It’s not something unique to capitalism. In communism you can easily have tons of monopolies as well.

Regulation is definitely a good thing. Competition among companies is a good thing.

Sounds more like scams trying to pass fake knock-offs as the real thing.

A friend from Italy told me that they keep the best cheese for themselves and export the rest.

Relevant xkcd:

Direct link to the study:
https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.70072

Lemmy.world takes the official stance of blocking VPNs:

https://lemmy.world/comment/12079632

The maximum age for the President, or someone in the Senate/Congress should be based on a percentage of the average livespan of everyone in the country.

It’s adaptive and also incentivizes them to make choices which will benefit everyone’s health, rather than the health of the elite.

I was just about to edit my post because I just got done with watching the video. I’ll just give you an overview of what he talked about. It was a 13min video.

It does sound like legal action has already been taken against Jono (MegaLag) in some way since he mentioned that he can’t talk about everything, “There are just some things that I can’t share with you right now”, but that could also just be because he’s still tracking down additional information and doesn’t want any companies to try to cover their tracks while he’s following a lead.

He started off the video by recounting his experience from when he first dropped the video, to the next day when he woke up to notifications from a lot of family, friends, and dms from influencers. He ended up working through Christmas with everything going on.

Ryan Hudson, the founder of Honey, dm’d Jono (MegaLag) on Twitter. He only showed a few screenshots of this conversation (not the whole thing) and mentioned that, by the end of it, Ryan Hudson insinuated that he would be suing Jono.

Ryan also made a Reddit post trying to disparage his investigation: https://web.archive.org/web/20250401034542/https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1jlfms8/im_ryan_hudson_the_cofounder_of_honey_ama/

He mentioned that there are now 60 class action lawsuits (that expand beyond Honey) which includes people suing Capital One, Klarna, Microsoft, PayPal and RetailMeNot (he was only able to look into about 30 of them).

He mentioned that Google has updated their Affiliate Ads Policy in response to everything. He covers this in more detail on Twitter: https://xcancel.com/MegaLagOfficial/status/1899611189107147223

MegaLag reached out to the FTC asking them to clarify whether Affiliate Marketing disclosures is required for browser extensions. They gave him the run around for a few weeks and eventually replied, “Nothing to say on this one. Sorry.”

MegaLag finished the video talking about how he developed a new browser extension which helps detect Cookie Stuffing (whenever a webpage attempts to drop an affiliate cookie when you wouldn’t expect it). He’s using it now for more investigations. It’s not out yet, but he’s looking to eventually make it public for everyone.

Looks like they had already lost 4 million users within 2 weeks of MegaLag’s video.

Are we saying that the numbers haven’t moved since then? Is this article sourcing their information from a few months ago, or maybe just looking at different metrics to come up with that number?

It’s also worth pointing out that MegaLag mentioned that there’s a Part 2 to the original video, but it hasn’t been posted yet even thought it was supposed to come out early January.

I’m assuming PayPal didn’t like what he was doing and sent some lawyers his way:

https://www.patreon.com/c/megalag/posts

Yeah, but we can all see the model logs and what you both are actually saying.
Pretending that this is about “calling out a deleted comment” and ignoring the part where you insulted the mod is being disingenuous.

While shadow banning is an option, it’s also a terrible idea because of how it will eventually get used.

Just look at how Reddit uses it today.

The easy solution is to just disable overdraft protection, and that’s exactly what will happen.

I cropped out the screenshot here:

Well, sounds like you’re admitting that their removal reason was entirely accurate.

Was your fall caused by the folding mechanism failing mid-transit?

What’s considered the “worst” vs “best” news source will always be an opinion for any individual user. You can’t expect everyone else to share your same values.

Some users may value their privacy more than others.

Some users value news sources based on how much information their journalists are able to provide.

Some users hate clickbait titles and so they avoid those.

Some users prefer smaller news sources that most others haven’t heard of.

For some users, the first thing that comes back in a search result is the best source.

Some users take the time to compare the information on the various sources through something like ground news and they try to pick the one that captures an interesting bit of information.

Well… I can tell you who didn’t do it.

To be fair, what we specifically have is a republic, although we do have democratic voting to elect our representatives.

Some of those representatives take the stance that they can choose whatever they want best, regardless of what their constituents want, because they were voted in.

Other representatives take the stance that they should vote for whatever the majority of their constituents want.

This wasn’t touched on in the video, but another bad side to making sub minimum wage is when the restaurant has the servers do “side work” at the end of the night before they can go home.

Basically it’s “Free labor” for the restaurant, because you’re still going to get a 0$-$2 paycheck at the end of the pay period.

This work is done after all your tables have gone, and typically involves things like pulling up the seat cushions and cleaning underneath, rolling/folding up napkins, filling up salt/pepper shakers, collecting all of the condiments off the tables, etc.

One restaurant in particular even had us doing some kitchen prep work (in addition to the side work listed above) like dumping whatever was left in the ketchup bottles into a larger container for sauces, stripping herbs off their stems, etc.

Usually this took about 20-30 min, but you couldn’t go until it was done and someone had to sign off on it, or else they would pick up the slack if someone else didn’t do everything.

Thanks for pointing this out.
I’m definitely labelling this account as a “Likely chatGPT Bot” after glancing through that history.