lab. > As results kept coming back positive he started buying gold panned from local rivers, $61,000 of it over two and a half years, and adding it in precise quantities to avoid raising suspicion. > Bre-X went from a penny stock to a $6 BILLION company. > The Ontario Teachers Pension Plan invested. The Quebec public pension fund invested. Mutual funds across North America piled in. > Freeport-McMoRan, one of the largest mining companies on earth, was brought in to develop the site and sent their own geologists to verify the samples. > They found nothing. Insignificant amounts of gold across every test hole. > On March 19, 1997, de Guzman boarded a helicopter to meet Freeport executives. The pilot was an Indonesian air force pilot, not the regular one who flew the route. > Mid flight the rear door opened. He fell 600 feet into the jungle below. > The body was recovered four days later, decomposed and missing its hands and feet. > The stock crashed 80% in a single day. $6 BILLION wiped out within weeks. > Nobody was ever criminally convicted. > One of his five wives kept receiving money from someone long after his death. > Sightings of him alive in the Philippines were reported for years afterwards. The biggest gold fraud in history was carried out with a wedding ring. The man responsible either fell from a helicopter or is living somewhere on the proceeds. Nobody knows which.

@ryangerritsen Quebec will veto any West to East pipeline even though it would be a "free" asset to them since they sit on their own shale gas reserves they won't develop but could insert into said pipeline if they did.

So now magically there's a business model for LNG to be shipped to Germany. The media was used to convince Canadians a couple years ago there was no business case, now the media is being used to tell us there is. I'm almost certain there always was, but the Libs needed their protection from the fall out of denying it previously.

@Delicious_Tacos @Cernovich Also, travel East-West before kids and having to deal with time zones. North-South after kids.

If you’re a single man, go to single man destinations now (unstable military junta/ no helmet no problem places) Do the tourist places when coupled up

@StefanMolyneux You are too far behind my friend. Rock and rap are now Country.

Why did they get rid of rock and replace it with rap?

@AgingAnarchist It takes 30+ years to wear a hole in jean shorts to be retired.

アメリカ人って30年前も今もずっとこの半ズボン穿いてるけどなんで？ユニフォームなの？

@Justinskibs @Object_Zero_ Whoa, whoa. Perforating is pretty exciting first.

@Object_Zero_ Will you get to fracking?

Oil Wells Ever wondered… How do they drill a hole in the ground, that is 3 miles deep? Not many people realise this, but oil wells are built like Russian Dolls. Big fat pipes are expensive, skinny pipes are cheaper. You start with a very big diameter pipe called a “conductor” this is a large 30” diameter pipe. You first drill a big fat hole maybe 400 ft deep, and then you slide a big fat pipe into it to stop the hole collapsing. Then you drill a second hole inside your first hole. This is a skinnier hole but it’s deeper because it starts at the bottom of your first hole. So this hole is 17.5” diameter and might be 1,000ft deep. And you just repeat that 2 or 3 times and then you have a 12,000ft deep hole that has billions of dollars of crude oil gushing into the bottom of it, and racing up to the surface… profit. Next week I will explain how they do this on a boat, whilst floating over 2 miles of water.

@lporiginalg Meanwhile in Colombia

@keith_pearson @ESPNPR @NHL @NHLPR @espnSteveLevy @PKSubban1 @emilymkaplan @MikeMonaco_ @espnbob @6ErikJohnson @Arda @espn You're right. It is impossible for the NHL and its national broadcast partner to show four games in one day in their entirety on national broadcasts.

@dpopp77 @ESPNPR @NHL @NHLPR @espnSteveLevy @PKSubban1 @emilymkaplan @MikeMonaco_ @espnbob @6ErikJohnson @Arda @espn So how should they arrange the games to avoid the potential of OT? And I don't know how accurate the most people who watch sports don't have access to ESPNU/ESPN+/Unlimited is. Now the Stars-Wild starting when there was 5 minutes left to Penguins-Flyers is stupid.

Did someone say playoff hockey?! ESPN opened the 1st weekend of '26 #StanleyCup Playoffs action with the 3 MOST-WATCHED First Round games on cable EVER (excl. Game 7s) 🏒 Thru 5 games, #NHL on ESPN is averaging 1.6M viewers, up 141% YoY More: bit.ly/4vHnRri

@keith_pearson @ESPNPR @NHL @NHLPR @espnSteveLevy @PKSubban1 @emilymkaplan @MikeMonaco_ @espnbob @6ErikJohnson @Arda @espn I'm saying that putting a game on a network most people don't have is not a good strategy, knowing games go to overtime all the time. This is not unforeseen.

@dpopp77 @ESPNPR @NHL @NHLPR @espnSteveLevy @PKSubban1 @emilymkaplan @MikeMonaco_ @espnbob @6ErikJohnson @Arda @espn The plan has always been to use ESPNU when games run long. Late games starting before regulation of the early game ends is something to bitch and moan about. When a game goes to OT, there's not much the network can do.

@keith_pearson @ESPNPR @NHL @NHLPR @espnSteveLevy @PKSubban1 @emilymkaplan @MikeMonaco_ @espnbob @6ErikJohnson @Arda @espn It's called having a plan for things that are likely to happen.

@dpopp77 @ESPNPR @NHL @NHLPR @espnSteveLevy @PKSubban1 @emilymkaplan @MikeMonaco_ @espnbob @6ErikJohnson @Arda @espn Because the game before it went to overtime. Where should they have put it?