lennivelkant @ lennivelkant @discuss.tchncs.de

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so it’s hard to know exactly what to make of the results

Sounds like someone desperately trying to not ruin future grant chances by saying "this trial is absolutely worthless"...

Sounds like a university I know - brilliant and accomplished people, very proud of it, to the point of projecting that pride on everyone else and assume everyone must hold their full title as dear as they do. The idea of one of my teachers, some "First Name, Baron of Examplington-Doublename", telling us to just call him "Mr. Examplington" would have shorted out their brains.

For all their laudable competencies, humility was not among them.

(Not in Australia, but I imagine it's hardly exclusive.)

No, but their owners don't have the bulk buying power to negotiate for better prices with suppliers, the centralised management making the per-store-overhead more efficient, the employment power to push wages, the capital backing to run low prices without risking a bad month leaving a noticeable dent in their liquid assets or even run at a loss for as long as it takes for "lowest price" customers to flock to their stores and drive the local stores out of business.

When commenting on US politics, they should be aware of US political realities though. When taking position relative to US politics, they should be aware of that. At the very least, they should comment that they're progressive or something along the lines of "Our political orientation isn't represented in US politics" to acknowledge that, like you did.

But when your CEO endorses Republicans, pretending you're neutral isn't a good look.

I don't think local drug stores can afford to be cheaper than a big corporate chain. But the pricing isn't the point, it's fostering competition against corporate monopolies.

Remember that the single purpose of corporations is to make more and more money. By their mandate to their shareholders, all measure of humanity is pushed into the background in favour of growth. The ultimate goal in that pursuit is monopoly: Being the sole supplier for their customers would allow them to dictate sales prices while being the biggest or even sole customer for their suppliers would give them leverage to shift prices in their favour. Their capital backing allows them to cushion out fluctuations in revenue and take losses, so they can afford to underprice and drive out competition, then crank up the enshittification to extort more money from their customers.

A (comparatively smaller) local store has less leverage to enshittify and exploit. Investing in their higher prices is an investment against that enshittification.

I wish I could share your optimism, but we're so deep in the M$ ecosystem they've got us by the balls. Given how conservative our industry is and that we've got about 80k people, I think our chances are slim.

Should have spent more time reflecting on his wrongs I guess

Right thing for the wrong reasons is still the right thing. We've got bigger fish to fry than him.

For now.

I think spoilers on Lemmy use triple colons:

    
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Anyways, that’s why I replaced windows as the OS on my computer.

Most of my Windows troubles went away with that.

(My work laptop runs Win11, no choice there unfortunately)

Glad to make you laugh :)

Even if I knew what that is, I doubt I could do it on my phone, but I appreciate your contribution to the shitpost request chain.

Fedora works for me, thanks for the pointer

Firefox is my main browser, but I occasionally need a Chromium browser for technical reasons. I had been using Brave - note the past tense there. Any suggestions for my new secondary browser?

What a pile of steaming bullshit

I'm guessing it's more about the clear bias on display, wherein certain topics are suppressed

Wait what? Imma need to see that

Why won't the Republicans push for an actual Republic in the image of the original "Res Publica"? Two presidents, each with the power of veto over the other, each elected for one year at a time with no ability to serve two years in a row. I'm not saying it would be a better system, but it would be more fun than whatever other bullshit they're cooking up.

The exceptions are notable for being exceptional, thus proving that the rule existed otherwise.