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.

Literal shitpost. Definitely meets the requirement.

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.

Eat Pray Love.

My god it was so self-important and out of touch.

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

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.

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

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.

This is a gag gift, right?

My dumbass wondering what a Tacophone is.

Really? I’ve been told by all my dudes into hardware that AMD is where it’s at for value. Plus, Intel has manufacturing issues. I’m sure there’s good deal out there if you look, but I feel dissonance between this article and what I hear in my circle.

Then, he is a fool. LLM technology has no fence around it. You can download and run one on your own hardware. The only reason a person would use their service is convenience access to a larger model.

One Iota of critical thinking would resolve this, but it appears that might be too much to ask.

How odd. I have never heard of .world filtering based on VPN usage, although it’s been some time since I used that instance regularly.