Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inventories left

Re:Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inven... by tialaramex on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @06:32PM (#43851444)

Still plenty (nowhere close to a majority, but more than a few nutters) who are certain the problem is we didn't have a hard enough Brexit. The reason the scientific method is considered an actual discovery is that this whole "In light of new data I realise I was wrong" just isn't how we tend to behave.

For many Leave voters, the fact they voted Leave necessarily means voting Leave was correct - some of them rationalise this as "I was lied to" => "Maybe Leave was the wrong choice but I was misinformed" plenty more reached "Leave was correct but politicians screwed up Leaving somehow, it's not my fault". The current iteration of the Nigel Farage party, named Reform, takes this sort of line.

Once I was writing about the Achilles and the Tortoise story in GEB where the Tortoise rejects Modus Ponens and Achilles discovers, the hard way, that it's useless to argue any point with an interlocutor who rejects this principle. Somebody else on HN pointed out that most people probably would not accept Modus Ponens. And they're probably right, as hopeless as that outcome is.

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Re:Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inven... by navane on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @06:41PM (#43851519)

The Italian socialist opposed joining ww1. The nationalists wanted to join, and the Italians joined, on the British and French side. They fought so bad that the British had to send troops to the new Austrian - Italian front, effectively weakening the allied effort and thus the spoils of the war were none for the Italians. Who did the fascists blame, the nationalist for joining this folly? No, the socialists for sabotaging their efforts.

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Re:Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inven... by disqard on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @07:32PM (#43851896)

Thank you for sharing that!

TIL that the resulting defeat was soundly milked by Mussolini and friends to rise to power.

If at first you don't succeed, blame the Voices of Reason (and demonize them), until you do succeed.

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Re:Retailers will soon have only about 7 weeks of full inven... by ethbr1 on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @07:47PM (#43852010)

For some people, the most important goal isn't success but power. Failure is fine, as long as they retain power.

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