IOW cheap Chines junk.

There is some truth in the saying "You get what you pay for" - almost always applies to the cheap end.

We attempted to adopt a young girl one time and due to the lack of caring from the social worker, we gave up. But we did have one worker tell us that "if she was in <x> foster care home, she was abused.

Sure the vast majority of foster care parents are probably good, but there are those that do it strictly for the money. AND, I've personally been acquainted with parents that didn't give a shit about their own kids.

I'd bet you could get a better lab grown one much cheaper.

The money people spend on diamonds is ridiculous.

Right, adopted for the money from the state. Then spend as absolutely little as possible on the child. There is absolutely no love or caring involved.

Why else do you think they're against abortion? They need more children to abuse.

Facetiousness aside, the light sentence is abhorrent.

AI, a top contributor to the dumbing of America.

Oh, so now they want to portray him as cooperative. I'm pretty sure they have an electronic copy or two.

Yeah, because who can resist a good sale? /s

And the consumers keep buying it - both the hype and the product.

No, Pedigree. Vet says it's fine, and have one dog over 15 years old.

From what I've seen lately, a lot more stores than these use shady practices to make money. Everybody should know how often, prices are jacked up, then put on sale for the old price, or advertise great quantity discounts where if you check, it's actually cheaper to buy the items individually.

One of my favorites is dog food. I used to but 50 lb. bags. They shrunk the size to 45 lbs and advertised them as 40 lb. bags with 5 additional lbs. For Free!

10 Years in prison for expressing love and joy. It's amazing how primitive those religious zealots can be.

I don't want to, but I can't help hating the scumbags in power in Iran.

Damn, I can fuck up a company for a hell of a lot less than 20 million. Hire me!

Anyone think this is the only software contract like this?

Which poses the question, what can cause the intestines to not absorb the water?

The way we run any election in this country, it take a LOT of money to campaign. Candidates need wealthy backers to get their promises in front of the people. And, as soon as they're elected, they need to start lining up money for their next run. It's only natural that their decisions are going to favor those wealthy backers.

Notice I used the word "promises" - that's only so much bs to get people to vote for them. There are exceptions to that rule, but far too few.

Faux news NEVER shows the Rs knocking down or gutting pretty much any bill that helps the general public. Nor do they mention the good he's done for the veterans that donnie boy mocked.

So, Biden controls gasoline prices all over the world? As far as the railroad strike decision, he had no real choice. And, he is trying to do something about it. It's being reported on just about every source except Faux news and "friends". If the railroad workers went on strike, it would have had a devastating effect on the entire economy. He chose the lesser of two bad choices.

You are typical of the right wing posters. You post from total ignorance because that's what the right wing pundits and social "influencers" shoves down your throat.

You really ought to take a little time to look at facts. You'll see that those pundits all have skin in the game and are making profit from the controls that they rail against, and who knows who those "influencers" are really working for. I'd place bets that many of them are taking money from (or are) foreign sources who would like nothing better than to tear this country apart.

Yeah, they won't be able to buy that 4th vacation home or 3rd yacht.

Every time the US does something to industry wrongdoing, it amounts to a mild slap on the wrist.

I don't care what party you support, way too many politicians on both sides have their hands in industry pockets.

Of course they did. Anything that will eat into their insane profits is a declaration of war.

And the idiots in rhe US blame Biden for the high prices because the right wing pundits who are also profiting are telling them so.

A lot of large businesses and corporations got their "fair" share too.

At least this one got caught.

Several years ago, a software company placed a small cash reward in their TOS. If I recall nobody collected.

as would any sane, reasoning person.