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@makeworld PS: I've had gator nuggets in Florida and (conservation issues aside) I'm not convinced they're worth the extra trouble over chicken

@makeworld Not a waste of time at all! I've seen well-intentioned, politically-minded people get caught up with one rhetorical device to the extent that others become less visible to them, but I don't think that's the case here.

Your example actually makes me think of "food deserts" as a hyper-local case of monopolization. Bad design is often scale-invariant.

@makeworld

I've had similar conversations with people in the past about whether something is a monopoly. When it isn't, they end up feeling satisfied that since that condition wasn't met, then the situation must be fair, and all clear evidence to the contrary is dismissed.

"Is it a monopoly" isn't exactly a bad question to ask, but it's one that modern almost-monopolies are very well prepared to dodge.

@makeworld

A lot of the debate around antitrust focuses on either the presence of a strict monopoly or on very narrow definitions of "consumer welfare" - usually interpreted as "lower prices".

The broader the definition the harder it becomes for judges (who typically aren't economists - as though that would necessarily help) to interpret the law without setting precedent for worse corporate behaviour in the future.

@jalcine or perhaps that interviewing practices are broken?

I wrote a brief article about using notify-send and cron to schedule regular reminders to blink and drink.

https://ansuz.science/2021/self-care/

#selfcare

@s0s truly

> Man who made website to rank female students by appearance now aims to achieve "global teen penetration" according to leaked documents

https://gizmodo.com/leaked-facebook-docs-depict-kids-as-untapped-wealth-1847763431

email is notoriously complicated and lots of people who are passionate about hosting everything else often give up and rely on google or ms for this.

A full mail stack has a lot of moving parts, so I've been configuring one piece at a time to avoid getting discouraged.

[ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED]

self-hosted outgoing mail successfully sent and accepted as not-spam by major email providers.

@atlas_core I think this is possible with peertube: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use-create-upload-video?id=publish-a-live-in-peertube-gt-v3

I was reading about the Unix fetchmail command and learned that in addition to the POP3 and IMAP protocols which are commonly used to fetch mail from servers there's also a KPOP protocol.