Not_mikey

It could just be for reducing churn and keeping the status quo. It's a prisoners dilemma, if geico spends a million on advertising then they might gain some customers from say progressive. Progressive would then also also have to advertise to attract customers back so they will spend a million on advertising too, now both are spending a million to keep the status quo. If you take a step back and look at the big picture it's basically everyday people paying higher premiums that go to the advertising company, celebrity etc.

The car insurance market is pretty static, there's no opportunity to expand the market outside general population growth since everyone already has a car and has car insurance, so expansion is difficult especially since there arent many differentiating factors, so companies tend to advertise to just keep there current market share. Charity on the other hand has plenty of room for expansion, it can be as much as the disposable income of the country, if you watch an aspca ad and donate your likely to keep donating to the other causes you support, assuming you have the disposable income.

My company just did the same thing. Just layed off 15% of staff because of some bad quarters but is now looking into mergers and acquisitions because they think/know the senile microphone abuser will let tech consolidation run wild.

zippo lighters

I've never had any luck with zippos, whenever I tried to use it it wouldn't work and I had to refill it. I hear you have to use them often but I'm not a smoker or arsonist so will only use a lighter maybe once a month. Any tips or recommendations for lighters that you don't have to use often but will last longer than a cheap disposable one?

Yes, because Israel definitely doesn't have nukes. That would be in violation of international non-proliferation agreements, and they have the utmost respect for international law.

They are in ancient history though. They're in the Bible that these people treasure so much, the philistines are mentioned a lot as people who live in the southern Levant who aren't Jewish. After the roman emperor hadrian expelled the jews from Judah he renamed the province Palestine, more to spite the jews then to honor the philistines, which is the name of the region and the people who live in it who are not jews to this day.

Yeah they absorbed a hegemonic imperial Arab culture in the second millennium but that doesn't mean they don't exist. That's like saying Canadians don't exist because them and the u.s. we're created by the same empire and have a very similar culture and language.

Your numbers don't show that it's vote by mail. Kamala lost ~ 13% compared to Biden nationwide and in your example vote by mail state Oregon she lost ~14%

California isn't in yet but doing some rough math she looks like she'll get ~9 million total compared to Biden who got over 11 million, so around an 18% drop in another very heavy vote by mail state.

I guess it's nice to see national review sticking to there never trump line. seems like there the only conservatives left who haven't hopped on the maga bandwagon

What an uncreative and semi-racist insult. These people abuse and oppress women and gays, marry children, run an authoritarian theocracy and you choose to make fun of them for living in a sandy environment?

Biden was running on massive infrastructure investment, student loan forgiveness, ending the war in Afghanistan, child tax credit and a $2000 cheque in the mail . Harris may have had those in her platform as well but she wasn't mentioning it or Bidens wins on these at all, her campaign was "I'm not trump" and we learned from Hillary that's not enough.

Biden campaign was "build back better" a motto for change much like another democrat who actually won. Harris' campaign was "were not going back" which implies no change and relies on you thinking the trump years were horrible enough to justify the current status quo, and apparently the only thing Americans remember about the trump years was the economy was "better" and wanted to go back.

It's the thin blue line flag , you'll see it all over the US by right wingers who think police are the only thing keeping us from murdering each other.

Starting to think this might be the beginning of the incumbent disadvantage as both parties continue to put up unpopular candidates that fail to address the systemic economic issues plaguing the country.

and Sudafed

Isn't Sudafed supposed to be short for pseudoephedrine , the stuff that actually works but they have to keep behind the counter?