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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Are you carrying your groceries to the coffee shop? Also, walking places in US suburbs is a miserable experience, especially in the Southwest where it gets hot. Everything is spread out with large parking lots, sidewalks are a maybe, the ro
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
They are talking about US suburbs. For example, the house I grew up in is over a mile to the nearest grocery and you have to cross two large intersections on the way.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Because the oligarchs who own the media and the politicians don’t care about the petty lives of regular people.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
I fail to see how. Having ad-subsidized access to Facebook and YouTube has not reduced poverty, hunger or made housing and healthcare more affordable for them. The overwhelming majority have not used it to up-skill or improve their income p
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
We need to (once again) define “free” pricing models as predatory and broadly outlaw them. They distort the idea of a free and fair marketplace by poisoning consumer expectations of what things should cost.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
FYI, you can append &udm=14 to Google searches to remove AI results and a bunch of the other clutter they've added.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Sure. If Smedley Butler has been less disillusioned by his work history and successfully carried forward the business plot it’s pretty easy to imagine.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Can you explain why this situation is any different than regular meat? I.e. Fish immune systems don’t stop parasites from being present in the meat, flash freezing is what kills the parasites.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
The only way Silicon Valley will become pro-family is if they are dragged kicking and screaming by the organized force of their workers. I'm not particularly optimistic.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
> Is something else gained by the generated storybook? The opportunity for low-effort, low-talent grifters to make a buck on Amazon?
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
This would be less of an issue if there was robust competition in payment processing. Time to break up Visa and Mastercard.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
You obviously know which ones I mean.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
I think it's less the ignored regulations (I'm also happy with the CEQA reforms), and more that they engaged in predatory pricing schemes to stifle competition. This has resulted in a duopoly that engages in politicking to lock in
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
I wonder how the people at NPR feel about all those donations they took from the Koch Foundation over the years...
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
I’m not arguing they’re keeping it vacant, that’s someone else in the thread. I reject the notion that the units are not making money, and the notion that they are competing on price. We know corporate landlords engage in cartel behavior us
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
If a small number of landlords continue to control the supply (which I understand to also be part of the premise) then they can charge whatever rate allows them to profit. Housing is pretty inelastic and is a first order priority for most p
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
The total housing supply remains static - the number of owners goes down and the tenants increase, so the S/D curve for housing stays the same. Then the wealthy consolidate the supply into smaller, more powerful groups who drive up ren
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Monopoly is a misnomer, because it implies a single seller. In reality any market with a small number of incumbents will exhibit anti-competitive behavior, which is what people usually mean when they talk about monopolies and antitrust law.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Antitrust law covers a broad range of anti-competitive corporate behavior. Don't be pedantic.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Ok fair enough, I didn't read closely. Rojava and the Zapatistas both prove my point rather than refute it. The former is entirely dependent on US hegemony to keep them somewhat independent, otherwise they'd be absorbed by Turkey
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
> I don't understand why ICE would need access to Medicaid data. It’s a class war. Once they’ve run out of immigrants to harass and deport, they’ll be going after the poor.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
You keep skating by the fact that anarchist societies don’t exist and can’t exist, so it’s hard to take the rest of your diatribe seriously.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Then why don't the uberwealthy focus on that instead of stealing from the public?
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Fine, make them OTC. If the only reason we are allowing this is to help people quit cigarettes, then there should be a bit of friction so they aren't being used to addict teenagers.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
I never said it was a perfect system or that we are morally pure, but it is the best one we have come up with so far. It has improved the human condition greatly, albeit in fits and starts. Western liberal states broadly have greater civil
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Yeah, I think most alcohol advertising is aimed at trying to addict people as young as possible. You are the one who proposed that this product is to be used as a medical device, so why wouldn't we treat it like one?
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Put it behind the pharmacy counter and require a prescription then. This is just a way to hook teenagers on tobacco.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
No, it was colonial monarchies that legalized those practices in the first place. You know, Kings, ordained by God. Thats not to say liberals abolished it immediately - Thomas Jefferson holds a lot of blame there, but liberal governments ar
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
$1-1.50 at the grocery in SoCal, ripeness may vary. If you go to the farmers market in the summer you can get much better cultivars around 3 for $5. Hass are ok, but Fuerte, Bacon and Reed are easily available and mich tastier.
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by arrosenberg 1y ago
Ah yeah, I recall the many famous times that fundamentalist Christians pushed for the abolition of the regimes of slavery, anti-miscegenation, Jim Crow and segregation. What's that? It was the liberal Federal government who did those t

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