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senatortedcruz

Obsessed with whatever is happening in my hometown’s facebook group.

fake-news-and-headlines

jaubaius

Ancient lock mechanism

theoutcastrogue

Oh that’s great! There are many pictures of this type of lock around, but when it comes to locks, you need a video/gif to illustrate how it works, right?

This is ye olde pin tumbler lock, an Egyptian (c.2000 BCE) improvement of an older Assyrian (c.4000 BCE) design:

It spread out from Egypt and it was used for thousands of years. The modern ubiquitous Yale lock is also called a pin tumbler, since it’s an elaborate (and tubular) version of the same basic concept.

heroineimages

Cool!

oshuns-ambience

botanize

whitepeopletwitter

birble-bobble

Tumblr mobile sucks and won’t let me post a link that works. But this tweet is about an entire article that talks about more than just this one case.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-competition-shopify-wayfair-allbirds-antitrust-11608235127

It talks about the various ways that Amazon is creating a monopoly which I think is important to talk about in these situations. Sellers can’t always avoid Amazon and neither can some buyers. It’s good to avoid buying from Amazon if you can’t but we need to do more than that, and we can’t just shame people who have no other options.