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Void_of_Light said:
I'm thinking a full body scan with exact measurements and full 3d movements. If you can guarantee a perfect fit every time you would make bank selling clothes online. You could even custom tailor stuff without having to meet the client.
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been around for about 10 years.... Was on Sharktank... claims 20% more accurate measurements than a human... uses your phone.
 
You guys should read Capitalist Punishment by Vivek Ramaswamy. He does a good job of spelling out how blackrock is actually making money on this shit. I’ve been saying that everywhere, so hopefully I didn’t already say it in this thread…
 
Gawdamnit Mikel ….. don’t just dump (linkslide) this stuff….. give us some context or something!!!!!!
 
Adults speaking up for adulting:

NAM to SEC in Court: Get Activist Shareholders Out of Boardrooms


Activist shareholders from across the ideological spectrum have increasingly influenced public companies’ proxy ballots, and the Securities and Exchange Commission has unlawfully become their willing partner. That’s why the NAM has moved to intervene in a court case on the matter.

What’s going on: The NAM yesterday filed a motion to intervene in a case challenging the SEC’s authority to compel manufacturers to use their proxy ballots to speak about divisive social and political issues that are unrelated to a company’s business or long-term value.
  • If granted intervenor status, the NAM will argue that the SEC’s rules requiring companies to include activist proposals on the proxy ballot violate federal securities law and the First Amendment.
The background: An activist group that holds shares in Kroger Co. sought a shareholder vote on a proposal to have the grocery chain issue a public report concerning its equal opportunity employment policy.
  • Kroger sought permission from the SEC to exclude the proposal from its proxy ballot, which the SEC granted. The group has sued the SEC, accusing the agency of acting in an inconsistent and politically motivated manner.
Why it’s important: Though the SEC rejected this proposal, the agency often requires companies to publish shareholder proposals it deems to have “broad societal impact."
  • The NAM’s motion to intervene argues that the SEC’s requirement that companies publish and respond to these proposals is a violation of the First Amendment’s prohibition on government-compelled speech.
  • Furthermore, federal securities law does not permit the SEC to dictate the content of company proxy statements, so the agency’s politicization of corporate governance has unlawfully federalized issues that have traditionally been governed under state corporate law.
Unnecessary—and increasing: Forcing manufacturers to take political positions on their proxy ballots drives up costs for the companies and draws needless and unwanted controversy, the NAM says. Yet, the number of activist proposals on proxy ballots is only growing.
  • “In total, 682 shareholder proposals were filed for annual meetings being held through May 31,” The Wall Street Journal (subscription) reported.
How we got here: The NAM has been urging the SEC to prioritize the needs of long-term shareholders over activists’ agendas for many years.
  • The NAM opposed the SEC’s guidance requiring companies to include most environmental and social proposals on their proxy ballots.
  • It also urged the agency not to move forward with a proposed rule limiting companies’ ability to exclude activist proposals.
The last word: “The corporate proxy ballot is not the appropriate venue for policy decisions better made by America’s elected representatives, and manufacturers are regularly caught in the middle as activists on the left and the right bring fights from the political arena into the boardroom,” said NAM Chief Legal Officer Linda Kelly.
  • “The NAM Legal Center is standing up for manufacturers to ensure they can focus on growing their businesses, driving economic expansion and job creation and creating value for shareholders.”
NAM in the news: POLITICO (subscription) and Bloomberg (subscription) covered the NAM’s legal efforts.

The National Association of Manufacturers must be racist or transphobic or something :flipoff2:
 
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Interesting talk about what happens inside educational institutions... Paid by you and me.

 
Ksand said:
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tl;dr they don't really believe this shit. Blackrock and the other giant investment firms push this shit because it devalues companies and they can buy up stocks when they tank and take over huge corporations while skirting monopoly regulations.

Idk if it's in that clip or not, but in that episode that guy points out that something like 80% of the S&P companies are majority owned by like 3 or 4 of these giant investment firms.

The people running these firms have trillions of dollars at their disposals and control most people's retirement and investment accounts on top of it, probably including large numbers of government agency retirement funds. They can basically swing policy in government and business however they want because they control basically everything now.
 
Mikel said:
Interesting talk about what happens inside educational institutions... Paid by you and me.

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Best little bit of info in this one was her overhearing her DEI cohorts discussing capture of judges!!!!
This is where it starts to get a little scary in my opinion!!!!
 
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Didn't read the thread, sorry if this is a R.

The book "The Coddling of the American Mind" is a pretty good one. Among other things, they discuss how you need some opposing views to keep the majority view from going off the deep end when left unchecked. It doesn't need to be 1:1, I forget where they said said it needs to be to keep everything in check, maybe 1:10?

The book made the point that colleges used to be largely staffed by WW2 veterans, which closely matched the demographics of the country, because the GI bill afforded everyone the opportunity to go to college and some became teachers. As the greatest generation ages out of the workforce, fewer and fewer Republicans want to go into teaching.

Think about people you know that want to go into teaching, while they may not be "woke", they're probably on the liberal end of your friend group.
 
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