Oh interesting-- Yeah gaming the recommendation/search algorithms is another, related explanation. Like I know someone with an Etsy store who says that various things, like running out of stock or putting your store in “vacation mode” will hurt your store’s visibility, so people find ways to game it. Totally makes sense that the same kind of thing would be going on on Amazon.

Weird that they’d allocate ad spend at the same time that they were out of stock, but like I said, the algorithms are pretty coarse and probably just not that coordinated.

There’s more than one article about this?!

At least this one actually calls out the fact that this is a nothing story.

Lots of vendors set their prices algorithmically… So like when competitors raise their prices or demand seems high for some reason or something, the price will auto-adjust to theoretically maximize profits. The algorithms are often pretty dumb.

So sometimes when you see something like this, you’re witnessing a dynamic pricing algorithm spiraling out of control because it wasn’t implemented very well, and nobody’s paying attention.

I was wondering that too. Not arguing or denying, just not sure what they’re referring to.

One thousand percent. The different mechanics and environments and stuff were varied and often interesting (if simple), the production quality was obviously quite high…

But man, the story and characters were distractingly bad. The dialogue was super generic shitty 90s sitcom cringe, and nobody was actually likeable. Then the payoff at the end was like… what? My SO and I were like “Wait so that was the end?” Did they just like… run out of budget like the end of Monty Python’s Holy Grail, so it needed to end abruptly?

We finished it, but yikes. Overrated is right.

Once you figure out the iframes it’s actually pretty easy.

Okay maybe OR-- and just hear me out here-- Maybe the problem is not enough money in politics?

Whoa do “percent” and “percentage points” actually refer to different things?

Yo I just saw a real estate listing on one of the islands near Vancouver Island for one of these. If it wasn’t a million dollars and isolated from pretty much everything, I would definitely be tempted!

Oh I gotchu now 👌

It’s Vitamin D. There was this whole thing during the COVID pandemic about how the FDA/CDC were SUSPICIOUSLY QUIET about how impactful Vitamin D levels were on COVID outcomes or something and how that’s how you know that… something something sinister ulterior motives.

So like the idea was that everybody going outside and getting some sun was actually the best thing for public health, but THEY were telling you to languish inside under lockdowns, because clearly they didn’t want you to be healthy.

Not. Even. Once.

What in the chatgpt…?

Nice! Hope it works out. For sharing publicly, you might look at something like Immich Public Proxy, if it seems like you need it.

Does Immich meet your needs?

I just need someone who can be both a psychoanalyst and therapist.

Taskmistress** thank you very much 💅

It’s like the difference between wandering over to your local coffee shop, vs. popping in.

Yeah I know what you mean. Thanks for the extra context that you were able to glean though.

Plz no