It was very odd at my company. We were a Google Workspace company. Gmail, Meet, Drive, etc with our own servers for messaging, gitlab and some other things.
Sure being Google based isn't great either, but generally people were fine with it. Then the C suite said we were moving to Microsoft. Lots and lots of complaining, asking for justification, but no reason was given (not even cost). Today people are still cursing teams 18months later. We're not in control of our own data (things get deleted every time somebody leaves, and permissions are generally a mess).
Yes it may have an effect on prices, but there are second order effects. One example is that it would also have an effect on a huge number of people's ability to pay those prices. A customer base that can afford goods will likely increase sales. Increasing sales can increase revenue.
Markets are complex dynamic systems and often the key to getting a healthy economy is removing choke points where money doesn't flow. Not paying people enough kills demand. An economy with low demand is dying.
That just happens to be when comets are typically most visible.
To give a little more context. The tail is created by the solar wind, and is strongest when the comet is closest to the sun. Being near the sun makes it appear close to the sun in the sky (obviously). That puts comets in the daytime sky and impossible to see. It only dawn and dusk when you're still able to see in the right direction and the sky is dim enough that you are able to observe comets.
I find it odd you'd say light pollution is worse since LEDs. I thought the design of lights was generally far more directional with LED design and avoided shining light upwards. Now you can fly over large areas with street lighting and only see dimmer reflected light from roads and not the streetlights themselves.
Thankfully they're low enough orbit that their orbit would decay pretty quickly. It'd be a superb show as the sky lit up with millions of pieces of burning debris. Not sure what it would do for the atmosphere though. It would be a fair amount of metals being vaporised.
It wasn't that big at the time. I mean it was a hit for him, but one of many. It's remembered for the drum fill, and that really started because of the Cadbury's gorilla advert.
That one isn't a "yank obsession". Fathers are important, as are mothers, and any child growing up with only one of them is going to have things they miss-out on.
BTW I'm not passing any judgement on single sex couples adopting, or any other shape of loving family. I don't know any data on what the outcomes are like, but I'm sure the most important thing is the love and support the child gets.
Interesting, because I heard recent reports of huge amounts of inventory and large upfront manufacturing costs painting a picture of a company with extremely large amounts of debt to service. Some likening it to the Evergrande property company.
I doubt it's on that scale, but I could easily believe BYD is another hyper accelerated company with shaky fundamentals.
It would be cheaper than the current insurance system.