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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

That's way off topic, though.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (19 children)

Collectively agreeing to raising prices is anti-competitive collusion and illegal.

Collectively raising prices is anti-competitive coordination and legal.

Pandemic and supply shocks is a perfect excuse to do the latter.

Good luck to whoever is trying to solve this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unix people today : "NICE NICE"

Unix people today from 20:28:10 to 20:28:20 GMT : "NICE NICE NICE NICE"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

That's spoiling at that point

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shit. I just bought one few months ago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Do you think an average person in 13th century had a better quality of life than an average person living in the 21st century?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Most statements I don't have qualms with, but from my understanding, "liberals embrace ID politics" seems way off. I could see an argument that there's some kind of split across people who'd identify as or match a typical understanding of a liberal, along the ID politics line, given that it's so divisive. Id say liberal as a concept existed way before ID politics, do when that became prominent, a lot of people got split along that line. I.e. Far right probably split 90:10, Conservatives probably split 75:25, Liberals probably split closer to 50:50, while social left split 25:75, far left split 10:90 and libertarians split 1:99.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Hey, at least your average, retarded, left take seems to be (at least from my limited experience here) somewhat more palatable than your average, retarded, right take.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Data I've seen suggests otherwise. Care to engage with me so that we can figure out where the discrepancy lies?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

First one looks like a motorized hang glider, dropping something to the ground at the end. Probably smuggling something. Drugs is my guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, but expecting corporations to do it on their own is silly. They operate in a competitive environment so game theory should tell us what's going to usually happen. The laws and regulations exist, and a lot more are needed, but it's also not as simple because costs of enforcement also range from inexpensive to infeasible. In the end, it's people making self-interested decisions, whether on behalf of themselves or on behalf of corporations. I don't know of any easy solutions - my feeling is that those don't exist - so the best bet is to steer society towards better and more effective politics. More distributed and less concentrated power structures, checks and balances, enforcement, novel, effective, and efficient systems through science based analysis, as well as lots of trials and errors and fast iterative improvements based on rapid feedback loops. In short, the world nowadays moves faster than the current government systems and it's a losing battle until governing adaptability can increase in speed.

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