🏴 | Novo equipamento da seleção inglesa de futebol acaba de causar pol��mica ao recordar os valores cristãos do país.
Milhares de imigrantes muçulmanos estão a criticar o equipamento por ter elementos cristãos.
Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more.
Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged.
Here's what happened:
Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it."
And the exact emails are now PUBLIC.
Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem.
The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately."
Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call.
Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price.
Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed.
Same playbook with Hanes:
Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased."
Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins.
But it gets even worse...
Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site.
Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing.
They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS.
The mechanism is simple but terrifying:
If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers.
Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings."
Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products.
Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform.
So turns out, you were never comparison shopping.
You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors.
"Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable."
3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on.
This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat.
And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE.
"Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.
Meta is under pressure after warnings that facial recognition in its Ray-Ban smart glasses could be misused by stalkers and sexual predators.
A planned feature internally called “Name Tag.” would allow wearers to identify people in real time using the glasses’ camera and Meta’s AI systems potentially linking a stranger’s face to their public social media profiles.
🚨 Do you understand what just happened?
New York wants to ban AI from answering questions about medicine, law, and engineering.
Let me translate that for you:
> The industries charging you $500/hour just lobbied to make sure you can't get the same answers for free.
> This was never about safety. It's about protecting the bill rate.
> Lawyers don't want you to know AI can draft a contract in 30 seconds.
> Doctors don't want you to know AI can read your bloodwork better than a resident.
> Engineers don't want you to know AI can review your blueprints overnight.
They're not banning AI to protect you. They're banning it to protect their invoices.
When asked if he knows how long it will take for MacKenzie Weegar to be able to play, Tourigny gave a great quote.
“You need to ask Uncle Donald for that.”
He repeated what Armstrong said, that it takes 4-10 days to get the visa.
#TusksUp
Some news: I'm in the process of launching a new site, Hockey 24/7, so consider today a soft launch.
A clarification that seemed to catch #TimeToHunt and #Blackhawks fans offguard - yes, Florida's 2026 pick is Top 10 protected.
Details here:
https://t.co/WBf4rsW2pc
This is the traffic I have to deal with on a daily basis coming home from work!? I officially hate people that order limos for their burritos. #fooddelivery