That wealth “materializes” when his company gets a new loan based on the paper value of his assets as collateral, even if he hasn’t materially realized that value yet. If you can get rewarded with new loans and government contracts based on paper valuations, you can pay taxes based on paper valuations.

The answer is money and eliminating competition for money

Or parodies like Scary Movie

Alternate ending:

Finally find the paragraph with information alluded to in the headline, at the bottom of the page

Page finally loads the remaining 3 dozen ads (1 for each line break), pushing the sentence you needed completely into the abyss

Sigh heavily and lose interest in the topic forever

Receive 3 different welcome emails, each with a different unsubscribe journey, that ultimately doesn’t work

It’s an awareness thing. Everyone uses it because everyone else uses it, because it’s the main one people know about, because Meta has unlimited money to market it and scale it, which are exorbitantly expensive.

I think it’s an honest question, which is a respectful thing to ask if you don’t know. I myself haven’t been sure, because I’ve heard it pronounced multiple different ways even by news pundits.

One of the first times I smoked weed I did it wrong and swallowed a bunch of smoke. I proceeded to get sick in the back seat of my friend’s car and started believing that my windpipe was made out of glass and if I turned my head it would shatter and slice my throat open. I still think about it sometimes, never knew it had a name!

Yep and I like to read the lyrics and any additional content or art that comes with the album while I listen to it. I also like that it forces me to not skip any songs, as when I stream stuff I tend to skip even some good songs in order to get to my favorites faster. The sound quality isn’t really the point for me with vinyl, it’s more about immersing myself with the album and enjoying it like a movie.

Nobody wants to work anymore smh

Hey get a load of this guy, can’t even expose one lousy US war crime. He’s basically complicit

Some TVs have tech called ACR (Automatic Content Recognition) that literally reads pixels on the screen for identifying information about what content is being displayed. If your TV has ACR enabled, it’s possible it’s tracking what you watch, even if you’re viewing it through a device like Chromecast.

If your TV doesn’t have ACR or the TV itself isn’t connected to the Internet, then you’re probably fine.

^ non-americans’ favorite activity

So, money the company was never going to make anyway then, got it.

Scraped my car tire rim on a curb the other day and mashing Ctrl + Z in my brain for minutes afterwards :(

You’re forgetting one important thing - Bezos needs more money! Line must go up. Always. At any cost.

I was a long time subscriber as well, but canceled right before Christmas 2022. I missed it for about a week and then I realized most things I “needed immediately” from Amazon I could either 1) drive across town to purchase from brick and mortar or 2) actually just wait for it.

The end result has been me buying less things I don’t need, and buying the things I do need from local retailers (and of course big box stores), or ordering them from other online retailers since the shipping is comparable to Amazon.

2 years in and I don’t miss it at all, will never go back. I do want to watch the Fallout series though.

Cope more sad person LMAOOOOOOO

The modern Leonardo da vinci, ladies and gentlemen

Maybe other people just enjoy something and there’s no reason to put them down for it. I wish I knew something you enjoyed so I could make fun of you for it. Sad person.

that’s what the gun is for, the bullets can outrun anyone, even an unarmed child