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This is the real reason why Dems won't bring her in. People will make excuse after excuse. Your first main point was disproven and you just come up with another.

Not just that, imagine something with a lot of users like universities or hotels. Who the hell is supposed to take accountability there?

Conspiracy hat on.

Banks have gotten high on their own power. They realize they can compete in residential real estate and starve out the market by artificially decreasing supply and hiking prices. They know the US loves circle jerking (American) auto makers, and will funnel tax money to make them survive.

Banks will want in on the action and will back automakers to follow suit, cut supply/artificially decrease it, and increase prices (more than they are).

In that scenario 1 of 2 things happens, 1) we pay more cash for cars that are necessary for American life 2) we lease/finance ridiculous prices and the bank makes even more profit.

It's win win for them to support auto industry and supply them with the real estate they're holding on the side lines.

To play devil's advocate, used car prices do not follow supply and demand. They follow perceived supply and demand by a conflict of interest. If you try to buy a used car, your salesman gives you info to push you to pay more. They have other lots to make it seem like there's low supply.

Carvana and CarMax operate similarly.

And if you feel like knowledge is power, Manheim/Cox numbers don't matter when you're purchasing through a greedy middleman.

PPP was notoriously fraudulent. Big corps we're taking PPP loans

You mean never get awoken in the middle of the night by a dying fire alarm? That's got to be at least bottom of A tier.

Thing is it's never that black and white. Every business does somethings better than it's competitors, otherwise one of them would have already gone under. It's people that work at both that brimg both businesses forward.

Why do you think big tech big tech companies call as soon as you leave another big tech company?

Fuck that noise.

In tech, my brain is my brain. Your employment is a license to use my brain for 8 hours a day. If I choose to get employed elsewhere, I still have my brain and it's being licensed there too. If you want to license my brain 24/7, then we're upping the cost significantly and you better fucking put it in the terms.

I always say this. You're one person. Facebook was once a trillion dollar company that hired teams of engineers, phds, and marketers to device the most abusive ways to keep your attention. There are literal studies showing how insta promotes depression in young girls and yet they're still allowed to operate.

Social media's marketing schemes are the new generations tobacco industry.

I've never wanted to zuck someone off more.

Abuse my right to view ads daddy zuck.

We know women are heavy shoppers, thus they have more competitive ad space.

We know people like to scam elderly, thus they have more competitive ad space.

Sounds like big insurance might be complaining that they're worse at SEO than the Nigerian prince.

Can't wait for this bullshit to get denied because writers/actors are already striking.

That implies they're doing something good for us. This is like giving your friend a box of smokes and then offering them chewing gum to hit the nicotine fix. It didn't help, but I guess I have some gum now.

In D2 finding gear felt fun. Runes were rare but powerful and sets/legendaries offered different build paths. You also had control over magic find with the ability to lower your power to increase magic find.

D3 (much later) expanded sets so that a number of builds were viable per class, making it fun to find any piece of gear. They also added rifts to challenge yourself to no end. The devs liked watching people push higher tiers and celebrated it.

D4 does not have runes or sets. Every legendary effect can to removed from the legendary and added to any yellow piece of gear. As a result, you're typically chasing random yellow items for a .1% increase that all feels very samey until you find a unique. Currently, uniques are not even close to all being viable. Also blizz activity monitors unique drop rates and decreases them/bans people for finding ways to increase drop rates. The devs do not like people pushing harder stuff because that means they spending less time looking at the intentionally shitty (free) transmogs. They want you to grind away for days to get incremental success so you tire of your looks and buy skins and battle passes. If that explanation sucks, then I have no fucking idea what they're doing. Maybe they expect us to grind because they don't know how to create more content?

We all buy guns and ammo and go mad max. DOJ exists but if there are enough crimes, it won't be paid enough to handle them all. Also, people would just kill cops with ACAB mentality. They'll run out eventually.

"We don't want to be the ones policing forums."

At the same time

Elon aids the enemy in the Ukraine and Russia conflict.

Pricing should protect indie and small businesses. When it destroys those, we need government to step in because we're on track to create oligarchs in every industry that are too big to fail.

As a casual yugioh enjoyer that went to Barnes and noble every few Saturdays to play and trade, I never saw GameStop even try to compete. I can't imagine it had any impact on running game/card shops out of business.

Make bad decisions and blame it on AI. Make good decisions and blame it on CEO.

But also, what entitles them to even a portion of the games proceeds? Adobe doesn't get a cut for every digital piece you create. Dundermifflin doesn't get a cut everytime you write a new contract. That's absolute bullshit and they should get a fine for even thinking they're allowed to be this big and change the rules like this. That's a monopoly mindset.