I feel like for that, at least for me, I have to care about what the other person thinks because I have some responsibility and I don't want to let them down. It wouldn't work for me to have a complete stranger doing it.

The middle one is a similar kind of configuration to my Mac studio, and if you were to put this APU in an actual build it only comes out a little cheaper so the pricing tracks.

Are you British? Generally supermarkets in the UK are usually quite community oriented. They often have collection boxes where you can buy an extra item of something you were going to get anyway and they give it to charity, and host other local charity initiatives sometimes. They even have a signboard in my supermarket with local community news and stuff. I believe most food stores give away surplus expiring food to homeless shelters (it says Tesco already does in the article). Giving it away in store is new and welcome but not without precedent. Some stores have a free fruit section for kids already for example.

I mean this is politics in general

I buy CDs and rip them into lossless myself unless it's not available and then I'll sail

There is no problem... in theory. You can show mathematically that profit maximisation and utility maximisation can distribute goods effectively. In theory, on paper, where everyone follows the rules and so on. That's true with any system really.

Often, when you solve these models in economics, you implicitly make the assumption of 'benevolent dictator'. You need someone outside the system that has nothing to gain by interfering in the system, that can move stuff around at will, that regulates every single agent/firm to behave in ways only permitted by the system etc.

The problem is humans are human. None of these things work if someone decides to not play by the rules. People can blame the system sure, but if the system isn't even being employed properly in the first place, I think it's the wrong argument to be having. It's a bit like ignoring or modifying half the rules of a board game and then saying the game is broken because it leads to weird outcomes.

The problem is that in theory the workers also are supposed to own the factories and get a slice of the profits. This is what shares are for. Unfortunately, in practice, a larger and larger chunk of people seem to be getting excluded from that bit.

You must be using knuckle dusters regularly

I'm my case it was an autism diagnosis but otherwise yes.

Since nobody seems to have read the article:

Following the unusual birth, Krispy Kreme has offered Dallas, and, more pertinently, his family free doughnuts for a year and will throw Dallas a birthday party every year until he’s an adult.

This is one of the best things I've seen on the internet

Probably gonna wait to see what the studio is like first but for the first time it might be that the mini is enough to meet my needs as well. I use a hack right now but aiming to keep that as a separate gaming pc as well

Still my favourite racing game on PC

Probably because he expected for that sort of money for the only reaction to be people jizzing themselves

I dunno if you follow car stuff much. Chip shortage during COVID affected how many cars could be made. Manufacturers saved them for high margin high value cars. Already there is a smaller market for them. Plus, charging infrastructure in some countries is behind to the point where a lot of people are sticking to petrol. That's the wider picture.

On top of that VW made a really good EV platform and then screwed it up with a cheap interior, glitchy software, and frustrating laggy haptic buttons everywhere on cars that weren't exactly cheap. Why bother with that when you can get a Kia Niro (as an example) with more features, a massive warranty, more range, better interior for the same or less money?

GabeN quote still as relevant as ever

Cock blocked

This is also mentioned in the article

Literally what regulation is for though it has become a dirty word ever since businesses have essentially started running the world in place of monarchs

That's more yak and mac really