Why does the YT title say 2025? Lol

America is far too distributed to amass people at a single point.

Goddamm I need to get this phrase hotkeyed on my keyboard with how often I need to say it to people online who don’t know how spread out the US is.

Our 5 largest cities have a nighttime pop of 1:20 of the total population. In Germany that figure is over 1:10 and in France and UK it’s more like 1:5.

The largest city in the US is NYC with a nighttime population of 2.5% of the total US population, that same figure for France is 3.1% in Paris, in Germany, almost 1:20 Germans live in Berlin alone and in the UK 1:7.4 live in just London.

The US has a very small urban population for its size. This isn’t to mention that the two largest cities are separated by a 2,000 mile desert and border two different oceans. The only way to congregate most Americans is through the Herculean task of mobilizing the suburbs, which has had some success (No Kings Day is the largest nonviolent protest in history), but is still much harder than rallying in more urbanocentric European countries.

I lived within 20 min of the EST and CST split for a couple years. It is wild. Doing anything informal like meeting with friends was fine because we’d just say “come by in 2 hours.” Other times it was awful, leaving home at 7:45pm to go to the grocery store across town and arriving 90 minutes later after they closed sucked lol

Garbage article but actually nice story that I hadn’t heard yet. Gonna listen to some Beatles now

“Donate what you can.” There is literally no developer who would turn away $1/month.

Alternatively, try to come up with some formula of $/hr to help your prioritize things

Being “good” doesn’t mean you’re not a monopoly.

See: US Postal Service, most municipal utilities.

ETA: Monopolies are generally allowed to exist in the US until they start either harming customers or engaging in flagrant anticompetitive measures. Without either of these, there is no victim class to sue. The Sherman Act makes it much easier to litigate instances of “harming customers.”

There are tons of existing private monopolies in the market today that are allowed to exist just because no one’s sued for harm. The Govt. doesn’t just go around trust busting without cause.

The glass bottle industry is dominated by Owens, which has a ~85% market share but is allowed to continue because they’re ostensibly the best for the economy. Glass bottles are cheap to buy and no one’s really eager to start a competing plant. If either of those changed then trust busting might begin, but that doesn’t mean they’re not already a monopoly.

You can argue what kind of monopoly that Steam is, but the idea that it’s not is completely unfounded in reality.

“Monopoly” is neither illegal nor immoral. It’s a de facto label given based on observation. A “good” company can still be a monopoly.

Steam distributes ~75% of all PC games. It took me less than 30 seconds to find that that was the same market share needed to indict USMC in 1954. This is what happens when you hahave an entire (multiple?) generations who have grown up with gutted anti-trust policies.

ETA from my other comment ITT but worth reiterating:

ETA: Monopolies are generally allowed to exist in the US until they start either harming customers or engaging in flagrant anticompetitive measures. Without either of these, there is no victim class to sue. The Sherman Act makes it much easier to litigate instances of “harming customers.”

There are tons of existing private monopolies in the market today that are allowed to exist just because no one’s sued for harm. The Govt. doesn’t just go around trust busting without cause.

The glass bottle industry is dominated by Owens, which has a ~85% market share but is allowed to continue because they’re ostensibly the best for the economy. Glass bottles are cheap to buy and no one’s really eager to start a competing plant. If either of those changed then trust busting might begin, but that doesn’t mean they’re not already a monopoly.

You can argue what kind of monopoly that Steam is, but the idea that it’s not is completely unfounded in reality.

This is what Aesop Rock sounds like to people who dont like rap

laughs in Dr. Glob by Philippe Starck chair

Israelites are the ideological enemy of everything you want.

Lol stay asleep

Lol “since 2020”

It’s an unsourced alleged phone call from a British rag. I’m really not holding my breath on this one

Can you elaborate on that?

The best carnitas I ever had was at a place off Takeshita Street

I kneel.

Not a problem if you’re confident in your laundering skills. Easy to build them by doing business in Moneylaunderingburgh

Im in these streets girl

Sincerely hoping every CEO behind vaping gets burned alive

Tbh I can’t be bothered to confirm who exactly is managing the Ally but XBox’s new CEO is on a goodwill-gathering streak right now. Brought down the price of game pass and seems to want to bring people back to the brand proper. MS certainly has the capital to subsidize console costs to gain market.

Again, all this is conjecture and came from me saying that right now, because Valve raised the price of the Steam Deck and MS hasn’t done so for the Ally, the Ally is a better value. Today.