PeepinGoodArgs

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PeepinGoodArgs,

What’s true of the lesser must be true of the greater

PeepinGoodArgs,

The concept of enshittification.

Granted, the concept applies specifically to platforms, but the idea is basically what capitalism is:

  • Be good to everyone
  • Be good to suppliers (supply-side economics)
  • Be good to shareholders and, subsequently, alienate both users and suppliers of content. The platform collapses.

Late-stage capitalism is when shareholder wealth is maximized at the expense everyone else. So you have 3 billionaires with 50% of the wealth of all humanity or something, the middle class squeezed into oblivion, and a roiling undercurrent of pure fucking rage ready to sever heads like watermelons from a vine.

PeepinGoodArgs,

Island nations are facing rising sea levels thanks to climate change.

PeepinGoodArgs,

Wisdom

PeepinGoodArgs,

Failed college when I was around 18 or so. I wallowed for a bit, but eventually I developed a really strong drive to learn. I may have been dumb, but that doesn’t mean I couldn’t be smarter if I tried.

Long story short, I joined the Navy to go back to school to get my degree and now I have a fantastic job that’s beyond easy.

But that drive to learn new stuff cannot by quenched now. I want to learn everything!

PeepinGoodArgs,

Would many straight men even read this fabled column? Again, I asked some friends. “I probably wouldn’t be interested in reading a column by some dude cos I’d just think, well, that’s him I guess. I can’t imagine finding it useful or applying it to me in any way.”

I think this is it for me. Women vary, and what works for some dude’s woman probably won’t work for mine.

PeepinGoodArgs,

My 1060-3gb is hanging on by a thread lol.

PeepinGoodArgs,

I still read the news and argue about it with people on the internet, which is what I’m recommending against doing. Don’t be me. Live your life. I’m seriously not sure I’m more off “informed” than if I were to just draw furry erotica all day.

For me, the key question is, What does being up to date help you? And my answer, as someone that is constantly up to date, is that it doesn’t.

PeepinGoodArgs,

Any number of hobbies. Try to make a tree grow.

PeepinGoodArgs,

Maybe a controversial take, but there’s no reason to pay attention to the news.

It’s basically propaganda through and through and made to make you feel small and unsafe in your own home.

Honestly, I think half the US would be more informed if they never watched the news again.

PeepinGoodArgs,

I can taste a huge difference between iodized salt and kosher salt. The former has a strong metallic taste that makes the salt flavor overwhelming. It’s easy to use too much. It’s easier to control the taste with kosher salt.

PeepinGoodArgs,

Since Morton is out, people are buying the store brand in droves, too!

PeepinGoodArgs,

We found some mineral salt. I used it today, actually. It was extremely salty. I had to use less than I normal would, and I can see it being easy to over-salt something.

Ugh. I miss Morton’s Kosher Salt lol. If this keeps up, I’ll just order Diamond Crystal from Amazon.

PeepinGoodArgs,

I haven’t been able to find it in 2+ months in the southwest.;

PeepinGoodArgs,

I have a temporary dream (as in we’ll see how long this lasts…) of building a database of legislation by state that can easily be queried.

I think a lot of people rely on the news to tell them how to interpret legislation when it’s actually really easy to figure it out for yourself if you know where to look. And with the proliferation of AI, it should be even easier to know what legislation is without some political analyst with an agenda.

Anyway, the idea is to have all this available on one website that uses open source code for the underlying database.

PeepinGoodArgs,

…that’s freakin’ cool!

PeepinGoodArgs,

I remember the first time I went about 30 mph on my conventional bike down a hill. I had so much fun, I went up the short hill again!

I’m graduating soon and plan to reward myself with something pricey. An e-bike is a strong contender because I hate driving my car as much as I do.

PeepinGoodArgs,

Just use regular chatgpt. It’s the same thing without the Microsoft integration…

PeepinGoodArgs,

Well, in what context is 1984’s Newspeak welcome? I’d say it’s as insulting as any sarcastic remark. Otherwise…it’s fine.

PeepinGoodArgs,

Don’t pay. Just leave please.

PeepinGoodArgs,

The 2020 census was a clusterfuck thanks to Trump wanting to include a question about whether the person was an illegal immigrant or not.

PeepinGoodArgs,

Vote for Biden so Lina Khan, Harbinger of the Modern Antitrust Paradigm, can keep doing the lord’s work and prevent this shit.

PeepinGoodArgs,

Khan is must more active in examining proposed mergers of large corporations than previous FTC administrators.

I’m gonna fanboy out a bit here…

She came to prominence when she was still in law school and wrote Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox.

This Note argues that the current framework in antitrust—specifically its pegging competition to “consumer welfare,” defined as short-term price effects—is unequipped to capture the architecture of market power in the modern economy

Ever since the disastrous law and economics movement took over in the 1970s, anti-trust has been about low consumer prices. Basically, and simplifying quite a bit, it didn’t matter how big a corporation got, whether they were part of an oligarchical or monopolistic market structure, as long as they could prove their prices weren’t extorting consumers, it was all good.

In Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox, she basically criticizes that economic perspective as permitting anti-competitive practices, consolidation of market power, and harm to consumers as a consequence.

Amazon, after all, rose to prominence by legitimately offering consumers lower prices on books, basically by reducing distribution costs and not owning any physical stores. It passed the savings onto consumers. So, there’s nothing inherently wrong with offering lower prices on stuff.

The problem, according to Khan, is that Amazon has continued to offer lower prices to consumers as it grew larger and larger and into the massive platform it is today…most of the time. Some of those lower prices may have been legitimately obtained…but the FTC is suing Amazon because it has employed its monopoly to price competitors and then shift to charging consumers more.

Under the old anti-trust paradigm, low consumer prices were all that mattered. Under Lina Khan, market structure and consumer prices matter. A monopoly that maintains low prices is as anti-competitive as any monopoly, and negatively impacts our economy.

So, it’s not so much that anti trust has been given teeth, but that, under Khan’s leadership, the FTC is much more likely to attempt the bite. And she started with Amazon, which is a bold move.

PeepinGoodArgs,

How come I can see the documents on Kbin but not on my home instance, Reddthat? I even enabled show bot accounts…still nothing though.

PeepinGoodArgs,

I’m trying to choose not to drive as Millennial, because fuck that shit.

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