I did a whole research project on this in grad school. Companies reap over $300 BILLION a year in free labor from customers using self-checkouts. If they’re not going to pay customers, they can shave some price.
First trailer for ‘WICKER’, starring Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård.
The film follows an embarrassed fisherwoman who asks a basket maker to make her a husband out of wicker.
In theaters on October 23.
The girls giving this line tens so of course I had to run out and grab it. Will report back, but just off first looks it’s giving Peter Thomas Roth. @DollarTree
First trailer for ‘THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR’, directed by & starring Michael B. Jordan.
The film follows a billionaire who steals priceless artworks while falling in love with the woman investigating him.
In theaters on March 5, 2027.
So China’s basic response is:
If the United States were still confident in its own competitiveness, it would not need to turn every Chinese civilian project into a national security emergency.
A port becomes a threat.
A railway becomes a threat.
A telecom network becomes a threat.
Even an undersea cable becomes a weapon.
China builds infrastructure.
Washington builds panic around it.
America no longer asks whether a Chinese project works.
It asks how quickly it can be killed before the world notices it works better.
When an empire can no longer lead, it tries to cripple those who can.
Brittany Renner says she hopes not all men have side chicks, but believes many would act differently if they had unlimited access. She also argues that being the “main chick” isn’t really a flex because the main woman often carries the responsibilities of the relationship while overlooking the side chick, and the side chick overlooks the main one. From her experience, the only thing that truly matters is devotion—if you’re not a man’s one and only, then being the “main” means very little.