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Or just fix the problem and stop letting capitalism run rampant without regulations and start taxing the corporations and wealthy individuals who's own profits are responsible for a majority of inflation.

There is no way they'll just make up a bunch of invoices for small developers. That would be too time consuming, plus they'd need to show reasonable effort in determining the invoice. It's best to just let the devs do all the work with the fear that an audit can cost them so much more money than they'd save if they lied.

I can't reason someone out of a position they didn't use reason to arrive at. That's an unfalsifiable claim. Yes, the US does things that won't hurt them and has been known to do things that help them. I'm sure you've done things that is in your best interest as well. That's a far cry from proof of terrorism. It's absolute insanity and conspiracy theory to make that jump. I'm not going to continue this discussion.

I wouldn't say it means to be fine with this. I think it's to stop people from switching away from Democrats to GOP because the Republicans only way to reach swing votes is to convince them they can do better with the economy. They're not going to win them over with their "anti-woke" agenda and oppressing various minorities. This is a Republican economy though. Not saying it's their fault, but it is the economy they aim for.

Thats a different problem and not even new. It's not even the same problem you referenced as the "key" part of the problem. Algorithms providing content is behind every mainstream platform ever.

I didn't say MSN is flawless. Just that people are really bad at determining responsibility for an issue.

They're also really bad at delineating the nuance of different root problems apparently.

MSN didn't write this. They are entirely responsible for that odd travel article not too long ago, but MSN is mostly just a news aggregator.

It's clear you're both using different meanings of "intelligence." Granted I don't think there is consensus on its meaning, but from context they clearly regard "intelligence" as just memorized facts and wisdom as the application of it, which they aren't honestly far off. The amount of data is there, it's the understanding of the data that isn't there.

But it still isn't MSN who did it. The key part of the problem is entirely glossed over in the article.

Do people forget that games used to require you to have the CD-ROM in the drive before they would run?

They weren't always like that though. Don't forget piracy didn't start with the video game industry. It only started once it took off. CDs came later.

Source: person who remembers playing games off 8" floppies.

Edit to add: a game 20 years ago will only run because Windows says it's ok. If it's a linux-based game from 20 years ago, then it depends on a lot of other stuff. It's not Steam that keeps them running. Steam just provides you a copy for the most part. GOG exists and doesn't have the DRM that Steam allows. Does it have the same library? No. But we shouldn't support DRM to begin with, so if it's not on GOG, than I don't trust the game itself.

It's a shame that it's even considered "radical" since it's basically a copyright holder upholding their end of the bargain in the promise behind the origin of copyright. To incentivize creative content, a creator is given sole ability to monetize it for a fixed period of time. In return for that protection, the public gets it at the end of the term. Today's copyright is so far off course that it defeats the intent. There's no incentive to create anything new if you can keep milking existing content. And the public never gets a return for offering that protection.

Will probably be enforced via licensing. Maybe even self reported. Probably has a clause giving them permission to perform audits of your sales.

I mean, the US troops do provide a lot of aid around the world. They do more than fight. You can argue an imbalance, sure. And it's also clear they can bring some measure of stability with their presence as we've seen what can happen the moment they're removed.

Isn't this just implying you're paycheck is just you billing yourself? The one portal leads to the other.

If you hard code their services into your product, sure. But you should be abstracting away from that. Then it's just writing new plugins instead of redesigning everything.

He just did better than Trump. The amount of support Trump still has is ridiculous meaning it's more fervent than before. The reason Trump won originally could be why he wins again (if he makes it through primaries and doesn't get convicted). I don't think Biden can rest on his laurels for the upcoming election. Folks aren't happy and enough of them are either disinterested entirely and won't vote or mistakenly believe Republicans will fix it.

Most politicians are capitalists. Most citizenry are just resources. It's why we need more politicians worth under a million like AOC and the like. That's why the progressive "extremists" seem so out of place with the established politicians (even Democrats). Our entire economy is based on something far removed from the actual citizenry. But US Americans keep saying they want "moderates" for some reason.

Sorry, didn't mean to word it as support. Just wording it as the reality of what they think.

Workers wanted an increase in pay, so shareholders needed to offset that by even more. Workers can't get a raise without shareholders getting a raise.

Inflation is majority driven by profit, not wages. Dems barely attack that angle. Republicans actively work against it.

thats why the major automakers workers are striking, because its so wonderful under biden.

Biden has very little to do with that. Those are the executives and shareholders of those automakers. Dems have tried to increase benefits for employees. It's mostly a no-go at the federal level.

That isn't a reflection of the strength of the economy. That's just capitalism. Republicans are even further from being able to fix that. They somehow think getting rid of taxes and benefits will somehow fix that. Sure you can get some deflation if you increase the amount of debt of the populace, but that's not an actual fix.

Our economy's health is not directly related to the average person's buying power. One can argue that it's actually inversely proportional.