I’m not saying “inflation means prices go up” I’m saying “inflation means prices went up”. There can be many things that cause prices to go up, inflation is one result of any such cause and of course then causes many things itself including further inflation.

In your scenario that’s inflation caused by price fixing. You seem to be saying these things are mutually exclusive but I don’t understand why you would say that.

Companies deciding to raise prices (for any reason — justified or not) is what inflation is made of.

Inflation just means “prices went up.”

I spent last Spring in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Quebec. Had a blast. Land’s End and the entire Gaspesie peninsula was beautiful. Watching the tides at Hopewell Rocks and walking on the seafloor while the tide was out was wild. Whale watching and eating scallops out of Digby was awesome. All manner of cool things in striking distance of Baddeck. PEI has… um… a surprisingly interesting potato museum. Go for it!

This was a really interesting article, thanks for posting it

I feel like this would not stop him from threatening Sweden, though.

I thought Finland and Nordic countries were notoriously depressed all winter??

legally,“sell” includes things that most people wouldn’t consider a sale in normal parlance

Like what, any specific examples?

I have been hearing this repeatedly as a talking point from people defending Firefox but without any specific example of what they do and don’t allow themselves to take and sell, it rings quite hollow.

Bambu is working on it already — can’t print unless you’re connected to the internet and send your files through their server, can’t connect to the printer with other slicers besides their slicer.

They had to walk that back some; there is now a “developer mode” where old standard functionality is still exposed, but they’re clearly working as hard as they can to turn it shitty.

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They can’t be specific in the legal note because that would close their options and prevent them from auctioning off every month to the new highest bidder.

They certainly could keep a page of what they’re currently selling to whom, but even if it was innocuous (doubtful) that would again put them in the news every time they changed it.

Tried and true legal PR strategy: say nothing and hope the attention goes away

No it’s not, it’s just hosted on Oracle-owned servers

I don’t know about AI involvement but this story in general is very very old.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html

The state of Delaware ruled in a lawsuit that the Tesla board is under control of Musk and not really an independent board as it should be

No. “Much worse” and “more of the same” are different from each other.

People do need to keep that in mind.

15 years ago I bought a beautiful stone-topped wooden table from them that was cheap enough to not feel bad drilling a hole in it and turning it into a sink stand for my bathroom.

It was great.

You can thank me for keeping them in business.

What’s this about monopoly money?

How do they know what it should cost?

Installing HVAC ducts in blistering hot attics is backbreaking work but people can be found to do that.

I wonder what those people get paid, and whether they have access to bathroom breaks, clean drinking water on the job, and a decent place to sleep at night?

Maybe if they increased the wages or improved the working conditions, people would come do the work after all?

Just spitballing, here….

What is the actual point of becoming a 1% co-owner of a rental house? Is this some kind of tax thing?