Your story about buying a laptop reminds me of a scene from Parks and Rec when Ron Swanson’s picking up supplies for a project at a home improvement store.

Circle K orders custom cans for all Arizona Iced Tea varieties, not just their exclusive flavors. Retailers have no legal obligation to obey the MSRP on the can, and many do ignore it shamelessly. You only need custom cans if you don’t want your customers to know just how much they’re being overcharged, which is why Circle K does it.

Here’s a photo from 2022:

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

The unfortunate truth is the MSRP on the can is just that, a suggested retail price. Circle K can rip off their customers all they like because this is America, and there’s apparently nothing more sacred than corporate profits.

The comment you replied to:

Peak capitalism: pay just to see an ad.

So yes, we are in fact talking about paying for access to an ad.

lol, I can’t wait for someone to explain to you what an OTA broadcast is and how much it costs to view. The Super Bowl isn’t a relevant example for the comment you’re replying to.

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Given how much McDonald’s Trump eats, odds are he’d still win it under those rules.

Oh no… I hope this doesn’t jeopardize the annual FIFA Peace Prize that was totally going to happen next year and wasn’t just some one-off openly corrupt bullshit meant to stroke the ego of a senile narcissist.

But the handing over data from a email account is not a choice for them its a legal requirement.

Yeah but this is lemmy. Where everyone has very strong opinions about things they don’t understand.

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Have you seen Babe (1995)? It’s a family comedy about a talking pig that wants to become a sheepdog to avoid being slaughtered. James Cromwell delivers a great performance as Farmer Hoggett despite having very little dialogue. And, oddly enough, it was co-written by George Miller (of the Mad Max franchise.) OH! And Hugo Weaving (The Matrix, LOTR) plays a grumpy dog.

There’s also a sequel, Babe: Pig in the City (1998). I think it’s worth a watch but it’s definitely a step down. It’s very much a kids movie, whereas the first was entertaining for everyone.

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Exactly. Trump corrupted the process by interfering. The fact that the decision should’ve been reversed became irrelevant the moment Trump decided to call in a favor from his buddy Infantino. It’s no longer about a bad call on the field.

That’s pretty shitty. But I have a hard time mustering up any sympathy for anyone buying Meta’s smart glasses surveillance tech. Fuckin’ narcs.

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Lunchables was engineered to appeal to kids’ desire for autonomy and to ease mothers’ guilt, using the same consumer psychology approach Philip Morris developed for cigarettes.

I loved lunchables. FUCK!

Roku used to be pretty great, but the writing was on the wall after the IPO in 2017. This is just one more step in the decade-long march toward total enshittification.