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@XenuWorldOrder @jonatanpallesen @Houseofyogi JetBlue hasn’t made profit since pre Covid and with these fuel prices they are doomed

Because Spirits prices were causing them to go bankrupt. Raising prices to avoid Chapter 11 is not anti-competitive. Blocking a completely reasonable acquisition, causing one party to go out of business and simultaneously taking away the remaining party’s chance to expand more affordable, allowing them to grow and give some competition to the large airlines, THAT is anticompetitive. Jet Blue will most likely expand to absorb the business Spirit left behind. They’ll hire some of the staff. But it will cost more than if they had just been able to purchase these assets directly in 2024. They’d already have acclimated everything and few flights would have been lost to the inevitable. Now flights are just gone until…. 🤷🏻‍♂️ some laid off from Spirit will get hired, but it’s not immediate. This will hurt the economy and the price of flights will definitely go up now. Everything that JetBlue needs to acquire to fill the void is going to cost more than it would have if the judge had not made that decision. We still ended up with the same amount of airlines. The judge’s decision had the more anti-competitive result. We got the slower, more expensive version of what he claimed he was stopping.

Spirit Airlines died tonight at the hands of the socialist crusader, Elizabeth Warren She must be so proud to add another casket to her achievements. Tonight at 3am, Spirit turns off the lights. 14,000 jobs gone. 30+ smaller airports lose service. JetBlue offered $3.8 BILLION in cash to buy Spirit in 2022. Shareholders, flight attendants union, literally everyone voted yes. The combined company would have held 9% of the US market against a Big 4 that already owned 80%. For anyone who understands numbers: 9% isn’t a monopoly against 80%. Warren said no. She wrote letters. She pressured Buttigieg. Biden’s DOJ sued. A federal judge killed the deal in January 2024. Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year. Now look at her collateral damage she dusts under the rug. 510 pilots gone in the months after. 1,800 flight attendants furloughed in December. 14,000 jobs in 2023. 7,500 last week. Zero tonight. And that’s just the people in Spirit uniforms. Catering goes. Fuel guys go. Baggage crews, gate agents, airport coffee shops, hotels and rental cars in 70 cities Spirit flew to. Every airline job carries 3 more on its back. 40,000 people out of work because of one woman’s moronic crusade against the market. And the math ain’t mathing. Spirit abandoned 90 routes during the death spiral. Fares on those routes are up 14% on average. Oakland to Newark: $135 to $288. Fort Myers to San Juan: $92 to $219. Kansas City to Newark up 66%. That’s reality. Not some BS number from a “study.” So @SenWarren tell me how this saves the consumer money? Cheap carriers in a market drop fares 21% across the board. Southwest did this in the 90s and saved Americans $68 BILLION over 20 years. Warren killed it. That’s what moronic politicians led by socialism do. Then with her own blind arrogance, she tweeted Spirit’s collapse is “a Biden win for flyers.” A win. 14,000 people are reading termination letters tonight. And she’s taking credit. This is socialism in 2026. A senator who’s never made payroll thinks she knows how to run a market better than the people who own and work in the company. She saved you a billion on imaginary paper. She cost you ten times that in real life. She didn’t protect consumers from anything. 14,000+ will go from working to welfare. She will make sure to blame billionaires, hardworking tax payers, AI, capitalism and whatever monster they will make up tomorrow hiding under your bed. Higher taxes. Fewer jobs. More expensive everything. She called it a win. I hope you enjoy winning.

@XenuWorldOrder @jonatanpallesen @Houseofyogi The court ruled it was anti competitive. JetBlue also accidentally leaked they were going to increase fares 25%+ compared to spirit ticket prices

@traderapi @jonatanpallesen @Houseofyogi It was competition neutral. Spirit was willing to be bought because they were insolvent. If a factor (the outcome of less competition in this case) is inevitable, regardless of the decision of the case, that factor must be must be removed from the equation.

@XenuWorldOrder @jonatanpallesen @Houseofyogi Right so the same amount of competition. A judge blocked the merger because it was anti competitive.

@traderapi @jonatanpallesen @Houseofyogi No, I meant less competition. You can be sure because I was quoting you.

@Irethsurion @JustDirmax They did this in a previous version and it didn’t work. Had a fake production crew and everything

@JustDirmax I'd dress like the producers and cameramen and actually hold film equipment right by the door

Eight players hide in an amusement park, anyone unseen for 2 hours wins $1M

@singlecellshort @NHarding97 @travisakers 2+8+7 (2+8) is the 10 they want to see + the of 7 remaining from 9

@NHarding97 @travisakers Wrong. The answer space is _+_+_ which requires 3 numbers added together.

This is stupid. Just add the damn numbers or memorize it. What are we even doing?

@OUcafe_net @mistressdivy 5/3

@traderapi @mistressdivy Wouldn't a fifth third be 6.67% I don't get the 67% value, That is more like two thirds.

What’s the dumbest name for a business? I’ll start: Fifth Third Bank

@OUcafe_net @mistressdivy They are 67% better…

@mistressdivy The bank's tag line is 'We do banking a Fifth Third Better'. WTF does that mean?

@weinerimer @Sic_Sic_Sg @jonatanpallesen @Houseofyogi Nope, same amount now, that there would have been if the merger went through

@traderapi @Sic_Sic_Sg @jonatanpallesen @Houseofyogi Now there’s even less

@weinerimer @Sic_Sic_Sg @jonatanpallesen @Houseofyogi 🔁 Less competition is worse for consumers🔁

@traderapi @Sic_Sic_Sg @jonatanpallesen @Houseofyogi The government didn’t need to save them. Just get out of the way of a company saving acquisition

@Sic_Sic_Sg @jonatanpallesen @Houseofyogi They were dying for a while, why should the government save them?

@traderapi @jonatanpallesen @Houseofyogi A whole airline completely died. Lol

@XenuWorldOrder @jonatanpallesen @Houseofyogi You mean the same amount of competition if the merger went though

@traderapi @jonatanpallesen @Houseofyogi Agreed. Now there is less competition.

@jonatanpallesen @Houseofyogi Less competition is worse for consumers

@Houseofyogi "Her argument: the merger would cost consumers $1 billion a year." A bold claim that has zero evidence behind it.

@eggb_p Who doesn’t play on hard mode

i dont get it

@eCommKen @steipete Codex is unusable compared to opus

@steipete Who is still using anthropic with OpenClaw? They pushed everyone away when they shut down access with their $200 plan, and then gpt 5.5 came out and the output is just as good when you get used to how to prompt it for the results you want.

WAT

@thingsshldwrk @LauxChristian @monaco897921 @BenShindel @NathanpmYoung No. But the more than is irrelevant, the only thing that matters is the less than 50% blue, that carries the death clause

@traderapi @LauxChristian @monaco897921 @BenShindel @NathanpmYoung Is 50% more than 50%?

You are in a room with one other person. They are behind frosted glass. You both have the standard red and blue buttons applying only to the two of you. They seem awake and alert. You are not permitted to communicate. What do you press?

@LauxChristian @monaco897921 @BenShindel @NathanpmYoung Correct. And this is neither higher or lower. So nothing happens

@traderapi @monaco897921 @BenShindel @NathanpmYoung The original was "if more than 50% press blue"

@hehehe52318711 @_Elvon_ @mark_bikes @NathanpmYoung Never assume when lives are at stake

@traderapi @_Elvon_ @mark_bikes @NathanpmYoung It is very obvious what was meant here. You're pretending to not understand the statement

@MacSween3382 @_Elvon_ @mark_bikes @NathanpmYoung Sounds like you need to re-read the question

@traderapi @_Elvon_ @mark_bikes @NathanpmYoung Question has always been phrased as a majority must pick blue where I've seen it so on this scenario blue would die as a 50/50 split isn't a majority

@paulcritchlow @BenShindel @NathanpmYoung There’s no mention of rounding, and both blue and red with 50% share is an edge case where nothing happens based on rules of the game

@traderapi @BenShindel @NathanpmYoung 0.5 rounds down to 0. Just assume that, so the problem makes sense.

@AtheistMAGA @NathanpmYoung No one dies if less than 50% pick blue. With 2 people, both would equal 50%. The scenario for exactly 50% is undefined for red and blue voters

@NathanpmYoung People still picking blue. Lmao