And Trump is just gonna cuddle up and spoon with the Palestinians, right?

He totally hasn’t openly said on on air that Israel need to finish the job and kill ALL Palestinians, right?

There’s corrupt and then there’s treasonous. Lots of politicians do shady things. Not many literally sell nuclear secrets to our enemies or provide hit lists of our foreign assets.

One is worse than the other.

Which one was being prosecuted for stealing and selling classified data before the judge he owned threw out the case?

Which one is being sentenced for felonies on Friday?

Which one held a private meeting with Russian spies while in office, then immediately asked for a list of informants, followed a few weeks later by a bunch of informants regarding Russian interests suddenly being killed?

Trump is a treasonous monster.

Careful not to break the heating assembly thermostat wires. They’re super delicate, and I managed to break them when removing a blob from my mini a while back.

It’s not just youtubers. It’s anyone who uses affiliate links. Online ads use affiliate links.Things like Amazon Smile used affiliate linking for charity fundraising.

And since Honey was jacking links class action is the only way for them to really do it. No individual affiliate can point out their individual loss through Honey because Honey erased their links.

That means the class action needs to go after all affiliate revenue Honey has ever made.

Youtubers who had their affiliate links hijacked aren’t subject to the EULA.

Put hundreds of them in a pretty boxes, form an LLC, get a few VCs to sign on, flip the switch, then charge a monthly fee to “open previously-inacessible service areas to cellular customers” and you’ll have a successful startup!

Is the poop something that has to be done in-person?

Does it have to be assigned to an individual, or can you decide that everybody who uses the word ‘rizz’ regularly will now poop?

Or is it like Death Note where you have to have a specific person in mind? I would totally be down to be the Kira of pants-shitting. I’d be the God of a stinky new world.

Problem is that in the US I’m fairly certain our leaders are already forced to wear diapers. The President who was elected 32 years ago is younger than the President who was elected 2 months ago.

Very few Americans get 30 days.

10 days is kinda standard, with some jobs giving more bar on longevity (e.g… every 2 years you get 1 more day per year, up to a maximum on 15 days).

I’ve got it way better than most Americans with my public sector job. I get 10 days vacation 1 “personal holiday” (like vacation, but can be used towards overtime his like a business closure day), 15 days sick leave, and we’re closed every federal holiday except for June Juneteenth.

I also attend a lot of night meetings, and get 1.5:1 comp time when I go over 40 hours in a week instead of OT wages, so that is my main source of vacation. I probably get another 2-3 weeks just from that.

I just took a week off for Christmas and have another 3 weeks saved up and I’ve only been with the city for about 14 months.

My point is that SteamOS is similar to Android from a business perspective.

They’re making an OS for free that anyone can install, but they’re doing it to get people to buy software from Steam.

Yeah, you don’t have to use Steam as your software provider, but Android users don’t have to use the Play Store.

Guess where almost all apps are purchased on Android? Valve wants to be the Google of the mobile PC gaming world.

I actually typed Origin when I meant to type EGS, which charges 18% to Steam’s 30%.

They offer a free operating system anyone can use that’s name after their company and designed to play games sold through the included store for a 30% cut of sales.

What saints!

If Google did something similar, I bet everyone would say they’re a great company and not at all evil…

Gabe is a billionaire monopolist, not your friend.

I really don’t get the love for Valve. They charge double the fees of some other digital platforms, and people flip the fuck out when a developer is like "we’re releasing on origin because paying Valve would cost more money than the entire net profit of the game.

I’m a Bambu user (sorry). My Dad bought me a ln A1 Mini for my birthday 6 months ago, and I’ve since bought a second mini with the AMS, and a big-boy A1. I have them set up in a converted garden shed along with my laser (Laserpecker 4). I insltalled AC, radiant barrier, and insulation. and put up a bunch of Skadis wallboard, added some workbenches along 3 sides of the room, etc. Turns out the previous owner had seriously screwed up the electrical service to the building (plugs would operate at different voltages depending on how many breakers were turned on - scary stuff), so last week I ran new electrical service from the pole to the building (about a 300ft trench).

I’ve printed hundreds of hangers for the skadis wall and laser ventilation systems, etc. I’ve designed custom mounts for my laser accessories, custom conduit for some of the electrical lines (nothing exposed to the elements), and more.

I’m worried because my project for the past 6 months has been creating the perfect hobby space, and I’m almost done.

I don’t know what to do after that…

If they charged less.fpr the platform, they’d still be raking in more than they can spend while also not taking an extra 20% out of game development budgets versus the competition.

Bad companies can make good products.

Steam also has anti-consumer policies. They just hide it better.

You think the reasen that games that are on both platforms don’t cost 20% more on Steam is because the devs love Gabe?

He’s a fucking billionaire who makes infinite money running an app store that takes a bigger cut of the game’s income than the combined pay of all the developers working on the game combined.

He’s not your friend. He’s a leech running a glorified app launcher.

Yeah. Those assholes. Taking 12% of the gross of a game sales instead of Valve’s 30% at a time when studios are struggling.

That better overlay and browser is totally worth 18% of the total value of a game and shouldn’t go to the employees making the product or into more features. I need my virtual stickers!