whered you hear that? not trying to sound confrontational just wondering

I feel like this is a reference to something

Ending 20,000 lives is still pretty horrible. Sometimes in history there are no good guys

good thing they aren’t likely to win, last I checked polymarket had their odds at ~30%

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https://web.archive.org/web/20100708230258/http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/

yeah it was this! thanks!

from rain clouds?

this sounds so stupid but it might work

I’m not entirely sure about that. Those people could always just buy GameStop from somewhere that’s not robinhood. this mightve been something that they were financially forced to do, bc this trade limiting just seems like something that would lose them money

mb guys

I kinda needed this

thanks

I was talking about this one: politicalmemes@lemmy.world

And that lacks competition, so no wonder that it sucks

I mean an AI CEO doesn’t wanna buy a $500 million boat to show off, it would just keep the money in the company and reinvest it somewhere.

Those exist but then that’s not competition anymore, its a cartel. If those were abolished it would be better.

once they have a monopoly what if the government broke up monopolies, and promoted competition? then you wouldn’t have the large price increase you described afterwards. ofc competition alone cant fix the environmental issues you described, thats probably best solved by some government body, like if they taxed new plastic being produced so companies would be incentivized to recycle what they could. also thx for actually writing a longer reply

So why don’t you start a bottled water company that’ll make it better? If there’s an opening in the market for something like that, it’ll be filled by people wanting to make money

Have you ever heard of predictive policing? https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/17/1005396/predictive-policing-algorithms-racist-dismantled-machine-learning-bias-criminal-justice/

Competition that is meaningful. Like if you produce bottled water, and you lower the quality of it (like, idk maybe theres stuff floating inside) so its cheaper to make, people will notice and switch to an alternative. And when the alternative tries something similar, they’ll switch back to you. Regulation can also help with this but at the same time it increases the barrier to entry for new players, lowering competition. I think.

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