This is my favorite example of fast-food sumo. She keeps a low center of mass, pushes with her legs, gets an explosive push immediately on the tachiai.
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Narrator:
The rules are " You must be at least 17 years old or accompanied by a parent or guardian (age 21 or older) to view an R- rated movie ."
Last Week Tonight absolutely nailed it last night. It’s about SLAPP suits. It was informative and funny as hell. Highly recommend.
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Seconded, it was quite good
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I bet you guys thought Uber got rid of its sociopath CEO
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Why, that’s why pencils have erasers.
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Start derail (I guess). 
The entire idea of an R rating is ludicrous. It’s evangelical morality being forced on everyone. It also takes for granted the cancerous American idea that violence is good and sex is bad.
Here is a thought experiment. Which is worse for your Teenage daughter to see?
Beauty and the Beast about an abusive kidnapper and how it’s the job of abused women to turn bad men good.
Masters of Sex about the power of science, the complexity of human sexuality and the role of women in better understanding the world.
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No one should have to watch Masters of Sex so Beauty wins by default.
I don’t know if this is posted anywhere else yet but John Oliver dunking all over Bob Murray, the coal guy, who sued him a few years ago is absolutely amazing. If you can’t watch the whole thing (you should) at least watch the musical production at the end.
“See you in court fuck face.”
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a la carte air travel is so american
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The airline that raised ticket prices by $40 and gave free WiFi would get my money every time because I’m stupid
How would they characterise that as an exciting new revenue stream for the investors? Making money is boring, making new money that’s where you get those huge p/e’s from.
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I remember reading somewhere that the airline industry is the only industry that has lost money over its history.
The airline industry is now heavily concentrated with 80% market share among 4 airlines, but it’s actually even worse because they collude to not compete on individual routes, effectively allowing price fixing. Note that everybody’s favorite billionaire Warren “aw shucks” Buffett now has huge positions in airline stocks.
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Meet the new soCEOpath, same as the old soCEOpath.
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Yeah the aww shucks routine Buffett does has always been bullshit. He hasn’t been crushing the financial markets since before anyone reading this was born by being anything but the most sophisticated investor on earth.
Because the libs apparently hate every single holiday and want them all abolished
Yeah, Buffett’s ownership is IMO a bad sign about the degree of competition. He’s famously been negative about airlines for approximately forever:
“The airline business from the time of Wilbur and Orville Wright through 1991 made zero money, net. If capitalists had been present at Kitty Hawk when the Wright brothers’ plane first took off, they should have shot it down.”
If he’s investing heavily, it’s an indication that he thinks they’re going to be earning persistently high profits, which is not something you necessarily want to see in a heavily-regulated industry.
I’m compelled to respond to every post mentioning Buffett, but I totally disagree with this characterization of Buffett. His basic argument is:
- Successful investing is easy to describe: buy stocks for less than they are worth, focusing on those situations where you understand the business and are unlikely to lose money
- Successful investing is hard to do, especially in more recent periods, as competition among investors has increased
- Virtually all people would be better off investing in a low-cost, diversified index fund than actively managing their investments.
Buffett absolutely does not view himself in an aw shucks way.