I think it's rare for their to be an "official" winner declared in the news anymore in the first 24 hours, especially in the age of "they stole the election!" claims. when I was young, we always found out the night of the election. now it's like a couple of days when we are told who probably won, followed by weeks of court challenges and attempted recounts and no one conceding.
if it's decisively over before the week is out with no court cases, I'll be surprised.
that golden eye gaze reminded me of this bit:
They're extremely intelligent. Even problem-solving intelligent. Especially The Big One. We bred eight originally, but when she came in, she took over the pride and killed all but two of the others. That one, when she looks at you, you can see she's working things out.
still going, this asshole.
let me tell you a couple or three things.
i remember reading some interview of hers where she "came out" (#Brave) as anti-vax. that was when i guessed her persona on Sopranos wasn't an act. also, imagine thinking "i'm a hippie" while developing/establishing/promoting "mob associate wife jersey chic". like a peanut butter and mayo salad right there.
some people are so far behind in the race that they actually believe they're winning.
in managerial economics, "profit" is typically broken down into various slices, especially for the sole proprietor who might pay themselves out of "what's left", may even be the only employee, may have different debt types (operating loans vs infrastructure loans). so they talk about "returns" i.e.
Return to Labor/Management, and Capital: is the money left after you've paid your material and operating costs, but haven't paid down the principal on any debt (after making minimum payments on their debt servicing) or yourself as manager/worker. this is how a lot of self employed, sole proprietor, single owner/operators keep books and conceptualize profits. it works, but it's limited and can lead to issues if the income is variable and doesn't really do much for making decisions.
better practice is to bake your salary (as manager/employee) into the budget and maybe even come up with a plan to pay down debts faster. paying yourself a fixed salary allows one to conceptualize what their hourly rate is and start analyzing the decisions they make about clients they take on, how to spend their time, and definitely what improvements to make to your infrastructure, etc. obviously numbers don't capture drudgery or enjoyment, but they do matter in knowing what would squeeze you (and be worth cutting your own salary for a while) and what might sink you.
there's another distinction of "accounting profitability" vs "economic profitability". accounting profitability is money leftover after you do your thing in a given period of time. economic profitability is that same amount minus what you would have netted doing something else (ie opportunity cost lost by running your business a certain way, or not working for someone else).
there aren't always analogues of these concepts to marxian economics because managerial economics are micro and Marx is towards the macro end, but I strongly believe understanding managerial economics (which can be learned fairly easily in like 1 class in college) can make one a better marxian analyst of how an organization can be more equitably organized, not to mention it helps a lot if you want to do your own thing and avoid exploiting yourself unnecessarily.
lol hell yeah, what a nut case. it amuses me when weirdos like that police their identity as a brand, especially for something so absurd like an actor trying to make sure everyone "knows" they're a real tough guy.
meanwhile, he looks and moves as though he would get absolutely murdered by a flight of stairs.
Who is this guy? he's an actor who makes his own movies and writers his own effusive character summaries of himself as the commensurate badass of all badasses, to be delivered on screen.
I remember even at age 10 when I was trying to jump kick and karate chop everything, finding this shit cheesy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O3ibD82k9Y
one of the more amusing/instructive bits i remember picking up is how kids don't expect the adults to communicate with each other outside of what they see. like the benefit of cooperation and communication hasn't sunk in yet, so its a magic superweapon that can be used against them. the staff had this post meal meeting where the kids would have supervised play in a big field and we took about 20-30 minutes to identify the days issues like little douchey cliques to separate or who was acting shitty earlier in the day or who was having a hard time and needs a little extra, because they all floated between our tracks however they wanted.
the troublemakers and bullies were always baffled that yes, everyone else knows what clever moves you were pulling before lunch. like the adults were some other species of humanoid with a hive mind.
nobody wants to sit on my couch anymore
for real. I have some childless friends. which I should say I am also childless, but I like kids and used to teach kids from ages 10-17. my friends have never worked with kids and never interact with them, but they remember school as being mean to them and not letting them achieve their maximum individual potential, so they think kids should just have all this unstructured magic playtime to explore their own genius.
I'm not saying we need to be shitty to them, but kids are crazy. they need to be constantly reminded not to cough in others' faces, not to dig in their own assholes and then touch group food, not to act like goddam maniac when someone it's someone else's turn with a shared resource, and that it's important to play in a group activity or accomplish a task with a partner and realize a shared vision.
kids can be absolutely fuckin bonkers' ass little terrorist monsters with no impulse control, and people who think they are magic enlightened angels should be forced to work with them for like one day.
I think careful and deliberate tactics are used to frame questions so that headlines and executive summaries of polling data are often just another piece of propaganda for the ruling class to make sure we all believe nobody gives a fuck anyway so there's no possible future to organizing any resistance to them.
I like how the pitch for austerity is always, "look, when we do this everything is going to get so much worse for an indeterminate amount of time but then I promise it will get better and everyone will be better off."
and no matter how many times it is done and only serves to ruin lives and devastate communities beyond recovery with no benefit ever being recognized aside from a tiny, ultra wealthy minority using the chaos to purchase control over critical resources and exponentially increase their net worth, they keep promising it will be different this time and everybody will benefit.
man, how fucked up do you have to be to try and antagonize a bunch of protestors... only to get so mad yourself that you impulsively belt a random old lady? at the age of 17, no less?
cynically speaking, we're lucky he didn't show up with a gun and just start blasting.