I would argue that they’re smuggling in fentanyl precisely because the less dangerous drugs are also illegal, so there’s no oversight in making sure they’re not laced with the cheaper fentanyl.

I can’t find the post you’re referring to. Can you link it?

High-crime areas can also drive up premiums due to increased risks of theft or vandalism.

It peaked when it was good enough to generate short somewhat coherent phrases. We’d make it generate ideas for silly things and laugh at how ridiculous the results were.

I can stand by this for an established business. But we live in a capitalist society where you need money to make money. Until that changes, your ability to pay for work doesn’t have any bearing on the value of your new business venture.

Why would you need anyone to buy your products when you can just enjoy them yourself?

That’s how it works in Canada. There’s a set amount given to the parent giving birth, then the rest can be split however you want.

For sure. I was suggesting we look at the stock market model as inspiration, not to copy it exactly. I don’t really know what the exact solution would look like. I haven’t thought through this as deeply as Pete probably would have.

Sellers includes the employees. I put it in quotes because it isn’t exactly the same as other buying and selling transactions where the sellers are actively part of the transaction.

Fair in the sense that both the buyer and “sellers” agree on the price.

As long as the price is fair, I don’t see why this should be a problem. It sounds like it should be mathematically equivalent to purchasing a percentage of everyone’s shares. So share value goes down because you’ve essentially “sold” some of it to someone else without changing the absolute number of shares you own.

I’m saying that it makes no difference even if everyone did it. Denoising is trivial.

The noise you add won’t even register. No two people are going to half-ass it the same way, so if you average everyone’s responses, the correct answer comes out.

Regarding #1, it can work the same way that company ownership works now (e.g. when you buy shares on the stock market). I don’t know how they inject money when times get tough but I’ve certainly never given them anything.

If you’re your own audience, then you can keep the joker in your head. Posting it on Lemmy broadcasts it to everyone here and that makes all of us your audience.

Because it can do something that the alternatives can’t do or because they refuse to use something more modern?

It only works as a joke when your audience knows you well enough to know it’s meant as a joke without the /s. That does not apply to you when you post on Lemmy.

Where would that be a significant upgrade over entering the numbers on a calculator?

I use mine to sign up for random crap and made a game of trying to get as much spam as possible. I tick all the e-mail options.

Gaming.