#price

california@diaspora.permutationsofchaos.com

#Apple says #8GB of #RAM on #M3 MacBooks is similar to #16GB on #Windows PCs

source: https://www.techspot.com/news/100784-apple-8gb-ram-m3-macbooks-similar-16gb-windows.html

Apple's new M3 products push the emerging #Arm #PC sector to the next level, but the cheapest #MacBook in the lineup is a $1,600 #notebook with only 8GB of unified memory. Many consider 16GB the current standard and arguably the minimum for intense workloads, but Apple thinks its RAM is different.

I'm also wondering why 8GB of RAM on a MacBook costs as much as 32GB on a non-Apple #laptop?

#workload #memory #computer #economy #price #hardware #question #technology

anonymiss@despora.de

#Amazon Used Secret ‘Project Nessie’ #Algorithm to Raise #Prices

source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/willskipworth/2023/10/03/amazon-allegedly-used-secret-algorithm-to-raise-prices-on-consumers-ftc-lawsuit-reveals/

The algorithm was able to track how much Amazon’s power in the e-commerce field would get competitors to move their prices, and in instances in which competitors didn’t move their prices, the algorithm would return Amazon’s prices back down, according to the Journal.

(I don't link to the original source the "Wall Street Journal" because of the paywall.)

Amazon is #neoliberalism in its final stage. It is no longer about manufacturing #costs and fair prices, but only about how to eliminate the #competition with low prices or how high you can rip off your own customers.


#economy #fail #customer #price #online #marketplace #internet #scam #crime #ftc #news #technology #business

anonymiss@despora.de

About #inflation in #Austria 🇦🇹

Source; https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/111071396799790275

I compared 40 product pairs across the two biggest chains. And lo and behold: their prices matched exactly to the cent! 🛒

...

We could also show that the exact same product cost up to 40% less in #Germany, a country with higher mean income and higher cost of living. 🤷‍♂️

#economy #capitalism #corruption #crime #profit #money #finance #exploration #supermarket #fail #society #politics #Europe #eu #justice #price

theaitetos@diaspora.psyco.fr

#France: Minister tells People Two More Weeks until Food goes back to being Affordable

Just two more weeks.

Seems pretty reasonable.

I mean, the governments of the West told us about 150 times that the coronavirus hoax would end in two weeks – and it was true every time.

Democracy’s track record of honesty is also as severe as its track record for prosperity and social mobility.

Reuters:

#Food #price #inflation in #France – which has been a major concern for consumers – should ease off by September, said government minister Olivia Gregoire on Sunday.

“By the time people come back from their holidays in September, we will have a visible decrease in the prices you see on the shelves and in terms of food price inflation,” Gregoire, who is a government minister responsible for small-and-medium sized enterprises (SMEs), told France Inter radio.

Gregoire’s comments echoed those from Bank of France governor and European Central Bank member Francois Villeroy de Galhau, who said earlier this month that he expected food price inflation to start easing in the second half of this year.

Things are really just getting better and better on this endless road to a utopia.

hipstre@diasp.org

Accelerating Downfall
I am so fucking #angry all the time. Everything is getting worse, and the rate is accelerating. The #price of #everything I #buy to live has gone up more than 100% in the last two years. The #pricegouging and #profiteering is #endless. #Inflation is 7%, not 50%, and everyone else is… I have always been human fucking garbage. I always will be. My life is getting worse every year. It's unrelenting. I have to fucking commit #suicide. There is no way out. It's all getting worse and accelerating. I am already behind. I am already a loser piece of shit. I am #fat. I am #old. I am #ugly. I am #poor. I am #worthless. And there is NO WAY OUT. I have to commit suicide. I #hate my life more and more every day. I hate everyone around me. I hate myself. There is no path away from this. Don't respond saying that there is a path, but it's not an easy path. All that is saying is that I could get out, but I am #lazy. And I have already established that I am #fucking #worthless #human #garbage who should kill himself. But I am too much of a #coward to kill myself. I have to go on pointlessly suffering for some reason. I just hope someone kills me. If you know who I am, please kill me. I deserve a slow, painful death, but I ask for #mercy, and that you please make my #death #quick and #painless. I won't fight. I mean, I won't fight if I don't know what's coming. Shoot me in the back of the head or something. I #hope you get away with it. But ultimately I don't fucking care (See? Worthless Human Garbage). There is no point to your fucking worthless life either. But for what it's worth I hope you succeed and evade #legal #problems for my #murder, which I #deserve, I assure you. Kill me, please. There is no point in this going on.

tpq1980@iviv.hu

So-called "fossil fuels" aren't made from #fossils. If they were, they wouldn't be able to be extracted below the fossil layer & Saturn's moon #Titan wouldn't have vast amounts of #oil inside it.

"Petroleum" is from the ancient #Greek petra + oleum which means rock + oil. Oil, or #petroleum comes from the Earth's geological processes, not fossils. "Fossil fuels" are more accurately called "hydrocarbons."

We've been conned by #BigOil, the #Rockefellers & #marketing agencies in order to create a false #perception of #scarcity to control #population & #economic development via artificial #energy scarcity & #price fixing.

#fossilfuels #hydrocarbons #gasoline #petrol #linguistics #usa #etymology #rockefeller #uk #artificialscarcity #geology #saturn #cartel #conspiracy

tpq1980@iviv.hu

Your #debt is an asset on a bank's balance sheet. By moving your debt from one #bank to another, you are reducing the positive balance on one bank's #balance sheet & increasing it on another. If enough #people do that, a bank's share #price can be changed.

If a bank wants to try to impose a social credit system or a component of one upon you, take the asset of your debt away from them. If enough people do this, they may find a bank will change its unwanted #behaviour.

#socialcreditsystem #carboncredits #carboncreditsystem #banking #usa #debt #assets #socialengineering #banks #economiccoercion #uk #un #banksters #bankingelite #globalism #ccp #communism #technocracy #plutocracy #corporatocracy #wef #socialcredit #photosynthesis #cfr #secretsocieties #socialengineers

ramnath@nerdpol.ch

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iD58nRmTiMY

#price increases massive fraud as the rich get richer

#Pope imposes #deadline for #Vatican to transfer assets to #bank

ROME — Pope Francis on Tuesday imposed an Oct. 1 deadline for all Holy See offices and Vatican-linked institutions to deposit their assets with the Vatican bank.

Francis’ decree follows his decision earlier this year to entrust management of all Vatican assets to one office — the patrimony office known as APSA — in a bid to end decades of mismanagement that culminated with a scandal over a 350 million-euro investment in a London property. Ten people, including former Vatican officials and external brokers, are on trial in the Vatican tribunal on finance-related charges related to the deal.

The Vatican’s economy ministry in July issued a new investment policy requiring all Vatican departments to transfer their assets and investments to APSA via its accounts at the Vatican bank, known as the Institute for Religious Works, or IOR. No specific deadline was given, but the decree published Tuesday says all assets must be transferred by Sept. 30.

😨 ALERT! Europe & Vatican Emergency Money Move! ⚠️