I’m kind of an early access freak, but I put in about 80 hours and enjoyed it. There were definitely problems early, and I don’t plan on going back to it for at least a year, enough for them to release substantially more and it feels fresh.

What if I call it Tylenol but always buy the generic anyway?

People have lost trademark rights because it’s too ubiquitous.

Aspirin was literally the brand name by Bayer but lost it.

I think that’s their point, that they don’t get equal treatment under the law.

If a lawyer can twist it around, then we never really had the same protections.

I felt dumb for reading it that way first, so thank you

What makes this meme even better is the guy in the picture, Shah Rukh Khan, is a legend in Bollywood. Indian Tom Cruise. I’m pretty sure he has written in his contracts that all close ups require a fan in his face to make it look like his hair is gently blowing in the wind.

I actually watched The Last Unicorn for the first time recently. Pretty awesome for an old kids movie.

Granted. All the workers line up to suck the dicks of billionaires for their wages.

I didn’t have a DJ the first time around, just a laptop and Spotify playlist (was at a church that has a speaker system, so we got to hook into that). It was fine, but we booked an actual venue for this wedding.

No idea if I’ll feel like it was really worth it when it’s all said and done, but so far I actually like all the vendors picked.

Getting married in about 6 weeks. Compared to my first one 10 years ago, it’s nuts. One metric I read said that wedding costs were up 40% post COVID. My first wedding was maybe $5,000 and that was super strict budget. This one is closer to $25k.

My fiancée was quoted between $300-650 for makeup only. Seriously?? DJ is minimum $900 for 5 hours of work, I got a lot of quotes in the $1300 range, or $2200 for better lighting ($440/hour??) Look I know you had to buy your own equipment but holy hell.

In D&D 5e, you can get infinite money while living a life of luxury from an Uncommon item, Alchemy Jug, by making vials of acid.

Even just a few hundred gold in D&D 5e is probably hundreds of thousands of dollars. Your average D&D party are multi-millionaires.

I’m a fan of Robert Reich, I just meant it as a preface for why my numbers were different.

Hopefully it’s a whole bag of peanuts!

I get what you mean though, and I’d say it’s a personal preference. Equal stock in a company or a similar measure of profit sharing IMHO is just getting employees a fair shake in compensation. Others like yourself might place a shorter workweek at a higher priority.

Edit: frankly I’m not sure which I’d take first.

Sure, he didn’t specifically himself pass it, but he was Secretary of Labor and he lobbied for it. He’s also the reason we have FMLA.

I don’t think it’s fair to say he “destroyed” the middle class.

Did basic digging, no idea where the tweet’s numbers come from.

Ford CEO Jim Farley received ~$21mil in total compensation in 2022, mostly in stock awards. Source

Average salary of Ford employee: ~$67k a year, derived from $37k in the bottom 10th percentile and $120k in the top 90th. Source

Which gives a ratio more like 313 to 1.

At least he got minimum wage increased