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[–] opp@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What monopolistic and dirty practices are you referring to exactly?

[–] opp@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I really don't like Joe but he seems to be the lesser of two evils in the upcoming election.

 

“I will be telling Bibi [Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu] to finish the job once and for all with these butchers Hamas. They’re terrorists. They’re massacring innocent people. They would wipe every Jew off the globe if they could,” Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, said. Haley, a former ambassador to the United Nations, was equally forthright. “The first thing I said to him when it happened was, ‘finish them’.

[–] opp@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Shopify accounts for 1/3 of all e-commerce sales in the US in 2023, and with the rise of way cheaper Chinese alternatives to amazon like shien, Temu, & Alibaba express no one really has a monopolistic control in the e-commerce space.

[–] opp@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (5 children)

It wasn't necessarily Amazon that killed of the competition, it's the tech behind Amazon (e-commerce) that killed retail stores. Just like UBER demolished the taxi industry, just like cars replaced horse carriages, and just like AI's about to make knowledge workers completely obsolete. Amazon still has a great deal of competition from Walmart, Target, and lots of retailers.

[–] opp@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Learning French because I fucking love the French, and cooking for myself and people I care about. I also strangely find comfort in math, like I'm genuinely happy solving math problems which is why I'm going to uni for actuary.

[–] opp@lemmy.world 91 points 8 months ago (4 children)

That's the most American sentence ever.