This post alleging extortion from CloudFlare¹ is plausible/cautionary. Market monopolies/tech mono-cultures suck so it's tempting to just be outraged at CF.
However, we allow this when we cede control to third parties (not just cloud) without mitigation plans, by NOT:
@davidaugust
You're welcome to come to Canada for free medical care but you'll need to hurry. Our wall is going up on Nov 5th. Maybe...Depends on who wins.
Roman #Monopoly piece? A bronze figurine of #dog found at the #Roman roadside station on the Brandsteig, Aichhalden-Rötenberg, where a votive altar dedicated to Diana Abnoba was found. #Dogs were associated with Diana. The figurine may have been an offering to the goddess.
Amarcord di oggi: la classica edizione di Monopoli quadrata della Editrice Giochi (si chiamava ancora senza la Y finale 🙂 ).
Non so come abbia fatto ad arrivare fino ad oggi con me da quanto è frusta dal tempo e dal giocarci per terra in cortile da piccolo 😁
Ce l'ho dalle elementari, quando si giocava con le regole inventate, perchè guai a leggere le istruzioni, e non si capiva cos'era l'ipoteca, ma tutti a picchiarsi per avere il candelabro 🤭
@thegib@simonezanella dalla foto mi pare sia quella che avevo anch'io, non ricordavo il rebranding con la "Y" 😅
i segnalini erano di legno, pazzesco in un mondo attuale in cui tutti i giochi sono di plastica.
Anche noi usavamo regole auto-semplificate 😅
Note to self.
When listing stuff for sale on #eBay I must remember they will take 14%. They'll also take 14% on the postage.
...and they'll pay no tax to the Australian Government #corporategreed#monopoly
Why is this legal?
"In 2023, UHG raked in a jaw-dropping $22.4 billion in profits with $5.5 billion in the fourth quarter alone. Revenue was up by 14.6% to an incredible $371.6 billion.This financial windfall has come via rewriting healthcare industry practices through vertical integration ... to essentially be a value-chain monopoly, controlling everything from health insurance to medical services to healthcare data to pharmaceuticals." #Healthcare#Monopoly https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/prescriptionsforabrokensystem/109088
@Jennifer I don't see the estimated body count so I can't say how much they got paid for each death, let alone the pain and suffering of the patients who got substandard care or the providers who scrambled to to care for 3x as many patients as they could.
New study: "The current level of implementation of transformative agreements is insufficient to bring about a large-scale transition to fully #OpenAccess. A key finding…is that TAs maintain market concentration…The three largest commercial publishers #Elsevier, #SpringerNature & #Wiley dominate, particularly with regard to OA provided through TAs. Together, the 3 publishers accounted for 3/4 of OA articles through TAs." https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18255
@petersuber@paulwalk Right. But the same principle applies. Universities that signed "transformative agreements", presuambly in the expectation that they would result in transformation, are at liberty to — I would say EXPECTED to — refuse to extend such agreements when they don't do what it says on the tin.
@mike@paulwalk
Yes, we can hope. But my sense is that many universities will renew even without evidence of actual journal flipping. They're signing them now without evidence of actual flips from previous agreements.
It's good to know he's "pissed off." Now, if only he'd use his power as the Head of the GD Government to do something about it!
Maybe break up the Bell-Telus-Rogers stranglehold on Canadian media?
JK, the Liberals are pretty much opposed to "doing things" they'd rather say the right things and complain when the Cons end up making things much worse.
Petite partie de découverte de #Tokaido avec LaGrande (oui #TokaidoDuo aurait été plus adapté). C'est tout comme on me l'avait présenté : joli, accessible et atypique. La comptabilité des points se fait au fur et à mesure et permet de savoir où on en est...
Bon LaGrande s'est crue la banque du #Monopoly et a trusté tout le pognon. Et ça a payé : 2 repas ratés plus tard j'étais sur les dents et en peine pour mes souvenirs...
@beardedtechguy It takes most of the taste out, I agree. To me, not being a huge fan of onions period, they still overpower other things. That's me personally though.
Oddly, I love onion rings, especially Sonic's onion rings.
