@annalesueur@richardparke15@BareLeft And yet you still qualify for one regardless of employment status. Benefits or not you are in the generation that qualify. Anyway sounds like you aged like milk
> be microplastics researcher 2015
> develop better detection method
> can see particles 10x smaller than before
> run samples
> counts 100x higher than previous estimates
> publish
> conclusion: "more research needed"
> funding expires
> be different researcher 2020
> even better detection
> same samples
> counts higher still
> publish
> grant rejected: "not novel"
> be researcher 2024
> can now detect nanoplastics
> counts astronomical
> particles in brain tissue, testes, placentas
> concentrations increasing decade over decade
> publish
> industry response: "correlation not causation"
> plastic production: up 4%
every improvement in measurement finds worse news. thats not uncertainty. thats the answer
Trump rolls out the red carpet for war criminals like Putin.
Not a single U.S. official greets Zelensky.
The message couldn’t be clearer: Trump favours dictators & tyrants.
I don't say this lightly but Steam is quite literally the only company I am okay with having this monopoly.
There are so many ways they could use steam to generate more money. I see every opportunity for them to exploit their userbase and they choose not to.
They have exceptional customer service, steam charts are public (something MANY companies would rather not be public to hide embarrassment), ludicrous deals for games several times a year, banning in-game ads, making it a requirement for developers to say whether or not they used AI, the mod support and steam workshop. The list goes on.
Any gaming CEO would kill to have Steam and would promptly kill it within 5 years to appease share holders.
Don't even get me started on the Gabecube (the new steam console).
Steam single-handedly is holding PC gaming up and I never want anything to happen to it.
Other companies can eat shit and learn to actually respect their customers like Valve and Steam do—but they won't, because that means not squeezing every dime possible out of your userbase.