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The good thing is that all sane instances can just defederate and we won't have to deal with them. They can use the software all they want, and we can shut them out from our spaces all we want.

Federation at its core promotes echo chambers because instance admins can just defed from any instances that popularly have different opinions. But it's also a benefit because really safe spaces are also just echo chambers (and less extremely just "a place where you don't have to argue with nazis" means shutting out some opinions) and they have their place because sometimes you just don't want to deal with the world's bullshit.

The nice thing is that you can choose an instance that fits your own needs for that and still interact with others that prefer different moderation, so long as your own instance isn't part of the defed list. So if someone wants to argue with nazis but still participate in idk lgbt spaces, they can, and the nazis still won't bother the lgbt space.

And if everything fails, you can also host your own.

Small correction: Them sitting on it and growing isn't quite it doing nothing - for it to grow, the money has to be somewhere in the economy "doing" things. Then the rich person gets money for doing nothing because the company (and by extension its workers) are partially "theirs".

The benefit of a wealth tax is less freeing up that money, and more so not enabling rich people to spend the money they get for doing nothing on excessive luxuries that only serve to pollute the planet and take up resources that could be used for useful things (and also doing something against excessive wealth accumulation in general, which is imo capitalisms greatest flaw - money leads to more money, and money = power, and we are living in the reality resulting from that)

Origin is irrelevant, the reality of how it's used today is what matters. Language evolves and slogans are just language.

Theyre more likely to keep the skin economy alive by making people enjoy the game. It's not like they have no incentive.

But yea I very much agree gabe is not the problem. If every billionaire acted like gabe the world would probably be a whole lot better, even if they'd still waste a lot of ressources. Because at least he hasn't sold his basic human decency for more money, he just spends his insane amounts of money on excessive luxury. And valve actually takes risks on new products, and is content with their store shitting money instead of trying to make it shit money faster like every publically traded company.

It's the same as with the CEO. Sure, if we could otherwise force these fucks to stop persecuting people and generally making everything worse for the entire world, I'd prefer that. But I still feel nothing but joy at anyone whos a "close trump ally" dying.

Because "close trump ally" reads the same to me as "close hitler ally".

I see "ahh" for ass everywhere and it annoys me so much because it completely kills the reading flow for me

Not really. It should be obvious that not every indie game will be super successful. This is just proof that some random reddit comments saying a game looks boring from an early trailer don't mean shit, because basically everything will have those.

3.6/2+0.36 = 2.16

(10% of 36 halved, so 5%, plus 1% of 36)

Human races don't exist and are a concept made up by racists to justify their discrimination.

I fucking hate this "x is not a race" argument so much for that reason. Nothing is a race.

It's not woman-exclusive and also the companies deciding the sizing are not the same as the companies running department stores (for large clothing brands these days, online shopping in their own store would be optimal, since retailers take a large cut).

It's mainly that making sure sizes are actually the same costs more money than just going with whatever comes out, and it's hard to make purchasing decisions based on size consistency once a large amount of brands do this.

That predates christianity, judaism already had sabbath. I wonder if that was an original feature when judaism first came into existence or if the concept of a regular rest day is even older.