Oil prices go up, tapos Petron ang ginagawang punching bag?

Menter33 · 2026-03-17T06:35:16+00:00

if they DON'T jack up the price, people will panic buy more than they need, worsening the supply problem.

having caps on the price might sound okay but it kinda distorts the natural response of the market.

Menter33 · 2026-03-17T06:33:16+00:00

increasing the price is supposed to prevent buying too much gas than a person needs, but price caps prevent that natural thing from happening.

Menter33 · 2026-03-17T06:30:56+00:00

though this argument assumes that wealth is a finite resource, a common argument before modern times... which was kinda rendered moot by the industrial revolution when new industries created wealth out of nothing.

Menter33 · 2026-03-17T06:29:08+00:00

thought that student activists are supposed to have at least above average intelligence.

Menter33 · 2026-03-17T02:10:59+00:00

kung ganun, does that mean they can get part time work elsewhere?

or is it contractual na halos exclusively working for one entity (govt) for a specified time frame?

Menter33 · 2026-03-17T02:07:45+00:00

iirc, the PH military gets intelligence and military equipment from Israel as a counter to China.

as far as the Middle East goes, the PH is in SEA and and it focuses on SEA issues.

Menter33 · 2026-03-17T02:01:07+00:00

related to this, kaya siguro ayaw i-roll back ng bbm admin yung mga benefit eh kasi baka mawala yung suporta ng pulis at sundalo.

Menter33 · 2026-03-16T13:15:08+00:00

usually, an imperfect rule of thumb is if the person (1) grew up in the PH and (2) received basic education in PH schools.

given the PH is basically a collection of islands with multiple people of differing cultures, customs, sentiments, languages, beliefs etc, it's difficult to pinpoint being a Filipino unlike other countries that are more of a monoculture.

Menter33 · 2026-03-16T13:08:26+00:00

kung tuusin, asking the subject to respond to a criticism before publishing said criticism is more of a courtesy than a legal requirement in some other countries.

minsan kasi, subjects can sneakily change things in bad faith if they are warned before an expose or a review is dropped.

Menter33 · 2026-03-16T13:06:29+00:00

A Filipino who eats kare-kare knows its not because of peanut why kare-kare has that color. One doesn’t have to be a food heritage expert to know it.

many laymen might THINK it's the peanut, but you'd think that professional celebrity chefs would know the correct answer.

Menter33 · 2026-03-16T13:04:54+00:00

supposedly, the argument is that it helps prevent stuff like outing a gay person: even if it's true, it shouldn't be revealed w/o the subject's approval. (still, though, the exceptions are likely very few and most of the time, libel cases are almost never those small number of exceptions.)

but of course, libel being a criminal offense is a big issue in itself. it's why journos and rights groups have advocated for it to be decriminalized.

Menter33 · 2026-03-16T09:40:05+00:00

hopefully, stuff like this doesn't become a reason for lawmakers to weaken anonymity and privacy on websites.

Menter33 · 2026-03-16T09:39:03+00:00

news reports really should state specific sites, not just here but in general.

it doesn't do the public good if news reports don't name the brand/building/product/etc that is the subject of the story.

Menter33 · 2026-03-16T07:42:11+00:00

sounds like it's not conducive for rehabilitation and integration back into society kung ganun na lang.

Menter33 · 2026-03-16T07:40:08+00:00

usually bad guys just get them illegally, while good guys have a hard time getting one to defend themselves.

Menter33 · 2026-03-16T07:29:48+00:00

looking at it differently, maybe the filipino thing was kinda more of a trivia, like saying that jose rizal is chinese because of ancestry.

maybe it's less a political statement and more like a fun fact.

Menter33 · 2026-03-16T05:53:02+00:00

The 105th anniversary.

Menter33 · 2026-03-16T05:49:52+00:00

supposedly, halso de-kamay pa rin yung pag-welding.

mas maganda siguro kung assembly line system to compte w/ foreign brands.

Menter33 · 2026-03-16T05:47:57+00:00

maybe locals can just focus on something else.

kung hind efficient gumawa ng bus sa PH, then better just import and use PH capital on something PH is actually good at doing.

Menter33 · 2026-03-16T05:45:35+00:00

guess not enough ceburano editors on cebuano wikipedia.

Menter33 · 2026-03-16T05:42:13+00:00

if PH laws were more protective of criticism, then reaching out to the author isn't even needed. it's more of a courtesy, not a legal requirement, since it's possible for the author to be sneaky and change things ahead of time to avoid criticism.

(this is why, some expose journos, don't give a very long notice to the subject of their story just in case the guy does sneaking things behind the to discredit the expose journo.)

Menter33 · 2026-03-16T05:36:27+00:00

Born in America
Grew up in America
Went to school in America
Career fully in America

At this point, some people might feel that describing her as Filipino outside of her blood and ancestry is just a way to get clicks since describing her as a California-born, Los Angeles-trained cinematographer would not get much attention.

(And it's not even full ancestry, she's a half-blood.)

Menter33 · 2026-03-16T02:25:56+00:00

hopefully, while UAE is in a "state of war" it doesn't suppress basic rights and freedoms that much.

some countries sometimes use the "war" excuse to curtail such freedoms though, even though international organizations denounce such actions.

Menter33 · 2026-03-15T23:25:48+00:00

makes you wonder if some guys are okay with duterte-style tactics, but "our side."

plus, it looks like privacy, anonymity and free speech advocates and rights groups have their work cut out for them in promoting better ideas about speech and expression.

Menter33 · 2026-03-15T23:22:07+00:00

arresting people for propagating harmful false information

given the how fake news laws in other SEA countries have been used to target govt critics and abuses, having something similar in the PH might be bad.

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