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Right, over the long term prices go down, but it still greatly annoys me that they jacked up prices in the short term. Thankfully I have no need to purchase any storage and won't for years.

Neat!

I've only looked at the consumer space and all I've noticed is that SSD prices were finally going down after stagnating for years, but then the manufacturers said that prices are too low and they intentionally slowed down production to increase prices, so prices are actually higher than they were a year ago.

Don't forget proxy wars and subterfuge. It's much easier to gain influence through "soft" power than through brutal invasion and occupation, but this "soft" power can still result in tremendous bloodshed, like instigated coups.

A country without farmers will perish, a country without "elites" will make do.

Getting directly involved in publicity photo shoots, that is.

The combination of up and down votes serve little purpose other than to enforce popular opinions because they ultimately boil down to like and dislike buttons most of the time. Combine that with a dumb karma system (or people paying attention to a summation score) and you get tons of reposts guaranteed to farm upvotes, bot farms using up and down votes to make their opinions look more popular and opposing opinions look less popular, and vapid le ebic meme posts that add nothing to the conversation but make people blow air through their nose and thus "have my upboat".

Like it or not, people often get swayed seeing numbers go in either direction. I'd rather not see people try to conform to popular sentiment just to play it safe in case they care about this silly score. Disabling downvotes at least means that a post receiving few upvotes could've done so for a variety of reasons so people can't assume more upvotes automatically means better and there's no red number that people use to automatically disregard an unpopular opinion. If you wish to point out that a post is bad, you can do so with words, then you actually have to provide a reason instead of "I don't like this post".

How do you short a privately-held company?

Hey I know that guy, he streams on twitch!

Don't worry, I'm no threat to your title.

They've been bombing Syria for years now, actually. The reason is because Israel wants to dominate the entire Middle East and will destroy any and all countries that stand in their way.