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christmas boots posted:thats what he calls his penis "Loss Leader" or "The Expanse"? I think the former is most accurate.
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Dec 24, 2020 06:30
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Platystemon posted:No one said it was worth heirs. i didnt either. i dont think its worth him meeting people, or being around in the world. there are a ton of movies and series and books that you can watch without giving money to a rich weirdo ... so if you do watch a thing, just pls dont also run promotion for him
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Dec 24, 2020 06:35
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fondue posted:"Loss Leader" or "The Expanse"? I think the former is most accurate. His desire to get his dick wet cost him $62 billion. That might be the most destructive penis since Paris of Troy.
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Dec 24, 2020 06:51
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quote:At its height about a decade ago, Pirate Trading LLC was selling more than $3.5 million a year of its Ravelli-brand camera tripods—one of its bestselling products—on Amazon, said owner Dalen Thomas. are we supposed to feel bad about this guy? he’s a landlord that dabbled in an import business! Amazon just went to the actual people that made the product and ordered more
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Dec 24, 2020 07:01
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hobbesmaster posted:are we supposed to feel bad about this guy? he’s a landlord that dabbled in an import business! Amazon just went to the actual people that made the product and ordered more amazon is like the tripod landlord dude but on a scale we can barely comprehend and in ways we can hardly imagine Marzzle has issued a correction as of 07:15 on Dec 24, 2020 |
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Dec 24, 2020 07:10
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hobbesmaster posted:are we supposed to feel bad about this guy? he’s a landlord that dabbled in an import business! Amazon just went to the actual people that made the product and ordered more It's possible for there to be no heroes in a story only degrees of evil.
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Dec 24, 2020 07:14
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hobbesmaster posted:are we supposed to feel bad about this guy? he’s a landlord that dabbled in an import business! Amazon just went to the actual people that made the product and ordered more who cares about the guy, but it makes it clear that you cant start selling stuff on amazon unless youre too big to gently caress with i guess its just another emphasis on the monopoly poo poo cake pretty soon, the rich wont even have to care about competition monopoly whatever, cause theyre only one guy in a bare room owning more than half the world
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Dec 24, 2020 07:20
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the ancap dream
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Dec 24, 2020 07:34
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Carthag Tuek posted:who cares about the guy, but it makes it clear that you cant start selling stuff on amazon unless youre too big to gently caress with if the guy was actually making something Amazon wouldn’t be able to go to the actual maker and put in an order he’s competing with Amazon on arbitrage between alibaba and Amazon. it’s a simple thing to do with a modest amount of startup capital which is why there’s a zillion “brands” for some products that look uuids
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Dec 24, 2020 07:34
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Are we even sure that Amazon approached the fabricator and not vice versa? They could have seen the advantages in eliminating the middleman.
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Dec 24, 2020 07:40
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hobbesmaster posted:if the guy was actually making something Amazon wouldn’t be able to go to the actual maker and put in an order yea, arbitrage means "I got there first" but Amazon is there first always for everyone you cannot start a small business and rise above the muck or whatever, because they are using 19th century techniques and they still work. there is no future. this is the end of history
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Dec 24, 2020 07:41
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Platystemon posted:Are we even sure that Amazon approached the fabricator and not vice versa? it doesn't matter if this counts, there are tons of examples of anticompetitive behavior
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Dec 24, 2020 07:44
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Main Paineframe posted:that's not even close to the most ridiculous way that big platforms have been screwing small vendors who can't do anything about it I worked at a family owned and run cinema and we had the same problem. People freaking out over us not having sessions at the 'listed time' on one of many sites that just trawl and collate from online sources. Google of course gives most of them a higher search ranking than the actual business.
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Dec 24, 2020 08:31
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i recall that the recent legal dogma is essentially is that its not a monopoly if it results in low prices
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Dec 24, 2020 08:52
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Low prices to you, friend.
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Dec 24, 2020 10:00
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it's almost like we're in the prologue to a cyberpunk dystopia or something and amazon crushing it's equally rent seeking competition is bad because it means amazon is now more powerful and controls an increasing amount of our poorly designed production system for goods. one big landlord is a better coordinated, better planned, and better at fighting than the multitude of tiny landlords all trying to gently caress over each other instead of only the left.
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Dec 24, 2020 11:03
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You don't have to worry about Amazon. Products from Amazon are made in China and the coming cold war with China will greatly hamper trade. Crushing their profits will definitely happen before the industrial military complex gives up that gravy train.
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Dec 24, 2020 11:32
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fondue posted:"Loss Leader" or "The Expanse"? I think the former is most accurate. I like The Expanse, good acting and it grows really big over time, even if it takes a bit of meandering to get into the payoff moment inside my Venus
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Dec 24, 2020 12:13
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if there are serious consumer goods tariffs imposed on china i will be both pleasantly surprised and deeply concerned, because it means that one of the big promises of globalisation - you won't make more money, but stuff will be cheaper - is broken, but by the dodgiest people in the land
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Dec 24, 2020 12:14
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lollontee posted:I like The Expanse, good acting and it grows really big over time, even if it takes a bit of meandering to get into the payoff moment inside my Venus It is quality escapism and raises interesting social questions and is scientifically sound, the only thing that we don't have (except for the One Big Lie) today is really efficient engines so we can travel directly to a place instead of using curves to conserve delta v. This kinda poo poo is all that gets me through this poo poo life so I don't care who's vanity project it is.
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Dec 24, 2020 12:36
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Like, the one argument for the existence of the hyperrich that I can even engage with is that they can patronize the arts. TV and movies are the dominant popular art of our time, just because it is popular doesn't mean it is bad. Shakespeare was "pop" in his time, in fact most of his work is based on pirated copies
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Dec 24, 2020 12:43
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hobbesmaster posted:are we supposed to feel bad about this guy? he’s a landlord that dabbled in an import business! Amazon just went to the actual people that made the product and ordered more Regardless how you feel about this guy, Amazon getting free a/b product testing off the bavks of its own merchants is supremely hosed up
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Dec 24, 2020 14:01
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exmachina posted:Like, the one argument for the existence of the hyperrich that I can even engage with is that they can patronize the arts. TV and movies are the dominant popular art of our time, just because it is popular doesn't mean it is bad. Workers could patronize the arts too if they controlled society's wealth.
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Dec 24, 2020 14:09
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V. Illych L. posted:if there are serious consumer goods tariffs imposed on china i will be both pleasantly surprised and deeply concerned, because it means that one of the big promises of globalisation - you won't make more money, but stuff will be cheaper - is broken, but by the dodgiest people in the land it wont be the neoliberals who do it, it will be China. just a little extra push to throw america into civil war, so they can grab Taiwan in the confusion
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Dec 24, 2020 14:27
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PerniciousKnid posted:Workers could patronize the arts too if they controlled society's wealth. Bring back the aediles.
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Dec 24, 2020 14:30
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Shrecknet posted:Regardless how you feel about this guy, Amazon getting free a/b product testing off the bavks of its own merchants is supremely hosed up Why? You know what you're signing up for when you do business with Amazon.
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Dec 24, 2020 14:47
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i don't really care if Amazon is owning all the lovely small time drop shippers and arbiters. Amazon itself is just the biggest fish in the arbitrage pond. its not like Amazon is driving real innovators out of business. patents still exist, all they are doing is cutting out middle men between you and the Chinese guy who makes your stuff
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Dec 24, 2020 14:58
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exmachina posted:It is quality escapism and raises interesting social questions and is scientifically sound, the only thing that we don't have (except for the One Big Lie) today is really efficient engines so we can travel directly to a place instead of using curves to conserve delta v. It's a shame Hillary killed Jeffrey Epstein before he could invent the magic rocket engine
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Dec 24, 2020 16:20
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Chamale posted:His desire to get his dick wet cost him $62 billion. That might be the most destructive penis since Paris of Troy. she's been giving away a lot of money too, so Jeff's dick is indirectly responsible for a massive act of charity. she's still richer than God though.
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Dec 24, 2020 16:50
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exmachina posted:It is quality escapism and raises interesting social questions and is scientifically sound, the only thing that we don't have (except for the One Big Lie) today is really efficient engines so we can travel directly to a place instead of using curves to conserve delta v. The show still shows elliptical orbits. The engine meant that going into space outside of vanity projects like colonizing Mars was now feasible, because now you don't have to dedicate most of your ship to fuel, and you can do stuff like harvest ice asteroids. As an aside, the closest thing I've seen to The Expanse: Space Combat: The Game is Children of a Dead Earth. If you're interested in plotting missile intercepts in retrograde orbits, do check it out. Volmarias has issued a correction as of 17:05 on Dec 24, 2020 |
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Dec 24, 2020 17:01
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PerniciousKnid posted:Workers could patronize the arts too if they controlled society's wealth. Pro wrestling is already the art of the people.
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Dec 24, 2020 17:02
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T-man posted:going in and out of the ring gates all night hoping he ends up like Maneo
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Dec 24, 2020 18:08
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Ships in The Expanse use constant acceleration trajectories, where the acceleration is usually one‐sixth to one g. This is basically as good as it gets with humans aboard. Even if the engine and propellant allowed the ship to pull ten g for days on end, our bodies couldn’t take it.
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Dec 24, 2020 18:19
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Volmarias posted:As an aside, the closest thing I've seen to The Expanse: Space Combat: The Game is Children of a Dead Earth. If you're interested in plotting missile intercepts in retrograde orbits, do check it out. btw this is $2.50 for the next two weeks https://store.steampowered.com/app/476530/Children_of_a_Dead_Earth/
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Dec 24, 2020 18:44
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Platystemon posted:Ships in The Expanse use constant acceleration trajectories, where the acceleration is usually one‐sixth to one g. Unless we genetically engineer swolesmonauts
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Dec 24, 2020 19:00
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T-man posted:one big landlord is a better coordinated, better planned, and better at fighting than the multitude of tiny landlords all trying to gently caress over each other instead of only the left.
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Dec 24, 2020 19:28
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PerniciousKnid posted:Workers could patronize the arts too if they controlled society's wealth. This is the current social function of furries.
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Dec 24, 2020 19:32
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this reddit front page pairing felt apropos for this thread
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Dec 24, 2020 20:59
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exmachina posted:Like, the one argument for the existence of the hyperrich that I can even engage with is that they can patronize the arts. TV and movies are the dominant popular art of our time, just because it is popular doesn't mean it is bad. The art they patronize is used solely to hide money. Buy a worthless piece of poo poo for 5mil and your cash is turned into a permanently valuable and untaxable asset.
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Dec 24, 2020 22:30
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