EH S4 E6: special FOOTBALL, BEER & GAMBLING WE CAN'T KEEP UP edition
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According to Ice Out of My Wallet and the Save America Movement, these are the brands we should be boycotting:
Home Depot - They literally allow ICE agents to patrol their stores and parking lots without warrants. Luckily, Lowe’s and Ace have everything anyway, minus the fascist aftertaste.
Target - They’ve rolled over to Trump’s racist nonsense and have set a standard for corporations going along with the right-wing playbook. If you need new sheets, go to Marshalls.
Hilton Hotels - They house ICE agents, and punish their branches that don’t. No prob, there are a million cheaper hotels.
Amazon - Their web services (AWS) is the digital backbone of ICE’s machinery. Yes. It is time to cancel Prime. It’s been time to cancel Prime, but now it’s actually time.
Whole Foods - They’re part of Amazon so they’re dead to us. Just get a Thrive Market subscription instead, its got the same stuff for cheaper.
- Definition: Also known as the 80/20 rule, the Law of the Vital Few, or the principle of factor sparsity.
- Core Concept:It suggests that focusing on the "vital few" (the top 20%) can yield 80% of the desired results, maximizing efficiency.
- Origin: Formulated by Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto in 1896, who noticed 20% of pea pods in his garden yielded 80% of the peas, and later applied to wealth distribution.
- Application: Widely used in business, management, and productivity to identify key tasks, such as 20% of customers generating 80% of revenue, or 20% of bugs causing 80% of system crashes.
- Variability: While 80/20 is a common rule of thumb, the exact ratio is not a strict law and may vary (e.g., 70/30 or 90/10).
Envision coming to America |
It was just a matter of time, but General Motors will move production of the Buick Envision SUV back to its Kansas City plant from China in 2028. As Reuters colleagues Kalea Hall and David Shepardson report, GM began shipping the Envision to the U.S. in 2017 as its only Chinese import. GM has faced a 25% tariff on the vehicles since 2018 and failed to win a tariff exemption during the first Trump administration. You can read all about it here. Making the SUV in China has no doubt helped GM in the last few years as its sales in China have fallen, by making sure its spare Chinese factory capacity gets used up. But bringing it back to the United States will make the United Auto Workers union happy. Former UAW president Dennis Williams (before he went to prison) used to refer to the Chinese-made imported car as the “Buick Invasion.” Invasion? Honey, you ain't seen nuttin' yet! --Ed. ************************** please add, CBS & ABC: Est-ce vrai ? |
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