🔗 The Real Republican Debate Winner Was Clear, in One Sense (Apple News)
Prior to the debate, his name recognition was so low among voters that he offered $20 gift cards to anyone who donated a dollar to his campaign to meet the threshold of 40,000 individual donors needed to earn him a spot in the debate.
Hashtag #Winning !
🔗 Subway sold to Arbys and Dunkin owner Roark Capital (Apple News)
Roark Capital, which has $37 billion under management, specializes in franchised businesses and owns multiple restaurant chains. Its brands include Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin', Jimmy John’s and Sonic.
Why is this allowed? Isn’t this the exact consolidation of power in a market that the FCC is meant to be watching?
If you were in need of a new source for good quotes … well, I just stumbled over 🔗 this.
Weasel Insurance
If your laptop is ruined by rain pouring in from a hole in the roof, you can get reimbursed. But if it’s ruined by floodwaters, your renters policy won’t cover it.
( 🔗Apple News)
🔗 Simon Cowell sells London home for £30m below asking price.
He was asking 45 million - he took 15 million. Now that’s a discount!
🔗 Someone Paid Almost $2 Million for the Rusted Shell of a 1954 Ferrari
Puts that $2.5 million electric sports car that Marques was testing the other day into perspective.
They used to be ‘deplorables’ Is ‘listless vessel’ a promotion?
🔗 Ron DeSantis calls Trump supporters ‘listless vessels’ in Republican broadside.
🔗 In photos: Tropical Storm Hilary unleashes flooding and mudslides California - The Washington Post
I guess WaPo had a photographer on hand in Coachella Valley. Hardly anything about LA.
That riverbed is normally dry.
🔗 AI bots are better than humans at solving CAPTCHA puzzles
… well, they could hardly be worse - if I am any measure.