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@alinaf352517 @datnofact The audience is people who already have a sizeable Steam library who would like to play those games in a living room setting without having to re-buy them all or build a custom HTPC. The cost differential is easily made up if you own a bunch of AAA games on Steam.

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@ElzbietaKusztal @RolandArgues @TawhakiTheGod @JayinKyiv Prior to Trump's tariff insanity, lots of things didn't have tariffs applied, and the de minimus exception was high enough that basically no consumer ever had to deal with them, so couriers like UPS never implemented any e-payment infrastructure for their delivery drivers.

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@DP8433184621604 @JefferyThomas @TheTNHoller Detroit is well over 200mi from Chicago

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@DaddiJarJar @RiccRockets @notcapnamerica Tell me you don't know anything about US Manufacturing without telling me. The US has the world's 2nd largest manufacturing output, trailing only China, and about 2.5x greater than #3 Japan. What we lack are manufacturing *jobs*, because those have largely been automated away.

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@DrApryle @Gok @SwannMarcus89 There was a pretty significant period of time (pre-9/11) where you could travel to Canada with nothing more than a US driver's license

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@treeboi27 @dieworkwear @HeagneyBrian The pinstripes are just way too bold and make it extremely obvious when the fit is slightly off or the tailoring doesn't take them into account. E.g. the stripes going out of parallel above the pockets due to the nip at the waist. Looks like they were drawn on a balloon.

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@eatbees @EricShapiro3 @HeerJeet Who the hell wastes time watching the SOTU address

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@RBMEllis @jpdorota @adamjohnsonCHI You're literally doing exactly what the OP is talking about. Scolding, calling them "petulant," castigating them to think of the other marginalized people who will be hurt if they don't swallow their conscience and Just Vote Blue. Thanks for providing a *perfect* example!

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@murderxbryan Anyone advising someone to buy into a house when interest rates are hovering around 8% doesn't know shit about throwing money away

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@Kastro44_ @NomeDaBarbarian However bad you might imagine the working environment is in the US due to lacking regulations like this, the reality is much, much worse.

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@ewh1000 @_celia_bedelia_ @HappyDance1 @alysewax @cmclymer No one's saying the raid on the Waco compound had stopping child abuse as a primary concern; it pretty clearly didn't. They're just saying that current attempts at hagiography on Koresh are overlooking the child abuse that we NOW know he committed on the regular.

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@jonathanchait Counterpoint: Bethany Mandel is 100% an idiot, and completely unworthy of the benefit of the doubt or any assumption of arguing in good faith.

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@tzimmer_history The NYT is a center-right rag with an affinity for fascism and has been for over a century, so this is really all you can expect from them.

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@DavidOAtkins @politico @nytimes Their inevitable conclusion: "we didn't put in enough effort gaslighting it into existence. Work harder next time."

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@JoeDanger2728 @Vickie77900969 @PollboothW @RogerDo82098370 @GunnelsWarren You didn't even bother to click on the Bloomberg article, did you. Your facile analysis would be worth something except for the fact that MARGINS are at their highest in over 70 years. There is profiteering happening here beyond just dollar devaluation due to inflation.

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@BBerbari_3K @JoshuaPotash This would be a worthwhile analysis except that margins are at record highs as well, indicating profiteering beyond just dollar devaluation.

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@JoshuaPotash Wired has never been a serious publication, but recently they've been tilting away from "tech bros get really stoned and play what-if" to "impossibly stupid people earnestly offer impossibly stupid solutions while cold sober."

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@wolrah @rob_sheridan The USB-IF is 100% in thrall to its vendors, and its vendors want nothing more than to be able to sell their old shit as the new shit, even if it does precisely none of the things that make the new shit new.

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@URdreamingnow @Damothedevo @NoLieWithBTC A free market is literally impossible in a segment with essentially infinite demand elasticity like necessary healthcare. People aren't going to stop paying for the drugs they need to live just because the price is high when the alternative is death.

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@ZeppeCat @TristanSnell Basically anytime anyone yells "free market" about healthcare in the US, it tells me they've never even sniffed the interior of an Econ101 lecture hall.

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@ZeppeCat @TristanSnell A functioning free market is literally impossible in a segment where demand is essentially infinitely elastic. People aren't going to stop taking the drugs that keep them alive because of price pressure, so the market naturally converges on obscene prices.