Hi there! Just another refugee rebelling over silly power trips.
Or… maybe development costs have just gotten stupidly high? There are a lot of great indie games for a few bucks that pack a heck of a lot more fun and experimentation than a lot of the cookie cutters garbage coming out of a lot of big studios lately. I’m honestly sick of every facet of my life trying to bleed me dry of any spare cent I get.
I mean, honestly, this is a rather unfair assessment.
It’s not just our jail system. It’s pretty much the entire judicial system at every step of the way, from a traffic stop to eventual execution.
Were you around in 1989 when Exxon basically destroyed Prince William Sound with an iceberged oil tanker through a comically evil set of circumstances including a possibly drunken captain, faulty equipment which languished for months, promised equipment that was never installed, and a total lack of planning for contingency? They dumped like 11 million gallons of oil and were assigned massive punitive damages of 5 billion bucks?
…and then it got appealed all the way to the supreme court, where it got busted down to 500 million spread over a time which actually allowed them to see profitability for causing one of the largest ecological disasters in history.
I don’t mean to sound jaded, and I truly appreciate your optimism. But the deck is no less stacked thirty years later and our political system is still bought and paid for. Let’s roll the dice and hope you come out on top of this one, friend. I’ll cheer alongside you.
…can we just skip to the part where Amazon pays less than a fractional percent of their profit in fines and then proceeds with business as usual? I just feel like the charade has grown tiresome at this point.
Yeah… they’ve worked hard and accomplished a lot. They definitely need a lil break.
Now do politicians.
It sounds sort of like Elon Musk, a private citizen, just committed conspiracy to perpetuate war crimes. That’s a pretty serious accusation with grave penalties that is somehow not being prosecuted.
You can just… Block it? It’s really easy?
Why is anyone voting Republican anymore? I seriously don’t get it. This is the party that literally wants to defund education and sell all of your rights to corporate greed.
And now they want to destroy democracy. And realistically have wanted to for decades.
It just seems like it would be an impossible sell, but here we are.
Politicians didn’t spend a damn penny. That’s all our money that could be used on things other than cleaning up after police that are fucking over our people.
Holy crap. He seriously has the most punchable looking face I’ve seen in months.
I am just so damn sick of every CEO.
You… really think humans are doing a bang up job, then?
I’ve said it before and been downvoted, but this is one job I’m excited to see AI creeping towards replacing.
Let’s see them recharge in the unemployment line like everyone else.
It’s a fantasy, as they would probably still get golden parachutes, but a man has to have a dream.
This would be beautiful.
Thank you for fighting a good fight. You’re far better than 98% of the boot-consuming power trippers that folded the moment it looked like they might lose their paper throne. Welcome home.
I appreciate you.
Dude… This exchange is literally, “Factual data indicates that Russian currency is at a 17-month low.” Your response: “Lol, no. I went to college.”
Annnnd that’s basically your whole comment history? If you’re not a paid shill… You should probably submit a resume?
Ok, settle down there, Ivan. You have other posts to spread your apologist views to. Don’t let this one detain you.
This and almost every other tech subscription style “service” are one of the most maddening things to come out of the tech sector. The need for profit is absolutely out of control.
You’re not being super fair here, to be quite honest. Capitalism doesn’t just exploit people.