Aljernon
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- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 21 hours ago:
I haven’t really looked deeply into this issue but what caught my eye was the claim that a 30% fee was excessive. I’m no insider into video game publishing but 30% is the standard retail markup for many things. If you bought a candy bar today, it probably cost the mini mart you bought it from 70% of what they’re charging.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 21 hours ago:
I haven’t really looked deeply into this issue but what caught my eye was the claim that a 30% fee was excessive. I’m no insider into video game publishing but 30% is the standard retail markup for many things. If you bought a candy bar today, it probably cost the mini mart you bought it from 70% of what they’re charging.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 21 hours ago:
Did they explain why moving to another country ment anything?
- Comment on 'Scowling Void of Pure Nothingness': Critics Destroy $75 Million Melania Trump Documentary | Common Dreams 21 hours ago:
It’s a movie critics job to launder money?
- Comment on 'Scowling Void of Pure Nothingness': Critics Destroy $75 Million Melania Trump Documentary | Common Dreams 23 hours ago:
Why would movie critics go to see a money laundering attempt?
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 4 days ago:
This. It’s call a Ranch style house for a reason. Because the kind of place they were initially common had tons of land available in the form of pasture.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 4 days ago:
resources allocated to maintenance were used for other things.
C’est la vie
- Comment on 4 days ago:
The only temperature system that isn’t arbitrary would tell you how spreadable butter is. Zero degrees butter is utterly not spreadable while 100 degrees butter is the maximum spreadability it could achieve before melting.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 4 days ago:
You mean the people who embrace the status quo unless they absolutely have no choice?
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 4 days ago:
It’s planned for one day which sounds less than useless. Only sustained strikes and protests are effective.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 1 week ago:
I’ve seen this posted before. Important points to consider: Imperial Russia had a housing shortage in the cities due to industrialization occurring and the existing housing was often of poor quality. According to one source: “In major cities, a significant portion of housing consisted of barracks, basements, semi-basements, dormitory-style rooms, dugouts, and semi-dugouts.”
Then WW1 hit followed by the civil war and housing construction essentially stopped with some housing destroyed in the war. Then in the interwar period, priority was given to industrial construction in the USSR, resulting in low housing construction volumes, with a significant share consisting of temporary housing. Rapid industrialization and increasing population shifts to cities increasing demand. Then WW2 hit and huge amounts of existing housing were destroyed in the fighting.
So the USSR was in tight spot and did the best they could with limited time and resources which for most Russians ended up being a huge improvement.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 1 week ago:
To be fair, the USSR had the worse economy in the Warsaw pact. (and to be fair to the USSR, the massive distances and relative emptiness of their country added alot to transportation expenses)
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 2 weeks ago:
In the US, money laundering accomplishes essentially the same thing.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 weeks ago:
Nobody is calling out for civil war
Elements of the Right have spent years calling for a civil war, what rock have you been living under?
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been using Sarajevo as an example for a while. People will be getting shot by snipers just for trying to find food or water.
- Comment on ICE arrested a Navajo man and dismissed all the proof he presented of his identity, claiming he faked it and that they'd "get his family next". 2 weeks ago:
I encourage all Americans to arm themselves and always have but I think Native Americans especially should arm themselves or face a possible repeat of history. Trump is threatening to Invade Greenland and Canada over resources and attack Venezuela to prop up the Petrodollar. There’s zero chance he’ll respect treaties with Native Tribes if there’s mining that can be done on the Rez
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 2 weeks ago:
A co-op could handle it without much problem.
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 2 weeks ago:
A lack of housing is not the problem most places. The problem is that housing shifted from being a place for people to live to a way for people to acquire “passive income”. Hell, the very design of housing changed in a noticeable way: houses shifted from being homes to being feature laden investment vehicles.
- Comment on Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts 2 weeks ago:
Zuckerberg got lucky once, used the talents of others to capitalize on that luck. If he was smart, he would have quickly retired and set about enjoying his wealth but instead he’s wasted small fortunes running Facebook. Got high on his own supply when really he was never especially talented at anything.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 2 weeks ago:
Chemists. I’m to understand some of the instructions are dangerous.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 2 weeks ago:
Yes
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 2 weeks ago:
It has a bad reputation
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 2 weeks ago:
They’re executing people in the street for civil disobedience. A
- Comment on It depends... 3 weeks ago:
Because Gasoline pleases the angels of combustion and aids us on the road to Valhalla
- Comment on Tankie 3 weeks ago:
You’re living in denial my dude
- Comment on Tankie 3 weeks ago:
Your case would have a better point if Russia wasn’t constantly creating conflicts.
- Comment on Tankie 3 weeks ago:
Ok, fine, Tankies are a variant (ostensibly) of communists that seek to use state violence to coerce and terrorize the working class into unquestioning obedience to the state.
- Comment on Tankie 3 weeks ago:
Anyway you slice it, it seems Tankie was a wrong word to use here, even by Tankies own definition.
- Comment on Tankie 3 weeks ago:
Isolationists would want to stay out of Ukraine to mind our own business, this guy wants to stay out of Ukraine because .ml is notorious for giving modern day Russia a free pass with their Imperial nonsense.
- Comment on Tankie 3 weeks ago:
They don’t care who “wins”, they profit off of the war itself
People kept telling me that the Taliban won the war in Afghanistan but I kept telling them the US Military Industrial complex won.
