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They do know coins aren't single-use, right?

My coffee machine costs more than a Startbucks order, but that doesn't mean it's a bad investment.

40 years of villifying gun ownership.

I'm a Democrat with dozens of guns, but most Dems I know have been indoctrinated into thinking gun ownership is support of child murder.

Nobody is holding a gun to your head

Give them a few months

The Democrats disarmed themselves.

I think the reason they don't do that is because the costs of building an ad network that complies with regulatory requirements in every region is really expensive.

For existing ad networks, it's worth it because of the volume of customers. For Valve, the customer count would be low unless they wanted to make a play at becoming an ad network outside of Steam as well, which is not something that makes sense for them as a business. So for Valve, micro microtransactions and other forms of paid DLC are a much better business model for free-to-play games.

I think it's better than having ads too, but if Valve could have found a simple way to monetize the ads, I they would have gone that route. But this approach brings in more money, reduces cost of hosting games that don't bring Valve income, and brings good will.

Most American cities aren't New York.

We have no real public transit, and many of our cities were urbanization following the invention of the automobile and are spread out to accommodate the automobile infrastructure and longer commutes.

Houston is our third most-populous city and has a metroplex with a Combined Statistical Area of over 12,000 square miles. That makes it roughly the size of the Netherlands, with around 40% the population of the Netherlands. Soon, Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio are going to form one giant metroplex that's 60,000 square miles.

It's not entirely altruistic.

Valve doesn't get their 30% taste on ad revenue.

A President can pardon federal criminal convictions. He can't erase civil liability if people personally sue Musk.

That's like saying all cars are meant for the racetrack or all knives are made for spreading butter.

I own several guns, and none of them are so I can kill. My over/under shotgun is designed for skeet shooting. My 22 pistol is for plinking. My precision rifle weighs 30 pounds with its optic, so is incredibly impractical as a weapon.

I dunno, I saw some brown eggs in my Texas supermarket last week.

All those woke DEI chickens are leading to a genocide against wholesome, white, AMERICAN eggs.

Also Roz from Monster's Inc, who is obsessed with proper paperwork.

He's an elf who hates his half-elf siblings.

He's among my desktop figurines at the office. Here's a heavily-cropped photo (too much identifiable info in the wide shot):

The ocean would revolt.

I'm a .world user:

Also - these unions are made up of hundreds of thousands of beaurocrats, and NOBODY knows the rules like beaurocrats.

Source: am municipal bureaucrat.

We need a place to communicate, coordinate, and share what's happening. Control of the narrative and the ability to prevent coordinated responses are essential for their plans.

They blocked piracy for like a day over a year ago and then unblocked it when the users were clearly against it.

Hexbear being blocked is a good thing and overwhelmingly supported by the users.

Don't forget getting the interview.

I've got the right column on lock. I've never had an interview that wasn't followed by an offer. But I was still stuck in a dead-end job for years trying to get an interview.

Once I finally got an interview adjacent to my field, I was promoted within 6 months, then poached by another organization a year after that and had quadrupled my income in under 2 years.

But it took forever to get that process started.