don’t forget ablutophobia
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lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising pricesEnglish72·2 years agoevery dollar you raise, the fewer customers you get. the point is that you should want to raise the price whenever the relative drop in customers is less than the relative increase in price to maximise profits (where marginal cost is marginal benefit :) )
lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto Antiwork@lemmy.world•McDonald’s, Chipotle to hike menu prices after California Gov. Newsom approves $20 fast food minimum wage23·2 years agoyou still need to sell the burger to make your income (franchising aside for now). no matter how monopolistic you are, there is always a demand constraint
lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Special counsel Jack Smith opposes televising Trump federal election subversion trial182·2 years agoI’m a little confused. Don’t we want this to be as transparent as possible to limit conspiracies?
lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Australia rejects proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in constitutionEnglish61·2 years agosome injustices are structural
lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto Comic Strips@lemmy.world•"How to Haunt" by LoadingArtist22·2 years ago3rd panel, second shelf from the bottom
lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Usually connect to Walmart's WiFi but they changed their policy I guess, won't be doing that now...32·2 years agoRight, and this Walmart in Europe would be where exactly?
lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•They were lucky Aladdin was such a cool dude1·2 years agothat’s just a fancy way of saying:
imagine you have two children and live in a system of gavelkind succession. now consider the share of one of the children. then forget the children and make that share the new bank balance
I think the worry is a WW3 with China
lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•‘Biden, Macron know what’s going on in India but won’t talk’English9·2 years agoright, except sometimes it’s easier to impose conditions on certain countries than others. for example the US was able to get the previous Indian administration to sign a treaty ceding partial control of their arsenal to them, on threat of sanctions (if I recall correctly). as much as the US might want to do something like that with China, it wouldn’t be anywhere near as easy to pull off.
this is just an example, I’m not attaching moral value to what occurred/occurs
and under which conditions can we even have genuine choice?
lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•I just realized there is absolutely no way to say 'i always lie'.3·2 years agoyou don’t need to say yes if someone asks you?
while the last point is perhaps the main determinant theory behind why many older people are not being owing more right wing, I’m a little confused by your first two points.
especially the fact that people have greater access to knowledge and are forced to think more critically. if anything, with the advent of the internet, echo chambers have never been easier, preventing critical thinking. this leads to a growing of extreme positions which further reinforces such views due to tribalistic fallacies in our thinking and the need for these tribal identities to distinguish themselves.
lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: ReportEnglish2·2 years agocan’t you just buy a cheaper USB 3.0 speed cable anyway? or is this a hardware limitation that Apple have put in the port of the phone?
depends how you define duck; you can very much make it a binary. ultimately every term is just a construct
lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•AI researchers say they've found 'virtually unlimited' ways to bypass Bard and ChatGPT's safety rulesEnglish9·2 years agoany effectively decidable system. that’s not quite the same, and doesn’t strictly apply to AI commands
sorry, I’m a little slow today. how is this seemingly keeping the economy afloat?