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EmperorGormet ,

They could start selling tiers of battery quality which TBH sounds awful if they make the best battery life duration paywalled.

Apple has plowed over $500 billion into stock buybacks since 2012 — more than Visa, JPMorgan, or Exxon are worth (markets.businessinsider.com)

Apple has plowed over $500 billion into stock buybacks since 2012 — more than Visa, JPMorgan, or Exxon are worth::Only eight companies in the S&P 500 have larger market values than Apple’s outlay on share repurchases over the last decade.

EmperorGormet ,

Because people don’t understand how things actually work.

EmperorGormet ,

They didn’t sell stock to raise money to buy their stock, that doesn’t make sense. They sell stock when they feel they need cash and/or they think they are fair/over valued. They buy stock when they have excess cash and/or feel they are undervalued. They also have to disclose both sales and purchases beforehand.

EmperorGormet OP ,

You DOG

EmperorGormet ,

That is the one upside to capitalism and you don’t even consider it a full upside?

EmperorGormet ,

Fuck Asurion

EmperorGormet ,

Yes and no. It’s basically just super complicated and we don’t know how much is each factor. But I would highly doubt that part of the rising costs is not also just because people are still willing to pay.

At the end of the day it’s supply and demand. And that fluctuates based on so many different things.

Interest rates being low and money being easy to borrow creates higher demand and will in part cause prices to increase.

Supply chain shortages create massive demand spikes that can have massive effects on pricing of certain products as the supply chain tries to stabilize.

The FED can employ quantitative easing to increase money supply and liquidity, which adds to inflation, but increases economic growth (Theoretically).

Or they can use quantitative tightening to reduce money supply and lower demand, slow growth etc.

Lastly companies understand how normalized inflation has become and can increase what they charge even if their cost of goods isn’t moving significantly. So there is certainly some degree of this happening.

Hopefully the market will re-adjust as profit margins change and consumers spending habits fully adjust to the market.

Basically if everyone re-evaluates what and how they are purchasing, the market has to adjust. If you buy the products you prefer at the inflated cost, companies are not going to lower prices. If you buy budget or off brand items where you can, they will be forced to change their strategy to compete.

EmperorGormet ,

Could have been cool if the sceen was more like a daydream so it references it but doesn’t present it as fact. Although it is a drama/biopic not a documentary

EmperorGormet ,

How about repealing the Glass-Steagall act under Clinton? You cant look at things in a vacuum because impact from policy is delayed. 2008 didn’t happen because Bush signed one or two documents, it was decades of policy and corruption. Saying “The only president you know” seems quite unfair. Regardless if you think Trump is a shit-bag or not.

EmperorGormet ,

And the rat?

EmperorGormet ,

You have now not done the top comment on either of the first posts…

EmperorGormet ,

Excuse me, what?

EmperorGormet ,

Excuse me, what?

EmperorGormet ,

2008 saw the unprecedented approval of loans, but also there were a LOT of adjustable or variable rate mortgages. So as rates increased sharply, people all of a sudden were deep under water. At least here they still have low rates. even if it is on a higher priced house, their payments won’t be getting worse.

But yes housing prices are out of control. People are starting to feel it, and it could very quickly go wrong for people. People even have crazy high loans on used cars. Going to be very interesting how it plays out.

EmperorGormet ,

Yea like what? Why pay 50% more for a house or have a “market adjusted rate” on a used car. These assets are not worth leveraging that much for.

EmperorGormet ,

Saw a store selling a gallon of milk for $7. Was an “upscale” grocery store, but come on. Half a load of bread from the bakery was $8. Where is the other half of my bread?! I walked out

why are words like Rape and fuck only censored with one letter being omitted?

Iv seen posts with people substituting rape with r@pe. Other than bypassing filters I can’t see a reason to censor just 1 letter that doesn’t actually censor the word? I see if you fully censor the word, but even still context completely ruins the censorship.

EmperorGormet OP ,

That’s what I would think but how do you tiptoe in context of really intense issues like suicide, rape, abuse? If you reference it I feel like it would trigger any bad emotions just on the topic not the specific word

EmperorGormet OP ,

I wish they would stop lol

EmperorGormet OP ,

Yea great point, people who don’t want to see it now have to because… bullshit?

EmperorGormet OP ,

I agree, and you kind of made my point in your comment. What the F at least will censor for children or anyone who doesn’t know what that would be. Kids can decipher r*ape if they know what rape is. I just don’t see a point in text

EmperorGormet OP ,

Makes sense, figured it was filter dodging. The fact it’s has made its way outside of those places is slightly annoying

EmperorGormet OP ,

Exactly what I’m thinking, it solves nothing but does create a problem.

EmperorGormet ,

That’s generally for UPC’s labels and is part of the reason but… There are thousand’s of different adhesives that react differently to the material you are placing them on. Most companies don’t do a ton of due diligence on what adhesives are removed the best because it’s not typically a big concern

labels normally are harder to remove than not, because it’s preferred for the company. If your label contains legal information about risk of use or any other important things of note, you need to be 100% certain that the label remains on your product throughout the entire shipment process. Couple that with the myriad of different surfaces you may apply it to, it’s better to be safe than sorry. It’s also cheaper to purchase material in larger quantities, so often companies will leverage the same label material and size to reduce costs.

EmperorGormet ,

Yea sorry I used your comment to Brain dump :( Love the username btw

EmperorGormet ,

I caved and visited on the 2nd just to see if there was any noticeable impact. But I’m all in on beans now

EmperorGormet ,

Pretty sure there are many reasons this is the case. High influx and abnormally high active users is even hard for large websites to manage properly. I know a lot of the instance owners are working tirelessly to update and manage the extra traffic.

That being said I know virtually nothing about how this all works but from what I understand even if you were to join a low latency instance that has less users you would need to still “speak” with the higher traffic instances for any content posted there. So you would still have the same issues on most content.

Someone more knowledgeable should correct me where I am wrong because I certainly might be.

EmperorGormet OP ,

Although I now realize this was probably intended and I’m an idiot who hit every branch falling out of the stupid tree.

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