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- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 2 months ago:
It’s social media, who’s making scientific postulates?
- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 2 months ago:
It’s a lemmy comment.
- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 2 months ago:
It’s not rudimentary, it’s a complex system reduced to a few sentences.
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Vegan patties have been around forever.
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There aren’t significantly more barriers to entry for food products than other industries.
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Yes vendors want high prices, but that applies to any product, not only vegan products.
The answer is, as everyone else has pointed out, economies of scale. There’s a larger market with more participants producing more beef burgers than there are vegan patties.
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- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 2 months ago:
This is contrary to basic economic principles.
If a beef burger and vegan burger cost the same to make, but people will pay more for the vegan, that world attract more vegan producers to the market, and more competition would reduce the price.
- Comment on The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine 3 months ago:
Obviously. Why is that threatened by this antitrust ruling ?
- Comment on ISS astronauts on eight-day mission may be stuck until 2025, Nasa says 3 months ago:
I would be mad.
I just don’t really think that the ISS is such a nice place to be.
It would be absolutely amazing to be lucky enough to visit there for a few weeks.
By that time though it would start to get old.
It’s not exciting space exploration - it’s being stuck in a smelly can in zero-g.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
Nonsense. The users who have left are an infinitesimal portion of users.
- Comment on The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine 3 months ago:
This article doesn’t even bother to explain the connection. I don’t get it if I’m honest.
- Comment on Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads 3 months ago:
So that makes odysee’s behaviour OK?
- Comment on Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads 3 months ago:
Yeah it really does seem this way.
I’ve never been a “free speech absolutist”. I acknowledge that censorship is problematic, but it seems much less so than the alternative.
- Comment on Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google 3 months ago:
Nonsense.
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
Honestly the shitter they get the more content creators will publish elsewhere.
Honestly idk why more don’t post to peertube already. It costs nothing to cross post if you already have the content.
- Comment on 77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds 3 months ago:
Well yes, but it’s not often I encounter an easy or menial task for which AI is the best solution.
For example, searching documentation us usually more informative than asking a bot trained on said documentation.
- Comment on Bing has been revamped to prioritize AI search results – whether you like it or not 3 months ago:
Kagi & DDG already have their own ai stuff
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It is if you control the judiciary.
- Comment on What do to if I survive a nuclear blast in my city? 3 months ago:
Everyone is talking about radiation but IMO having food and water is more important.
In a large city, things would turn to shit within hours. There would be violence.
Honestly, if you don’t have a relative on a farm within a days walk, then your best bet is a refugee camp.
- Comment on What do to if I survive a nuclear blast in my city? 3 months ago:
If cities are being nuked it probably is the apocalypse.
- Comment on An Algorithm Told Police She Was Safe. Then Her Husband Killed Her. 3 months ago:
Is it really too much to want enough resources to respond appropriately to all cases?
- Comment on What is the actual point of a bra? 3 months ago:
It’s definitely a me problem, not a you problem, but I do find nips distracting. I’d like to get better at not being distracted by visible nips and I’m here for that journey.
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 3 months ago:
The thing is though, everyone needs to do something just for the satisfaction of not doing nothing.
- Comment on Restaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines) 4 months ago:
No one wants to see the people who are being exploited.
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 4 months ago:
In my experience the AI assistant is just trained on the information available on the firm’s website.
In 2024 I never just call a company expecting to be able to be assisted by a person. It’s always quicker and easier to figure out how to interact with said company online. The only times you call are when it’s not possible to resolve your query by interacting with them online.
That being the case, the entire purpose of the AI in this case is just to make it less convenient to call them. “Have you tried to resolve your issue online? Are you really sure about that? Maybe I could paraphrase this blog post from our website written by an intern 12 years ago.”
- Comment on If global warming is a biproduct of humans, wouldn't the logical answer be to kill 2/3rds of the humans? 4 months ago:
If I’m really honest I often feel that way about the questions here. I suspect that most of us are here just to gawk at how truly stupid some of us are.
- Comment on (Possibly stupid) T440 Thinkpad upgrade idea? 4 months ago:
you might have more luck asking on mastodon or something.
I’m a huge thinkpad fan but this question is just so specific, you might need a broader audience.
- Comment on Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen 4 months ago:
If you can’t export / save / transfer codes then you need to regenerate all your 2fa codes every time you switch to a new device.
2FA doesn’t need to be infallible, it just needs to be a second factor.
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 4 months ago:
A winning horse?!
It’s hard to imagine how you could pick a horse less likely to win.
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
Even if that were true, and it seems unlikely, that’s still an order of magnitude more than the ladybug devs.
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
It might seem that way but it’s a fairly arrogant assertion. They’re a sophisticated organisation with a lot of well experienced people guiding them. As an outsider it’s easy to criticise their seemingly endless series of bad decisions, but I’m still confident that internally all of these decisions seemed like a good idea at the time.
Besides which, this would be a good reason to fork their codebase rather than starting from scratch.
- Comment on Fan & thermostat for cabinet cooling 4 months ago:
Nice. These look great.
Do you know if it will turn off entirely if the temp is low enough? Or they just idle away at 300rpm or so.
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
Oh my sweet summer child.