his "Infrastructure Plan" is to give away vast amounts of infrastructure so the folks that helped elect him can profit from it (after the public paid to build it). Privatize the profits, socialize the losses. The frustrating thing is that it's going to take decades to undo the damage this crap causes. Hopefully enough opposition gets into Congress to stop him from selling off the interstate roads. I'm not looking forward to $20 in tolls just to get to work every morning, but I can guarantee you somebody is.
Racist is a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races.
Voter Ids laws are racist because the people who came up with them did research beforehand that showed they would hurt minorities, particularly blacks.
Words have meaning. Besides the occasional internet troll the word "racist" is usually not a blanket insult. The person in question has generally done specific things. Where it gets complicated is that racists have learned that their behavior is no longer tolerated (and no, just because you oppose racism doesn't mean you have to tolerate everything, everywhere). Racists now hide their behavior. It's called Dog Whistling.
Big ones, too. We'll keep doing what we're doing but we'll hand it all to a buddy of Trump's who will tack on 20% more cost. It's just simple grift. Nothing more (or less).
declining wages are. Inflation for me is about 3% (that's real inflation, e.g. the % my expenses go up each year, it doesn't help me that the price of a $100k sports car only went up $1000 this year when food goes up 3%). Meanwhile my pay goes up 2% a year on average (and I'm one of the lucky ones).
I eat out less and less often because I can't afford to. Meanwhile the restaurants prices have gone up because they have fewer patrons who can afford it. So an OK Chinese buffet that used to be $10 + tip is now $25 + tip. The gyro place where I get a gyro + fries is now $15+ tip. I can't spend $20-$30 bucks on one meal.
that's what made Uber & Lyft work. Cabby work has been the domain of immigrants for decades because of how they're abused. They're usually in lease arrangements with the owner of the car and/or token that effectively pays them less than minimum wage. It was easy to look the other way at Uber/Lyft's worker abuse because it was significantly less than what most cab companies do to their drivers.
Missing from this conversation though was the crazy, out there notion of not letting _any_ company abuse workers. The working class lacks solidarity though. If we were smart we're realize that when one of us suffers we all do...
which makes it a lot easier to get a full set. Also there are finite limits to them (e.g. the set). Also most of them publish their card distribution / drop rates, so you can calculate how much a full set would cost.
it's also heavily regulated. You're glossing over that by ending your post with a cynical stab at those regulations. If this was just about the government getting their cut there's ways to go about it without riling up the neck beards. The government really does have a legitimate interest in keeping children away from gambling. As a voter, a gamer and a parent I _want_ to see this regulated. I don't trust the game industry to do it themselves. They're a lot bigger than they were in the 90s when they backed down and formed the ESRB and with that size comes power and arrogance.
is another's protecting the psychologically vulnerable. Half of mobile game revenue comes from just 0.19% of players. When you've got numbers like that something is very, very wrong.
for any device that comes in bad. Modern electronics aren't very repairable. The whole thing is probably a giant block of solder with an occasional computer chip and a pair of speakers.
don't have the problems loot boxes do. I think it's because buying into the game and buying a pack of cards are the same thing; so everybody does it. If you want to play Magic you buy card packs. But with loot boxes most people play the game without buying them. That pattern becomes the norm and encourages mechanics that target the "Whales" who spend large sums. Supposedly something like 0.19% of users account for 50% of mobile game revenue. That can't be healthy, and loot box mechanics come from that school of monetization.
OTOH there's plenty of digital card games. Maybe deck building helps put the kibosh on out of control purchases. Some of the hard core Magic players I knew had a play style that meant that once they had the cards for this year's version of their deck they were done. I guess you can run out of cards to get at some point. Also you can usually trade cards (they're called Trading Card Games usually) so that usually limits the gambling aspect. Finally most publish the odds meaning you know how much that item's gonna cost.
Not sure if it's any one thing, feel free to chime in if you think there is though. But it's odd that this didn't blow up until EA. It's also odd that EAs been doing this crap in FIFA games for years and it took Star Wars for people to notice.
or is it giving these bullied kids an outlet so that you're actually noticing them? You're right, these kids always existed. But when I was a kid they were so trampled down nobody noticed. Hell, I was one of the only slightly bullied kids (I was big but timid, so sometimes a target) but I knew kids who were bullied by their teachers, and not just the gym teachers.
To be honest what changed was Columbine. Bullied kids suddenly had to be paid attention to. Even the gym teachers stopped the bullying since you never knew when one of those kids you kept shitting on for giggles was going to decide he had enough and, instead of quietly offing themselves, would decide to take a bunch of their tormentors with them.
So no, it's not that these kids get piled onto on facebook. You know they can just unfriend the jerks, right? We're noticing them because they've shown they can and will hurt the normies if their pushed far enough. The sad thing is it had to come to that.
wasn't genreally because of how tough and patriotic they were but because they had no options and were dirt poor, right? Imagine your kid 8 or 10 on a farm, that the farm is failing because of a few bad seasons and your parents can't afford to feed your brothers and sisters when this nice man from the army says he'll take you away and give you grub.
My bro skipped the army and opted for college (I'm got hip problems (real ones, as in I'll need a hip replacement someday), so it was never an option) but I still would have opted for college. Most do. If you look at our volunteer army, it's almost entirely the poor and long term military. For all intents we've got a warrior caste, we just don't talk about it in those terms.
There's a huge benefit to be had from scarce water. Here in the states we've already got some of our oligarchs moving to take control of the water supply and spending a lot of money to do it. If we were smart we'd make it a point to prevent anyone from profiting from access to clean water. Once somebody can make money off a resource they generally want the value of that resource to go up. And scarcity's an easy way to make it happen.
My mono Bluetooth headset gets about 6 hours (claims 7). Most stereo ones I've seen are 4 or 5. I don't mind plugging my phone into a power brick but I've yet to see a headset that looks wearable plugged into one.
and it'll be the last time you see that channel in your feed. You'll also stop getting similar crap. It's worked for me for ages. Sure, every now and then youtube puts crap in my feed, but it's never the same crap (there's so much new crap it's hard to keep up) and in the meantime I get stuff like cool videos of teardowns of old RISC computers I didn't even know existed.
cause it sounds like he didn't. What youtube is worried about is out of control copy cats. This most recent high profile ban was for tazing a dead rat. That raises the question, why was the rat dead? Maybe he found it. Probably he found it. But will the next youtuber trying to break in kill the rat themselves? Probably. Lots of psychos out there, I can't blame youtube for not wanting to be associated with them.
are promising them jobs. Good jobs. They're gonna send the Mexicans who took their jobs packing, and punish the companies who outsource jobs. And not just any jobs. Good jobs. The kind they can do. The kind that paid their pappy and their grandpappy enough for a nice house a car and a family.
Meanwhile the folks yelling about NN are promising $10-$20 off your cable bill. Oh, I suppose they also said they'd knock a few points off your kid's student loans. Seriously, that's all I heard from the other side in the last election. It's a whole lot of stuff they either can live without, don't care about or is just plain out of reach. It's meaningless to them.
Americans want populism. That's why Trump won and why Bernie is the most popular politician in America.
but they're not going to pay you to do it. Given some of the crap I've seen folks do online (there's one guy who was basically abusing his kids for views) it's probably a good thing. Jerks like these brought the hammer down on a lot of stuff that was just good fun because they don't have the sense to know where the line should be drawn. Go to a spooky forest? Ok. Show a recent suicide? No, not Ok. If you can't tell why you need to step back from making videos (or watching them).
UPS and FedEx pay alright. I know some folks who 'ship' for Amazon. It's like Uber. Crap pay, psuedo contact work and no benefits. Something to do when your full time job isn't enough to make rent. Welcome to the new economy.
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his "Infrastructure Plan" is to give away vast amounts of infrastructure so the folks that helped elect him can profit from it (after the public paid to build it). Privatize the profits, socialize the losses. The frustrating thing is that it's going to take decades to undo the damage this crap causes. Hopefully enough opposition gets into Congress to stop him from selling off the interstate roads. I'm not looking forward to $20 in tolls just to get to work every morning, but I can guarantee you somebody is.
Racist is a person who shows or feels discrimination or prejudice against people of other races.
Voter Ids laws are racist because the people who came up with them did research beforehand that showed they would hurt minorities, particularly blacks.
Words have meaning. Besides the occasional internet troll the word "racist" is usually not a blanket insult. The person in question has generally done specific things. Where it gets complicated is that racists have learned that their behavior is no longer tolerated (and no, just because you oppose racism doesn't mean you have to tolerate everything, everywhere). Racists now hide their behavior. It's called Dog Whistling.
and I'll have a company ready to accept responsibility just as soon as the checks from the Administration clear.
And they like a bold, rich roast too (Yeah, it's Malcolm Gladwell, but the ideas aren't his so it's all good).
Big ones, too. We'll keep doing what we're doing but we'll hand it all to a buddy of Trump's who will tack on 20% more cost. It's just simple grift. Nothing more (or less).
declining wages are. Inflation for me is about 3% (that's real inflation, e.g. the % my expenses go up each year, it doesn't help me that the price of a $100k sports car only went up $1000 this year when food goes up 3%). Meanwhile my pay goes up 2% a year on average (and I'm one of the lucky ones).
I eat out less and less often because I can't afford to. Meanwhile the restaurants prices have gone up because they have fewer patrons who can afford it. So an OK Chinese buffet that used to be $10 + tip is now $25 + tip. The gyro place where I get a gyro + fries is now $15+ tip. I can't spend $20-$30 bucks on one meal.
that's what made Uber & Lyft work. Cabby work has been the domain of immigrants for decades because of how they're abused. They're usually in lease arrangements with the owner of the car and/or token that effectively pays them less than minimum wage. It was easy to look the other way at Uber/Lyft's worker abuse because it was significantly less than what most cab companies do to their drivers.
Missing from this conversation though was the crazy, out there notion of not letting _any_ company abuse workers. The working class lacks solidarity though. If we were smart we're realize that when one of us suffers we all do...
which makes it a lot easier to get a full set. Also there are finite limits to them (e.g. the set). Also most of them publish their card distribution / drop rates, so you can calculate how much a full set would cost.
it's also heavily regulated. You're glossing over that by ending your post with a cynical stab at those regulations. If this was just about the government getting their cut there's ways to go about it without riling up the neck beards. The government really does have a legitimate interest in keeping children away from gambling. As a voter, a gamer and a parent I _want_ to see this regulated. I don't trust the game industry to do it themselves. They're a lot bigger than they were in the 90s when they backed down and formed the ESRB and with that size comes power and arrogance.
is another's protecting the psychologically vulnerable. Half of mobile game revenue comes from just 0.19% of players. When you've got numbers like that something is very, very wrong.
to be devoured by some ancient evil or long dead civilization.
for any device that comes in bad. Modern electronics aren't very repairable. The whole thing is probably a giant block of solder with an occasional computer chip and a pair of speakers.
don't have the problems loot boxes do. I think it's because buying into the game and buying a pack of cards are the same thing; so everybody does it. If you want to play Magic you buy card packs. But with loot boxes most people play the game without buying them. That pattern becomes the norm and encourages mechanics that target the "Whales" who spend large sums. Supposedly something like 0.19% of users account for 50% of mobile game revenue. That can't be healthy, and loot box mechanics come from that school of monetization.
OTOH there's plenty of digital card games. Maybe deck building helps put the kibosh on out of control purchases. Some of the hard core Magic players I knew had a play style that meant that once they had the cards for this year's version of their deck they were done. I guess you can run out of cards to get at some point. Also you can usually trade cards (they're called Trading Card Games usually) so that usually limits the gambling aspect. Finally most publish the odds meaning you know how much that item's gonna cost.
Not sure if it's any one thing, feel free to chime in if you think there is though. But it's odd that this didn't blow up until EA. It's also odd that EAs been doing this crap in FIFA games for years and it took Star Wars for people to notice.
or is it giving these bullied kids an outlet so that you're actually noticing them? You're right, these kids always existed. But when I was a kid they were so trampled down nobody noticed. Hell, I was one of the only slightly bullied kids (I was big but timid, so sometimes a target) but I knew kids who were bullied by their teachers, and not just the gym teachers.
To be honest what changed was Columbine. Bullied kids suddenly had to be paid attention to. Even the gym teachers stopped the bullying since you never knew when one of those kids you kept shitting on for giggles was going to decide he had enough and, instead of quietly offing themselves, would decide to take a bunch of their tormentors with them.
So no, it's not that these kids get piled onto on facebook. You know they can just unfriend the jerks, right? We're noticing them because they've shown they can and will hurt the normies if their pushed far enough. The sad thing is it had to come to that.
wasn't genreally because of how tough and patriotic they were but because they had no options and were dirt poor, right? Imagine your kid 8 or 10 on a farm, that the farm is failing because of a few bad seasons and your parents can't afford to feed your brothers and sisters when this nice man from the army says he'll take you away and give you grub.
My bro skipped the army and opted for college (I'm got hip problems (real ones, as in I'll need a hip replacement someday), so it was never an option) but I still would have opted for college. Most do. If you look at our volunteer army, it's almost entirely the poor and long term military. For all intents we've got a warrior caste, we just don't talk about it in those terms.
There's a huge benefit to be had from scarce water. Here in the states we've already got some of our oligarchs moving to take control of the water supply and spending a lot of money to do it. If we were smart we'd make it a point to prevent anyone from profiting from access to clean water. Once somebody can make money off a resource they generally want the value of that resource to go up. And scarcity's an easy way to make it happen.
My mono Bluetooth headset gets about 6 hours (claims 7). Most stereo ones I've seen are 4 or 5. I don't mind plugging my phone into a power brick but I've yet to see a headset that looks wearable plugged into one.
and it'll be the last time you see that channel in your feed. You'll also stop getting similar crap. It's worked for me for ages. Sure, every now and then youtube puts crap in my feed, but it's never the same crap (there's so much new crap it's hard to keep up) and in the meantime I get stuff like cool videos of teardowns of old RISC computers I didn't even know existed.
cause it sounds like he didn't. What youtube is worried about is out of control copy cats. This most recent high profile ban was for tazing a dead rat. That raises the question, why was the rat dead? Maybe he found it. Probably he found it. But will the next youtuber trying to break in kill the rat themselves? Probably. Lots of psychos out there, I can't blame youtube for not wanting to be associated with them.
because this is way, way too much of an about face for anything else.
where it counts. If they're concentrated in swing states then it might as well be most people. And they are.
are promising them jobs. Good jobs. They're gonna send the Mexicans who took their jobs packing, and punish the companies who outsource jobs. And not just any jobs. Good jobs. The kind they can do. The kind that paid their pappy and their grandpappy enough for a nice house a car and a family.
Meanwhile the folks yelling about NN are promising $10-$20 off your cable bill. Oh, I suppose they also said they'd knock a few points off your kid's student loans. Seriously, that's all I heard from the other side in the last election. It's a whole lot of stuff they either can live without, don't care about or is just plain out of reach. It's meaningless to them.
Americans want populism. That's why Trump won and why Bernie is the most popular politician in America.
but they're not going to pay you to do it. Given some of the crap I've seen folks do online (there's one guy who was basically abusing his kids for views) it's probably a good thing. Jerks like these brought the hammer down on a lot of stuff that was just good fun because they don't have the sense to know where the line should be drawn. Go to a spooky forest? Ok. Show a recent suicide? No, not Ok. If you can't tell why you need to step back from making videos (or watching them).
these the kinds of features that keep my kid locked to an iPhone.
UPS and FedEx pay alright. I know some folks who 'ship' for Amazon. It's like Uber. Crap pay, psuedo contact work and no benefits. Something to do when your full time job isn't enough to make rent. Welcome to the new economy.