I’m sure most shareholders would agree with you.

The trouble is that most shareholders own their shares through mutual funds in their retirement accounts, and those shares get voted by the fund managers at Vanguard/Black Rock/Fidelity/etc. Those people definitely are part of the good ol’ boys club and will definitely vote in the executives’ interest and against their clients’.

Sounds like a bullshit asset-hiding scam to me.

Like, a half goose, half weasel

A rival bidder associated with Jones, First United American Cos., offered $3.5 million in cash, or twice as much cash as The Onion’s parent company. First United American is a limited liability company affiliated with Jones’ dietary supplements business, and its bid had Jones’ blessing.

How the fuck can that company possibly win a bid when it ought to be getting auctioned off to pay the Sandy Hook families too‽

You say that as someone rich enough to be posting on Lemmy and therefore probably part of the global 1%, or close to it. Remember that the worldwide median household income is still only around $3,000/year.

To be fair, he wasn’t talking about picking the cat up by the scruff of the neck, only squeezing it there.

Anyway, regardless of your anecdote, it is a real thing: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/animal-welfare/article/pinchinduced-behavioural-inhibition-clipthesia-as-a-restraint-method-for-cats-during-veterinary-examinations-preliminary-results-on-cat-susceptibility-and-welfare/CFCC52F39F2235340C1DBA4630EC07F0

Or just a straight-up ban.

I choose to believe you’re taking about having pica, not eating a molten chocolate cake.

Make this its own post, please.

This thread is worthless because many possible answers would be censored for violating Lemmy.world TOS. There can be no meaningful debate on this topic here.

This is silent slaughter. No one should confuse quiet with peace. We haven’t had peace for a long time.

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.” – MLK Jr.

The post image is showing as a broken link for me using the plain old lemmy.world default web interface, but yours works. You did good.

Get a cordless drill/impact driver combo kit. It is amazing how much better impact drivers are at driving Phillips head screws without camming out and stripping their heads.

Antarctica doesn’t really count as land.

You’re more correct than you know: even when it does all melt, what seems now to be a single continent is actually going to be more like a big archipelago:

(Not sure if isostatic rebound will eventually bring it all above sea level or not.)

I mean, yes, there’s land there, but it’s less than people think.

Maybe people won’t become billionaires doing this

And that’s exactly why. Even if the founder wants to be altruistic, the venture capitalists he depends on to get his business off the ground sure as Hell don’t.

I got my parents set-top boxes with Netflix and cancelled their cable and they still mostly watch broadcast TV, with tons of ads. At this point, I dunno WTF is wrong with them – it’s as if they’re addicted to having the worst experience possible.

$75/year seems expensive for Zenni, unless you’re going all-out on the fancy features. For that budget, I think it’s worth spending some on the optometrist to update your R_x.

Well, except for the “corporate personhood” nonsense.

You say “never really developed beyond” as if that isn’t a synonym for “finished and working fine.”

Synonym of “pilings.” Long rods of material, not heaps of it. Like what you build to support a boat dock.

That said, I’m not so sure that pilings are the right solution there. That kind of foundation is used when the ground is muddy/unstable/subject to liquefaction – when it doesn’t always have good bearing strength, so they rely on friction against the sides of the piles to support the weight instead.

But when the ground has actual voids in it (karst topography, or in this case, a bunch of old mines), you’re just driving the pilings into air and there’s no friction to be found. I think it’s more likely they do try to fill at least the nearby part of the cavity with some substance, like concrete.