@joshuatheard @cafreiman And take even larger losses without the cross subsidization of efficient deliveries?
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Enginenerd 🌐🇺🇦
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@Enginnerd123 @cafreiman Then the post office can do those deliveries.
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Mail delivery is a private good and should be fully privatized. Also, to reply to a couple of common objections:
(1) Private companies like FedEx *do* provide last-mile delivery.
(2) Private companies *are* banned from delivering mail (but not parcels).
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
The Postmaster General says USPS might be forced to stop deliveries in 2027 if current trends continue. Postmaster David Steiner says the postal service "will be out of cash in less than 12 months." Steiner has has also been on the board of directors of FedEx since 2009.
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@joshuatheard @cafreiman The problem with competition is that there is no mechanism which forces competitors to do the hard and expensive work of accessing rural and super rural markets. A privatized system would probably decide it wasn't worth it to make sure those markets have regular mail
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@patwayyy @souljagoyteller 100 years ago the cost of the boat ticket served as more or less the same barrier
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@patwayyy @souljagoyteller America has largely used distance to make immigration expensive and those increase the quality of immigrants. It costs tens of thousands to be smuggled in from Mexico, or plane tickets which require documents and a convincing story and ultimately a bank account.
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The obvious asterisk to this article (which is interesting, tbf) is that the United States has never attempted an immigration policy as altruistic as Angela Merkel’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis
Alexander Kustov@akoustov
I have a piece @TheArgumentMag on why the US is so much better at immigration than Europe. As someone who's lived in and studied both, I've been thinking about it a lot. Anyone who opines on migration on either side would benefit from acknowledging the complete US superiority.
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@c_hunter_r @nobodyknows2322 @HookArron76532 And it's worth pointing out that civilian homes were specifically and deliberately left untouched in Washington. They pulled down several buildings they couldn't burn down without risking civilian homes.
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@nobodyknows2322 @HookArron76532 And the British never would have set ablaze to Mount Vernon either if they had the chance. Burning Washington in 1812 was the retaliatory response to the Americans burning government buildings in present day Toronto.
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Also the scene where the Redcoats burn down an Anglican (!!) church with innocent women and children inside (!!!) would've never happened
For God's sake man, the Redcoats weren't the Waffen SS!!
Bird on 🔥 🇺🇸🇹🇼🇯🇵🇩🇪🇺🇦🇮🇱@nobodyknows2322
I have a personal grudge against that movie as descendent of an actual Continental Army vet
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@Yuyu55685378685 @RobertFreundLaw Make sure you have an excellent product and excellent operation
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@RobertFreundLaw how would you recommend handling reviews when launching a brand ?
because without trust and without reviews the conversion rate drops a lot…
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This plainly violates the FTC’s Endorsement Guides.
You can’t only solicit reviews from customers who you believe are likely to give you positive feedback or filter out negative reviews in this way.
Glenn Nieuwenhuis@GlennNieuwenh
Your Trustpilot score is trash because you're asking for reviews wrong. Here's what we do instead: Send customers an email with 5 stars they can click. 1-3 stars → Google form for private feedback 4-5 stars → Direct to Trustpilot Add this: Everyone who leaves feedback enters to win their order refunded. What this does: Filters out angry customers before they trash your public reviews. Gets you actual feedback you can fix. Only happy customers end up on Trustpilot. Most stores just spam "leave us a review" and wonder why they have 2-star ratings tanking their conversion rate. Very simple ecom hack.
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@QueensCrapper @maxdubler The waiting list is functionally a requirement that you be a long term resident
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@maxdubler What do you mean "exclusive enjoyment?" They are required to have hours open to the public, and those who want to garden just have to apply. It's not based on how long a person lives here.
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Community Garden Discourse is really about who has moral standing to make demands of urban governments.
Should these publicly-owned spaces be quite literally reserved for the exclusive enjoyment of longtime residents, or do newcomers have a legitimate claim to them, too?
Daniel Trubman@dmtrubman
NYC was absolutely GORGEOUS today, so why weren't folks hanging out in Le Petit Versailles Garden? Because despite being owned by NYC Parks this parcel isn't currently accessible to the public. As a community garden the parcel will remain locked up for a few more weeks 😥
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@realplains @axiochrono @JustinWStapley If they wanted that they should have written that they didn't write that so it isn't what we have
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@axiochrono @JustinWStapley The Founders very likely wanted two citizen parents on U.S. soil. Please research it to understand.
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This is not surprising at all. JD Vance is increasingly a man without a constituency. He's spent years building a coalition of post-liberals, natcons, integralists, and groypers who no longer feel affection for him because, as Trump's VP, he has to carry water for a foreign policy they despise. And yet the traditional wing of the GOP is not fooled by Vance at all, because he once claimed to be one of them before shifting hardcore against them. Everyone across the board recognizes Vance as a shallow hypocrite.
Rubio, meanwhile, has navigated the Trump era in a way that bends but doesn't break his principles. He has made himself invaluable to the second Trump administration and is seen as the most effective member of the cabinet, often begrudgingly, across the entire Trump coalition. And...he's palatable to traditional Republicans outside the Trump coalition.
Even from the onset of Vance's presidential ambitions, he could only carry a portion of Trump's coalition. He never had the chops to fully inherit what Trump built. And as the realities of governing have begun placing strain on the Trump coalition, Vance's share of that coalition has begun to shrink precipitously. Rubio, meanwhile, has navigated the moment in way that inherits a larger slice of the Trump coalition than Vance can, while reinvigorating the long-suffering Reagan coalition.
Rubio is simply and entirely objectively a better candidate than Vance is, and everyone but the die-hard, burn-everything-down types can see that...even if they might not personally prefer Rubio over Vance.
JeremyUnplugged@JeremyUnplugged
BREAKING: President Donald J. Trump hosted about two dozen GOP donors at a private dinner and informally asked who should carry the movement forward. The room reportedly favored Marco Rubio over JD Vance, with support described as “almost unanimous.” (Sources: NBC News/AOL)
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@zulways They are simply not the vast majority of people are not starving and have plenty of nutrients we just make food that's good not just the only thing that keeps hunger away
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The medieval peasant would understand that people who are fat now are actually malnourished and starving.
Workhouse Overseer 🌐🥑🍌@RepealTCPA1947
"Cheap food is so plentiful that a majority of our population is fat" would sound like heaven to a medieval peasant
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@Icekiller369 @RepealTCPA1947 That's not true the land simply would have produced enough, they did eat somewhere around 3K calories a day but given the physical labor they did it would have been bare subsistence
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@RepealTCPA1947 we are fat because seed oils are giving everyone insulin resistance. the average medieval peasant ate 4000 calories a day
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"Cheap food is so plentiful that a majority of our population is fat" would sound like heaven to a medieval peasant
Plant trees•destroy lawns•decommodify food@FoodForestNetwk
yet another thing about our Earth under capitalism that any medieval peasant, hearing it described, would be like "oh, you're talking about Hell"
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@anodynamics They would genuinely think they died and went to heaven,
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There are zero medieval peasants who would have anything other than nice things to say about driving their modest Toyota sedan to lunch at McDonald's during their 9 to 5.
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@Hodlingsince21 @uncledoomer For 20% market share and 3% net profits?
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@kirath3rese @uncledoomer Sysco has 20% market share has never had net profit margins above 3% there are plenty of other options in most markets but Sysco is really fucking good at what they do and the other options aren't usually better
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@olemiss927 @therealTM_1 @DocMichaelHood @dennisdoddcbs Yes you can have structures like that with employees, if they wanted to make every college athlete a employee that would then be legal
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@therealTM_1 @DocMichaelHood @dennisdoddcbs Funny how a salary cap works in the NFL. You don’t hear people complaining about that . Thats where this needs to head with the same exact model somehow
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Trump suggests "returning to a system" where players get a scholarship, and perhaps "$10,000-$15,000."
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@AgentMaximize @Rajshah412 @RobinHoodArrg @aakashgupta Sheets is not an excel equivalent in any part at all
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@Rajshah412 @RobinHoodArrg @aakashgupta Idk man, Google Sheets and Google Docs might already be better than their Microsoft equivalents… Gmail is definitely better
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The fastest way to expose whether a CEO actually uses their own product: make them do the most basic task on camera.
Outlook has over 400 million active users. Microsoft’s productivity segment generated $77.8 billion last year. And the official Microsoft support page for “Outlook search not working” tells users to open the Windows Registry Editor and manually create DWORD values.
That’s the fix. For a product used by almost every Fortune 500 company on Earth. Edit your registry.
The reason Outlook search has been broken for years is the same reason it will stay broken: Microsoft sells to IT procurement, not to the person trying to find last Tuesday’s email. The buyer and the user are completely different people. The CIO signs a 3-year enterprise agreement based on security compliance, Azure integration, and per-seat bundling. Nobody in that purchasing decision opens Outlook and types “Q3 budget” into the search bar to see what happens.
This is why Gmail search works and Outlook search doesn’t. Google built for the end user first and sold enterprise later. Microsoft built for the enterprise buyer first and shipped whatever search users would tolerate.
345 million paid seats. The switching cost is so high that Microsoft could ship Outlook with no search at all and most companies would renew anyway.
Every CEO of an enterprise software company knows this. The product doesn’t need to be good. It needs to be locked in.
Collins Timbela💜@collinstimbela_
Make the Microsoft CEO search for an email on Outlook live on camera
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@pimplefresh @deanwball If it's such a problem then they should simply put out an RFQ and the market will provide an alternative
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@deanwball No, that strategy will not work. Because open AI and Google employees are now signing petitions. They need to create a deterrence to prevent The most leftist tech employees from taking over government defense policy.
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As I have been saying repeatedly, this principle is entirely defensible, and this is the single best articulation of it anyone in the administration has made.
The way to enforce this principle is to publicly and proudly decline to do business with firms that don’t agree to those terms. Cancel Anthropic’s contract, and make it publicly clear why you did so.
Right now, though, USG’s policy response is to attempt to destroy Anthropic’s business, and this is a dire mistake for both practical and principled reasons.
Senior Official Jeremy Lewin@UnderSecretaryF
This isn’t about Anthropic or the specific conditions at issue. It’s about the broader premise that technology deeply embedded in our military must be under the exclusive control of our duly elected/appointed leaders. No private company can dictate normative terms of use—which can change and are subject to interpretation—for our most sensitive national security systems. The @DeptofWar obviously can’t trust a system a private company can switch off at any moment.
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@patbahn @maustermuhle Honestly Waymo is going to have to hand out lifetime bans for people behaving badly if they want to prevent that
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Mayoral race context:
- @Janeese4DC is skeptical of Waymo since local unions have raised concerns (#labor-unions-push-back-on-waymo-in-dc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">51st.news/doni-crawford-…)
- Last summer @kenyanmcduffie introduced a bill to legalize Waymo that was mostly copied from a model bill drafted by a trade group for self-driving cars.
Cuneyt Dil@cuneytdil
Scoop: Waymo steps up lobbying after D.C. delays robotaxis axios.com/local/washingt…
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@dsdlandscapes @mnolangray You have to add R1 land to the picture to reduce land value enough to cut housing prices
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@mnolangray Why does everyone confuse the good thing that EVERYONE wants—density at major transit, with the bad thing—destruction of R1 neighborhoods?
I wish housing proponents would just try leaving R1 out of it and see if they don’t get more support.
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SB 79, which legalized hundreds of thousands of new infill homes within walking distance of transit, is perhaps the biggest environmental win of a generation, yet the old guard of environmentalism can't even recognize it as such.
Saad Asad@realsaadasad
Totally normal thinking is going on at the local Sierra Club chapters. They're writing this about a bill that legalized transit-oriented development!
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@sictransitglora @CAFranchise @StatisticUrban That's just not true windmills have absolutely been destroyed
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@CAFranchise @StatisticUrban Right and we don’t need steel anymore . . . no wait we need more steel than ever. Coal is in inferior to gas but it’s not on its way out. There has never been an energy transition. We just consume more of everything.
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Coal is losing, and will continue to do so, because it is inferior from a market perspective to other forms of energy.
From the moment they hydraulically fracked the first gas well in the Barnett Shale in 1998, the modern coal industry was doomed.
Senator Chris Rose@ChrisRoseWV
🚨 West Virginians, we just lost 4,000 coal mining jobs over the weekend—thanks to unelected WV bureaucrats doubling down on their War on Coal. As Senate Energy Chairman, I’m fighting like hell to get my fellow coal miners back to work where they belong!
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@BaronWonderburg @masky_mcmask @patrickcctv And I bet 80% of engagement is to the top 1% of artists and if they left your platform they might take a significant audience with them
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@masky_mcmask @patrickcctv 80% of payouts go to the top 1% of artists. It is a self-fulfilling cycle that broadly discourages independent or lesser-known artists from even participating.
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Users would have to pay $4,500 per month for Spotify to pay $1 per stream
Trak@urproducer
Every artist should get $1 per stream.
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