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I don't know if I would trust any pure exchanges with this stuff other like Coinbase. Otherwise, you're better off using like Robinhood or Webull.

If anyone wanted to know how off the deep end Depp has gone, he's now suing the ACLU to try to prove that Heard isn't as charitably as she claims to be. Johnny Depp Asks Court to Order ACLU Show Proof That Amber Heard Donated Her Divorce Settlement PEOPLE.COM Johnny Depp continues to claim that Amber Heard hasn't donated the $7 million divorce settlement, which her lawyers say she pledged over 10 years

The Ikari team has already been in a Metal Slug game, but I wouldn't be mad if they brought some original Metal Slug characters into KoF. Ikari Warriors isn't exactly a fighter or brawler, so it wouldn't be a break from character norms.

Oh no. This is another one that hits me pretty hard. I've been reading Berserk for well over twenty years now. That is way too young. This sucks in the same Satoshi Kon's death came out of nowhere and left a void in the industry. Now this has got me thinking about other mangaka like Eiichiro Oda of One Piece and George Morikawa of Hajime no Ippo. Berserk has been running since the '89. That's a crazy long time for single serialized comic. This sucks. Not just because the series may never come to a clean end, but because he was also one of the greatest artists out there. He managed to get through the 90s unscathed while the rest of the American comic and Japanese manga world got weird. One Piece totally falls under the weird 90s stuff. Early One Piece is weird. Fight me. Current One Piece is still weird, but that's besides the point.

My dog is the worst. She won't start barking until some 30 seconds after the ringing stops. She apparently like giving invaders enough time to actually come in and close the door behind them before voicing her displeasure.

The best part is that the fun doesn't end there. The hours I've spent hunched over my wife while we both work to undo the braids. It's something else. That reminds me, there's this fantastic sketch in the third episode of A Black Lady Sketch Show's second season about a dude that has a kink for women halfway out of their weave. It's so good. I wish HBO had it up YouTube. That show is sometimes brilliant.

Everyone benefits from a little extra self-care.

Yes, it is.

He absolutely does. I was actually able to follow everything he was talking about. Either way, everything he talks about here is true and sucks. I've bitched about hair issues my wife and daughters have dealt with before around here plenty of times. My wife FINALLY found a hair dresser she likes and can actually do her hair and keep it natural. It's a full hour drive away. She went through the same experience of calling up stylist after stylist looking for something, anything. For a while, she was going to my barber because finding a barber that knows how to do natural hair on men is easy easier than it is for women, go figure. Fun fact, John Oliver is right, braiding hair totally takes a long time. First time my wife visit her new stylist she wound up having to give her a ride home because the buses were shut down for the day. I think it took a good four or five hours. That's better than the previous terrible braid job she got that took twice as long. Yeah, that's right, imagine sitting in a chair like that for 8-10 hours.

Good Hair is on Netflix. It touches on the same subject. I really do hope we're in a better place 10-15 years from now when my youngest is ending the work place with her natural hair that will start up in a ponytail, even after your remove the hair ties. I have to give his writers a hand for allowing him to talk about black hair and not sound stupid. There were definitely some black folk among the writers.

Ha, it really does roll downhill.

My wife was a in home therapist and the pandemic pretty much broke that. Between clients that refused remote services and others that refused to wear masks in their own home, it was just too much. She quit, worked on getting her teaching licenses and does that now because our local district was fully remote. There's no going back. She'll never work in the career she was pushing toward pre-pandemic. Amusingly, her sister is now doing the in home therapist thing because for her, that was less stressful than working in a hospital. It's very easy to believe that a lot of people didn't just sit on their asses during quarantine eating Cheetos and playing Animal Crossing.

Well, if anyone was worried about health insurance companies going out of business, I guess we've got a good replacement. I guess party buses can be the next business that needs mass shooting insurance. 2 Dead, Multiple People Injured After Party Bus Is Shot Up in Oakland: Police WWW.NBCBAYAREA.COM At least two people were killed and multiple people were injured after a party bus was shot up in Oakland overnight Tuesday, according to police. I also didn't realize Sunday was such a busy day. Six mass shootings, including three in Georgia alone. All together, 3 dead and 27 injured. I guess Sundays are busy days for mass shooters. The 9th also had six mass shootings, including the Colorado Springs shooting. That makes it 11 dead that day along with 22 injuries injured.

I already said you were absolutely right about that. I'm just saying the fact that it will help those working on minimum wage, even if it were only a million or so Americans, and even if it doesn't move the larger needle much is worth the effort for those it will help. Beside, New Hampshire is a small state that affords people the option of traveling out of state for higher wages which raises all wages within the state. Compare that to poverty rates in a larger state with fewer opportunities to commute out of state like Texas. The cost of living down south is succinate less than in Massachusetts while Texans also don't have the chance to commute out of state in search of higher wages due to sheer logistics of size. With a $7.25 minimum wage Texas has one of the worst poverty rates in the country. There are a lot of things that should be taken into account here. California is also huge and difficult to commute out of. They have a pretty middle of the road poverty rate, but their cost of living is similar in scale to the difference between Massachusetts and Texas. Yeah, poverty, minimum wage, and real wages aren't exactly linked, but who cares when it helps people on the margins? The effect on businesses is negligible. It's $13.50 here in Massachusetts. We still somehow manage to have Dunkin Donuts that are in business and small mom and pop donut shops that do just fine.

Massachusetts also has a much higher cost of living compared to New Hampshire. New Hampshire also has more than 10% of their workforce work out of state in either Massachusetts or Maine. There's a reason Massachusetts was looking into taxing employees that were now 100% remote and from out of state. It's not an insignificant number. It's also not like Massachusetts is very bad in this regard. We have one if the lowest poverty rates in the country. New Hampshire is surrounded by states with higher minimum wages worth no good public transportation, which cause companies like McDonald's to pay their workers above minimum wage to keep them from jumping the border. Any McDonald's north of the border from here is paying $10-12/hr, not $7.25. That's not our of the goodness of McDonald's heart. That's because that lines up with the rest of New England, outside of Massachusetts.

They can. I'm just saying that relying on the Apple faithful to drive subscription rates with a catalog of unfamiliar and new content is a hard sell. There's a reason new platforms like Disney+ and HBO Max, as poorly run as HBO is, highlight classic content. They both went with guns explicitly designed to show that they offer up your existing favorites and new content. Amazon is a mess and I refuse to believe anyone subscribes to Prime Video as anything more than an accidental Prime extra. Netflix can focused on new stuff because they're well enough entrenched.

Yeah, but that's neither here nor there. What you're saying is absolutely true. Productivity and value has risen while wages stagnate, incredibly so when up against inflation. But like the lowest on the totem pole also totally deserve more than $7.25. Does it change the math much? No. Does it help the like million or so people working for wages below the poverty line? Does it also potentially reverbiate into other jobs that were above minimum wage, but now would look bad being actual minimum wage jobs? Possibly. Totally worth the effort, though.

The minimum wage is $13.50 here in Massachusetts. I'm shocked I was still able to buy my kids Happy Meals. I live right on the New Hampshire border. Minimum wage there is tied to the federal minimum, so $7.25. McDonald's does tie the price of food to the price of labor, so a Big Mac just north of the border is a whole 50¢ cheaper even though they're paying their employees like $4 less than they are in Massachusetts. It's even more fun when you take land prices in Massachusetts versus New Hampshire into account.

The fucked up thing is that we still do...in the right parts of the world. McDonald's pays their part timers in like Denmark $20/hr with heaps of vacation time and, shocker, they're still in business. It's crazy. What witchcraft is this?

Here's hoping they changed their minds then. A streaming service can't get off to a good start purely on the strength of its originals. Who would sign up for a new streaming service while not being familiar with anything on it? That's why Apple has to give away so many subscriptions. If Apple could say, home to James Bond then that's a better hook than home to the Peanuts catalog. I don't know. Just seems like a no brainer for a company with such deep pockets.

That does sound like Apple, even if I don't entirely agree with it. The lack of a large backlog makes their offerings seem anemic compared to even Disney+ that isn't exactly overflowing. I totally get them not throwing shit at the wall Netflix-style. MGM would, presumably give them James Bond and Barbershop. Actually, there are a ton of great classics under MGM that would be right at home on AppleTV...assuming film rights aren't some butchered mess. Like a really well done James Bond TV series would get me to subscribe to AppleTV. Sure, that means I mostly just stop giving away the free year subscriptions I get everytime I buy a laptop, but that's besides the point. The biggest problem with anything related to Amazon buying MGM is that Prime Video sucks. It's the worst video streaming experience money can buy. I don't understand how Amazon has all the money in Earth and can't come up with an interface that isn't trash. They can't even get fast forward and rewind right. They can't even get bonus features right, like WTF. How is it so awful? After buying Crunchyroll, Sony has all the anime now. I don't know. Apple seems to be too preoccupied with looking cool that they wouldn't dare be seen as a weeb.

I'm actually shocked this wasn't Apple. They don't really own much of a backlog and this seems like it would have been an easy way to beef theirs up.

Well, yes, Disney is stupid about this stuff. That said, Amazon doesn't really have much control over the quality provided by MGM and others. It's not like MGM remastered their old stuff and then had Amazon reject it in favor of the shitty quality versions they already have. If the current owners don't see the value in remastering some of their old stuff I don't really think we should place the blame of not doing the same to the new owners. . I'm not arguing it didn't stick, but I just don't see it as being a big media company problem.

Are they? Amazon has all the cloud storage in the world. It doesn't cost them anything extra to provide the MGM backlog, especially since they probably already host digital copies of nearly everything already and would just now have the option to offer them up for free to Prime Subscribers.

It's not like being owned by a hodgepodge of venture capitalists is any better.