this will be news when liberals start waking up to the reality they'll need to start throwing cocktails. until then for those on the left this is standard expected behavior by fascists. not much we can do about it without populace support.
its why antifascist groups take operational security seriously from the get go.
techdirt laying out the FU. good for them. that being said.... too bad congressional democrats and most state are still acting like doormats.
Child, we're both saying it wasnt market forces. But you have made unsubstantiated claims about testing be the source of these drops. Im calling you out as a moron because you are.
The prices increases were pure corporate greed hence why you're seeing the rapid adjustments. Because the cost of eggs has never reflected the cost of production.
There is no need for gradual price adjustments for fucking eggs. Business' make contracts for a set period of time precisely to manage the variability that would require gradual adjustments.
You have cost to produce + cost to deliver + storage costs + profit.
All of those are relatively constant over the span of a year except profit. And the only piece impacted by the flu was availability.
And the only way you fix availability is by sourcing from producers with surplus and in no way justifies nyc jump 200+% and a town a few hours north also jumping 200+% when NYC was already 100+% higher due to real estate and labor costs.
What we should have seen in a market based system is NYC goes up by n% and the town goes up by m% where n < m. Which is not what we saw at all. Cities went up more then rural areas.
Which leaves us back to my original statement of: pure corporate greed. And completely debunks your original claims about testing. Never mind the fact some places saw little to no disruption in prices, which also debunks your claims about testing, since thats federally mandated and uniform across the board.
Sigh, please stop talking you don't know what you're talking about.
Here are where eggs are produced in the US
The cost of producing/shipping eggs is basically constant. For example: if I ship go from penn to NYC, and then distribute to the rural areas from the nyc hub. Its cheaper to deliver to the city than the rural areas.
And yet you'll see prices in NYC are much higher (probably where that $12 figure came from) than the rural areas.
So effectively our production, shipping, real estate, and labor costs are effectively constant in both regions and yet both experience a 200% price increases due to a supply shortage? Sorry fam, but the price isnt reflecting the cost to produce. Its reflecting what businesses think they can get away with.
The fact is prices were jacked up as high as they could get away with for local markets while they had the cover of a supply shortage. And in no way reflects the cost of the actual disruption, and have nothing to do with your absurd original claim about testing or anything to do with market forces unless you count unrestrained greed as a market force.
The USDA covered farmers for their loss of chickens/production the farmers didnt see a fucking penny of these price increases.
Edit: just to be clear, im not saying variability based on region doesnt make sense. Im asserting that in the case of a disruption in production you'd see a constant price increase across the board, since only production was impacted. So NYC would see $0.05 and so would a town in northern NY.
What you absolutely would not see is a 100%+ hike in prices across the board.
Dude, ive literally been in meetings where were it was decided to increase prices by 80% based on the zipcode you were from.
It absolutely is normal market behavior. These fuckers pull this kind of shit all the time. Hell during trumps last admin they killed some worker pay thing and immediately businesses gave a bonus to workers that was worth a fraction of what the bill would have given workers as a ploy.
Hell in this thread alone you can see the massive variability of prices based on regions and no, its not because of mysterious market forces. You dont go from 8 to 2 dollars in a couple months due to market forces for a product that has a lead time of 3-4 months (the time it takes for a chicken to mature and produce eggs)
What has happened here is essentially: flu killed off a truck load of chickens, prices sky rocketted due to supply/demand and farmers redirecting to chicken production to restore the supply. Then as the chickens matured prices stabalized back down. And during this period middle men jacked up the prices because they had cover of a supply issue to blame beyond what the reality dictated.
But this took awhile to occur and started well before this admin. Has nothing to do with testing as you asserted with 100% confidence, in fact trsting is how we managed to limited the damage. Nor does it justify 12.99/dozen prices in one region and 4 in another were both regions magically reverted by 50+% to the baseline.
😂 milk/eggs are the same price here in my state. You guys were/are just getting fucked by standard capitalist behaviors. Nothing has fundamentally changed this year for those price drops.
I assure you testing for bird flu in no way results in a 20% price drop, let alone whats being claimed by this admin. Testing is dirt cheap likely less than a fraction of a cent per egg.
Well thats good! Pointing towards vlc specific issues ;)
those should be pretty well optimized at this point. that leaves basically the drivers if you have issues on a different player. do you have issues with audio on say youtube?
Try a different player. elisa is built on top of vlc's codec library. see if the problem goes away. if the file's format is rare i'd try to convert it to a new format and see if the problem is resolved.
im not too familiar with debian, so its hard to say. could be any number of issues: the type of encoding your media is in, the media player, the kernel, drivers.
what you're running into is the system stalling usually due to unoptimized or pathological edge cases. the system load doesn't necessarily matter. thats why it happens random and isnt repeatable.
as for your follow up question: many media players have builtin album art resolution. though not sure how to enable it.
oh wow a city councilor the lowest rung of the political ladder and completely unable to do anything directly about federal policy. where is schumer? jeffries? pelosi? harris? hilary? obama? oh right. no where to be seen. not that i give a shit what harris/hilary do generally but its a good example of why harris/hilary were never qualified to be president in the first place. And I can sum up obama's presidency as: 'yes we can, but we wont'
these people are trash and need to be removed and unfortunately its the entire democratic party at this point. just look at the DNC's inability to self reflect re: hoggs. the chair was crying the other day because hogg manages to get more positive press than he does.
my original comment was really just pointing out that fucking techdirt has better reporting than the majority of the main stream media outlets. the democrat swipe was just for funsies. since.... you know.... 27% approval. But apparently its bidens fault for running for office again. fucking lulz.
though i suspect this would be pelosi/schumer if they had any backbones left and actually showed up.
at some point you democratic party apologists need to pull your head out of your asses and realize the democrats are powerless because of their behavior and policies. They have no one to blame but themselves for their current predicament. they could start rectifying the situation but its clear they won't.