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This gives rise to some genuinely bizarre consensus hallucinations, in which we pretend that the reality decreed by policy matches up with *actual* reality. Take "streaming." There is no such thing as "streaming." A "stream" is just "a download that is transmitted to an application that doesn't have a 'Save As...' button": https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/fulu/#i-am-altering-the-deal 5/

The problems of surveillance pricing are well documented. Under Biden, the FTC did a landmark study on the practice, developing a rich record that documents the role surveillance pricing plays in the affordability crisis: https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/24/gouging-the-all-seeing-eye/#i-spy Companies are already using this technology to rip you off, and they're *slavering* for the chance to do more of it. Instacart was recently caught marking up some shoppers' items by as much as a *third*: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/11/nothing-personal/#instacartography 10/

80巻を過ぎたころからは作者の不適切発言も目立ちました。 特に89巻では、作者紹介欄で元残留日本兵の横井庄一さんをネタにして揶揄する内容の不適切発言があって、その時は社会で批判されたし、ネットメディアを中心に大きな話題になりましたね。 https://kozuehinatsu.com/oda-eiichiro-and-one-piece-history/#i-35

These champions of "free markets" have spent decades defending policies like noncompetes, which makes it a crime for a fast-food worker to quit their job at Wendy's and take a job at the McDonald's across the street in order to get a $0.25/hour raise: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/09/germanium-valley/#i-cant-quit-you They defend anticircumvention laws that make it a literal felony for you to install someone else's app store on your phone or put someone else's ink in your printer: https://memex.craphound.com/2012/01/10/lockdown-the-coming-war-on-general-purpose-computing/ 28/

I collect definitions of "right" and "left." There's Corey Robin's definition from *The Reactionary Mind*, that conservatism is the belief that some people were born to rule, and others to be ruled over, and that any attempt to elevate the latter group to positions of power (through civil rights movements, affirmative action, etc) will result in dire misrule and disaster: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/all-day-suckers/#i-love-the-poorly-educated 6/