i am more than willing to engage on any positive claim you want to make (i probably agree with a lot of them). what i’m not willing to do is tolerate personal attacks and dogpiling.
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the church of subgenius worships Bob, but there is no evidence he ever existed as a man or otherwise (except the fact that he has worshippers)
If there was no demand, these children wouldn’t be forced to work in mines - it’s that simple.
setting aside the difficulty of quantifying demand, this is still an unprovable statement. you can’t prove a counterfactual.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does (human) organ trafficking exist?1·24 days ago“supply and demand” is a theory about price discovery. it is not an explanation for the existence of a market.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•what advice was great when you first heard it, but has aged like milk since then?1·5 months agoSomeone producing a degradable product that has no buyers is not what is meant when discussing irrational actors.
no one proposed that but you
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•what advice was great when you first heard it, but has aged like milk since then?1·5 months agosaying it’s basic is hand waiving. say what you mean.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•what advice was great when you first heard it, but has aged like milk since then?1·5 months agoI understand that markets are populated by irrational actors.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•You receive an emergency alert: "BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL." What do you do? How do you think your neighborhood will react? What memes be on Lemmy?1·6 months agoopening some of the jails.
they are far enough away from any reasonable target to be safe, and with a few motivated friends, I might be able to pull a few bank jobs.
oh no. I’ve been on the left-hand side of this before. I knew what I was doing.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK There’s someone running around Lemmy posting misinformation against Wikipedia5·6 months agoah. it’s 5oclock somewhere
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK There’s someone running around Lemmy posting misinformation against Wikipedia6·6 months agowhat does this mean
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comto General Discussion@lemmy.world•Does Wikipedia protect your privacy?1·6 months agotheir response supports their original position. your accusations are just mudslinging
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comto General Discussion@lemmy.world•Does Wikipedia protect your privacy?2·6 months agoyou’re whole mo is to accuse other is engaging in bad faith which is, itself, bad faith
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comto General Discussion@lemmy.world•Does Wikipedia protect your privacy?1·6 months agoyour accusations don’t deserve a response
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comto General Discussion@lemmy.world•Does Wikipedia protect your privacy?2·6 months agothere is a brigade originating from a post by the admin of ponder.cat, a user who habitually makes vague accusations of other users concealing their true motivations and intent.
they’re toxic, and I’ll be petitioning my admin to cease federation.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK There’s someone running around Lemmy posting misinformation against Wikipedia10·6 months agoif this was written by anyone else, I’d take it with a grain of salt.
I just don’t believe you.
if it needs to be green olives, get the stuffed ones. but black olives are fine.