Jikiya
@Jikiya@lemmy.world
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 1 month ago:
What I meant by cents on the dollar is usually, they broke rules, make $100 billion from it (imaginary scenario), and then the settlement from that wrong doing sees them pay out $2 billion to the affected customers that joined the class. It may be due to the fact that I’ve not paid attention to too many class action suits, but it seems like the settlement never comes close to the harm they caused.
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 1 month ago:
I can tell you that I have arbitration on going, and it’s been well over a year that it has been happening. To assume that the arbitration wraps up in a month, when you’ve got lawyers involved is non-sense. I don’t believe arbitrators are in anyone’s pocket either. The arbitrators aren’t in-house council for Valve, they are a company Valve has contracted with, and they’re going to be neutral, and rule based on law, not who’s paying. As a lot of arbitration rules state that if you take the case to arbitration and lose, the one that is ruled against pays for the cost of the arbitration. Based on the “mate’s rates”, I’m guessing you’re UK based. I don’t know that legal system, so can’t say how fee structures work. But a great deal of lawyers that are suing on behalf of you, in the US, take a percentage of the settlement. So the biggest cost is all to the person being sued, as they do pay the lawyers by the hour instead of a cut of the ruling.
I don’t think Valve is changing their rules to screw customers, I think they’re doing it because they’ve found separating each case into a different arbitration claim is too expensive. And it would have been better for them all to be in one group. I believe Valve is the best game distributor, as it turns out. But if people with law degrees think they’ve broken rules, I’m all for punishing rule-breaking. In this particular scenario, it seems like it might slightly improve things for consumers, and greatly benefit small studios.
- Comment on Steam does the opposite of forcing Arbitration on its users 1 month ago:
If you push everybody into a class action, it will be cheaper. Have you ever gotten more than a cent on the dollar from a class action settlement(unless you’re the class representative)? Sure the seem like the settlements are a lot of money, but if you can get the class action settled with very few claimants, no one will be able to sue over that particular issue again, so it puts it behind the company. Instead of being dogged by individuals for however long.
- Comment on Climate change 1 month ago:
It’s nobody’s business but the Turks!
- Comment on Stay frosty 1 month ago:
Sure wish they were quiet enough to sleep through.
- Comment on Oh Elon 2 months ago:
It certainly can be, but it’s such a high bar to get over that these days I’m not sure there will be another amendment.
- Comment on It's called a wedding ring, but surely it should be called a marriage ring 2 months ago:
I am curious what region you’re from. I would guess it’s outside of the US, but perhaps there’s an area that differs from the norm I’ve experienced.
If you are indeed outside the US, I’m guessing it’s the American tradition of engagement rings, without the tradition of continuing to wear the engagement rings. That truly would be a (bigger) waste of money.
- Comment on It's called a wedding ring, but surely it should be called a marriage ring 2 months ago:
Wait, do you know women that stop wearing their engagement ring after they’re married? Every married woman I’ve met (that doesn’t have a hands based labor job) wears the engagement and wedding ring. All the women in my family have them soldered together some time after, so they don’t independently spin on the finger.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
Handy guide, but this whole USB situation is a cock-up, since it needs the freakin guide in the first place.
- Comment on Too easy! 3 months ago:
Imma start flingin shit if this video doesn’t load soon!
- Comment on What is the actual point of a bra? 4 months ago:
You absolutely can ask them that. Noticing it is not the same thing as getting distracted by it. Allowing your focus to be highjacked by the environment is a sign of a weak mind. If you went to work and a coworker told you the shape of your nose was distracting to them, and you need to wear a mask so they can continue to work, that is on the coworker, not you. It is absurd to put someone else in charge of what needs to be done to stop you from being distracted.
People need to control themselves, no one else has that ability.
- Comment on What is the actual point of a bra? 4 months ago:
They do, but they shouldn’t. You should not ask a stranger to change their behavior because you cannot control your own. Maybe family would do it for you, but even then it’s can be a shitty thing to do.
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 4 months ago:
I would if I didn’t fear that the scarcity will then be artificial to keep groups in power. The idea is beautiful, our current direction is terrifying.
- Comment on TikTok sues U.S. government, saying potential ban violates First Amendment 6 months ago:
Apparently, the classification levels in the US are illegal! Snowden will rejoice, he can come home, as the first amendment allows free speech, even when it damages national security.
I did not read the article, but the summary made me actually laugh out loud. Hell the supreme court has already said the government has the right to intern a whole class of US citizens based on national security. The SCOTUS rulings do seem rather crazy at times to me though, so perhaps this is a winning strategy for ByteDance.
- Comment on Is there any 5000 mAh power bank with 30W? 9 months ago:
- Comment on You can only pick one 10 months ago:
Seems like it would be perfect for you then, as you would never have to watch any video there, ever again.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
I still miss having a physical keyboard for messages. If HTC had kept making slide out keyboard phones, I woulda kept buying. Though it seems, based on market trends, I might have been one of the very few.
- Comment on Why would someone openly say that they oppose human rights? 11 months ago:
I feel I might have misunderstood something here, as it seems like this argument is ‘Anal sex can’t be pleasurable, because that’s where poop comes from and poop is bad’. Am I understanding his argument correctly?
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
It stopped being your money when you gave it to them. It became their money, and they get to spend it how they want, with some caveats.
- Comment on What do overnight shift workers do when the clocks change? 1 year ago:
The US also has ‘salaried - non-exempt’ which would require the employer to pay for time above 40 hours. Manufacturing jobs aren’t allowed to be exempt from overtime pay. It is generally white collar workers that are allowed to be exempt from overtime pay.
- Comment on I hate Turkey 1 year ago:
Is it due to all the sand they have? It’s coarse.
- Comment on [What if scenario] What if all commercial institutions suddenly decided they no longer intend to acknowledge religious events such as Christmas? 1 year ago:
Really depends on the religion. There are some religions that aren’t organized at all, and are fully self practiced. They don’t require things to be sold.
The religion of capitalism is a different beast though. I would say that people need things to celebrate in life though, or they tend to get very hostile. It seems to me that the more communal an event is the better the effect is on society, as people can set aside a lot of grievances for the festivities.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 1 year ago:
Spiderman 2 and Mario Bros Wonder.
Mainly Spiderman, but play the other when my daughter is playing her SM2 game.
- Comment on Space is starting to look like the better mining operation | Mining in space might be less environmentally harmful than mining asteroids on Earth. 1 year ago:
They towed the boat out of the environment.
- Comment on Youtube ads finally got me 1 year ago:
I don’t understand this. And not saying it to stir up hate, or troll. This came up for me, I closed the pop-up, and watched the video with no ads. It only added a single click to the whole thing. And they’ve since gone away for me. Don’t know why they stopped, though they have.
- Comment on Data privacy: how to counter the "I have nothing to hide" argument? 1 year ago:
It’s possible, but it’s mostly scammers, and possibly a real company verifying that the number is actually an active one, that they should call back in the future when a scammer is available. Also makes the phone number more valuable when they sell it on to the next scamming “company”.
- Comment on Data privacy: how to counter the "I have nothing to hide" argument? 1 year ago:
It’s already been recorded by then. But I guess they’ll need to send someone out to collect you, instead of you swimming into their net.