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= May 15 =

payment aggregators and payment gateways
Is it accurate to categorize payment aggregators and payment gateways as payment infrastructure providers or payment system providers? What distinction would be more precise in describing their role in the payment ecosystem? Grotesquetruth (talk) 11:00, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Walmart
Matt Stoller tweets:
 * The spread of Walmart in the 1980s shattered Southern politics, that’s *purely* a trade and antitrust story. The civil rights movement is not why the South went to the right.

What does he mean by that? Walmart shifted Southern politics rightward but not the rest of the country? They are everywhere I thought. Was it just about consolidating retail or was there more, like offshoring manufacturing? Does Amazon have a similar effect now? Thanks. 2601:644:8501:AAF0:DBFA:4401:E57A:AAC4 (talk) 11:44, 15 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Reading the entire Twitter chain, he is merely using Walmart as an example of a larger trend. His argument is that the South turned to the GOP because of economic issues, not Civil Rights issues. Whether he is correct (or not) is not something we should debate on this page. Blueboar (talk) 12:37, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Aha. I didn't see the rest of the thread. No I didn't want a debate, I just wanted to understand what he is saying.  I guess it's not entirely about Walmart. Thanks. 2601:644:8501:AAF0:DBFA:4401:E57A:AAC4 (talk) 12:45, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
 * The author making that argument probably also denies that the Civil War was about slavery. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 12:50, 15 May 2024 (UTC)


 * For the conventional narrative which he's disputing, see Southern strategy... -- AnonMoos (talk) 16:32, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

House of Stairs II by M. C. Escher
Does that [above] exist? Curl-up article claims it does (uncited}, but I am unable to find evidence. The following is the most comprehensive listing that I found:  -- 136.54.106.120 (talk) 18:57, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Mikenorton (talk) 19:42, 15 May 2024 (UTC)


 * M.C. Escher, House of Stairs II, November 1951. Lithograph on 3 sheets of cream wove paper, 139.5 x 36 cm. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
 * From STEPPING STONES: EXPANDING THE OTHERWORLDLY UNIVERSE OF M.C. ESCHER by the National Gallery of Canada. Alansplodge (talk) 11:09, 16 May 2024 (UTC)