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Narwhals, Narwhals swimming in the ocean.
Causing a commotion.
'Cos they are so awesome!
With thanks to Weebl's Stuff
Why, yes, my pop culture references are right up to date, thanks for noticing.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
- Robert Frost
They're not blocking you sueing them, they're blocking you sueing the directors on behalf of the company. So you, as a shareholder, can't then raise a lawsuit saying, for instance, that a director has done something that harms the company, and thus the shareholders.
From the rest of the article I very much got the 'crazy people send crazy message' message, but I can see how that might depend on the reader.
You say the letter is meaningless, but I think we have to be careful. Sesame Street teaches kindness, inclusivity and caring, and I think the republicans would be only too happy for an excuse to tear it down.
I've read the NYT article, and I can't see anywhere where the author 'sincerely considers the idea that Rachel Griffin-Accurso, the popular children's entertainer known as Ms. Rachel, might be financially compensated by Hamas.' Instead they report that 'the advocacy group StopAntisemitism' 'sent a letter urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate whether Accurso is receiving funding to further Hamas’s agenda.'
The article as a whole seems pretty positive towards Miss Rachel, and uses her comments to point out how bad things are in Gaza, and insinuates that StopAntisemitism are the problematic ones.
If roll thrusters fired because the star tracker drifted and if the heater was still off, then an explosion would destroy Voyager 1.
That is some high stakes remote maintenance. I don't want to imaging the stress for everybody involved. The relief when they finally got a signal two days later confirming the craft was still in obe piece and the heater was on must have been immense. I get stressed enough waiting minutes for a remote server to come back up.
DSN Canberra upgrade will cause loss of comms until Feb 2026
Oh great, another stressful wait!
Add on the climb of bitcoin and thats pretty much it.
Split the difference, it's octal.
On the assumption that the rate doesn't change over that period, yes, the price will halve in just over 11 years.
You can validate that by 0.94^11=0.5062982072, where 0.94 is the ratio of the price that's left after one year. Raising that to the power of eleven gives 0.506, or just over half, as the ratio of the price remaining after eleven years.
You can get the exact time needed by dividing the log of the ratio you're looking for by the log of the ratio per year, so: ln(0.5)/ln(0.96)=11.2023055836, so the cost will halve in 11.2 years.
It would be worth finding out why the other seamstress is quoting $25 for each seat. Are they trying to underbid you (or other seamstresses), is that rate sufficient for them, or do they just have no idea what their labour is worth?
If they'd normally bid higher but underbid to get the work in preference to you, you need to talk. You'll either need to work together or in some way set a reasonable rate between you. If they are underbidding to beat others, the market may be saturated, but from your post it sounds like there should be enough work for all.
If the rate is sufficient for them they either have lower living costs somehow, but yours sound low anyway, or they are producing pieces more efficiently than you are, so their effective rate is higher. If that's the case, you might want to talk to them to find out how, although they may not be willing to say.
If they just don't know what their labour is worth and the boss has pushed them to quote that much, you probably need to talk to them about that.
In summary: talk to them. They might not want to talk, which is their perogative, but you both might get more insight into the issue, and maybe find a way to boost your income in the process.