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Barry Soteriology
Mar 1, 2020

FAUXTON posted:

yeah if they can't ban them outright they basically make sellers show them their supplier contracts as a "counterfeit investigation," then amazon goes to those suppliers and uses scale to get the same thing exclusively and at a lower unit price and undercuts the sellers as well as getting the manufacturer to cut the sellers off

this was something people caught onto by like the 1890s but the internet makes you stupid so every monopolistic practices pitfall has to be rediscovered and filled with corpses

are there any existing laws against the practice? I imagine even a moderately successful company would have trouble trying to get recompense in court against Amazon tho.

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Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?
drat she gets a whole hour for lunch?

Kit Walker
Jul 10, 2010
"The Man Who Cannot Deadlift"

No, she works 9 hours and has an unpaid lunch break during which her boss yells a thing her if she takes more than five minutes to finish and get back to work

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

Unless posted:

as an American, have u ever heard a Canadian complain about anything?

Like, omg, u have healthcare, not that big a deal

generally they come into cspam and complain about american politics because they are brokebrained

change my name
Aug 27, 2007

Legends die but anime is forever.

RIP The Lost Otakus.

https://twitter.com/DavidAFrench/status/767181992366600192

clockwork chaos
Sep 15, 2009





Ask roger stone

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Phil Layshow posted:

are there any existing laws against the practice? I imagine even a moderately successful company would have trouble trying to get recompense in court against Amazon tho.

Theoretically/arguably it's an anticompetitive violation of the sherman antitrust act of 1890, an interlocking directorate abuse under the clayton antitrust act of 1914, and idk probably a bunch of underlying anticompetitive/abusive poo poo under the FTC's purview.

Theoretically, though, since the FTC is the primary regulating authority for that kind of poo poo and uhhh yeah they're not doing a drat thing because "well they do it to lower prices for retail buyers" and "jeffy B promises no touchy the marketplacey, pinky swear" poo poo

Maya Fey
Jan 22, 2017



iirc apple does the same thing with the app store

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!



Wheeee posted:

did they then angrily peel out in their lifted F-250?

naw it was some dumb old guy hobbling through the parking lot to the Canada Tire

That store is weird as heck btw it's got like tires next to like clothes and stuff

Junpei
Oct 4, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 11 years!
call me a stupid optimist but this is the mood I'm trying to keep up

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe

this owns

i loving love it.

dystopia life rules

THS
Sep 15, 2017

its just smart business

Delthalaz
Mar 5, 2003






Slippery Tilde
This but unironically

https://twitter.com/convolutedname/status/1341625461324062720

Laterite
Mar 14, 2007

It's Gutfest '89
Grimey Drawer

Thump! posted:

naw it was some dumb old guy hobbling through the parking lot to the Canada Tire

That store is weird as heck btw it's got like tires next to like clothes and stuff

There's a YouTuber that I watch every so often who does stealth camping and he gets a bunch of his gear from Canada Tire.

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Junpei posted:

call me a stupid optimist but this is the mood I'm trying to keep up



read Roadside Picnic

Oscar Wild
Apr 11, 2006

It's good to be a G
https://twitter.com/DOGDICK420CUM/status/1341767224701403136?s=19

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


https://mobile.twitter.com/DOGDICK420CUM/status/1341767722716246016

Wheeee
Mar 11, 2001

When a tree grows, it is soft and pliable. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.

Hardness and strength are death's companions. Flexibility and softness are the embodiment of life.

That which has become hard shall not triumph.

Thump! posted:

naw it was some dumb old guy hobbling through the parking lot to the Canada Tire

That store is weird as heck btw it's got like tires next to like clothes and stuff

Crappy Tire is a national treasure

Canadian Tire is really the most :canada: store imaginable, they sell basically everything since they generally serve remote rural locations where being able to buy tires, oil, kid's toys, hunting gear, housewares, and so on in one place is a huge boon, and everything is cheap without being Walmart cheap; Canadian Tire is a store that embodies the idea of 'good enough'

It's Canada as gently caress

Wheeee has issued a correction as of 19:46 on Dec 23, 2020

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
https://twitter.com/StRoseCherry/status/1341770704002408448

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

Junpei posted:

call me a stupid optimist but this is the mood I'm trying to keep up



this is gonna be my 2021 vibe

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug

previously it was simply funny, now it is cursed.

burexas.irom
Oct 29, 2007

I disapprove of what you say, and I will defend your death because you have no right to say it!




change my name
Aug 27, 2007

Legends die but anime is forever.

RIP The Lost Otakus.

https://twitter.com/haramcart/status/1341814894384050179

ymgve
Jan 2, 2004


:dukedog:
Offensive Clock

I assume all twitter hot takes by "woke" people are just altrighters roleplaying, this is just another confirmation

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS



liberalism is a mental disorder

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.

Unless posted:

as an American, have u ever heard a Canadian complain about anything?

Like, omg, u have healthcare, not that big a deal

Canada is loving garbage too, and in like 10-15 years we'll be just like America thanks to our loving neo-liberal insane leaders.

cenotaph
Mar 2, 2013



I remember the constant braying from Europeans about how racist America was online back in the early aughts and then they decided to start electing nazis again because a few brown people moved in and Britain blew up all their trade agreements because they can't handle their handymen being Polish.

Jay Rust
Sep 27, 2011

America is also racist

Cheen
Apr 17, 2005

Jay Rust posted:

America is also racist

First I'm hearing of this. Proof???

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014


drat... that's a gf

Marx Headroom
May 10, 2007

AT LAST! A show with nonono commercials!
Fallen Rib

Cheen posted:

First I'm hearing of this. Proof???

*takes a deep breath*

*modern major general intro starts playing*

Junpei
Oct 4, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 11 years!

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

I don't know how confident I would be in assuming that George Orwell was LGBT-positive

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

no meds = f4

Gripweed posted:

I don't know how confident I would be in assuming that George Orwell was LGBT-positive

lol

Dr. Killjoy
Oct 9, 2012

:thunk::mason::brainworms::tinfoil::thunkher:

quote:

In addition to this there is the horrible — the really disquieting — prevalence of cranks wherever Socialists are gathered together. One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.

gonna assume half of these are euphemisms for gays

TenementFunster
Feb 20, 2003

The Cooler King
drat, bring back helldump

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!



Dr. Killjoy posted:

gonna assume half of these are euphemisms for gays

Whaddya mean, those aren't words for gays! He's clearly pissed about hippies.

Oh and women, I guess. Probably gays too.

WorldsStongestNerd
Apr 28, 2010

by Fluffdaddy

Yeah, the Americas haven't had a human population for nearly as long as the other continents have. Or did you think native Americans evolved independently?

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DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness

Dr. Killjoy posted:

gonna assume half of these are euphemisms for gays
...did "fruit-juice drinker", like, have connotations of hippie back then? Cause it seems very out of place next to nudist and sex maniac, but I guess it makes sense if it's on par with "sandal-wearer"

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