Anything as complex as an atom will be disintegrated too.
Tinidril
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What payment terminals? They could go years just being an online credit card. Hell, initially it wouldn't be very different from any company that bills their customers. Start it as a Steam only thing, then add select partners one at a time. It doesn't have to be in your grocery store on day one, or ever really. Fraud detection is easy when you can just yank the game back. Sears couldn't do that when you bought a washing machine. I worked in banking infosec and I have no idea what "digital compliance" means in this context. The hardest compliance standards in this space are PCI, and those are defined and enforced on clients by the payment card industry itself.
Valves internal structure wouldn't scale to that size either
Which is why I specifically said it would be run as a subsidiary.
and they have no experience running a company of the size that would be required in a different structure.
Gosh, where on Earth could they find people with experience running a company that would look like 99% of the companies in existence?
You're just throwing shit on the wall and hoping something sticks. You could neigh say anything, and nothing in the world would ever be accomplished.
At least that one has been proven to be bullshit by the establishment's reaction to the Mamdani campaign. I don't think it's going to be as useful to them going forward.
My only purity test is that I will never support anyone ignorant or insincere enough to talk about "purity tests".
"Purity tests" is a thought terminating cliche created by Democratic consultants to shut down legitimate dialog with the left. If the Democratic establishment didn't have purity tests of their own, then whence "Anybody but Bernie". Maybe try grappling with what those purity tests look like.
they had hundreds of thousands of employees, and they didn't need to deal with all the digital shit we gotta deal with now.
They needed hundreds of thousands of employees because they didn't have "digital shit". Today, the entirety of Discover Financial Services is around 21k, and probably falling.
If Valve did it, it wouldn't be under the Valve organization anyways. It would be a subsidiary, and Valve has plenty of cash-flow to build it out.
If things in Russia keep going the way they are, Ukraine can take Russia too. Not that anybody wants Russia.
I think the point is that Valve has the reach to start their own credit card network. It might be far fetched, but I'm old enough to remember when Sears launched the Discover card. It's totally doable for a company that already has the technical capabilities of Valve.
I love the sentiment but want to make sure it's understood that M4A would cost less, not more, than what we have today. The US government already spends more per citizen on healthcare than most governments with universal programs. The money just doesn't go to healthcare, it pays for profits and unnecessary overhead (like CEO salaries) at insurance companies, physician networks, hospitals, and medical suppliers.
The market and reality haven't been linked for quite some time now.
Aside from the rather obvious point that "just following orders" is not a valid defense, only bigots and sadists join ice. Not one of them wouldn't benefit society by permanently relocating underground.
You legit are telling me...
Um, no? None of that is what I said. I sincerely hope to see her as president some day, I just don't think she is equipped to move us into post-MAGA America. If anything, she is too good of a person for this moment. I want a straight up leftist psychopath that will do what should have been done after the civil war and punish the fuck out of the traitors so we aren't dealing with the aftermath of this bullshit for a hundred+ years.
Oh, there is plenty of infighting, but putting it on the left is nonsense. If the establishment fought the right as hard as they fight the left, it would be Democrats running the whole government.