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drawkbox t1_iv113cx wrote
Reply to comment by GranPino in What factors contribute to gas prices? [OC] by USAFacts_Official
Oil/gas cartels work hard to control the amount of refineries down as well as take out leases they never utilize. Then they blame others and other factors for "lack of refinery capacity".
Smaller amount of refineries and fewer companies that control production of refineries that control those, keep the price of gas high or the margins tight, that is desired by the oil/gas cartels the most out of anyone.
drawkbox t1_iv10u6q wrote
Reply to comment by phdpeabody in What factors contribute to gas prices? [OC] by USAFacts_Official
Exactly.
Oil/gas is also the most damaging in increasing inflation because it affects the fulfillment of all goods across the board.
Oil/gas cartels have a massive lever on inflation they can use to extort the world, which they do on the regular and especially right now.
drawkbox t1_iuht4z9 wrote
Reply to A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) is a horror classic. A very good movie, but the ending always hurt it in my opinion. by Any-Satisfaction-770
On "The Movies That Made Us" A Nightmare On Elm Street episode, they talk about how the producer put in scenes that Wes Craven didn't want. A few are the blowup doll/mom being ripped through the window, the gooey stairs and the bed scene at the end I think.
The documentary is amazing and shows just how random and amazing that the movie even got made.
drawkbox t1_iucw5x0 wrote
Reply to comment by Buhodeleste in U.S. tech giants face pressure from Europe’s telcos to pay for building the internet by thinkB4WeSpeak
> then why are the telecom companies bitching?
Because they oversell and their infrastructure is pressed constantly, they'd rather you not use it.
They'd rather de-prioritize throughput, put in data caps and limits for rent-seeking than actually build up infrastructure. If you have a node overloaded it takes a long time to even know, and they drag their feet on upgrading it while they turn up the latency causing de-prioritization (throttling though not directly).
We have allowed ISPs to incentivize themselves to not increase network infrastructure throughput, slow progress benefits them. Rather than upgrading for better service, rent-seeking for slower and slower service compared to market/user need.
Without innovations like DOCSIS, like DOCSIS 3.1 + DOCSIS 4 and other throughput multiplexing technologies, we'd be even worse off on infrastructure. These ISPs will just not run fiber.
drawkbox t1_ity34gd wrote
Reply to comment by jezra in Saudia Arabia Is Going to Get a Hotel with A Ski Resort on Its Roof by theablazefeces
After the murder, Putin and Saudi crown prince high-five at G20 summit
drawkbox t1_iqz5h0w wrote
Reply to comment by TopNFalvors in Arizona clinic has workaround for abortion pill ban by Thetimmybaby
It is just causing the backlash to happen quicker. Lots of flailing and failing.
drawkbox t1_iqz3yfa wrote
Reply to comment by TopNFalvors in Arizona clinic has workaround for abortion pill ban by Thetimmybaby
Never gonna happen, more people are not religious now than most of US history. This is a last roar of a fading cult.
drawkbox t1_ivwzbty wrote
Reply to comment by unbuottawa in FTX looks for $9.4 bln in rescue funds, Bahamas freezes some assets by fudge_u
This is currently 1/6th of a Madoff ($65b), though it continues to increase it seems.