It would also be extraordinary if his organization could pursue the questions he was asking about Epstein before Trump called him to stop doing so, and then was murdered shortly after.

You might say it's because we live in a "low trust society," but not for the reasons the people who usually invoke that term claim.

Understandably, the people currently above water want to be able to sleep at night and believe things are just going to continue being acceptable from their perspective, so they may go to unknown lengths to convince themselves of this no matter how unrealistic it is. Then one day reality hits them with a layoff followed by a seemingly endless and fruitless job search.

https://hckrnews.com

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Unfortunately, experience shows these rare gems are often one generation away from going to shit when the principled types retire and are replaced with backstabbing money grabbers who think the only way to win is in a race to the collective bottom, because "that's what everybody else is doing."

https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/

Seems like it maybe suffers from the "fiefdom" / portability issue that other platforms struggle with, but I haven't looked closely.

So on this point I agree with you, but it does not substantially subtract from my overall view of Costco as a company in every other regard. I trust that in time they will revise whatever needs revision in order to be fair to everyone involved. Oddly enough, at least in my area, this doesn't seem to have resulted in a disproportionate amount of one race or another.

If this is your idea of "appealing branding" then call it whatever you need to.

Yes, those pesky political companies...

* Paying their employees above average wages

* Working with their suppliers to achieve win/win/win outcomes wherever possible

* Stocking products that enhance their customers' lives instead of optimizing for profit margins and nothing else

* Etc

Costco is a rare example of a company doing the right thing and succeeding under late stage capitalism.

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So the invisible hand is just a middle finger?

Automotive collectors can probably still relate to cars from the 1920s-50s having a "positive ground."

For awhile now I've wished for a tool like this, except it would also incorporate previous discussions that match the same/similar node sentiments in order to encourage group dialogue that builds on previous discussions instead of mindlessly re-hashing them ad nauseam like you see on most platforms these days.

Also, breaking points down into discrete pieces like you've done is reminiscent of the pol.is platform that vTaiwan leveraged, except theirs was pre-AI with whatever limitations that would have brought.