https://investors.yum.com/news-events/financial-releases/news-details/2023/Yum-Brands-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-Results-and-Increases-Dividend/default.aspx

We repurchased 10 million shares totaling $1.2 billion at an average price per share of $119.

They are just greedy. They have the money, but giving the money to the rich is evidently more important.

https://cwa-union.org/stock-buybacks-hurt-workers

What holds youtube from blocking all videos to addblock users just as other sites do?

It's a constant game of cat and mouse, an arms race till the end of time. You can't block videos from ad-block users if you can't tell which users are using adblock and which are not.

I don’t understand why self hosted videos aren’t more popular

It's quite complicated technologically, and requires quite a lot of storage space. Viewers only go where the creators go, and the creators have no reason to go to someplace that is more of a pain in the ass to host videos.

Shit like that is also a far, far better use of airspace/resources

Well gee, that sure does give Isreal the right to do ethnic cleansing. It's self defense after all so everything is permissible. /s

That, and generally republicans proudly support the electoral college, a system that intentionally weighs votes unequally, and destroys any chance of 3rd party candidates. So it is double ironic.

No, just the government. If no new spending bill passes it will be pretty not great.

The two party system is the natural result of FPTP voting. We desperately need to switch to STAR or approval.

That's exactly the first thing that crossed my mind. Whenever I get a depressive episode, the last thing I want to do is cook. So the least effort, quickest meal is the meal I have. And meals like that are generally processed, terrible foods.

Gotta love a bribery based legislature system.

Where exactly has Israel done this recently?

They've been doing it for decades.

https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/israeli-authorities-and-crimes-apartheid-and-persecution

As for the more recent:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/13/civilians-trapped-in-gaza-cant-escape-israels-siege.html

Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, and religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making a region ethnically homogeneous. Along with direct removal, extermination, deportation or population transfer, it also includes indirect methods aimed at forced migration by coercing the victim group to flee and preventing its return, such as murder, rape, and property destruction.[3][4][5] It constitutes a crime against humanity and may also fall under the Genocide Convention, even as ethnic cleansing has no legal definition under international criminal law

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing

Attacking someone across your border because they’re killing people near yours is war.

Civilians are getting killed and forced out of their homes, all based on race. It's an apartheid, and an ethnic cleansing.

Defense does not necessitate apartheid or ethnic cleansing.

Oh for fucks sakes, it isn’t going away, so you can stop fantasizing about something that won’t happen.

Every day we get closer to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact getting triggered, effectively killing the electoral college. Doomerism isn't going to get us anywhere.

If one side is gaming the system, then find a way to work around it.

If the system is gamed then it needs fixed. Which it is and does. Our elections should not be gamed.

Americans will find any excuse not to vote.

That's not really what's happening here. Americans are frustrated that their votes are essentially meaningless if they are not in a swing state, and that the value of your vote is dependent on where you live.

All votes should be equal.

Maybe people could actually pay rent if they were charging reasonable rates and didn't intentionally keep housing scarce. Maybe we could instead stop letting NIMBYs get away with their bullshit.

Landlords do not deserve rent, they shouldn't exist in the first place.