Collectively agreeing to raising prices is anti-competitive collusion and illegal.

Collectively raising prices is anti-competitive coordination and legal.

Pandemic and supply shocks is a perfect excuse to do the latter.

Good luck to whoever is trying to solve this.

Unix people today : "NICE NICE"

Unix people today from 20:28:10 to 20:28:20 GMT : "NICE NICE NICE NICE"

The patent story reveals a lot.

Government:

• creates and enforces a patent system

Also government:

• does essential research and doesn't patent their own discoveries

Donate to propublica.org - they produce a lot of great journalism.

Well, the far right faction of Republicans did already side with Dems to oust the speaker.

That's spoiling at that point

I had a Smaturday last week.

apnews link:

https://apnews.com/article/angola-youths-louisiana-prison-d6dbb08e0d494a1d1808012f208e946f

If they are gonna burn religious books, why not include more of them? Burn bibles, qurans, vedas, tanakhs, etc. Make the event more inclusive :)

Same reason people at home just come up to each other and start talking (which actually requires immediate response) even when the topic is non-urgent whatsoever, instead of leaving notes around the house.

It's all based on differing conventions among people, so saying a call "demands immediate response" is putting your convention above others as the only true one.

In my family the convention is a bit different. A single call does not signal any urgency and so no one is expected nor obliged to answer if they don't feel like it. A second call after the first one wasn't answered implies importance. Third and more calls imply urgency and then emergency. If something is important or urgent and calls aren't getting answered, a message is sent.

I like my convention. I also have slightly different conventions with some friends. I am also aware different people may have different conventions and I don't hold mine to be superior or theirs inferior.

"I should speak less and listen more"

Big if true

What an appropriate homage - linking to one of markdown's originator's Wikipedia page using markdown.

"In 2002 Aaron Swartz created atx and referred to it as "the true structured text format". Gruber created the Markdown language in 2004, with Swartz acting as beta tester ... Markdown: Swartz was a major contributor to John Gruber's Markdown,[249][250] a lightweight markup language for generating HTML, and author of its html2text translator. The syntax for Markdown was influenced by Swartz's earlier atx language (2002)" from wikipedia