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26·2 days agoAnd the next whataboutism! What a waste of time.
Yeah, these are the ‘tankies’ who got banned on Reddit, right? I guess it takes time until they get a minority, but it’s good that the community grows steadily.
One thing that’s obvious here on Lemmy is that whataboutism works only in one direction. If an article is critical of China, Russia, Iran, or other dictatorships, you’d read, “But about U.S./EU/the West”. But there are tons of articles here critical of Western countries, and it’s accepted. Why is this? Just wumaos?
The real change in retail pricing might be discrimination pricing (or ‘surveillance pricing’ as it is now called sometimes). Simply speaking, it uses personal data to personalize prices not just for each customer, but also for each customer depending on actual circumstances such as day time, weather, an individual’s pay day, and other data, collected through apps, loyalty cards, …
As one article says, there is One Person One Price:
"If I literally tell you, the price of a six-pack is $1.99, and then I tell someone else the price of a six-pack for them is $3.99, this would be deemed very unfair if there was too much transparency on it,” [University of Chicago economists Jean-Pierre] Dubé said. “But if instead I say, the price of a six-pack is $3.99 for everyone, and that’s fair. But then I give you a coupon for $2 off [through your app] but I don’t give the coupon to the other person, somehow that’s not as unfair as if I just targeted a different price.”
The linked article is a very long read but worth everyone’s time. Very insightful.
I am thinking the same. Must be some sort of Streisand effect :-)
2·14 days agoYeah, and not to forget:
One interviewee admitted to paying for access to a data set. “I bought access to an official archive and altered the data to support my hypotheses.”
You can’t build and scale a start-up fast enough, say, in case of a crisis. Furthermore, China will use such investments to gain political influence in the foreign country -in that case Canada-, and they won’t stop in this particular industry. Countries must think more in vertically-integrated supply chains and strategic clusters rather than in industries, and they must include geopolitical issues.
They have to stop the use of forced labour in China, the U.S. and wherever this bs happens. This “U.S. bad, China bad okay” stance is unbearable.
This is related, particularly as the discussion is to a large part around cheap cars:
China: Carmakers Implicated in Uyghur Forced Labor - (February 2024)
China’s electric vehicle battery supply chain shows signs of forced labor, report says - (June 2023)
Probably, but as the article’s authors say, hate “does not mean rage, anger or general dislike”. It appears to be a different concept.
As one user in this thread said, it might be a feature required by the CCP.
“Guaranteeing security and privacy” could a strong argument imho.
Germany just legalized Cannabis, effective this month.
Remove that necessity from the table and see what the Russians will do.
Russia will attack the next country. Agressions can be seen against Moldova already. And just talk to someone from the Baltics.
Finland is also a good example. The country has been neutral since tbe 1940s and only joined Nato after Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022 for the second time. And Russia attacked Ukraine for the first time in 2014 after the successful citizen protests in Ukraine which put the country on the road from a dictatorship to a democracy.
Because democracy, not Ukraine, is Russia’s true enemy.
I was wondering the same, especially as the article doesn’t mention any numbers or the like. But I didn’t want to change the original title.
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Yeah, I was wondering the same, but didn’t want to edit the original title. Maybe there are some details that are new, I don’t know. What the CCP has been doing for a long time now is a shame.