Retailers are replacing price stickers in aisles with electronic shelf labels. The labels prices can change as often as every 10 seconds. Hot outside? They can raise the price of water & ice cream. (www.npr.org)

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 33 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

At another site a lib replied to me with this...

Our tech is now capable of destroying billions of lives financially in a matter of seconds. If Republicans take charge for the next four years they'll probably put price surges into the constitution as an inalienable right for corporations, which clearly matter more to them than human beings.

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Yes. This has ALWAYS been my most basic argument against GOP. Sure, there are some garbage Democrats, but ALL Republicans, even the most benign, support the idea that the right of a human to make a dollar supersedes the right of some other humans to exist. It's baked into basic Republican ideology.

At Bluesky you can see all the replies to your OP post. The functionality has its good and bad points. So far - nearly 100% good for me because my notifications have so little activity.