i bet you i could predict it with 100% accuracy if you give me another 4 months

same tbh

maybe it’s being developed in the arctic circle and there really are only four nights per year

Anyone can pay $150 to become a dues-paying member and rub elbows with the court’s nine justices at events like the dinner where Windsor spoke with Alito. (Tickets for the dinner were an extra $500.)

this is all it took for him to admit this stuff? anybody with 650$ could have walked in and asked him a couple prodding questions? these guys really arent even trying to hide it anymore

where’s the creamy filling

personally i’m a fan of tearing off everything except a small corner of a napkin

i forgot for a second that the winters and summers get flipped in the southern hemisphere

most horrifying thing is the bathroom being at the top of a flight of (carpeted) stairs

this is what i do when im feeling mischievous and want to annoy my family in the morning

it’s worth mentioning that very rarely is baby formula better than breast milk. the contents of breast milk change depending on the what the child needs at the moment. it’s really sick that some companies market it as a better option than breast milk

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this reminds me of what happened to the instagram cofounders when zuckerberg asked to buy their company:

Systrom [cofounder] said he feared turning down an acquisition offer from Facebook would send Zuckerberg into “destroy mode” — a concern that Cohler [early investor] affirmed.

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this stuff came up in a court hearing, and then nothing happened about it

one time i had to call a company during regular 9-5 business hours to cancel a subscription after starting a free trial.

that experience was so horrible ive since sworn off free trials altogether. nowadays, if i need a free trial to use an app or website for a couple days, then i will simply not use that app or website.

I could care less about the price of concert tickets.

i can see that based on how much you’ve argued against lowering ticket prices

i dont really see how this answers my question. it seems like you said “i’m not arguing against government action” and then proceeded to argue against government action.

and aside from that, it seems like what you’re advocating for is this brutal world where companies are always trying to test you to see how much you’ll put up with. and in this world, every single purchase you make should be interpreted as saying “i can take a little more exploitation before i reach my breaking point”. is this really a world you want to live in? how is that better than asking the government to keep companies in line?

i’m having trouble understanding how

All we need is for people to stick together but instead we get people like you crying to daddy government about how unfair it is.

is compatible with your earlier statement:

I’m not arguing against government action.

could you explain that to me?

I’m more than willing to vote with my wallet.

voting with your wallet isn’t really voting though. how are companies supposed to tell the difference between you not buying something because you’re not interested, and you not buying something because of some principled opposition? the other huge problem with the “vote with your wallet idea” is that bigger wallets get more votes. and people with bigger wallets might not care as much about incremental price increases.

Your analogy of uprooting your life to live in another country is a bit of an over exaggeration, we’re talking about missing out on a gig, it’s not akin to starting your life over.

are you familiar with the purpose of an analogy? here’s the merriam webster: definition of an analogy:

a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect

is starting your life over different from not going to a concert? yes, but that’s not the point of the analogy. you can say a bunch of “true” if-then statements, but that doesn’t really accomplish anything if the premises are never satisfied. so that’s why i gave an analogy with a premise that’s even harder to satisfy, to illustrate this very point.

“the price will go down if no one buys the tickets” is true in the same way that the statement “if everyone moves to finland, then no one will live in germany” is true. it doesn’t really mean anything, because you can’t convince everyone to stop buying tickets in the same way that you can’t convince everyone to move to finland.

this sort of problem is why governments regulate things. during the industrial revolution, companies would’ve stopped using child labor if everyone refused to buy from companies that used child labor. but that didn’t happen, so governments took it upon themselves to make child labor illegal.

how often do monopolies get broken up by simply telling people “dont buy”? and how is that a good argument against government action?

are you familiar with the concept of a “monopoly”?

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