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  • On the oil you are forgetting the externality it too poses. The oil needs to be disposed of. In addition to the externalities of the logistics of gas (gas stations, fuel deliveries, leaking Underground storage). There is a lot of these in the fuel process, from drilling oil all the way through the process.

  • Ik ben ook geen Amsterdammer maar als ik het vergelijk met de rotzooi op de snelweg.. met die constante snelheidswijzigingen is het wat dat betreft dan niet duidelijker om eenheidsworst te serveren?

  • Actually I successfully have, just not in the US. The US has pretty hostile regulations against unions. Or maybe lacks regulations against companies squashing them.

  • Corporate greed can only be stopped by disallowing the divide and conquer strategy they employ. Individual bargening against large corporations only works if the employer works in good faith. So when the relationship was good they could have also formed a union and work together to have a fair footing if anything changes in that good relationship. The employees as a group missed that window and now that it's needed the framework for collective bargaining is not there and individuals are left holding the bag.

    Unions should not be demonized as a bad thing or punishment for the employer, it is a counterweight to the corporate machine if it ever shows it's ugly head. Good employers have nothing to fear if they work together.

  • While terrible, the most of these people make a lot of money and could have also unionized over the past years. Covid also showed them what was on the horizon. But instead the prevailing US worker strategy in these high paying jobs seems to be "get yours".

  • Good point, and I think there isn't a one stop shop. But I think chat is overrated in this, it might be an addition. But having information that is not search indexed limits access and thus usability for the broader community. Also discord sucks for KB and FAQ in terms of formatting and setup (usually you see locked chat channels for that containing links to external sources. And the community discussions usually end up with multiple simultaneous discussions that get drowned out by new discussions in the same thread.

    I think discord has a role. But it is not a good solution by any means. Lemmy, reddit, even the steam forums seem better.

  • True-ish. Most discords are setup with chat channels that serve the function of a board. With all threads in a single timeline and several conversations running through one another.

    In addition the interface is a cluttered mess with many different icons, buttons and panels all competing for your attention.

    And the search then gives you a single post, leaving you to scroll in that messy interface through several mixed conversations to try and make heads or tails from it.

    In the mean time the information cannot be found through search engines meaning I have to find the correct community (sometimes there are multiple) and hope the info is there.

    It's not an improvement IMHO.

  • Large companies that are themselves (near) monopolies see the risk of only having one supplier. This should be evident to all spectators.

  • And every gamer and his dog have their own, so communities are adhoc and lackluster. It does the opposite of what forums used to do.

  • Jup, it's terrible. Where information goes to die. I wish devs would not use it as much as they do.

  • This will be epic in terms of the cluster fuck it can generate.

    Mod makers making more than the game creators, commercializing someone elses products, asset and mod theft and monetezation, revenue split...

    Lemme grab my popcorn.

  • Discord is a disjointed mess that is being abused by many to fill a role it was never designed to fill.

    No, I don't want to join your discord to use a half assed search to be able to dig my way through what you think is an FAQ about your game.