Imagining Nozomi as a rubber chicken. @height8 @matigo
Can you believe people are complaining about the amount of ice Starbucks puts in their iced coffees? Really, folks, don't you have better things to do with your time?
If you don't like Starbucks for whatever reason, vote with your wallet.
sips a venti iced coffee with no sweetener and heavy cream from Starbucks
@JeremyCherfas I'm pretty sure your Patreon goals are far more modest than NPRs. :P
// @matigo
@height8 I just hope it's warmer in a few weeks when I'm back in Québécois. :P
// @matigo
@matigo NPR built a new building in 2013 [washingtonpost.com] which cost them $201 million to build. Guessing there's a lot of overhead in that number. :P
Having already washed the children's bedding this weekend, I woke up to find a cat had barfed in my bed. So I'm now washing mine. Excellent. :P
@matigo If you prefer to read: here's the relevant quotation from NPR's Wikipedia page [en.wikipedia.org]:
When questioned on the subject of how corporate underwriting revenues and foundation grants were holding up during the recession, in a speech broadcast on C-SPAN before the National Press Club on March 2, 2009, then President and CEO Vivian Schiller stated: "underwriting is down, it's down for everybody; this is the area that is most down for us, in sponsorship, underwriting, advertising, call it whatever you want; just like it is for all of media."
@matigo NPR is under no delusion what they're doing is advertising either: http://media.phoneboy.com/misc/VivianSchillerNPR.mp3