Everything.

Yes, that’s correct. If you cherrypick data and extrapolate your preferred assumptions about it you can make it say the thing you want.

I just clicked the first installer script in Lutris and two minutes later was playing.

A strike would be fascinating. You can’t just stop a chip fab. There could be huge batch losses.

This is what the end of an empire looks like. Nations that used to line up to kiss the ring are just politely declining your requests now. In a few months they’ll just send the call to voicemail.

Good job, idiots.

Systems that abuse everyone and claim to be for our protection. The more things change the more they stay the same.

Exactly.

I’ve always been in favour of tiered consumption taxes. Basic neccessities of life aren’t taxed. Sorta nice stuff gets taxed a bit. Uber lux stuff and harmful stuff gets taxed all the fucking way.

Example: bus pass? Free. Subcompact cheap EV? 20% tax. Lambo? 300% tax.

Rich fuckers have way too many ways of getting out of paying income tax. Tax the stuff instead so that you can’t live like a rich person without paying the kind of taxes rich people should be paying.