Bronzebeard @ Bronzebeard @lemm.ee

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Taking a tourist trip to space does not make you a real astronaut.

That's not the way the math works, regardless of how you "see it".

This was about bluesky/Twitter type social media. Things with reshare and follows to specific users, where someone you follow arguing with someone you don't will expose you to the person you don't follow.

Do you know why 30% was chosen? It was the typical cut retail took. Physical stores selling goods take that much to cover their lease, logistics in moving those good to the store and employees.

Online stores do not share most of those costs. 30% is not needed.

And any other industries that actually manufactures in the US. And also the ones that don't manufacture in the US.

Turns out when you want to bolster domestic production, making raw materials more expensive is a dumb idea. Making components of larger things that are assembled more expensive here does the same.

All it does is make everything more expensive.

Fucking stupid.

Digital data is just 1s and 0s.

On and off. If you turn that laser on and off you're transmitting binary information. The receiver can interpret that. We already do that with fiber optic cable, basically. This is just removing the wire.

While I agree the cap needs to be removed. The cap is only stopping you from subsidizing more of the working class. They are not subsidizing you. The payout is also capped. You're effectively paying a portion of your contribution to boost the payout of multiple other people who contributed less during their careers

Some of them are, which is even more confusing.

No it wasn't. We were taking about streams monopoly status and epic being one of the few alternatives.

YOU were the one trying to deflect the conversation into business viability. Which your entire side tangent really only reinforces how obscene the monopoly hold off stream is, that trying to break into the market is so expensive.

I have zero interest in that either. Those specific characters were the whole appeal to that show.

Well yeah, fighting for market share against an entrenched monopoly isn't cheap. That's not a reason to cheer on the monopoly though.

It's limited time, but also the selection these last few years has felt very uninspired. Everything is extremely derivative and been done to death.

There was a mass consolidation of developers/publishers recently, on top of further extended development cycles that has really limited any kind of variety we might have seen.

All retail establishments utilize loss leaders. It's not some underhanded duplicitous tactic, it's just a common business strategy

It sounds like slime you're blaming your shitty internet on epic instead of providing an actual argument for why epic isn't actually an alternative (it is). You want to suck up to a monopoly, just be honest about it.

I'm not sure what you're responding to, but it wasn't anyone I said

There's talk of a reboot, and that's not what anyone wanted at all....

It is, in fact, an alternative to steam. What a stupid thing to say

The company providing an actual alternative to steam's real monopoly is not the one to be complaining about

Those still aren't bots. Bot farms are literally a bunch of servers running computer programs. That's not the same thing as some online sweatshop pushing disinformation manually.

It decreases the spread. Cutting form the engagement means free people who aren't already subscribed to that content will see it, since there's fewer people arguing with it. Which means those who are susceptible to falling for it have less chance to even encounter it, meaning fewer fall into it.

Even if the incentive to create the trolls has changed, the counter to letting it spread hasn't.