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uhh does it though? your example directly disproves that because freedom to lie implies freedom to dissent and vice versa. the fact that people can go spread misinformation and that most sane people disagree, but others are still free to go talk about it proves that nobody has "control of the truth" and that's on balance a good thing.

it never had that meaning. it's a concerted effort by democrat politicians and media: they say "price gouging" because that's something most people agree is wrong when it's actually normal economic behavior in response to both parties' really stupid economic policies. they're doing this because they want more control of pricing and that's how they're going to lie their way into it and spread disinformation about what's happening.

edit: updating with proof, Texas state definition is "selling or leasing fuel, food, medicine, or another necessity at an exorbitant or excess price, or demanding an exorbitant or excessive price in connection with the sale or lease of fuel, food, medicine or another necessity."

no they're not. price gouging is extreme price hikes or exorbitant pricing not your groceries being 15% more expensive. it's literally a word with a meaning and people are 1. intentionally misusing it to push an agenda of increased state intervention in pricing or 2. accidentally misusing it because they can't be bothered to understand what their words mean. "price gouging" is a false narrative politicians are using to shirk responsibility for insanely irresponsible fiscal and monetary policy, because now they want to "solve" it by grabbing even more government power because what could possibly go wrong with that.

edit: for proof here's how Texas defines it per https://www.galvestoncountytx.gov/our-county/district-attorn...:

"selling or leasing fuel, food, medicine, or another necessity at an exorbitant or excess price, or demanding an exorbitant or excessive price in connection with the sale or lease of fuel, food, medicine or another necessity."

idk where i live we have a few krogers and nothing else. i think these differ by geographic footprint. we have plenty of competition:

* HEB

* walmart

* brooks brothers

* fiesta

* 99 ranch market/other asian stores

* lots of good carnicerias

* costco

there's an aldi but i've been a few times and it's a awful experience and i don't think most people go there but there's still plenty of options. there's probably something specific about where you are that's pushed towards that situation if there are no options.

kraft, nestle and general mills make name brands. most of the stores i just listed offer store brands that are basically the same thing for cheaper. you don't have to buy from the megacompanis.

mostly agree on the whole foods argument, though.

absolutely how "price gouging" has gone from meaning "charging $100 for a case of water during a hurricane" to "adding a 15% markup to some groceries".

i think this is a culture mismatch between America and other places. we have no hate speech laws and have historically really disliked the idea of something like that in part because we trust our government a lot less than other countries. like, even liberals here will trust the government way less than right wingers in other countries. so we are pretty settled with our "clear and present danger" standard.

also wouldn't you acknowledge the government continues to regularly lie to the public? e.g. "masks don't work" at the beginning of coronavirus to keep people from buying them.

let me put this another way: it looks like you're in sweden where people trust the government a lot more. but would you be okay with joe biden or donald trump having significant control over "the truth"?

honestly english class is mostly a waste of time. idk about everyone i know who is very good with the language picked it up from extensive reading starting at an early age, not from cramming in book reports. i completely agree with focusing more on those things just i think the general reading level of American kids going into high school is way too low. there is literally 0 reason why someone entering 6th grade shouldn't be able to read literally any english language text and comprehend it.

and yeah history in public schools sucks. 100 years ago it was taught with a bit more of the "great man" emphasis, now it's a lot about social forces, the experience of the average person at the time. social forces are an important part of history but i have looked at old curricula vs new ones and they are so much more interesting. regardless, history should be taught by lecture paired with reading other info from the time (primary sources, more detailed descriptions of things mentioned etc) not by the godforsaken mess of a subject it is now.

facts we had teachers teaching the same stuff 100 years ago without this BS degree requirement and a much simpler certificate program. and it's not like we're getting better outcomes per dollar so clearly it's not helping that much. nobody needs a bachelors to teach freaking high school english.

i'm too young to be having kids rn anyway but i thought about it a little and this is one of the big things that makes me hesitate. i don't think i could handle raising a kid who ended up special needs and required lifelong care. seems like having a kid who ended up an alcoholic/junkie/mentally retarded/deeply at odds with my values would really remove most of the positives, so it would be a serious gamble.

of course, i also have it easier since men can just remarry at 50 and still have kids. i have time. but it really makes me wonder if i ever want children. my parents think it's a great thing and i shouldn't be quite so worried but they have quite the case of survivorship bias, all their kids turned out well and so it is easy from their perspective on the other side.

the annoying part is all the girls i meet either know they want kids or know they don't. nobody my age should be quite that certain yet in either direction. makes dating a bitch beyond casual relationships ngl.

there was some pretty serious protesting against honorlock at my school cause it's invasive shady shit nobody should have to use. no actual demonstrations though since a lot was zoom at the time (and also bc signing a petition worked fine).

exactly lol. i had a friend point this out when we were at a Walgreens or CVS or somewhere a while back except the pink one was a gillette (expensive name brand) and the man's was a BIC (a cheap brand). or sometimes the pink one has more blades or whatever.

regardless, there's literally nothing that would prevent a woman from buying the "man" version. i would buy the pink one if it was cheaper without thinking twice.

no idea about the deoderant side though, obviously men/women want different smells on that. i wonder if it might have to do with women wanting more "exotic"/complex smells where men care less, or wanting a broader variety.

here's the other interesting question it presents: are women (for some reason) less price elastic on some things? something like deoderant is a widely available commodity product so companies magically finding some way to make women only pay more (but not men) would be surprising.

i would have serious concerns about hosting in europe due to hate speech laws that are muddy and ripe for abuse. the site doesn't have a hate speech policy i can find, is anyone here informed on exactly what the ramifications of such laws might be?

no, parlement (the parent) is trying to be a "uncancellable cloud host": https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/16/parler-parlement-web-hosti...

ye is buying parler specifically not the whole thing, parler currently runs on parlement but he could presumably move to anything else. the "consulting" part is pretty normal for a transition like this.

what makes you think this is a mentally ill decision? i haven't seen the numbers but this is a lot cheaper than twitter, he could leverage it pretty decently and there's plenty of magabux out there to be made.

nope, google play just started carrying it again.

i'd be curious how a deuterated cocktail would taste. a few people have consumed heavy water and it tastes sweet, i wonder if this carries over to ethanol. naturally no sugar added!

so you're talking about at-will employment and it's generally the rule in America. however there are some states that have a good faith rule where you can't terminate a employee for malice. here's a map of which states are which: https://www.paycor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Employment...

i believe WSJ employs in NY state so this doesn't apply.

"if you exclude the 2 largest markets things look very different!"

right now europe is basically rest of world for EV. in US and china EVs are starting market penetration at the top down, tesla is a status symbol. europe is relatively poorer so it is no surprise they are on VW/skoda/whatever else.

for ux or data? i've always found bloom has more of the long tail obscure data than anything else.

yep it's social media for the street. where everyone keeps in touch on anything finance-related. hella network effects.

(also they do have a ton of data and it's better than almost anyone else)

is there a trial so i can compare against an actual bloomberg? might be nice since it doesn't come with the retarded machine lock-in/b-unit BS. also what's the policy on scraping/retaining data for internal use? is there a python API? and where do you source data? quote delay policy?

p.s. for professionalism you might wanna crop the chrome bar and grammarly icon out of the sc on the front page.

edit: just saw the demo policy, thanks man! is there any way i can go look at a company's debt offerings, converts etc?

mostly borrowing. and the financing was set up months ago. that's also why the banks who financed it are getting screwed: they wrote high yield debt at a SOFR + Xpts spread that is way smaller than the HY market is currently demanding so uhh good luck selling that at par lmao

(p.s. before anybody goes off about elon screwing them or whatever this is not the only case, same thing is happening with citrix rn)

it's not "solely" based on that. icahn's rationale merger arbing the stock was he valued it in the 30s anyway so not a bad buy. but... yeah word of whether a deal that pays a substantial premium will go through or not can move the stock, duh. this is true of most other pending mergers elon's just more volatile so there's a lot more risk than in a typical go private.

i do not doubt the SEC is looking at him hella hard rn, he's probably not stupid enough to try to trade like that.

something like an AR lower is probably aluminum though bolt/BCG/barrel are still steel.

we don't have a "gun crisis".

that's true but if you listen to the two samples it's very clear the voice is not a typical man. but agreed it would help to do a blind test and see if people could pick them out.

sure, not disputing that, i was using it as a synonym for "typical" or "common". that's a pretty common use of the word btw, google says it means "conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected"

i also wasn't talking about gay people in general, only gay people who use the stereotypical voice which is a pretty small fraction of them. i think you're reading too much into nitpicking that word instead of the other three paragraphs.

i mean if you listen to some of them that's the voice: woman's tone and inflection but pitched down closer to a man due to the effects of heavy androgen exposure. how's that "yikes"? the point is the modulated woman still sounded like a woman because there's more than pitch that sets mens/womens voices apart.

not sure what you mean? my only point is if there's an unconscious bias concern it's pretty hard to accurately address in situations where people don't just play music.

i mean "average man". the modulated example sounded a lot like the stereotypical "gay voice", how is that observation worrisome? since that voice is intentionally not like a regular man i don't see how it's problematic.