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Noted anti-capitalist agitator Adam Smith had it right: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."

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The produce section of a grocery store, with Kroger's signage. It is animated. The image fades to a version in which all the hand-lettered price signs are replaced with code waterfalls as seen in the credit-sequences of the Wachowskis' 'Matrix' movies. The image fades again and the huge, menacing eye of HAL9000 from Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' appears in the center aisle, and all the prices have doubled. The image fades again and the doubled prices are replaced with the code waterfall again. The image then loops. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

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The joke being that raving capitalists follow Adam Smith about as well as Christian fundamentalists follow Jesus.
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Cigna's nopeinator; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/29/what-part-of-no/

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An existential plane extending to an abstract background. Scattered through the scene are mainframes and control panels, being worked by faceless figure. In the center stands a downcast MD in old-fashioned scrubs. In the foreground to the right is an impatient older man in a business suit, staring at his watch and brandishing a sheaf of papers. In the background left is a grim reaper figure raising a glass of blood in a toast, the blood spattering his robes. In the center background in large magnetic 'computer font' lettering is the word 'NO.'
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    @LiberalEd @pluralistic "Computer says no" https://youtube.com/watch?v=x0YGZPycMEU

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    Etiquette proposal: if you invite someone from another to a teleconference, the onus is on you to present all times in their local timezone, rather than your own - that is, the person asking should bear the labor of timezone conversions, not the person being asked.

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    Agreed. And if the audience is across too many time zones to list, then at the absolute bare minimum, provide UTC. Realize how American-centric it is to give a so-called Eastern Time that's actually to the West for almost everyone, or a Pacific Time when the Pacific covers half the globe 😅

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