They don’t seem to give overall preference to a given supplier beyond their obvious coupons and paid rankings. Alibaba is better, but who needs 144 of any specific widget…?

If you compare to one of the most preferred e-commerce website, which I would consider Amazon, it’s still not that bad. I have found less lies on Ali express v Amazon. If it comes to any cheaper electronics the Ali description is the real deal as far as I have seen. Amazon I have been shipped differing products, the description or features have just been a lie, or it didn’t come with the things implied. For the most part Ali descriptions are exactly what you will expect when opening the product… in fact many times I discover extra features when receiving the product that seemingly just couldn’t explain in their marketing.

Ali>Aliexpress>Amazon… just depends on needs

Well I think there are probably a half dozen interpretations that people on Lemmy use. One I have heard repeated is that they view the Tiananmen Square event as something that China rightfully did… hence “Tankie”

I don’t, I firmly disbelieve. Trump will only care if you’re in a purple state that he tracks the metrics on. He is too dumb to see or care about other stats.

Because you get things easier and faster that way.

Aliexpress seems most straightforward, and not quite as gimmicky.

Ethically one would say so, but legally there are different laws written that directly constrain things around bribery for career employees.

Somehow I am extremely skeptical this ruling even applies, and if it does I think it only invalidates one of plethora of laws and regulations…

If you take any training on how to get a contract with the government there is without fail a section that goes over the at least two laws, if not more, about why you can’t bribe them and how you shouldn’t bribe them in various ways.

I meant more like non elected officials, like a Contracting Officer.

Is there somewhere with more details?

Also I meant non elected officials like purchasing officials.

I don’t think this decision would apply to like federal purchasing officials… so not yet.

Maybe th debate will clear things up.

That might work for the very short term. But the “bribes” you see are campaign finance and they are only so small because of laws. The real bribes are the jobs and consulting work after.

If you cam just pay them outright, costs will skyrocket.

Does this now flow down as precedent for people who decide contracts?

I mean wouldn’t people who are willing to break the law to kill not care much about other laws?

On a tangent… Why are we still wearing ties? Buttons exist and are already included 95% of the time.

Having worked in school finance in a prior life, I can tell you the biggest problem with money getting redirected to these schools is that they can deny students. So public schools lose funding and have to absorb all of the expensive SPED students.

I think Bibi is hedging his bets. If war with Lebanon ends up looking lengthy he can end the Palestine campaign. He just needs any war to stay and power and avoid his corruption cases, I don’t think he really cares what war it is.

He says so many things all the time, that it would be statistically weird if some things weren’t true.

Could we take em to small claims for like $500 a comment? That would be a devastating movement lol

It really is absurd. I want someone to create a trend of how many homeless does your church house? Kind of like a competition… in reality some large churches could support 100 and other very small rural ones might struggle to support one.

Or if we are going to use other countries, Australia has a much worse Meth problem than the US. In fact it probably has the worst per capita addiction in the world.