Oh, I was more thinking in the context of a centralized service, although technically it should be possible to do this in a federated manner too. I don’t think the resources would be an issue, but the liability of holding this data would be. I don’t know how that works on sites that currently do this though.

You don’t need a blockchain.

Solvable by requiring verification of every user by government ID?

This group sounds great. Unfortunately, I don’t read Finnish. Is there an equivalent group in English anywhere on Lemmy?

I bought something off Ebay, and sure enough it came from Amazon anyway. I guess they either dropped shipped or they fulfill their orders.

Argh, this drives me crazy! I went to ebay and was willing to pay more to avoid Amazon, but the stuff comes from Amazon anyway. I’m pretty sure this is just 3rd-party sellers drop-shipping stuff. I don’t believe ebay sells anything themselves.

Anyway, I finally figured out that anything being sold new on ebay with only stock photos for a higher price than amazon has a very high likelihood of being cross-shipped from amazon and the seller is pocketing the difference (minus ebay fees?). Either look for non-stock photos, prices less than 5-10% higher than Amazon, or ideally both to avoid this.

A couple of times that I fell for this I made it a point to return the products for a refund. I didn’t give the sellers a negative review because I figured that it’s just some poor slob trying to eek out a living, but I came close.

I don’t watch sports much, but I think I’ve heard multiple times of certain games being played locally not being available at all on TV due to black outs. I could be wrong though.

Good point!

Sure, I agree with that, but I didn’t say they were socialist sports leagues, only that that they had “socialistic policies”. Perhaps if I had written ‘“socialistic” concepts’ it would have been a bit more clear.

Absolutely! Those corporations also love hobbling or getting rid of any honest competition through mergers, acquisitions, regulatory capture, non-compete agreements, and endless other mechanisms.

That’s a lot more understandable and less controversial though. I don’t think you could properly operate a military force without having a level playing field for everyone.

Come to think about it, it’s almost like no complex system involving humans is bound to work well without having a level playing field for everyone. 🤔

Yes, thank you, that’s the quote I had in mind!

Wait until you hear about how you cannot pay to watch all the NFL/NBA/MLB/NHL games in your market on a streaming service. Unless something has very recently changed, there’s no method of legitimately paying where you won’t still experience blackouts.

Yikes, I hadn’t even thought of that! There are some local games where the only way to watch if you live in that city is to buy a ticket to go to the stadium, right?

Good point!

Good point!

Absolutely! It should also be applied to society in the US and everywhere.

I think this is a much more realistic assessment of their relationship, rather than Musk having compromising info on Trump.

Probably!

Oh, for sure! But Musk also has a lot of other qualities that Trump likes, besides being powerful.

I doubt that Musk has anything on Trump. Much more likely is Trump having a lot of reasons to like and admire Musk:

• is the richest man in the world
• has constant attention from the public
• publicly spouts nazi positions
• publicly spouts anti-government positions
• spent millions on Trump’s reelection campaign

Awesome, thank you!