FishFace

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[–] FishFace@lemmy.world -5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes? That's why loans with collateral charge a lower interest rate than unsecured loans.

[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

There's a mile of difference between saying "consumers need to get comfortable not owning their games" and "we want consumers to get comfortable not owning their games (but using subscription services instead)".

The former statement is extremely arrogant. The latter is just obvious. And it's reasonable even if you or I personally don't want to get our games on a subscription model - millions of people get their music through Spotify and it suits them just fine even though other people don't want that. So it's a way of straw-manning the people pushing subscriptions so you can hate them.

[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The point of the dishonest article is to make you believe the CEO feels entitled to gamers becoming OK with subscription models. What he actually feels is a hope that subscription models will take off. It's rage-bait. Did it work?

[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

You say this:

interpreting casualty numbers that a militant group releases with clear propaganda intent in a light most favorable to them...

but just said this:

Statistically, half their forces are minors.

Pull the other one. If all you wanted was for people not to interpret casualty numbers "in a light most favourable to Hamas" you'd be acknowledging how high the death toll is while making your point instead of trying to distract from it.

[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There is no need to "play devil's advocate" - if you believe something, argue for it. If you don't believe something but think I'm missing something, you can point it out and make a case for why it's important without being confusing about what you actually believe.

All evidence I have seen is that Hamas does not systematically use child soldiers. We can see the indiscriminate tactics of the IDF; we can put that together with the high death toll to make a reasonable conclusion that vast numbers of civilians have been killed. You're trying to cast doubt on this idea but the amount of doubt is akin to flicking water from your fingers onto a housefire.

[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Hey if you're colourblind, all blues can be blurple. And so can all purples!

[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 39 points 8 months ago (39 children)

Most of the death toll is women and children (7k and 10k, respectively). Even if you assume all men killed are Hamas fighters, which is not true, that is very high when compared to the attack which triggered the war.

[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The requirement to not track users with cookies does not extend to cookies that make the site work in the first place, such as those which track your login session, or your refusal of other cookies.

[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Surely any kid who went to only one high school is going to have, at the time, thought it was perfectly normal because that's all they knew? I think our school had 4 floors in both buildings

[–] FishFace@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Tesla is headquartered in an ally of the EU; BYD isn't. Maybe Tesla's subsidies are a problem to the EC - I don't know. But you're looking at it in a slightly simple way, as if it's very important that this process needs to be fair.

It doesn't need to be fair; it needs to be good for the EU. Is it good for the EU to impose tariffs on subsidised Chinese vehicles coming in (if indeed they are subsidised)? Quite possibly. (Quite possibly not: how important is it to have a big car manufacturing industry, versus your population having cheaper cars?) Whether it would also be good to impose tariffs on Tesla vehicles is also a valid question to ask, but those questions don't have to have the same answer.

[–] FishFace@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The article doesn't suggest it's impossible. It's difficult because you have to build up a competitive business from nothing in addition to the one you're already building up.

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