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  • Raising the gas prices 10x overnight won’t create those alternatives overnight, nor will it put petrol companies out of business because they pass the cost on to consumers who are mostly forced to buy gas at whatever the current price is with no other viable transportation method.

    Infrastructure takes time. Sadly the US govt isn’t even at the starting line for any meaningful public transit system in most cities.

    If gas prices went up 10x overnight, some higher earners could switch to working from home (a positive result), but other industries such as retail don’t really get that luxury… Contributing to more wealth inequality


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    7 months ago

    It’s not like we’ll not see it coming Once threads.net starts federating with the big instances, it’s all over

    The information that can be gathered and sold is pretty intense, even when your account is on another instance

    • All your posts and comments (this is public information, no cause for alarm)
    • Everything you upvote/downvote
    • Every time you load an image from another instance (link tracking, can probably be correlated with your IP address you signed into facebook with)
    • With enough posts in your feed tracking you, a general picture of your interests and time of day you interact with lemmy will form, which can be sold