The thing is, the “people” propping it up, are massive tech companies with collectively trillions of dollars to burn on this thing that is making their stock prices soar.

They have no incentive as the primary investors doing the circular buying to stop. The big problem here is the stock market provides awful incentives to everyone.

Lets not also forget that for a bunch of them, they want to completely replace lightning fast, simple UI with AI so they don’t need their own programmers, and your experience doing things is outright painful.

This is stupid though. IP addresses in many homes rotate, so IP ban lists are utterly ineffective and could very well ban the wrong people.

True on both accounts

All the more reason to point out at every opportunity when they have 2 different things they’d love people to treat as one.

You realize this is referring to email?

If everyone was idealistic about every aspect of life, we’d all commit suicide very rapidly.

You might think this is super important, but to someone else, the reach of mainstream social media might be worth it for they care about an issue they feel is more important than yours that needs attention, or just straight up focus on other things.

You a vegan? You have solar panels? You buy clothes that you are absolutely 100% sure comes from fairly paid people the whole way down the line? You buy a fairphone? You using a linux pinephone? You… Its never ending.

Purity dramatics like that of your comment arent actually helpful and just demoralize people who are likely there with you 99% of the way generally.

If you wanted to know why you post was removed, you should have asked the original and try to work with them.

You clearly do not understand how reddit moderation works. Unless mods actively choose to be known, your message goes to a general queue one of any number of mods can read, respond to, and hide from the other mods. Worse still, you have no idea which mod took action, and in this case it was an auto or AI mod first.

With comments like yours, I’m sure they’ll soon be disillusioned with Lemmy too.

Turns out while other problems certainly exist, the biggest problem with social media is the social part.

bud this is all tldr.

There are 2 sides that you can vote for in American politics.

That’s not being unable to see nuance, that’s being able to see facts.

You seem stuck on making a point that is irrelevant and increasingly more incorrect.

I can’t care to engage with someone who isn’t reading what I’m saying. It would just be talking past each other.

Now can we stop being so mean to those poor heartless megacorp voting shareholders?

Probably get bloated from the beans

I get it.

Yup. Thats the type of chart I would call a rolling sales chart. Amazon does the same, as does Bestbuy.

Many retailers do frankly.

Waiting a week can often save you 25-30%, and the high price would have been labelled a sale just the same as the low price, so no one would be any wiser to this without tracking the price.

Your post starts with a sloganeering, hyper-reductive take of what I wrote.

This is such a hopelessly lazy dismissal of that criticism I’m just going to ignore it and hope you have anything better to offer.

Nope. Skimmed through it and you’re still making the same strawman argument. I guess there is nothing more to say here if you don’t recognize it.

A term for a regular sales price that comes back at normal not specifically event related intervals.

For instance many clothing stores will just have a “sale” every 4 weeks fore the same prices as the sale 4 weeks ago.

Another example is consumer electronics. Look at any price tracker and they’ll usually follow a very loose pattern

Relevant random example of some harddrive

I hate not using that phrasing because I know I am fallible, but to many normal people, even if you know you can be wrong, you give a confident response.

If there is any chance I could be slightly incorrect I use this phrasing, but this really has meant that some people are more grating to me than others because they will think you arent confident or smart if you show any signs of being able to acknowledge your fallibility

Real consuuuuumers know that if you want an actual deal on something you plan to buy, you should wait for a rolling sale.

This has the added bonus of forcing you to think about how much you actually want to buy said thing, and also comes around pretty frequently so you don’t have to wait for any yearly events.

All time low prices are just not worth it in terms of time investment monitoring sales unless the thing is your hobby or you are really hard on cash and the purchase is a necessary one and a stretch for you, but then those purchase usually are not ones you can wait for anyways.

This is Politics, it’s not 1D or 2D, it’s N-Dimensional

This is the point I made and that your comment ignored.

it’s not just possible but pretty much a Mathematical certainty than in a country were there are only 2 parties they will match perfectly on some dimensions, even whilst not at all matching in others.

This is a strawman. No person is claiming they don’t have any aligning opinions.

Trying to dismiss away that aspect of Reality (which is incoveninent for tribalists) with sloganeering like “bothsiderism” is just parroting propaganda meant for simpletons who see reality as having just one dimension where there is nothing more than 2 sides.

This is you continuing to argue against the strawman.

The rest is also that.

No. I seem like the type that would not give this store money for being shitty towards their customer base.

as i said ina previous comments, people like you would make it habit to smell bad on purpose to illict reaction, and this has made people lose actual tourney games.

This isn’t an argument against anything I said, its just throwing out insults pretending that they’re true so you dont have to have any logic to your point.

Those people would be kicked out regardless of the useless customer bashing sign.

They are fine with this trade