This isn’t helpful.

Really? So when you, a girl, bring a girl home to meet your parents for the holidays, they should at least know it’s rude to refer to them as “your friend.”

I assure you I’ve had my own troubles and challenges in life. But at least in this area I got pretty lucky.

Though even then, it’s complicated. Yes, I’m 5’5", but the only way a trans gal is 5’5" is if she comes from a family of short people. I’m the same height as my dad and brothers. I tower over my mother and sisters. They’re more like 5’1".

My life experience as a 5’5" trans gal:

As a repper: “why does my family have to be so short? This is awful. No one will take me seriously.”

Post-transition: “I won the god damned lottery.”

Your country’s leaders are almost certainly just as enthusiastic about AI. The wealthy and powerful are the only international class.

It’s a slimy business tactic that applies the anchoring effect.

You’re shopping internet plans. You see a plan that seems like a good deal to you and meets your needs. The price listed in bold text on the website is $50/month. If you look closely, there’s a little asterisk referencing tiny text at the bottom of the page that simply says something like “plus additional fees.”

So you feel it’s a good deal, so you move forward. You enter all your personal info, everything needed to set things up. Then you get to checkout…and the price has increased to $70/month, inflated by a bunch of bogus fees.

You would think this wouldn’t make a difference in your decision-making, but it does. It actually changes what the average person is willing to pay. Among the reasons:

Anchoring: When you’re shopping, you’ve already subconsciously decided the plan is a good deal at $50. Then you put in the time investment to set up the account. When they spring the fees on you, your mind is in a state where it really doesn’t want to reconsider things. You’ve already finished the price comparison portion of the task! So even though you can see the price increase, the plan still subconsciously feels like it’s $50/month.

Anti-Competitive Behavior: these fees make cost comparisons much more difficult. The only way to see all the fees that your account will be charged is to go through most of the account sign-up process. You can’t just quickly pull up the websites of various ISPS and quickly compare their plans/rates.

Let’s be honest though. This policy was a chicken-shitted rule only a liberal could love. Should we ban ISPs from tacking on extra fees and simply charging the sticker price? No, instead let’s just require them to disclose it in the fine print!

Sorry. I just bristle at potential sea lioning.

Try three things to find out for yourself, and post the results here. If you still haven’t figured it out then, I’ll answer you.

I’m guessing the Tesseract list. Although, I haven’t actually found anyone posting a link to it. I’ve seen a few people ask for the link, but folks only respond with sarcasm.

The wealthy want you to vote with your wallet, as there is nothing they fear more than “one man, one vote.”

That’s why if you want to support artists, you can buy the shit locked down files so they get the artist gets paid, and then just never use them. Pay for them but get your actual files from piracy.