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> that's assuming that your ISP isn't doing some shady analytics

Can you elaborate on this? So ISPs often engage in tactics that thwart VPN usage? Which ISPs? What tactics?

Some possibilities:

(A) there is no singular market. Each city, job, bidding process, and work crew is subject to their own specific market forces and expecting all to behave in an idealized way is silly.

(B) Your assumptions about what happens in a healthy free market are incorrect.

You act as if this is a brave new experiment in deregulation but this is how it already is in many places. Dozens of workers have died from heat stroke in the past few years in Texas while working construction and many cities do not have water break rules (its just those to chose to enact them that are having those laws overturned). It is widely believed that the actual amount of people who die is much higher but due to the insurance reasons you mention those deaths are often categorized as not being related to worker mistreatment. Worth pointing out the people running crews are pretty far removed from their company’s insurance policies so your idea that’s on their mind when deciding whether or not to enforce water breaks seems shaky to me.

Can I ask what legal jurisdiction you are referring to?

If you think having slurs filtered is “politically hostile” you and I have a different idea of what political discourse is.

Are you saying that when “laid off” began being used 30-40 years ago it implied you’d be rehired? Because that’s the claim being made above about the current meaning of the term.

Edit: Wikipedia agrees that this is a generational difference and the term laid off used to imply it was temporary. Today I learned…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layoff

That is not what the terms mean. Firing implies let go for cause and laid off implies it wasn’t for cause. Being laid off doesn’t imply you could be rehired, perhaps you are thinking of the term “furloughed”.

> The controlled gender pay gap is $0.99 cents for every $1 men make

Your link argues women make 99% of what men make if you control for career choice, is that what you are intending to say?

Those punishments are for the poor.

>”failure to compile”

Presumably the balloon failed to compile because it was missing a driver.

OP was saying that the search quality of sites vary and used the commonly cited example that Reddit’s search bar with “<search query>” is not as good as doing a Google search with “<search query> site:reddit.com”

You are describing the fact you don’t like to look at Reddit which is a bit different as OP was just using Reddit as an example for a general concept of using google instead of a site’s internal search functionality.

Incidentally you can solve your issue by typing “<search query> -site:reddit.com” to remove any results coming from Reddit instead of having to scroll past results you don’t want to see.

> It's also useful to know that Diamond does not have a degree in Geography

He has degrees in history and anthropology and has been a professor of geography for decades.