FishFace
@FishFace@piefed.social
- Comment on Western Imperialism 5 hours ago:
Which country(s) are you talking about? In n the case of Iran, the western meddling installed the Shah who was a secular force, overthrown by the extreme Islamists.
- Comment on Proper British Passive Aggressiveness 1 day ago:
That’s nothing to do with Carney… What aren’t I getting?
- Comment on Proper British Passive Aggressiveness 1 day ago:
Wait how has Mark Carney bent the knee?
- Comment on This community in one meme 1 day ago:
It’s not really a difference in English, either. “Venom” is a specific term, but “poison” is general, so too with poisonous.
I think it’s specific in some scientific areas, but insisting on that is like insisting on calling a tomato a fruit, or a banana a berry.
- Comment on This community in one meme 1 day ago:
Oh my god I thought I was the only one banging this drum
- Comment on What do your teeth taste like? 3 days ago:
Now THIS is a shower thought
- Comment on Looks fine to me 5 days ago:
Just shut up? It’s very simple.
- Comment on nothing really matters 5 days ago:
How much brain rot do you have that those overly verbose videos seem like a better alternative than a quick writeup?
- Comment on Pornography depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives set to be banned 6 days ago:
Given that everyone’s watching porn either on small sites flying under the UK radar or through a VPN/Tor now, what will this achieve exactly?
- Comment on Britain has a long history of spying on Iran 6 days ago:
That is a hilarious fucking headline even for the canary.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Fake and boring
- Comment on ard 1 week ago:
“Wizard” historically had a negative connotation though.
It’s to be expected that an old suffix can have multiple meanings.
- Comment on ard 1 week ago:
- Comment on justgermanthigs 1 week ago:
I’d call the mode on the machine “boiling wash” or “hot wash” (which is probably 60 degrees rather than 90). But from other comments I’m understanding that Germans separate laundry into “Kochwäsche” and some other part(s), and there is no general term for that because it’s not common.
- Comment on justgermanthigs 1 week ago:
Because “kochen” isn’t a good translation for the english word “to cook” - at least not in all scenarios. When used with an object (etwas kochen, like Wäsche) it means more like “to boil” or “to brew”. So you “kocht Kaffee” (but one never “cooks coffee"). And it certainly is not true that you “ein Steak kocht”! So there’s an overlap in meaning but it’s not the exact same thing.
This makes kochen a partial false-friend!
- Comment on Major UK supermarket to stop selling mackerel in coming weeks 1 week ago:
Oh, thanks for linking that
- Comment on Major UK supermarket to stop selling mackerel in coming weeks 1 week ago:
This is about sustainability, presumably farming salmon is sustainable.
- Comment on After the 6th payment the burrito is mine 💀💀💀 1 week ago:
You sound like someone who thinks an nft is something other than a certificate.
- Comment on Meta Employee Deleted 9TB of Torrented Files, Adult Film Producers Claim 1 week ago:
Tech companies, as a general rule, do not filter the internet of their employees, because those employees generally need to do a lot of stuff with the internet (or networking besides the internet) and filtering it would cause a lot of problems.
Production machines (where the data lives) can be much more restricted than work machines. Strong access controls mean that compromising a work machine doesn’t give you access to production data.
- Comment on thanks for this, Riri. us nymphos don't get enough mainstream representation😔 1 week ago:
amen!
- Comment on Meta Employee Deleted 9TB of Torrented Files, Adult Film Producers Claim 1 week ago:
Do you think tech companies filter their employees’ internet?
They have tens of thousands of employees, a few of them are bound to download some porn at some point. And the amount downloaded is about 20 files per year on average.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 1 week ago:
@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works remind you of anyone?
- Comment on After the 6th payment the burrito is mine 💀💀💀 1 week ago:
Yes that’s also true… I would venture that it’s not as useful in general to understand the concept though :)
- Comment on After the 6th payment the burrito is mine 💀💀💀 1 week ago:
The correct understanding of NFTs has always been trivial: they’re certificates. What they certify is not determined.
Anyone telling you anything else is either lying, or a moron (or has been lied to, which is not incompatible with being a moron).
- Comment on Government confirms broadcast‑style regulation for Netflix, Disney+ and more 1 week ago:
Seems then like there’s no real reason to block applying the rules to streamers while trying to prosecute GB news.
What I didn’t realise when writing my first comment was that GB News has already been fined for breaching Ofcom rules.
- Comment on Government confirms broadcast‑style regulation for Netflix, Disney+ and more 1 week ago:
Why? Streamers are way bigger than GB News in terms of viewership.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 1 week ago:
In a rational stock market (and there are numerous reasons why that might not apply) the value of a share reflects the expected future earnings from holding the share. The expected future earnings come in the form of dividends that the company distributes from the profit they make. So if a retailer’s costs increase, they put prices up to maintain the exact same profit, and sales do not fall, then you would not expect share price to change, because you would not expect any change to the future earnings from holding a share.
Of course, when prices change, it influences sales. But not always in the same way (because goods can be more or less elastic or - less so at supermarkets - luxury goods) and not always predictably; and since the expectation is about predicting behaviour, that means share price doesn’t even necessarily reflect what actually happens.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 2 weeks ago:
Looking at total profit instead of profit margin is pretty silly though. My food bill is not affected by how many people shop at the same supermarket as me, even though that increases the total profit of that supermarket. Should I be annoyed that my bill didn’t go down in that scenario?
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 2 weeks ago:
I think supermarkets’ low profit margins are reflective of a fairly competitive sector. Do you think Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Lidl, Asda and the rest all colluded to increase prices on chocolate products… at a time when, coincidentally, the price of cocoa quadrupled? I don’t think there’s any evidence of that, and the price increase is adequately explained by other factors.
It’s worth saying that the commodity price has now come back down (I only just realised this). So prices should be coming back down as well. But prices are always quite sticky, especially on the way down. There are quite easily explained reasons for that which we can go into if you want.
But to answer your question, “Shouldn’t the retailer soak up some of those costs” the rational thing to do is to absorb costs for as long as that is the most profitable thing to do. But if commodity prices literally go up 4X, the only way you can absorb the cost is to be making a large loss on every bar of chocolate sold. Why would you do that, instead of either a) charging more or b) using the shelf space and distribution costs for something else?
You can lay out a scenario where it’s rational for the retailer to keep stocking a loss-making product - to get people in the door and to buy other things which net a greater profit than is lost on the chocolate or whatever. But that’s just a scenario, and clearly it’s only a question of tweaking some values to come up with a scenario where that loss-leader strategy makes no economic sense. Clearly the supermarkets didn’t believe it made economic sense.
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 2 weeks ago:
I’m calculating this from this article linked up the thread, dated April 2025, which says their profits were “just north” of £1 billion on £26.6 billion of revenue.
I’m not an accountant so I dunno if this is the exact right figure - further down the article it says their pre-tax profit was £761 million, which gives you a lower gross margin of 2.9%. I’m sure these different figures just reflect different ways of looking at the same numbers but the point is the same - Sainsbury’s is not, overall, gouging people on prices. Surely some products are overpriced, but others are loss leaders.