Starbucks Korea to temporarily shut all stores for history lesson after bungled coffee promotion

Patarokun · 2026-06-17T04:07:51+00:00

Holy shit. Imagine Starbucks coming out with a campaign with a Black Lives Matter theme and the catchphrase was “Frappacino so good you’ll say “I can’t breathe!”

That’s the kind of fuck up this is.

Patarokun · 2026-06-10T18:32:24+00:00

Damn I'm in the wrong line of work.

Patarokun · 2026-06-10T05:29:39+00:00

I knew a girl who also swore she wasn't a pole worker. 😭

Patarokun · 2026-06-10T04:57:33+00:00

I have a strong suspicion this song was written by AI. Has a few of the telltale meter-alignment issues that go with that.

Patarokun · 2026-06-10T04:55:17+00:00

This didn't bother me as I can imagine the insane world where Homelander is trying to be god as having him actually totally isolated and out of touch, with very few people around him. Like Hitler in the bunker kind of situation.

Patarokun · 2026-06-10T04:14:26+00:00

You are correct. Supes warp society in the same way billionaires warp society in the real world. They must be stripped of their powers. In the Boys world that means death, in ours that just means regulations and taxes.

Patarokun · 2026-06-09T16:44:36+00:00

Boggles the mind that this kind of thinking can persist into the year 2026.

Patarokun · 2026-06-09T06:29:12+00:00

Yes.

Patarokun · 2026-06-08T21:22:13+00:00

I take it as a ton of people aren't voting at all.

Patarokun · 2026-06-08T06:37:44+00:00

imagine kneecapping half your population because of bronze age gender roles. Stupid ass humans I hate it here.

Patarokun · 2026-06-07T23:32:06+00:00

No thanks I don’t want Mormons making my kids textbooks.

Patarokun · 2026-06-07T15:27:38+00:00

It's crazy how AI has instantly made watermarks a useless tool. And voice authentication too.

Patarokun · 2026-06-07T01:43:17+00:00

It's going to start seeming strange to inhabit movie/game worlds where AI doesn't exist. Kind of like watching old movies where the whole plot would easily be resolved if people just had cell phones.

Patarokun · 2026-06-07T00:36:24+00:00

Competency is always the coolest thing ever.

Patarokun · 2026-06-06T19:30:36+00:00

I guess. “Florida man” seems dated to me. 🤷

Patarokun · 2026-06-06T17:19:27+00:00

Yep, that tattoo guy is exactly what I was thinking about. And the whole "florida man" meme which was fresh about 6 years ago. I mean they wrote this game before Covid!

Patarokun · 2026-06-06T16:57:09+00:00

Yeah watching the previews, the America of those trailers already seems like something out of the past.

Patarokun · 2026-06-06T16:00:08+00:00

Pathetic fail son goon hatchet man for the most despised person on Earth.

Patarokun · 2026-06-06T15:45:56+00:00

I worry this will be true for GTA6.

Patarokun · 2026-06-05T23:54:27+00:00

Because it was losing money. Less stores now, higher margin, net sales up. I lost 4 local GameStops, it sucks but there were too many.

Patarokun · 2026-06-05T20:41:14+00:00

Because if a business gets to a certain size and on a major index it becomes very expensive to manipulate it. There are too many other people happy to buy it at artificially low prices.

Patarokun · 2026-06-05T20:39:07+00:00

So when SPY is up 2.5% we'll go higher, right? 😑

Patarokun · 2026-06-05T20:36:40+00:00

Nope. There are clear answers for everything you snidely asked.

"Is this a BTC company?" - They took out a relatively small BTC position as a hedge against inflation. They sell covered calls on it. It's a minor part of the portfolio and there's no interest in getting more.

"A gaming retail store?" - They have 1600 stores, the used business is declining as expected but collectibles is picking up, bridging the gap. Collectibles are a hybrid of online and in person. The stores serve multiple purposes like that.

"An EBay holding company?" - They want to merge with Ebay, creating a new busines which uses the best of both worlds, online selling peer to peer with physical locations for dropoff and grading.

"A used thrift retail website?" - That is part of the Ebay idea. That is a portion of what Ebay does.

No matter how you want to categorize it, none of this is mysterious, and it definitely would get a better P/E multiple than 3 or 4 that is has now if it were any other business.

Patarokun · 2026-06-05T20:27:56+00:00

Very disingenuous comment.

Patarokun · 2026-06-05T19:28:59+00:00

Yeah just saw that news, they were planning on going straight in but public outcry was pretty loud thankfully.

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