#unscrupulous

[sean-official]

Womp womp

[primepaginequotidiani]

PRIMA PAGINA The Times di Oggi giovedì, 05 settembre 2024

[avandelay20]

These terms and phrases should be taught in every "home economics" course so children understand the spectrum of unscrupulous business practices that exist in today's world.

Drip pricing

This occurs when a company only advertises part of a product’s price, with more charges revealed as you progress through the buying process. It’s common in airline and accommodation bookings. Slowly but surely, the competitive price that caught your attention turns out to be far less appealing – but you are so deep into the process you often buy it anyway.

Excuse-flation

As the Allan Fels-led inquiry put it, “excuse-flation” is the practice of using general inflation as a camouflage for bumping up prices. It is closely related to “greed-flation” and consumers put up with it because the cover story sounds legitimate, with blame usually attributed to the pandemic, Ukraine conflict, or the most opaque reason of all – supply chain disruptions.

Confusion pricing

This is the practice of using complex pricing structures and plans to completely perplex a consumer and make it difficult to compare pricing to a rival product. Remind me, how much data, text and call time do you get with your mobile plan, bundled into your home internet plan?

Rockets and feathers pricing

When costs rise, they go up like a rocket, but when they fall, they drift slowly to the ground like a feather. The inquiry referenced this scenario when describing how the prices paid to farmers for produce fell quickly, while supermarket prices for the same products did not. It could also be applied to mortgage rates, which rise quickly when the cash rate increases, but fall with less haste after rate cuts.

Loyalty taxes

Some products and services set initial prices low, but then sharply increase as the years roll on when it is more difficult for consumers to detect the changes or renegotiate terms. The inquiry pointed towards banks, insurers and energy companies as some of the major culprits of using a customer’s loyalty against them.

Price discrimination

This practice allows companies to charge vastly different prices for near identical products and services, evident among medical specialists and in prices charged by banks that offer better rates to customers likely to leave. The inquiry noted there was a growing concern that digital platforms, drawing on detailed customer data, can maximise profits because they know how much someone is willing to pay for a particular item.

[spicygoblin13]

THE FUNNIEST WORD IVE EVER SEEN: A SAGA

I was with my boyfriend and I needed to google something, and we stumbled apon the funniest sentence i've ever seen from google in my LIFE

wtf is unscrupulous you ask? it means immoral and without care. it is a real word. i had to dig deeper, and boy did it get worse

THERE ARE SCRUPLES???

me and my boyfriend then spent the next 10 minutes trying to use this word in various sentances and variations of the original word (the word made no sense after saying it 100 times)

[mossadegh]

Ardeshir Zahedi’s highly distorted version of the 1953 coup in Iran omits the CIA-MI6 role (and his) completely, and even claimed Eisenhower wanted to help Premier Mossadegh! Plus: a dirty secret of his—hiding in plain sight—exposed for the first time ever.

The Mossadegh Project

[tenth-sentence]

For the 'father of the atom bomb' would never, after this, be able to seem to posterity as unscrupulous or even wicked as some of his disappointed friends believed him to be.

"Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists" - Robert Jungk, translated by James Cleugh

[sohannabarberaesque]

Tell me this isn't the kind of case the Super Snooper Detective Agency would want to accept, if but for the money and substantial bills as are past due

Videlicet, that of some livestock show facing a rash of cases where cattle going to auction turn out having their weight artificially enhanced, evident only when the cattle in question relieve themselves substantially in the auction ring just after the hammer strikes to mark a sale.

Sunsequent enquiries via Super Snooper and Blabbermouse reveal that the exercise was carried out by unscrupulous feedlot operators bulking the cattle with coffee ahead of the auctions (as if hay and grains weren't already adequate enow, especially at drought-aggravated higher prices), hoping to maximise the ultimate sale price at the abattoir with the illusion of more weight translating into more meat. And what's more, the cattlemen sending off said cattle to the feedlots were unaware all along of such tactics, which enquiries reveal to be of extended duration.

(The meat from the cattle in question was subsequently diverted to food aid programmes for the poor in settlement.)

[newstattoos]

The self-described ‘world’s biggest tattoo brand’ has been accused of infecting a customer with Hep B as well as forging and plagiarising a visa letter to help bring in foreign tattooists. Documents in court reveal that the company is also accused of forging and copying a visa document flagged as counterfeit by Home Affairs to bring in tattooists...

[creepy-dolls]

Still a WIP but I’m happy with how my Kaniboom Unhappy is turning out 😖

[witchofthesouls]

Human eating something spicy: Good food

Cybertronian: You're actively burning and poisoning yourself. Stop eating that

Human: Mmm capsaicin

Cybertronian: I said stop eating that!

Chilis are too obvious and kind to them. Of course, the space aliens are highly concerned by spice challenges, especially with humans attempting to breed hotter, spicier peppers... as a fun hobby.

("Isn't capsaicin the active ingredient in pepper spray?" "Yes. But people enjoy eating spicy food.")

Cybertronians would be blown away by how much agriculture transformed human civilizations... as well as be boggled between humans' ability to endure extreme conditions, yet be so damn bodily fragile and inefficient.

Genetics have never looked so wild in the botanical community. Like yes, space alien, many vegetables are related. It's dependent on the area of concentration to painfully cultivate it for hundreds to thousands of years because some regions wanted something more leafy, while others focused on the pods or roots.

And yes, space alien, many cultivated foods had derived from poisonous origins. Animals (including humans) figured to circumvent it through evolutionary adaptations or utilizing methods to draw out the toxins.

Cybertronians can be impressed by how humans managed to figure that out in the countless preparation and cooking processes in different cuisines across various cultures... yet slap their helms because their funky, little squishy is having so many health issues because of the lack of Vitamin D or a Candida infection, so Cybertronians will unironically go "touch grass" with their assigned/favorite human.

(Cue confused Cybertronian noises when their human explains sunscreen and cancer.)

And fungi, like mushrooms, are a mindfuck within itself as a kingdom to both Cybertronians and humans.

This isn't delving into how other Earth organic species can't consume certain human foods due to toxicity, like dogs and chocolate.

[reefsharkivist]

new hydra lore

[sean-official]

[annabolinas]

Top, L-R: Rosalie Crutchley as Catherine Parr in The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970), Episode 6: Catherine Parr (written by John Prebble)

Bottom: Rosalie Crutchley as Catherine Parr in Elizabeth R (1971), Episode 1: The Lion's Cub (written by Rosemary Anne Sisson)

edited by me

[discordiansamba]

@catflowerqueen replied to your post “modern au iroh, try as he might, cannot get his...”:

...Did Zuko know Aang was the avatar at the time he invaded his hospital room, or is it not really supposed to be public knowledge yet (if the tradition is still waiting until they are 16)? ...Did Aang know Zuko was related to Roku? Is Roku the one who demanded Aang invade Zuko's hospital room?

​i'm not so sure if even aang knew at the time that he was the avatar. he would have been around nine years old? which means he and his friends basically got to find out that he was the avatar together because of course the first thing aang did after overhearing gyatso and the other air nomad elders talk about it was go freak out to his friends.

(zuko is just like. wait hang on a moment. you can't be the avatar. the avatar was my grandfather. and he realizes his mistake the moment he says that because aang looks at him with shining eyes and squeezes him in a hug like GRANDSON!

new group in joke created. sorry zuko. also sorry azula, because you might not be a part of the friend group exactly, but you're getting roped into this as well.)

i don't think aang was compelled by roku to go visit zuko in his hospital room. he just did that all on his own! you see he saw this really miserable looking kid only a few years older than him being rolled by and just knew he had to talk to him. and so he did and the rest is history.

(at least the gaang finds out about aang being the avatar before the paparazzi does. because that's a thing they have to deal with, huh.)

[sleepanonymous]

Something extremely funny and not at all annoying about writing Sleep Token fanfiction is when the fake names you’ve chosen for the Eepy Guys— names that you’ve actually grown fond of and have trained yourself to use when writing so that it comes naturally and you’re no longer accidentally writing the forbidden Real Names™— end up being names shared by less than savory people in this fandom.

I’ve literally never had a writing crisis like this before. Like, I’m half tempted to just ignore it and be like “Do you eepy babes wanna read a oneshot that's almost finished about Vessel and III and attraction panic?” because I’ve been using these names for almost six months now.

[kerizaret]

I'm busy rn and working on something longer so have this old comic again