This comment is like telling Superman not to lift with his back.

The highest priced iPhone, all max specs, is $1600.

If you get a new one every year, and trade in the previous year’s, you’ll probably get around $600 trade in value. So we’re talking $1000/year for the highest priced phone.

On a monthly basis, we’re talking $83/month. That’s like a rounding error on rent, utilities, and food, much less transportation and health care.

And, more realistically, people are buying $800 phones once every 2 years, maybe seeing something like a $600 net expense spread over 24 months, for $25/month.

Phones are like the one thing that are cheaper in 2025 than in 1985.

Daycare workers can cost about $30/hour, if you include taxes, insurance, benefits like paid time off, etc.

A typical daycare needs about 50 hours per week of coverage, and something like 8am to 6pm is about right.

Each worker can reasonably be expected to look after 4 kids.

So with perfect staffing (no overtime pay, enrollment at a perfect whole number multiple of 4), labor costs alone would be something like $375 per kid per week. Throw in rent, insurance, food, operational costs, administrative costs including certification and licensing, furniture/equipment, utilities, etc., and it’s not unreasonable for that cost to balloon to $750/week, or $39k per year.

Sounds like an authentic experience of using one of those old landlines.

I do.

I know some who work in defense/military/foreign policy who had assumed that there would still be guardrails in place to prevent the nomination and appointment of totally unqualified conspiracy theorists to the highest positions in the defense and intelligence world, the haphazard effects of DOGE cuts on the military and intelligence and veteran agencies, or the vindictive pettiness of some of the senior military firings (or even the termination of security details for officials from the first Trump admin).

I know some who work in healthcare who are terrified about the cuts to healthcare and science research, and a lot of the informational/data infrastructure that they depend on: tracking diseases, etc.

I know some who work in finance and banking who thought that the tariff talk was just a negotiating plot rather than a true belief, and sees real danger that Trump permanently ends the post-war global economic systems that elevated American prosperity.

I even know some in oil and gas who are now convinced that even though Trump says he cares about their industry, he’s not even competent enough to protect them from the harm he’s causing everyone.

And sadly, the worst examples are the immigrants I know who didn’t actually believe us when we told them that Trump 2.0 was going to be a disaster for immigrant human rights and livelihoods, even permanent residents and legitimate visa holders with high incomes and educational backgrounds. Now they’re sharing stories of good law abiding people they know getting rounded up and questioned, and just otherwise fearing for their safety.

And this isn’t exactly the same as people only caring when things affect them. It’s slightly different. It’s people only realizing that he’s full of shit when they come to mess around with areas of their own expertise and experience.

So yeah, I know a bunch. I try to tell them they’ve been duped and that we can move forward by lobbying the Republicans they voted for, but the underlying unspoken theme does often carry a bit of an “I fucking told you so” foundation.

Heaven Hill makes a lot of good stuff. Too many brands, though.

I’ve never heard that Heaven Hill isn’t union friendly. I always see their brands on the union-supported lists.

Note that Brown Forman also owns the following bourbon/American whiskey brands:

• Woodford Reserve
• Old Forester
• Coopers Craft

They also own the following European distillers:

• Slane (Irish Whiskey)
• Benriach (Scotch)
• Glendronach (Scotch)
• Glenglassaugh (Scotch)

Jack Daniels is obviously their highest volume brand, but some of these other brands are pretty big, too.

That shit isn’t even bourbon.

It is. It meets all the legal requirements to be called bourbon (at least 51% corn in the mashbill, distilled in the United States, distilled at lower than 160 proof, aged in charred new oak barrels, barreled at lower than 125 proof, bottled at between 80 proof and 150 proof, no added coloring or flavors).

They just choose not to label themselves with that name.

Y’all are focusing too much on the single brand here. Yes, Brown Forman owns Jack Daniels, and yes, JD is not very good (and far worse than other American whiskeys in the same price range, whether we’re talking the black label or their fancier offerings).

But Brown Forman also owns Woodford Reserve and Old Forester, which have good bourbons in their respective lineups. And, it should be noted, they also own the Scotch Whisky brands Glendronach, Benriach, and Glenglassaugh.

And what non-Canadians might not realize is that the Liquor Control Board of Ontario pretty much has a monopoly on spirits sold in Ontario, whose 15 million people account for about 40% of the Canadian population. If LCBO chooses not to purchase American spirits, that means it will basically be impossible to legally buy American spirits in Ontario, whether in a retail store, a bar, or a restaurant.

And as additional context, the American bourbon industry is facing down a bit of a contraction/recession/downturn in the coming years. Demand is softening up for most whiskeys, especially high end bourbons, compared to where they were a few years ago. Expect to see layoffs, fire sales, and bankruptcies.

You talking about coca cola or the other coke?

Isn’t that just what Lemmy shitposts is?

The blue part is obviously land

What made it fun was knowing in the back of your mind that it was roughly based on real life, and the gratuitous violence against Nazis.