Can’t they simply buy citizenship for $1 million now too?

Oopsie.

Why, checking the skin color with their phone wasn’t enough for them?

These practices are exactly the kinds of behaviors that regulators should prevent.

When a business gets huge it shouldn’t be allowed to buy up all of its competition. Regulatory authorities should block these acquisitions. For example, Sprint should never have been sold because it concentrated power even further and gives customers less choice.

It’s not simple price competition either. A company like Walmart can afford to sell products at a loss to drive other businesses out on purpose and then jack up the prices when they’re the only game in town. Dollar General has been accused of strategically placing stores to block businesses from making a profit.

It’s like we have a centrally planned economy but dumber.

I don’t know what the solution is.

What we have isn’t even capitalism. The supposed free market doesn’t exist when the big players pocket the regulators to use as a weapon against smaller businesses and secure their own market positioning.

Incidentally, this is typically the end result of capitalism if you don’t reign in and break up these companies.

Far be it from me to defend the Nazi car company, however:

While the results may seem like a damning indictment of Tesla, the report notes that the company has improved the build quality of its vehicles. All of its latest models now offer “better-than-average reliability,” and Tesla ranks among the top 10 brands in Consumer Reports’ new car predictability rankings, surpassing established automakers like Ford, Chevrolet, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Volkswagen.

737MAX

You just might get your wish.

Gray hair can look lovely. I accept

One can’t say the same for skin cancer.

Yeah, sure. But specifically the moon serfs from Xoran IV.

A significant contribution to that is residential power effectively subsidizes data centers for AI.

Fighting the good fight. The Internet should be for people, not robots.

Felons doing felon things. Have we no self-respect?

I’ll bet you $100 what side Congress will take in the matter, and it will be on the side of money.

I look forward to my first $400 power bill.

Even in terms of story, the content is no longer optimized for quality. It’s optimized for watchability which generally refers to the ease of viewing even when you’re not completely paying attention.

They somehow found a way to even further commercialize and mass produce the moving picture.

I think optical media is a dead platform. Hence, there is an apparent lack of interest I think in implementing alternative solutions. I’ve had success with MakeMKV using the docker container approach, but never tried to rip UHD.

The Corpo-inspired future is that you should not get to own any of your media outright. They will decide when you can stream it and to which devices. Piracy is quickly becoming the only viable option if you value your freedom, and it’s a very unfortunate state of things.

You don’t get to order people who don’t work for you.

They’re not going to stop. People like this don’t stop. They don’t stop until forced. Power is the only language they understand.

We’ve got representatives attacking the postal service for not being highly profitable. We aren’t at square one of investing in the public good even when it pays in the long run.

Costs are borne by all, but profits only for the few.