Well, they did. That’s why the deodorant is now locked up.

So how is that fake? I can’t do any of those things you mention in the first paragraph.

You’re not rich enough where banks know you always have stock available to give them. Where there’s virtually no limit to your stock pool that the bank can just liquidate after the fact. You need to be in the top .1% for that. The fact you’re on lemmy means that’s not a possibility in the slightest.

Getting loans based on assets is not at all the same as selling those assets.

It is for the rich. That’s why so many don’t care about their traditional salary. That’s why so many went out of their way to advertise they were taking a $1 salary during the recession, or even today. Because their salary is subject to income tax, but loans are not. You can get the same end result of cash in hand by receiving your pay in stock, then taking loans against that stock.

I count that in the sold category. Because they just get more loans to pay off the previous ones, or default and the bank just takes the shares and does it again because what the loaned is less than the share value. All the while avoiding income and capital gains taxes.

It’s why boycotts and cancelling subscriptions actually do work when done in large enough numbers. Their money can disappear very quickly if shareholders get spooked.

It’s also why Tesla isn’t being affected as much now despite Elon pulling the mask off and going full Nazi, resulting in massive sales drops. Years and years of short sellers and complicit media trying to tank the brand, largely funded and promoted by things like entrenched oil interests and competing car brands have trained many shareholders to ignore a lot.

To be fair, all that money is effectively fake until the shares are sold.

It was the opposite in my city. Street parking has always been there, but the light rail was retrofitted into the tiny streets all over downtown in the last 5 years.

It’s possible, but knowing modern city management, it’s very likely the tram was the newest addition as people requested public transit alternatives and the city failed to properly plan it out.

There’s not enough room with the way the road is setup for parking, traffic, and the tram. It doesn’t really matter which was there first. Either the roadway needs to be widened to accommodate all of them, or the street parking should be removed. Especially if parked vehicles are regularly getting in the way.

One car in the way is a fluke, an asshole driver, but cars being in the way regularly means the design is fucked.

I’d say the road isn’t wide enough. While the vehicle is parked away from the curb, it’s not egregious, and shouldn’t be in the way of a tram line if the road was planned properly. The fact there isn’t enough room for the tram to pass means there isn’t really enough room between parked vehicles and the drive lanes in the first place.

That picture screams to me that the tram line was added after the fact without proper planning and road management.

She doesn’t know how it works? Her father was a Congressman for this same region of AZ 2003-2025, and she has taken over his seat. She grew up with her father in other seats prior to that and helped with every one of his campaigns.

She knows how it fucking works better than at least half of Congress. That’s why they want to keep her out as long as possible.

Our home phone is an extra line on the cell plan. That phone sits at home most of the time, and is a games phone for when kids come over with parents.

We’ve got a cat like that. Anything dairy.

Not sure why you are being downvoted for this

The downvotes are probably because they’re just stating something obvious. No shit, bad looking CGI looks bad, that doesn’t mean the actual CGI itself is necessarily bad. Small things like wrong lighting can make otherwise great CGI look terrible. The reasons DO matter, even if the average person may not really care and just has the takeaway of “bad CGI”.

Posting that type of response is not actually providing anything to the discussion, it’s a useless comment that provides no value. Not all comments and opinions are valid or constructive. The voting system is not really for agree/disagree, but whether a post adds to the discussion.

I’d argue it matters quite a bit. It shows producers, and by extension a studio, that can’t manage production effectively, and that almost always extends to the rest of the movie. “Bad” CG is rarely the only issue with those movies, it’s just what you remember most since movies in general require the suspension of disbelief and that pulls you right out of it.

And often that’s not because the CGI itself is bad quality, but because the effects team was asked to do the impossible with half the tools necessary. The “fix it in post” mentality.

Even small things like having reference lighting examples from the set can be the difference between an okay outcome and something almost imperceptible.

They’re the same thing. A small oven heats up faster than a big oven. It’s only faster because it’s 1/10th the size.

Depending on the pizza, it might be up to 90% oil.

The way to make a big dent in that is to tax unused housing, with peogressivwly increasing amounts as they continue unoccupied. And limit or outright deny ownership by companies and investment firms.

We have more than enough housing for everyone, but a large portion of it sits unused. In many cases only because no one will/can pay what some of these companies are demanding monthly for them.

There’s a lot of other shorr from content. There’s a lot that’s just quick highlights of longer form stuff for instance.

My YouTube Shorts algorithm doesn’t have any of that type of shit in it. Because that’s not the type of stuff that I watch, that’s not the stuff it recommends to be either.

If you’re using a new or privacy focused web profile, it’s going to show a lot of random things because it has no idea what you would want.

Just need another adapter.

Google Maps reports are just for “police”, which is a generic term that ICE would be either way.

I mean… It literally does. It’s the first 4 words, that the rest of the sentence is in reference to. That’s how English works.

There was no professional United States military at the time, the militia was the functional military, so yes it was referencing private arms, only because those formed the well regulated militia. Not every bumble fuck with a pulse.

Also, the Federalist Papers were 85 letters written by just 3 men. Alexander Hamilton wrote 51 essays, James Madison wrote 29, and John Jay wrote 5, and they were written to promote the proposed Constitution. They are by no means a full encapsulation of the founders thoughts, or in any way unbiased, they are essentially the definition of political propaganda, written anonymously to hide their source.