• @grue
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    1 day ago

    The underlying problem in all these cases is the failure of the FTC to do its goddamn job of enforcing antitrust and consumer protection law.

    • NaibofTabr
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      81 day ago

      Heh, Lina Kahn’s done the best job at that of anyone in years. Rupert Murdoch has pushed hundreds of hit pieces against her because she’s been so strong on the antitrust suits.

      • @grue
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        61 day ago

        That’s true, and yet my point is, too. It just goes to show how comprehensively the FTC has been failing that even good leadership is too little, too late at this point.

        • NaibofTabr
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          21 day ago

          Oh yeah, the work she’s been doing is like 30 years overdue.

  • NaibofTabr
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    222 days ago

    If it can’t be packaged and sold for a guaranteed return it’s not worth anything.

    • @kemsat
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      41 day ago

      Rudolf is a yearly tradition for many, and it teaches exactly that

      • NaibofTabr
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        11 day ago

        Hmm, this is an interesting interpretation… I don’t remember anything being sold in Rudolph…

        Are you referring to the “Island of Misfit Toys” part, or the “silver and gold” part?

        • @kemsat
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          61 day ago

          I mean that Rudolf is treated badly until they realize that he can he used.

  • granolabar
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    142 days ago

    From everything… It is making life very unpleasant all around. Everything is locked behind some bullshit website with dark pattern

  • @dr_scientist
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    41 day ago

    TIL that Nile Rodgers, one of my favourite artists, is now a corporate shil/POS. Re: ‘Hipgnosis’, a firm that purchases song rights for use in ads, etc.

    Company partner and funk legend Nile Rodgers has presented it to investors as an opportunity “to establish songs as an uncorrelated asset class with attractive risk[-adjusted] returns”