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https://www.ajc.org/news/why-what-joe-rogan-said-on-his-podcast-about-jews-was-antisemitic

Is this not concerning?

This is a really awful take. Fringe hate groups are organising and training for combat. The ending of fight club was domestic terrorism, did you actually watch that movie?

Maybe that distinction of explicit but unsaid was not well communicated but it’s absolutely the reality in fridge hobby groups.

HAHA gross but I love all the John Carter stories, I’m going to read that book for the different take on mars.

http://thewaterbrothers.ca/ ???

You might have missed a lot of signals over the years if you didn’t grok that his hips weren’t lying.

You are making moral conclusions, and making factual statements that are untrue or exaggerated.

How much do you think this affects prices? The higher operating costs and losses are absorbed across all of the products on the shelves. Do you think that’s noticable? Do you have any real idea of what the operating costs of a grocery store are?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/errolschweizer/2022/01/31/where-do-grocery-prices-come-from/

Prices being higher drives theft more than the other way around.

https://beta.cp24.com/news/2022/12/17/1_6199163.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/grocery-price-analysis-1.6774669

Show me some numbers. Until now it just seems like you made a snap judgement and have no real basis to your beliefs.

So you defend a corp taking advantage of poor people because poor people did it to themselves.

Despite the fact that there is empirical evidence that when a Walmart is opened in some towns, local businesses are priced out, wages are reduced in that town and money is funneled away to the corporation instead of being spent locally.

Poor people don’t want to be poor, the work available to them has shit pay. Should millions of people just move away from towns when a Walmart opens up? And where would they go? And how would they afford to go?

Does that matter? In the context of sustained abuse of workers? Every dollar that is used for employees’ food stamps and other benefits is a dollar taken from tax payers.

The difference between a shoplifter and Wal-Mart is a matter of degrees, not morality.

If you think luxury goods manufacturers engage in more ethical business practices than groceries and pharmacies… That’s not true.

From the perpetrators side, nobody paid their rent pawning baby food. Or paid heat. Or paid for a car to drive to a low wage job.

it’s going to hurt the pay of the people working there

So there are a lot of reasons to be against stealing, but this isn’t one of them.

Wal-Mart and County-Wide Poverty https://aese.psu.edu/nercrd/economic-development/for-researchers/poverty-issues/big-boxes/wal-mart-and-poverty/article-wal-mart-and-county-wide-poverty

Corporate owned stores like this are the ones that people are talking about stealing from. The facts are, the wages that are paid by Walmart can’t possibly be less. Walmart enjoys https://businessmodelanalyst.com/is-walmart-profitable/ being the most highly profitable in the list mentioned.

If Walmart paid less, they couldn’t maintain their staffing levels. The workers would be even more highly impoverished, if they choose to stay.

So for half these things, early on the costs of doing business were carried by other people. Streaming services relied on studios to produce content, and Uber relied on drivers to carry maintenance costs and downtime cost.

Now Netflix is a full studio and all the other services that are competitive have original content. Uber drivers are unionized.

Cloud services are fine for set low computation things, but once you scale past a certain point keeping your own IT staff busy is easy, and they provide a tailor made infrastructure.

if it’s 12 I bet your choice of nut there will be a bar called “daddy day care” within 5 years.