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Re:Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Sa... by Earw0rm on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @02:04AM (#42439036)
This is eminently sensible, should happen everywhere.

It almost always doesn't, because the big guys have lobbyists and the small guys don't.

The big guys would rather not have to comply with these rules, but typically their take is, well, if we're going to have to anyway, let's at least make it an opportunity to drive out some of the scrappy competition and claim the whole pie for ourselves.

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Re:Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Sa... by pyrale on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @03:18AM (#42439427)
Lead poisoning is not less dangerous when your house is built by a small builder.
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Re:Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Sa... by Earw0rm on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @11:54AM (#42442962)
True. But the small outfits tend to get their supplies from big ones, lead is something that can probably be dealt with at supply-chain level.
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Re:Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Sa... by Zak on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @12:18PM (#42443161)
It is not, however calls for racist violence are less dangerous when they're posted on a niche forum with 20 daily active users than when they're posted on Twitter.
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