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I found again today that the way a search request is phrased can return opposing results. I'd remembered a price fixing scheme a few years back involving aluminum cans and a warehouse, but couldn’t recall the specifics. So I asked (1) but no go, so had to tweak a bit (2) to finally get the answer:
![Searched Google with the phrase: aluminum cans hidden in warehouse to create shortage
Google’s “AI” replied:
There is no evidence or reporting of aluminum cans being hidden in a warehouse to deliberately create a shortage.
The aluminum can shortages that have occurred, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic and in the years since, have been due to legitimate, complex, and widely reported supply chain and market factors, including:
• Massive Shift in Consumer Behavior: With the closure of bars and restaurants during the pandemic, at-home consumption of beverages in cans surged unexpectedly. Beer and soda that would have been sold in kegs or fountain... [Show More]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ctk7tn6rumlwooqvbjwxaotq/bafkreifef6kr7qiboudtqyxutaltnbwgcb3vrzinhhhzpx6ahvd3evpw3q@jpeg)
![Searched Google with the phrase: aluminum cans hidden in warehouse to increase prices
Google’s AI replied:
Hiding aluminum cans or other commodities in warehouses to manipulate market prices is a real-world tactic that led to a major price-fixing conspiracy between 2010 and 2013.
The Aluminum Price-Fixing Conspiracy
The most prominent example involved several major financial institutions and their associated warehouse companies, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Glencore. [Show More]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ctk7tn6rumlwooqvbjwxaotq/bafkreievnznbqfkozxny4v3fn6d7ucpmcvgdt7z57jma6za4ywvmtfq7ee@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I found again today that the way a search request is phrased can return opposing results. I'd remembered a price fixing scheme a few years back involving aluminum cans and a warehouse, but couldn’t recall the specifics. So I asked (1) but no go, so had to tweak a bit (2) to finally get the answer:
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Why are we giving Putin the time of day? Why do we give Trumps fragile child ego the same? Is it really worth the price? We have to stop putting America on a pedestal. It fell off years ago. We must stand up for ourselves.
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Why are we giving Putin the time of day? Why do we give Trumps fragile child ego the same? Is it really worth the price? We have to stop putting America on a pedestal. It fell off years ago. We must stand up for ourselves.
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town, and in four years, when Stalin had routed the Nazi war machine all the way from Leningrad/Moscow/Stalingard to Hitlers bunker in Berlin, he hasn’t even managed the Donbas, almost 2.5% of the same distance. And as he keeps trying the economy is draining away into bankruptcy and collapse.
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
town, and in four years, when Stalin had routed the Nazi war machine all the way from Leningrad/Moscow/Stalingard to Hitlers bunker in Berlin, he hasn’t even managed the Donbas, almost 2.5% of the same distance. And as he keeps trying the economy is draining away into bankruptcy and collapse.
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have no place. The peace at Moscow’s price brigade are having to face the reality that nothing will ever satisfy Putin. He dressed up in military fatigues again and hears nothing but the fact his army is making small advances in some farmland, has destroyed more rubble in a now valueless Ukrainian
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 AM
have no place. The peace at Moscow’s price brigade are having to face the reality that nothing will ever satisfy Putin. He dressed up in military fatigues again and hears nothing but the fact his army is making small advances in some farmland, has destroyed more rubble in a now valueless Ukrainian