Nobody Cares: PRS

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

 

[Govi]

Petro companies were born in price gouging, have lived by price gouging, and will probably die trying to gouge their few customers.

 

[Beebo Brink]

We rail against "price gouging" as if it isn't the foundational principle of capitalism: You charge what people are willing to pay.

 

[WolfEyes]

We rail against "price gouging" as if it isn't the foundational principle of capitalism: You charge what people are willing to pay.

I've never been willing to pay for anything. However, I am willing to reach an agreement in which everyone benefits.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Everyone was all hyped about the Senate passing a measure to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, but now it's starting to sound like it was a "unanimous consent" pass that only happened because nobody was informed ahead of time it was coming up so no one realized it was happening, and it might turn out that the majority of the Senate doesn't actually support it but, oops, too late because that's how democracy is totally supposed to work right?

 

[Free]

make Daylight Saving Time permanent

Imagine the money pouring in from Silicon Valley to stop this affront to modern time management!

 

[Spirits Rising]

The opposite ought to be made permanent.

Just keep Standard Time and ditch DST.

 

[Beebo Brink]

...it might turn out that the majority of the Senate doesn't actually support it but, oops, too late because that's how democracy is totally supposed to work right?

I'll take it as a win, either way.

Just keep Standard Time and ditch DST.

At this point I'll take either, as long as we don't have to switch twice a year.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Abolish DST and add a new far-eastern time zone.

 

[danielravennest]

The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone.
No, the white zone is for loading of passengers and there is no stopping in a RED zone.
The red zone has always been for loading and unloading of passengers. There's never stopping in a white zone.
Don't you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for stopping!
Listen Betty, don't start up with your white zone shit again.

 

[danielravennest]

That's chart abuse. First, neither scale starts at zero, and increase by different percentages from bottom to top. Second, the oil price is the *spot market*, for buying or selling crude oil today. The gas station price is the refined product, which takes 2-4 weeks to get there by pipeline or tanker. By the time it gets to the local gas station, it has been paid for, and thus has passed along the prices from the previous steps in the chain. If spot price stays down, and pump prices are still high in 2-4 weeks, *then* you can complain.

 

[Soen Eber]

Standard time, yeah, no problem. Year-round DST? I live in Minneapolis, I DO NOT WANT the sun to rise at 9 in the morning, and having tots waiting in the dark for the school bus is just flat out wrong.

 

[Isabeau]

People make jokes about splitting it up the middle, but I think I could live with that.

 

[WolfEyes]

Standard time, yeah, no problem. Year-round DST? I live in Minneapolis, I DO NOT WANT the sun to rise at 9 in the morning, and having tots waiting in the dark for the school bus is just flat out wrong.

I don't like when the sun rises before 5am or sets after 10pm as it will be doing a little later on in the warmer months here in Oregon. Daylight hours should be 6am through 9pm only.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

LOL


Okay confession - I'm glad this tweet called the thing an accident, because it is 100% possible for people who are not Irish to simply not know that the color orange is positively offensive, or at least seen as deliberately provocative, on St. Patrick's Day.

My soph year of high school I wore a plain orange t-shirt to school on StPD, because I didn't know this. It was one of my regular shirts and it happened to be up in the rotation that day, which I didn't even know was St. Patrick's because in Ohio that wasn't a big "thing" - as in, it wasn't like people were talking about it a week ahead of time like "next Thursday is St. Paddy's Day, remember to have something green ready!". You were kinda just expected to care enough on your own to notice it was that day and do it, and if you didn't notice and weren't wearing green, you got a mild teasing or something but that was the end of it. If I had noticed that particular day, I probably would have worn something green; but, that WAS the limit of my knowledge about the situation though. I knew who St. Patrick was and what he supposedly did, and I knew that you're "supposed to wear green" on StPD. But I was never told by anyone that you were supposed to not wear orange until that day when someone came up to me near the end of the day and was very hostile and accusatory toward me and I was like WTH are you talking about???

 

[WolfEyes]

LOL


Okay confession - I'm glad this tweet called the thing an accident, because it is 100% possible for people who are not Irish to simply not know that the color orange is positively offensive, or at least seen as deliberately provocative, on St. Patrick's Day.

My soph year of high school I wore a plain orange t-shirt to school on StPD, because I didn't know this. It was one of my regular shirts and it happened to be up in the rotation that day, which I didn't even know was St. Patrick's because in Ohio that wasn't a big "thing" - as in, it wasn't like people were talking about it a week ahead of time like "next Thursday is St. Paddy's Day, remember to have something green ready!". You were kinda just expected to care enough on your own to notice it was that day and do it, and if you didn't notice and weren't wearing green, you got a mild teasing or something but that was the end of it. If I had noticed that particular day, I probably would have worn something green; but, that WAS the limit of my knowledge about the situation though. I knew who St. Patrick was and what he supposedly did, and I knew that you're "supposed to wear green" on StPD. But I was never told by anyone that you were supposed to not wear orange until that day when someone came up to me near the end of the day and was very hostile and accusatory toward me and I was like WTH are you talking about???

What the hell are you talking about? Must be a Northern thing because this is the first I've ever heard of it. I think someone yanked your chain and you've been hanging on ever since. Time to let go.

On the other hand I was in high school before I ever knew you were supposed to wear green on St. Patrick's Day. I have heard that it is offensive to call it St. Patty's or St. Paddy's Day. I can understand that.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

That's chart abuse. First, neither scale starts at zero, and increase by different percentages from bottom to top. Second, the oil price is the *spot market*, for buying or selling crude oil today. The gas station price is the refined product, which takes 2-4 weeks to get there by pipeline or tanker. By the time it gets to the local gas station, it has been paid for, and thus has passed along the prices from the previous steps in the chain. If spot price stays down, and pump prices are still high in 2-4 weeks, *then* you can complain.

Who sets retail fuel prices, anyway? Presumably if it's a chain, then they're set by the company that runs it (which, if it's a supermarket, at least in the UK, often means the price is set with a view to bringing you there in order to do your shopping, too) with a view to covering the replacement cost -- i.e. not what the price is on the spot market but on the futures and options market.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

What the hell are you talking about? Must be a Northern thing because this is the first I've ever heard of it. I think someone yanked your chain and you've been hanging on ever since. Time to let go.

I could otherwise easily think so, but - nope, as the tweet above shows, it's definitely a thing that at least SOME people are aware of.

This is a (deliberate, lol) oversimplification; but in Ireland "Orangemen" represent protestant Northerners who are aligned with the UK and have very particular and unambiguous historical connotations, so deliberately wearing orange during this holiday dedicated to a specifically Catholic Irish cultural figure is, basically, very much like trolling.

I think someone in the US, especially as a kid, would probably have to belong to an actual Irish family or have some other actual personal connection to Ireland in order to know about all that though.

 

[WolfEyes]

The Saint Patrick's Day that Americans celebrate is not the same Saint Patrick's Day that Ireland celebrates. Same name, same date, yes but in the US, it's mostly not celebrated as a religious holy day.