Amazon needs to drop the third party seller marketplace crap all together and then be the only seller and shipper. They then need to fix the product searching functionality that has become worse than a free weekend getaway to Hell. If they still want to cater to the thirty party seller, they can offer standalone storefront and SEO services. All of the other sites now running marketplaces mixed in with their own offerings need to also change. This has become commonplace for many big traditional brick and mortar retailers with online shopping.

Price gouging is always theft of money from the desperate. The justification that the gougers use is that people were willing to pay, and this apparently is how they can still sleep at night. Yes, we all ultimately make the choice to bite or not. It the options are shit sandwich or shit sandwich with salt, there has to be responsibility for the shit sandwich to be eaten on both sides of the transaction. But no! The free market can fix this! Teach the bad humans a lesson by dying instead of buying.

A business now employing two people working 20 hours each week is one still seeing 40 hours of productivity. Whereas, one that has stuck with one employee and shifted to 32 hours isn't. A bonus for the business expanding its ranks might be a reduction in benefits related overhead since part-time workers often don't qualify.

what's the damage

This thinking is precisely why computers still drag today. While I do realize the advancements in hardware technologies made possible more sophistication in software, the world was getting stuff done back in the day with 8-bit processors and 64K RAM. It has seemed for a long time that no one bothers to design with limiting resource usage in mind.

The do not design and manufacture cars. They have a scaleable inverted skateboard like EV platform ideal for cargo vans and buses. They build at least the van and do so in different sizes.

What do you think their reason is for not being interested in "fake meat"? It being "weird" or different is ridiculous, and I think this is it primarily for most people. Meatless diets have existed all over the world forever. So, clearly humans don't need meat.

I bet the simple answer is no. Humans must still be present to operate the truck during parts of the routes unsupportive of driverless mode. Plus, this mode will never be able to handle all of the various situations to be encountered along a route. Is the truck just going to shutdown in the middle of the road until someone has driven in from some big Urban Area to put out road flares so that road debris can be untangled from under it or negotiate tight pathways of congested and stopped traffic? Of course not. The human is needed. If the pricing model or profit goals don't support in-truck human drivers, use rail.

There are and will be reasons beyond those two for people in general and party members to not want Harris to be the nominee. One reason will be the same as put forth for Biden. Someone will be seen as the candidate most likely to win, and plenty of people will not see her as this.

The password is "guest"

They changed it recently to "SignupRequired" to make it more complex.

The intended benefit of an effective mask goes to everyone else, not the wearer. Now, I'm sure plenty do still wear them or did while thinking it is the wearer that primarily benefits. Many folks wear them to help protect others close to their heart and not just society as a whole.

While I am not wanting to jump into this debate as self proclaimed expert, I believe a key difference between his/her situation and what is typical might be that his/her employees are actually contractors. His labor costs should be higher since the company's financials don't include much or even any of the other line item costs that are factored into total compensation. The costs are paid by the contractor or contractor's firm. Plus, the contractor must also account for idle time in his/her rate.

You, mere human, are no archiving bot.

We have tiered pricing here in my part of the Carolinas where the price per CCF increases a lot as one moves from tier to tier. The billing is done to the tier where my first 4 CCF is billed at the cheapest rate. CCFs 5-8 are billed at a higher rate and so on. CCFs 12-16 are quite expensive. These are just the usage fees. There is a formula used to calculate sewer usage charges based on water usage. The only way to avoid sewer usage fees when, say, watering the lawn or plants is to pull water off a secondary meter installed for irrigation. It is not cheap to get the second meter. We also have storm water charges and another fee tied to, maybe, water availability.

Back in the day, we also didn't need Macromedia Flash since image presentation and animation was still possible without it for desktop applications. Electron and other browser based runtimes are for people that can't or won't develop for platforms beyond the web before delivering a product for the desktop or another OS. Instead, they just stuff their HTML, CSS, and slow ass JavaScript in a resource heavy, kitchen sink having framework. Lightweight, purpose specific applications are still possible and even simpler to maintain. I long for the day when software again is restained by hardware. Folks, we once did a lot with 2 MB of RAM and a 25MHz CPU. No, I do not need to end this with a sarcasm tag. I will, instead, close with "get off my lawn!".

We all know that Win11 will run without TPM enabled and on not-really-old "old" processors, so I would not be so confident in your chosen tactic if I was you. Microsoft only has to decide they want Win11 on your hardware more than they want the OS to have TPM. We accepted this scenario when we relinquished control. We got this and every other way Big Company screws us when we decided the data harvesting, free business model was acceptable over paying a non zero price. I long for the end of this and a return to paying with, in my case, the U.S. Dollar.