Biohazard

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Landlords are being sued for colluding on rent increases. When more than 90% of units in large buildings have their rent controlled by the same software, it acts as a cartel to raise rents. If all landlords can coordinate rent hikes, it puts pricing power in their hands.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/14-big-landlords-used-software-to-collude-on-rent-prices-dc-lawsuit-says/

#Economics #Urbanism #Housing #HousingCrisis

14 big landlords used software to collude on rent prices, DC lawsuit says

Suit claims employees were told pricing outside the algorithm was "unacceptable."

Ars Technica

Oh yes, I've already been called a self-hating Jew (after I was called a Nazi) just for the crime of saying I didn't want brutality committed against civilians in response to brutality against other civilians.

But I'm old, and saw this coming. Not my first rodeo, it's always like this. Some folks just freaking YEARN for an excuse to dehumanize people. The problem is, those "some folks" are a LOT of folks, and often people we know and love.

β€œThe very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don’t alter their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.”

β€” Fourth Doctor, The Face of Evil

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Demanding RCTs is great for bad faith arguments because there's many circumstances in which they can't or shouldn't be done.

"Do an RCT for causing cancer!" So, what, a 1,000,000-person clinical trial for 20 years with the goal of causing cancer? Neither feasible nor ethical.

https://twitter.com/gorskon/status/1695104021638287361

David Gorski, MD, PhD on X

This is methodolatry at its most extreme, with methodolatry defined as the obscene worship of the RCT as the only valid method of clinical investigation.

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It’s. Not. Over. πŸ˜·πŸ’‰

#COVID hospitalizations jump 22% this week β€” and CDC predicts further increases - CBS News

https://apple.news/AjxgP6BlFTymuddUZT9aqAw

COVID hospitalizations jump 22% this week β€” and CDC predicts further increases β€” CBS News

So far, the CDC doesn't think the highly mutated BA.2.86 variant is to blame.

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