Right… my guess is he looted the casinos and ripped off investors, and used them for tax tricks. Not really went bankrupt.

Quite sure this is just financial chicanery. “Lost money” - well, where did it go to? They didn’t burn cash in a bonfire. So who has it then? Suppliers? Insiders?

When a drive is formatted, it has less space available than the total capacity because the file system format takes up space. An image file should include that. It might work if you use something like dd to copy it. How are you doing it?

Whatever happened to the legal issues this pasty slug was facing in Europe over Grook being used to do “nudification” for children?

It’s cast, lose lose lose?

I know who Samuel L Jackson is, but I wasn’t sure if I recognized him. I know who Denzel Washington is more vaguely but wouldn’t be able to recognize him in general.

I don’t watch movies. Just not really an interest of mine.

Definitely fuck Will Smith. I don’t know who any of the others are.

It’s worse when the president himself is heavily into insider trading

Don’t leave out vengeance on his perceived enemies.

The SEC that he controls? Who should be doing something is Congress. But, they’re mostly in on it.

I want to use the word ‘less’, so I’ll change it to “less moronicism”

Probably Switzerland has less morons

It’s similar to how comparing CPUs by clock speed became much less meaningful over the past 25 years.

No, because the way she said it made it clear that was not the case. Also, they did typically drink cheaper beer like Schlitz.

Reminds me of when my brother and I were 18-20 and asked our upstairs neighbors, Wanda and Lou from Austin, to help with buying us a case of beer for New Years Eve. They asked what kind we wanted and we said Budweiser. Wanda said “oh, splurgin!”. I guess standard was Natural Light or Busch or something and she saw Budweiser as somewhat elite.

Yes, if you’re at the sort of party where there is a keg of beer, or at a large family picnic especially. They’re the standard disposable cup for situations where the hosts wouldn’t have enough cups for everyone and don’t want to deal with potential loss and breakage.

OK, what point are you trying to make? The discussion I was having is about when people go into a grocery store and fill up their cart with expensive items that they can resell, and then walk out. Then they go and sell them for cash. Saying that malnutrition has increased is in no way connecting those two things.

When people are hungry I would think they would steal food and eat it, not go sell it. I suppose they could steal expensive items and sell them for cash and then go buy less expensive food? Not even sure if that’s what you’re trying to say. I don’t think we’re discussing the same thing.

People steal and make money on the black market whether the economy is good or bad. Crime like that goes up in dire economic times, but it’s not even remotely exclusive to dire economic times. Stealing meat and selling it is much more about funding drug habits than staving off starvation.

Some Businesses do buy stolen meat or supplies. There just has to be a crooked kitchen manager or owner who knows a guy. Of course they’d like to save 50%.