[-] crashfrog@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

"Competitors choosing" is usually considered to be price fixing

No? It isn’t?

Where do you think prices come from?

Amazon et al aren't the only US companies guilty of this or other anti-competitive behaviors

How is this anti-competitive?

[-] crashfrog@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago

“Essentially” is the load-bearing weasel word here that allows this story to blame Amazon for their competitors choosing to offer the same goods at higher prices.

[-] crashfrog@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 weeks ago

You’re listing all of the reasons it’s not a monopoly - you can go almost anywhere else and buy the same good.

Therefore, I think Amazon has a literal monopoly in the tech industry right now, you're literally forced to buy from them

You literally weren’t and literally aren’t, so they’re literally not.

They have so aggressively and dominantly taken over the supply chain market that no other tech company can currently compete with them in any aspect at all.

If nobody was in competition with them, they’d be raising their prices.

[-] crashfrog@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

The idea that we have to tolerate intolerance is an incorrect resolution of the paradox.

But I’m saying we shouldn't tolerate intolerance. You’re the one saying we have to.

[-] crashfrog@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago

I’m not saying we need to respect it, but the mail shouldn’t censor materials based on viewpoint.

Not censoring isn’t “respect”, it’s the minimum a free people should expect from their government.

[-] crashfrog@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Wegovy might be covered if you’re just fat. You might also find a doctor willing to prescribe it on the basis of pre-diabetes, although it’ll be a long argument with your insurer.

But if you respond well to the drug it’s worth it. Trust me

[-] crashfrog@sopuli.xyz 20 points 3 weeks ago

It’s good actually that the mail doesn’t censor based on viewpoint

[-] crashfrog@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 weeks ago

Yup, and it seems like more and more that it wasn't explosives, but regular pagers tampered with to explode using parts they already contain as to not arouse suspicion.

Totally false.

[-] crashfrog@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 weeks ago

Equally embarrassing? Doubtful.

Why does it have to be equally embarrassing? It just has to be embarrassing enough that they’d take steps to conceal it. Which they did. It doesn’t have to be the most embarrassing situation, just one of the ones that would spur them to act.

One is a market which can be blamed on illegal activity even after being shut down and 'little' people arrested.

But they did shut it down and they did arrest people and they even seized and incinerated every animal at the market without taking samples or even identifying and logging the species.

On the other hand they didn’t shut down WIV, or really do anything to it at all.

but the lab's proximity to the outbreak is incredibly suspect.

It’s 8km away, across a river.

[-] crashfrog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

Hamas doesn’t use pagers, they use tunnels

[-] crashfrog@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 weeks ago

You needed to invite a lot more people and at least a few people who didn’t like wrestling.

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