That won’t solve the borrow, die, repeat. It’s a great idea and should definitely have been implemented yesterday to modify the incentives of middle management but we REALLY need to start taxing people on a “personal GDP” after a certain level.

Space Kare pays proportionally 1\10 of the taxes I pay without having a “wage”.

“Oh, you want to buy twitter for 50b, here’s your M&A property tax of 25%”

Where? In the EU it’s already heavily discounted (20%) from its MSRP. No one with two neurons to rub together would buy this.

Considering the US is the highest polluter per capita in the world (by a country mile), this just sounds like a good thing. Now we just need nature to take its course.

Fascists will fascist. Kissinger club represent with that gold medal.

You’re just off topic and being petty because you can’t follow a thread 🤣. Skill issue.

Bon Jovi have a verse that starts with the correct medicine for this gentleman. Neck should also do the trick.

Funny you’d mention that adage because the people getting sent to concentration camps are hispanics by ICEsatsgruppe. Leave it to amis to grandstand while missing the point…

Everyone who questions your orthodoxy is a nazi, got it. That type of reasoning has worked wonderfully for everyone and resulted in better government and standards of living for all trans people. Wonderful job you’ve done protecting trans people in your country, the results really show.

Move to a civilised country and seek asylum because you’re persecuted in your country of origin.

I’m saying precisely the opposite, but nice testament to Godwin’s law. Your reply is a nice example of the “phobes” point I had previously mentioned.

One of the beauties of socialized healthcare is transphobes can’t take it away from anyone.

IMHO, the US has bigger fish to fry than transphobia, it’s ridiculous it has so much air time in the anglosphere in the face of the much more relevant inequality and destruction of association rights. The neonazis set up the bait and the idiots gobble it up, hook line and sinker.

Legal scholar John Inazu characterized the backlash as “widespread outrage from progressive commentators” and that in some criticisms, “ad hominem attacks far outpaced their substantive critiques”.[13]

US americans are largely the same, be it trumpers or self styled liberals, they always have to be “better than” or “the best” of something. This leads to dangerous orthodoxies that don’t allow debate or discussion which furter leads to stances that are nothing but distilled anti-intellectualism. The trumpers call everything woke, the liberals call everything phobe. Meanwhile the overton window has moved so far to the right, the country elected a pedophile scam artist as president because they know him from TV and the rest of the world is left holding the bag.

Corporate management types are not organically recruited from experienced labour, they are from the “brahmin” echelons of society. Not only do they not understand that not all man hours are different, they have no clue of what is going on since they are recruited because of their pedigree and not competence.

Call of Duty

For years I’ve been warning whoever would listen that XboxGP, much like any other content subscription service owned by a public company would inevitably lead to a massive consumer squeeze. Fortunately it happened before MS managed to metastasise into a monopoly in gaming too. Good riddance.

I’m sorry, I refuse to continue engaging with bad faith arguments.

Have a nice day.

It does shift review coverage, generally, toward the ones with the most advertising

but that doesn’t mean that Redfall and Suicide Squad still can’t happen and review poorly

Thank you for arguing in my favour. Both Redfall and Suicide Squad reviewed well above 50%. For people on Lemmy arguing about statistics it’s obvious the mean is shifted so anything around 75% is mediocre, however, to the average consumer, that is not the case. Furthermore, I mentioned Kane and Lynch because that game was the reason giant bomb exists and everyone nowadays knows big publishers strong-arm outlets.

I’m sure Kane and Lynch are audience favorites. No reason not to think only the best games get reviewed and thus, shifting the mean 25% in the favor of the companies that just so happen to be the ones paying for advertising. It’s more likely outlets, on average, only review good games, that sounds more reasonable.

Statistically, if more than half of a random sample of steam games are rated to be good, the standards for evaluation are shit.

And the people that were supposed to let us know if a game is good or not, the “professionals”, have a median score around ~75% according to open critic data, otherwise they wouldn’t have a job because sponsors would gfo.

We’re on our own shifting through a pile of de facto shovelware to find anything of worth nowadays.

It’s a problem not exclusive to games, mind you. Music, scientific publishing and other content for profit industries have the exact same issue: Vetting quality requires work so for profit institutions offload the vetting to the user.