The Thomas family in my town always names their first son Thomas.
Thomas Thomas the fifth is the most recent heir to this sobriquet.
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Started shopping for sunglasses about a week ago and learned about Luxottica. Turns out there's a grand total of three brands of sunglasses that are viable for me to buy. Made in the USA but still only cost the same $300 that made in china Oakleys and ray bans cost.
It's such a backwards way of doing it though. If they're going to invest that much, that means they need to make a lot of money to cover for it, so they'll have to keep prices where they are until they get the money, then they'll make a show of spending it to lower prices, which really means they're paying the salaries of business analysts who will come up with ideas. Once they've spent $500m coming up with ideas, their obligation will be fulfilled, and they won't have to actually act on any of those price-lowering ideas.
Instead they could just make $500m less in revenue by directly lowering prices immediately.
But then they can't brag about all the good money they spent and will instead whine about how hard up they are, so we'll be stuck with high prices and no relief.
I think it would be a lot more reasonable to expect undocumented issues. They have a lot to lose and it's controlled by a billionaire. As if they're not going to try to cover it up.
Gasoline is better for your health than vitamin C.
This method of bribery also works on supreme court judges.
Every time my dad has something to say about me I say that.
Who was responsible for raising me again? YOU WERE, you judgemental turd.
they post updates of things they are making (music, games, and comics mostly); and they share photos that they've taken, and links and comments to news that they find interesting. Compared to Lemmy, it's more personal, because when you respond you are talking directly to a person that you are likely to talk to again.
You can do all that same stuff on Lemmy/reddit, except the comments are actually organized and readable. Trying to read a continuous comment thread on Twitter is such a pain.
I bet half of them are Facebook's Threads.
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I don't get why people like the microblig format. It's so terrible for anything more than snarky quips.
I'd still rather support American jobs and the American economy. I'm willing to pay for that and the quality is usually worth it IMO. If I can give my money to company that hasn't outsourced jobs, I will.
I'm actually in Canada but there's only two sunglasses manufacturers here and they're both over priced high fashion stuff.