I'm surprised there's not an inflation thread yet
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Quote:Once upon a time, movies were sold on video tape and everybody sent their Kodachrome off to the photo lab for color slides that are inserted into a carousel. Nowadays, people just don't want to fill up their house with shelves of slides and video tapes. Same thing happened to comic books. There are people who collect paper comics -- the Simpson's Comic Book Guy, owner of the Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop. He collects comics because his father is a stamp collector, but who needs stamps for email?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Buying a digital print of a comic makes even less sense to me than buying an NFT.
The fact that this is even a thing just signals that there are still way too many people with too much money in their pockets.
At least you can eat the paper version. It's not going to have any nutritional value outside of fiber, but it can quell the hunger pangs when you're starving because what Democrats did.
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I understand why idiots do it.
Problem One: There is ZERO resale value to digital content.
Problem Two: You're not actually purchasing that thing. You're purchasing one personal digital right to a copy of that thing. If your hard drive goes, there is no guaranty at all that the thing you bought will still be available to re-download in the future. The company you bought it from could go under. They could decide that they don't want to carry it any more. They could lose the rights themselves to keep it on their server. They might go woke and decide that something contained in the product is problematic and remove it from their server.
I'm sure that some services already keep your digital copy of your thing on the cloud rather than even allowing you to download it to your computer, which means they could take it away from you at any moment's notice for any of the reasons stated above, and you never even had the opportunity to back it up. Even if you get your money back in this scenario of digital book burning, it's something you'd never have to worry about if you had a physical copy of something.
This is all especially a problem with Comic Books. The main draw for them is the collectibility. Once NFTs crash and burn nobody is ever going to look at digital goods as a worthwhile investment.
Especially not when they can all be so immediately pirated, as you have shown they can above.
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Remember kids...
Any time that Second wants to come in here and claim that the inflation that's ravaging our economy isn't the direct result of Democrat Policy and the Biden* Administration specifically that this is EXACTLY THE REVERSE of what they did in this celebratory Tweet from the White House that is just about 6 weeks shy of it's 1st Birthday.
I hope you saved that $0.16 on last year's cookout and invested it wisely.
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I keep hearing that lumber prices are going to come down, and I've even seen videos where people are going to the stores and showing drops in OSB and other materials.
Standard 8ft 2x4 framing lumber has been stuck at $6.70 each around these parts for over a month now with no drop in sight.
Raise that rate again tomorrow, FED. And then again next weekend and every weekend after that until this inflation madness ends.
It's high time that the savers stop being forced to subsidize the people with no impulse control.
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Quote:Republicans block bill to stop price gouging at the pump as gas hits new record high
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Remember kids...
Take a walk through U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers‘ tweets and you’ll find complaint after complaint about the price of gas. Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers, Republican of Washington, is the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee but opposes legislation to stop oil and gas companies from price gouging consumers.
Rep. McMorris Rodgers on Monday claimed that making it illegal for oil companies to price gouge is “socialism,” something that’s done in places like “Soviet Russia,” not in America.
"The promise of America is free enterprise, not socialism, not government price controls,” she claimed, as she complained about the price of gas, which just hit a new record high.
The bill would not set price caps as some Republicans suggest, rather, it would empower the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate if oil and gas companies are price gouging consumers.
Republicans on the powerful House Rules Committee on Monday blocked the bill, H.R. 7688, the Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act from advancing. The GOP, thanks to McMorris Rodgers, is now calling the legislation the “Socialist Energy Price Fixing Act.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has said he will bring the bill to a vote on the floor if it passes the House. It would require 60 votes to avoid a GOP filibuster, and therefore is not expected to pass.
More at https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/gop-gas-bill/
The text of H.R. 7688, the Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act can be read at
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7688/text
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Republicans block bill to stop price gouging at the pump as gas hits new record high
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Remember kids...
Take a walk through U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers‘ tweets and you’ll find complaint after complaint about the price of gas. Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers, Republican of Washington, is the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee but opposes legislation to stop oil and gas companies from price gouging consumers.
Rep. McMorris Rodgers on Monday claimed that making it illegal for oil companies to price gouge is “socialism,” something that’s done in places like “Soviet Russia,” not in America.
"The promise of America is free enterprise, not socialism, not government price controls,” she claimed, as she complained about the price of gas, which just hit a new record high.
The bill would not set price caps as some Republicans suggest, rather, it would empower the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate if oil and gas companies are price gouging consumers.
Republicans on the powerful House Rules Committee on Monday blocked the bill, H.R. 7688, the Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act from advancing. The GOP, thanks to McMorris Rodgers, is now calling the legislation the “Socialist Energy Price Fixing Act.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has said he will bring the bill to a vote on the floor if it passes the House. It would require 60 votes to avoid a GOP filibuster, and therefore is not expected to pass.
More at https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/gop-gas-bill/
The text of H.R. 7688, the Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act can be read at
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7688/text
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
What's Venezuela's cash worth right now?
Gas prices are high because Biden* policy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Venezuela
Fuck your socialism, retard.
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Quote:Along the Houston Ship Channel, which refines billions of barrels of gasoline per year, it has always been good that people like you don't understand that refineries set their own prices, not the President. Awful things might happen to gasoline refinery CEOs if the public understood what the CEOs were doing to the public. But the public never understands, which is great for the CEOs.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
What's Venezuela's cash worth right now?
Gas prices are high because Biden* policy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Venezuela
Fuck your socialism, retard.
Over in England, the public noticed the American CEOs are taking the money, but not in America, where the public believes Biden is taking their money:
Oil companies’ profits soared to $174 billion as US gas prices rose
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/06/oil-companies-profits
-exxon-chevron-shell-exclusive
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Along the Houston Ship Channel, which refines billions of barrels of gasoline per year, it has always been good that people like you don't understand that refineries set their own prices, not the President. Awful things might happen to gasoline refinery CEOs if the public understood what the CEOs were doing to the public. But the public never understands, which is great for the CEOs.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
What's Venezuela's cash worth right now?
Gas prices are high because Biden* policy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Venezuela
Fuck your socialism, retard.
Over in England, the public noticed the American CEOs are taking the money, but not in America, where the public believes Biden is taking their money:
Oil companies’ profits soared to $174 billion as US gas prices rose
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/06/oil-companies-profits
-exxon-chevron-shell-exclusive
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Dude. Enough with the same bullshit rhetoric.
Of course Joe Biden* doesn't set the price tag on oil... directly.
The poisonous Green policy that Democrats enact, on top of two years of mandated shutdowns of the world by Leftists and the breakdown of the Six Sigma'd manufacturing and shipping that resulted from it and near-record high inflation caused by Democrats DOES.
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Quote:6ix, you know nothing at all about how prices are set.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Dude. Enough with the same bullshit rhetoric.
Of course Joe Biden* doesn't set the price tag on oil... directly.
The poisonous Green policy that Democrats enact, on top of two years of mandated shutdowns of the world by Leftists and the breakdown of the Six Sigma'd manufacturing and shipping that resulted from it and near-record high inflation caused by Democrats DOES.
2 wild charts show how Big Oil profits are skyrocketing as prices at the pump rise
But as inflation continues to erode Americans' finances, oil giants are catching flak. Some lawmakers have called on the firms to prioritize affordability over shareholder returns. House Democrats Carolyn Maloney and Ro Khanna urged the CEOs of ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, and Chevron in April to cancel plans for stock buybacks and dividends and instead focus on lowering prices. More recently, Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio alleged the companies are solely focused on earnings and hiding behind an excuse of rising operating costs.
"They're not raising prices to cover their costs — they're raising prices to pad their profits," he said in a May 11 tweet.
Concerns about oil-sector price gouging even made their way to the White House. The Biden administration called on Congress in late March to charge oil producers for untapped wells and leased public lands not being used for oil production. Companies "aren't doing their part" and are choosing "extraordinary profits" over "investment to help with supply," President Joe Biden said.
More at https://www.businessinsider.com/gas-prices-oil-company-profits-skyrock
eting-energy-sector-earnings-charts-2022-5
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Originally posted by second:
6ix, you know nothing at all about how prices are set.
I know you are, but what am I?
Shut up, idiot.
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