Costco is probably the more 'reasonable' one. They mark up the products probably 5-10%. So this one I feel that the delivery people are probably being paid ok.. although my nearest costco is 16 miles away (about 25min).. so it kind of feels like a steal to be able to get delivery from them for what feels like not a whole lot more.

Walmart is closer, but there are no markups.. and I pay whatever $10/mo for free delivery from them. Order multiple times a month.

I'm honestly not sure I'm going to go back to the stores as often even when things are normal.

And I find you comparing BLM movement to Trump's supporters "election fraud" bullshit to be absolutely sickening.

Are you suggesting 'tolerant' people should tolerate something like, racism? You are a logical moron if you try to make that argument. You know exactly what you are doing, and it's stupid.

Give me a break. You act like they have been cutting out on him for years. It's only been recently this year when he literally lying and calling covid a hoax, telling people to do dangerous things like gather for his rallies during a pandemic / actively saying not to wear masks, and finally this election bullshit.

The networks have gone above and beyond his bs for years- there is a time to take a stand and the last few months have proven that.

Actually no, the "value" in Twitter for politicians is

* Short succinct messages - people don't want to read a book from their politician for every issue. If it's important and does need more, then they tweet the image of more text or whatever. But most of the time a simple headline does suffice. Otherwise twitter wouldn't be where it is.

* The tweet can be linked from anywhere else on the internet, and everyone "knows" what it should look like and can basically distinguish reality from fake stuff

* Like the above, it's uniform and simple. Someone else commented to me that each politician has access to a website or something. Did anyone else know this? I sure didn't, yet I've seen a billion links to twitter for politicians.

* It would be really sad to learn that politicans are reading replies to their tweets. I don't know how they could get anything else done. Have you ever scanned through a twitter thread from any one of trump's tweets? There is nothing of value, and it's so invaluable that I bet you everyone in the world would be better off with read-only tweets from politicians!

Well as far as politics is concerned.. the US Government (and other governments) should make their own twitter like platforms which every active representative has an account, and ANYTHING (barring pure illegal) can be posted.

It doesn't even need to have an actual user base, it can just be somewhere to go to see what your politician is thinking.

In terms of the average person? There is no solution for one that is owned by a corporation. An offshoot of the above is the government could make a social media site that is covered under "free speech that the government cannot take away" and anything not blatantly illegal can be posted/said. I would not advocate for this though.. I think we have plenty of options.

But the one for politicians only is something that should be seriously considered.

Yeah, because me trying to text an Apple phone from a non-apple phone is the same thing as trying to play a nintendo game on an xbox. Fuck off dude.

Good for you. If non-Apple people didn't need to communicate with Apple people, there is no issue. But that's not how things work obviously.

Apple is INTENTIONALLY making it difficult for non-Apple people to work with Apple people. My mom is 100% apple, and she literally has problems receiving texts from non-apple phones. She wants me to buy apple products just to make it easier to talk with her!

If you don't see what they are doing you are just plugging your ears and going "lalalala"

Stop ignoring the first one.

Yeah, they are instead setting up a walled garden of fuck you. I'm not sure how you can argue it's any better. It's a different class of issues for sure, but it's still bullshit. They intentionally make communication more complicated with non-Apple devices so everyone will buy their expensive hardware.

As other people have mentioned, if iMessage would have opened up to other platforms it would probably be what everyone uses and would be GOOD FOR EVERYONE. But instead, they wall it to their shit. My mom constantly tells me she doesn't get my text messages from android to her 100% apple ecosystem. I can't do anything about it. It doesn't make any sense, but it's on Apple. They probably even leave these "unfixed issues" to get everyone to move to imessage just so they will buy their hardware.

Fuck Apple for their decision on this. Stop defending it. It's a horrible decision.

If you want a 'voice' then the GOVERNMENT should make a social media platform in which NO ONE at all can be censured. Because your silly free speech argument doesn't have anything to do with private companies, although you already knew that, but conveniently ignore it.

If Trump decides to start posting on HN, does HN owe him a voice?

You are the one making slippery slope arguments, not the other way around.

Even Bill Barr just came out

>Former Attorney General William Barr said Thursday that President Donald Trump inciting a violent insurrection on Capitol Hill the previous day was a "betrayal of his office and supporters."

https://www.businessinsider.com/former-ag-barr-trump-betraye...

But go ahead and hide behind "well he never ACTUALLY said it!!"

>Bitcoin was less volatile than AMZN or AAPL in 2020 (3-month realised volatility)

Not sure what you are smoking. Bitcoin literally just went between about 27k and 34k today. That's about a 20% swing.

Ethereum had a 60% swing.

Not volatile at all! Nope, nope, nope not at all.