The whole business model of basically every Silicon Valley company is to operate at a loss until they have monopoly power and then extort "record profits" from their customers.
UPDATE: New World Screwworm is no longer contained to Texas.
USDA says that the infested dog announced earlier today lives in Lea County, New Mexico and will be reclassified as the first detection in that state.
And now a goat in Gillespie County, TX, has also been confirmed.
BREAKING: A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts, per NYT.
In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention.
Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, and the Trump family’s deals are expanding.
@donnyyoung The revolving debt bomb that wins on making people feel good, not actually doing good for them. That’s how they maintain the appearance of being “better” than a trad. Dealer.
@CodyRoarkNFL So you’d rather pay an additional $3K+ at time of purchase? Got it. It just moves money around so the state gets 5 years of payments instead of a lump some.