Agreed

By their logic games like civ with its turn based fighting "had no right to exist" because counterstrike is popular...

Some people just enjoy being able to plan their actions and having a bird's eye perspective on things.

Many sub contractors live on the mercy of the companies they supply. That forces them to show more goodwill than they want.

I remember a couple years back when Ericsson unilaterally decided that they would stop paying their bills after a month and instead changed it to three months. So, do you want to piss off the biggest company in the region or do you just say "Thank you, sir"?

As an aside, what kind of amoral sod goes around teaching companies what bills they can ignore and how morally bankrupt must you be to listen to them?

Never ask questions you don't want an honest answer to.

Have you ever heard of the just world fallacy?

You seem to have made some good choices but you don't seem to understand how much luck has to do with the outcome.

It doesn't take very much to wipe out savings or destroy a plan, especially before you got any funds to handle the unexpected and even more so in the US and it's low de-comodification.

Get hit by a car by no fault of your own, rack up a high medical bill and be fired due to not being able to work. It's not that an outlandish scenario and one that most can't plan for or have money in reserve for.

And that's of course even harder for someone growing up in a poor household and working minimal wage jobs.

I find it interesting that in Swedish the opposite of sunwise is "motsols", i.e. counter sunwise or literally "against the sun". Sunwise is called "medsols", lit. "with the sun".

I feel that this very much depnd on which games you're playing. Competitive or Roblox, Windows is the better choice. Majority of the games I play though works without any issues on Linux.

I've heard that some games even are faster on Linux even when running proton buy it isn't anything I've myself has investigated.

Gaming is one of my main intrests and I've been playing on Linux for at least ten years. It's not for everyone I guess.

It doesn't help that Google tries to guess what you actually wanted to search for.

Ah but when the prices can't go any higher they can always remove content, paying their suppliers less and getting cheaper hardware. I wish I was joking but these are the options that are left.

You remind me of chatting with a friend from Hong Kong and how surprised she was that I, as a young man, knew how to cook and did it for fun.

The thing I don't like is that so much of the cost cutting goes to companies. It's not just the office space, it's also furniture, electricity, water and so on.

While the worker save time and costs for transportation they usually don't get any compensation for the wear and tear of their furniture or the need for extra space for work area.

It's the only one that makes any logical sense!

My wife is a teacher and often amazes her kids (age 15-18) by doing "ctrl+f". So jepp, they have only surface level knowledge of the tools they are using.

My kids school in Sweden, at least age 6 to 12 have a school day from 8 till 13, or 14 for the older kids, and still no homework.

But long days would be counterproductive. Learning is hard work, that's part of the reason a new job is so exhausting. Doing that long hours for years would only burn kids out even more.

An infuriating part of it is that IMF, money lovers that they are, published research on this at least ten years ago.

But you can teach someone something that their job depends on them not knowing.

Looking forward to the documentary of bounty hunters trying to catch him 😊

Sure but it doesn't explain why teachers need to flip burgers as a second job, or why doctors and lawyers are drowning under all the debt.

That's a stunning reversal for millions of households during a 12-year period that included economic growth and huge stock gains following the end of the Great Recession.

Wow, it's almost as if most people don't get any gains from the stock market booming... /s

For most people a strong stock market only mean, in best case, that they don't lose their jobs. It doesn't have any real positive effect on their wages. When it goes well for companies we're told to not ask for too high salary due to inflation. In hard times were told not to ask for too much to save our jobs.

The only time we get an increase in salaries is when there's either a lack of skilled workers or when we create an artificial lack of skilled workers through unions and strikes.

I'm deeply curious what "effort" they are talking about. The article was quite clear that the US just have continued, and improved upon, its long standing tradition of "fuck you I got mine".

• Moving over the responsibility for pensions on the individual.
• Increasing the wage gap, and I bet when they say high earners that value is skewed but and low number of very high earners.
• Tax rules that only help the ones who already are rich.

They already have. Been reports of congregations who have complained the the words of Jesus are too woke and weak...

"Hm... Is this help coming or the Flying Dutchman?"