Nobody expects the five-year Fortnite ban!

I thought that was Joual..

Coitus interruptus

Well, it is in New Mexico, so there's not much to hit anyway... :^D

So I'm reading this and thinking: "Somebody is streaming Marathon?" I might watch a bit of that...

I suppose some of it depends on what you sell. FTFA:

So, I suppose, if all you sell is coffee, that might be the case. But if you have baked goods, sandwiches, etc. having someone take up a seat for three hours with a cup of coffee while others are waiting or, more likely, saying "It's too crowded" and going elsewhere would definitely make the owner think about limitations.

It's wonderful, isn't it?

If amazon pays the tarrifs they can deduct them from their taxes.

If they pass along the tarrifs then the consumer can deduct them

So
1. They have to do this if they are not deducting them

2. And there is no net revenue to the us government on any tax deductible tarrif collected

If amazon passes along the excise tax on a good for resale then they have to provide this to consumers who can deduct it.

If they don't pass it on then they can deduct it.

Either way there is no net revenue to the us government from any deductible tarrif

That's way mo' than I thought it would be!

I'll show myself out...

Mmm...lawful gouda...

It might be a factor. However, the population is growing, and while the demographics are shifting a bit, they are still a lot of kids, reaching drinking age.

However there are milestones that us older folks had while growing up, that no longer seem as important to the younger generation.

Watching a PG13, R Movie, Getting a drivers license, drinking, smoking, Having Sex, Getting Married, Going to College, Getting an Apartment, getting a house... All these are in decline with the younger generation. Some because of increased difficulty with finance, due to increased cost of living rising higher than salaries, and also prevalence of online culture and access to direct media, so people are finding Cliques that are not necessarily tied to doing particular things, and accessing stuff they are more interested in.

They are plusses and minuses to this trend, but I wouldn't spend too much time complaining about it, younger folks will be doing their own thing that is different than the way older people did for generations.

No, but normally as production increases a lot of the carbon offset is mostly better managed at scale.

For example, a Diesel train may burn 4 gallons of fuel per mile. however being that it carrying so much payload that they rate it 500 miles per gallon per ton.
While an Electric Car that says has 100 eMPG will not be as carbon low in energy expenditure if needed to pull so much weight.

That number seems like the cost to make the material, from start, not in sets of hundreds of thousands of drives.

Well Tech companies had been less than strategic around their hiring and firing practices for the past decade or two.

They try to hire as many people as possible, give them some work to keep them busy. Just so these employees will not be working for their competitors who are trying to hire them for the same reason and give them busy work. Then when money gets tight, they dump them, not realizing that that busy work they were one actually became something profitable for the organization.

They leave, some start new businesses or others get hired by a smaller unknown firm with the skills they learned at that company is useful, and allowed to make the next big thing, that undoubtedly hurts the original company.

In their defense, Blue Origin is providing their BE-4 engine as a replacement for the Russian RD-180 in ULA's Vulcan launcher. So there's that...

Also, New Glenn launched back in January, though they missed the landing. There's a second New Glenn launch scheduled for "late spring" of this year as well which will carry satellites.