"pretty rich" is underselling it. While he drives around between his multiple mansions using his multiple porches and claims his income isn't THAT high (keeping in mind he disclosed that one of his one-day gaming sponsorships was for hundreds of thousands of dollars, for one day's work), one must remember their privilege, and his... Is his family is in the top 500 richest families in the world. There's multiple billions of liquid currency flowing through his direct bloodline.
If I added up the total wealth of myself, my siblings, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and first cousins... I'd see probably a million bucks. Maybe two, depending on land value. He can just one one level removed, and have several billion in just liquid assets alone.
If you were to take all his Porches and BMWs, all his mansions, all his diamonds and gold, even everything in his bank... His grandpa could replace it all without really noticing any material financial change.
Alternatively, do more. He was clearly at some middle ground no-good area.
entitled
That is, indeed, the word to use.
No downvotes now, weird. Someone must've changed their mind.
It's a sad day indeed that the last major console has ceded ground and given way to the digital-only era. For handhelds, sure, I can see it, it's a handheld, you don't want to cart around cartriges, and less openings means you can make the device more water-resistant, but for real consoles... It's just sad that they've gone away.
I'm all for being alert and aware to the risks... Your math makes a bad assumption, though: A lot of these vaxxes use similar tech (part of their other financial pyramid scheme is renewing patents by adding one tiny thing to an existing thing, then insisting that is used instead of the now-public-domain one), so those who get fucked once, are much more likely to be fucked again, making two counts (the baseline math you're using), but one victim (the arguably more important stat).
5% is too high on its own. I play D&D, those 1's roll all the time. You don't need to fall into a fallacy of incidents == victims like the 2010s college rape epidemic alarmists.
The dream was "options". If I have a console, I want my gaming process to be "see in store, impulse buy, drive home, put game in console, play instantly. 100% the game without downloading a single piece of DLC or any internet access."
If I wanted to burn bandwidth downloading things, I'd just use a PC. Which I do. Options. I have options to choose from. XBOX has made the decision to make their "console" indistinguishable from a really bad, restricted, unhelpful and unmodifiable PC rig. So... I should just use the PC rig, they no longer offer a useful or interesting secondary option.
Apple has always been a trend-follower, not a trend-maker. They see how the market is moving, then buy one-generation-older tech, buy so much of it that the market gets strangled "naturally" to discourage competition, and then market the hell out of it.
And they make good money doing so. Everyone loves last year's tech remarketed as "new magic-tech! And in a white case, with an apple picture on it!".
Corporate personhood is fine, if it is, indeed, personhood.
If a person kills someone, that person is put to death. If a corporation does so, it too should be put to death. "It was an accident!", well, accidental death carries 10 years in prison, where a person can't do a normal job, so the business must suspend all business activities for 10 years, and any owners of the business must ensure this punishment is carried out, under penalty of law, so no just making a new business name, you can't change your name to get out of a criminal punishment.
On top of this, individual persons can't do any number of things corporations are allowed to do, such as freely move between nations, offshore tax shelters, employ related peoples, etc.
Jan 2021. This person was posting four years too early.
Speaking as a Gaijin: Good. Prohibitions on gaijin help make a more cohesive society, and while that might curtail my theoretical rights, I also have the right not to be there in the first place.
Aaaaaand it's gone.
"Over"react.
Okay, "over"reacting would be going full McCarthy and arresting everyone in America with known or even suspected ties to left-wing parties. Let's not "over"react, and simply normal-react: Arrest everyone involved in these riots. Kill a couple of them even if they aren't merited of the death penalty. Just like Jan 6th, which the Left has established as standard NOT overreacting. Don't want to be arrested or shot? Don't riot.
Hey, don't throw the lobster out with the bathwater.
Meanwhile, Palantir be like "Shit, mang, we weren't supposed to already have done that? We're named fucking Palantir!"
Maximally effective maxim to live by.
"Cannot thee simply issue thy commandment to thine progeny?" -Parents throughout history.
Plenty of students work night shifts or early-morning, too.
This is a tragedy!
Tear gas? Most leftists are such crybullies that they're in a perpetual state of crocodile tears as it is. This needs far stronger measures.
The Swarm prevails.
It's a step up from London, where the cars are apparently all self-driving. This one at least had a "man" driving it.
The same can be said for almost everything, really. Egyptians were using mummy wrappings to wrap their lunches because graverobbing was cheaper than paper! All the wood and cloth "artifacts" of native Americans decay and are lost within a generation if not safekept. It takes a particularly successful and forward-thinking society to want to bother to preserve anything.
Now, notably, those old Egyptians DID want to preserve things, it's only the modern ones that were despoiling it. Some major thing must've changed at some point.
But a "true" restoration of the rightful "original" place of these artifacts would be to steal them away, then burn them all, or compost them, or melt them down or whittle them into wood/iron nails and horseshoes. Because that's what happened to all artifacts outside of European domain: Reduced, reused, and recycled, rather than preserved.
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That's, like, billions of gigabites of extra data Google needs to store, with more growing every hour, right?
Real "Yeah, SOUTH African..." energy here.
If they started arresting people for using slaves, so many politicians would face jail time. Can't have that.