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lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Cities with soda taxes saw sales of sugary drinks fall as prices rose, study finds
1·2 years agoyou can model the tax on the supply or the demand. in most simple models the outcome is the same
actually that’s written with stone
lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto
Funny: Home of the Haha@lemmy.world•Return to the playable area
6·2 years agoI’m not sure what source other than the bible you propose to answer a question on Christain doctrine?
lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto
Memes@lemmy.ml•This is basically what drives the economy
3·2 years agosorry, I’m a little slow today. how is this seemingly keeping the economy afloat?
don’t forget ablutophobia
you’re assuming they’re doing it by accident
lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising pricesEnglish
72·2 years agoevery dollar you raise, the fewer customers you get. the point is that you should want to raise the price whenever the relative drop in customers is less than the relative increase in price to maximise profits (where marginal cost is marginal benefit :) )
lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Australia rejects proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in constitutionEnglish
61·2 years agosome injustices are structural
lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto
Comic Strips@lemmy.world•"How to Haunt" by LoadingArtist
22·2 years ago3rd panel, second shelf from the bottom
I think the worry is a WW3 with China
lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•‘Biden, Macron know what’s going on in India but won’t talk’English
9·3 years agoright, except sometimes it’s easier to impose conditions on certain countries than others. for example the US was able to get the previous Indian administration to sign a treaty ceding partial control of their arsenal to them, on threat of sanctions (if I recall correctly). as much as the US might want to do something like that with China, it wouldn’t be anywhere near as easy to pull off.
this is just an example, I’m not attaching moral value to what occurred/occurs
while the last point is perhaps the main determinant theory behind why many older people are not being owing more right wing, I’m a little confused by your first two points.
especially the fact that people have greater access to knowledge and are forced to think more critically. if anything, with the advent of the internet, echo chambers have never been easier, preventing critical thinking. this leads to a growing of extreme positions which further reinforces such views due to tribalistic fallacies in our thinking and the need for these tribal identities to distinguish themselves.
lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: ReportEnglish
2·3 years agocan’t you just buy a cheaper USB 3.0 speed cable anyway? or is this a hardware limitation that Apple have put in the port of the phone?
lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.ml•Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding
4·3 years agoidk man, at no point do any two or more stars fight each other /s
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Technology@lemmy.world•Forbes: Reddit Protests Escalate As Rebel Mods Are Kicked OutEnglish
311·3 years agoyou’d like all other communities to be echo chambers?
lemmington_steele@lemmy.worldto
Memes@lemmy.ml•I actually find this talking point so braindead that, to this day, I still have a hard time believing that people genuinely believe it.English
153·3 years agocould you remind me which part of Marxism exactly it was Stalin was implementing, other than claiming to be in line with Marxism? a dictatorship of the proletariat perhaps?



I’m pretty sure he was involved with the liberation theology movements in Argentina before the previous pope clamped down on it (in his capacity as a cardinal)