To be fair, if a product isn’t properly regulated, there’s nothing to stop producers from printing good looking lab results on the labels and say good enough. Doesn’t mean its been tested, or the data on the labels and say matches the contents at all…

Seems like there has been report after report on this problem being prevalent in the supplement industry.

I think that is a tough one. As long as we accept the value of a thing is what people are willing to pay for it, the prices will always climb.

For essential products and services, the value should be based only on the effort required to provide or produce it.

The main reason we’re dealing with our current inflation has everything to do with the amount of cash flowing upwards from the working class to the boardroom and shareholders.

The prices are going up on essential items because people can’t afford to not buy gas, or not eat, or not rent. They need those to stay employable, and they slowly sacrificed everything else to keep those. So the price goes up, and people keep buying it, telling the heartless corporations that they can raise the prices more.

Now we have significant portions of the population using short term loans or payment plans to buy their next weeks groceries.

I think the idea is if you’re guaranteed a subsistence pay, then you are free to devote your time to creating something. Art, a business, a community, whatever that makes your life meaningful, rather than devoting 90% of your time working for someone elses profit, travelling to work, resting to be able to work, and eating to continue to work.

You want to talk about bare subsistence, that is what most people are doing now in terms of time as a resource.

I think Steven Miller is pulling a lot of the strings.

Early on in the presidency he was reported as the guy basically first and last to be with trump each day.

I think it has a lot more to do with the urban / rural political divide. And the fact that the cities are where political unrest will begin and take root.

They’re trying to stifle it before it gets bad, or use any violence as an excuse to increase the pressure.

Also, it helps normalize having soldiers in the streets , so citizens put up with it as a new way of living.

The redactions never travel as fast or far as the original message. They know this.

Isn’t exclusive data just ‘Trust us bro, we have the numbers?’

There’s less posts sure, but when I left last year so much of Reddits front page content was just badly reposted bot garbage anyway.

There were some specific communities where there we enough active real people posted to keep it interesting, but I could tell then where it was going, and as far as I can tell I wasn’t wrong.

Artificially created content to force or fake engagement to drive ad sales isn’t any less dead than here.

Also the fact that you’re giving your content up for free so spez can lock it behind paywalls is just insane.

Exactly.

According to NPR :

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5289337/elon-musk-doge-treasury

“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” the account wrote in September. “Normalize Indian hate,” a separate post from that month read.

In July of last year, the account posted: “Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.”

In other posts, from December, the account pushed for repealing the Civil Rights Act and shared: “I just want a eugenic immigration policy, is that too much to ask.”

They voted for the candidate he bought though

Rule of Law is being replaced by Rule of Power

I’m happy she made a stand, and its being talked about. I, like you, doubt anything will really come of it, but it does highlight the change.

I don’t think anyone was saying they could do no wrong, they were just saying if you think America’s support for Isreal was bad under the Democrates, just wait and see how much worse it’ll be under Trump. Basically anywhere an non-maga someone was critical of how the democrats were doing things, the GOP’s plans were further removed from what those particular people wanted.

So yeah, seems like they voted wrong in that case.

Google (used to) scrapes the specific details authorized by robots.txt and uses it to make your content visible.

OpenAI scrapes everything it can technically see, ignoring robots.txt and feeds i to a black box and regurgitates it claiming it’s something new, that it deserves to be paid for.

Quite different actually.

No, its a consequence of increased security and the inconvenience of have to sign out and create a new account when reselling the phone was an acceptable compromise, rather than an intended ‘bonus’ side effect. A lot of times companies do do that, but this wasn’t one off them.

This was your friend’s fault, and yours to trade cash before understanding how the system worked.