OK yeah but every major “news” channel is like this

That’s literally “whataboutism”.

Yes. Not every place is suitable for cats. Same with dogs.

Neutered cats roam around 200m-1km around your home if allowed. I will never understand the trend to imprison them (or keeping huskies in city apartments).

Preserving bird population? That’s decreasing due to urbanization and climate change. Bees? Same, plus monocultures, plus pesticides, plus likely radio waves.

Two words: cargo cult.

So… Did you bring anything to the discussion? What’s your take on the new policy?

Relevant Betty White skit:

https://youtu.be/fbI1eJ_zAB8

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Median means half the people earn less, half earn more than 150k

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/air-traffic-controllers.htm

This is a better source. Lowest 10% ear below 76k a year, highest top 10% earn more than 210k. Median is 150k

Median is $154000 a year https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/air-traffic-controllers.htm

I’d honestly call it ‘yeah, you should be earning that much in less demanding and less important jobs’ rather than ‘high paying’, but I’m corporate trash and high salaries I see are higher.

Me:

30% markup

Them:

everyone only talks about the 30 since thats all they hear about. Only an Epic Games apologist would parrot this as a talking point

You:

He didn’t. He said people who parrot it are [Epic Games apologist]

Confused noises.

Semperverus said anyone who says that 30% is too much is an Epic Game apologists, whatever that is.

Semperverus is insinuating anyone who says that 30% is amount taken by Steam is wrong, and saying that is parroting, and should be instead thought as “Poor Steam is forced to take 30% because this is industry standard”, but Valve, and I quote here, “goes out of its way to make exceptions to this rule”.

And no; realistically, if you lose Visa and Mastercard, you can close shop. Obviously it’s for profit, because a 99% reduction in turnover means all employees out of work.

Doesn’t change the fact that bending over backwards for Visa and Mastercard and banning some content because of their whims is enshittification. The service is worse than it was before, in the name of profit.

Only an Epic Games apologist would parrot this as a talking point.

Why are you trying to offend me? I didn’t call you names, why are you doing that?

but ultimately it wasn’t for profits so much as it was survival.

Visa and Mastercard aren’t the only available payment options in Steam. Yielding to them was for profit.

Survival? Steam has enough profit to create it’s own payment processor and make it popular.

Steam

30% markup. Predatory currency conversion policies. Recent scandals with Steam censoring games on behest of Australian Right nuts groups.

“Supremacist” might be a better word

Cucumbers. You can pickle it, eat it raw, semi-pickle it (google Polish 2 day dill pickles). Or try raddishes if you want stronger flavours.

Side note:

gooey and seedy

That’s not a tomato. A proper tomato is firm and sweet and not uniform in shape or colour. Source: am eating some right now, took me forever to find seeds.

The shit we are sold as tomatoes are bulldogs of tomato family. Crossbred damaged line created to maximise profit and decrease production cost, by sacrificing quality and taste.

derogatory language towards sexually promiscuous women

So… She called (an imaginary?) slut “slut” and had to apologize for it?

Good advice, except that’s not a long term storage. Bit corruption is a thing.

I may have given up my career to sit in therapist offices, but I believe every troubled kid deserves a shot.

Every other kid and teacher in school deserves peace and not being assaulted by your kid.

I honestly think that LLM will result in no progress made ever in computer science.

Most past inventions and improvements were made because of necessity of how sucky computers are and how unpleasant it is to work with them (we call it “abstraction layers”). And it was mostly done on company’s dime.

Now companies will prefer to produce slop (even more) because it will hope to automate slop production.

Dude, are you like literally crazy? You come here, suddenly start calling me names and now are trying to gaslight me tham I need to defend or some other shit?

Get help. Blocked.