And bush sr. said “read my lips: no new taxes.”

When will people learn these fuckers are all liars? That shit was almost 35 years ago. We never learn.

Considering this AI answer is kind of wrong, can you blame us?

People can be mad about two things. Don’t let a baity headline inform your views.

This conversation has completely shifted gears

So that comment was purely out of curiosity and in no way implied a certain degree of incredulousness?

🎶 but look I made you some conteeeeeent daddy made you your favorite open wiiiide 🎶

This ratio has been true of music forever. We have always depended on filters to get to the good stuff. Used to be access to recording studios (hence labels fucking everyone), then DJ’s setting taste (had its own problems). Pick a period of time there’s always a group or economic filter separating wheat from the chaff (not perfectly but generally successfully?) which makes it hard for independent/lesser knows to break through.

Now everyone can record and publish easily, so it’s about finding shortcuts or tricks to game the system and get ahead. Or, as always, just get lucky 🤷‍♂️

not relevant to me at all

Do you think everyone is like you?

You can’t say “something is necessary so I am cool with it” while also claiming you fully support its illegality. You’re trying to have your cake and eat it too. We declare things we do not want to happen at all to be illegal. Yes we accept there are limitations to how effective the law will be in stopping the behavior, but the goal is still 0 instances. If you split the difference at all you are bending your laws to suit your needs and rendering them ineffective in the long run. This is fundamental to a system built on laws. You accept limitations while also striving for perfect implementation and you don’t concoct special extra-legal situations where you ignore them. If you’re doing that then you need to change the law.

“Mainly” and “mostly” 🤨

Incredible lmao

Many people think murder shouldn’t be illegal actually (and unfortunately). We also have capital punishment in the states, which is just state sanctioned murder.

obviously any murder should be illegal. I don’t think anyone would disagree with that.

If you think it’s needed to affect change then I’m not sure you actually believe this statement as much as you say.

I’ve got a steam deck and still saving for my computer so luckily I can be patient ha

Exactly. All of this concern about drivers and compatibility kind of washes away when you know Valve is standing behind it. I use elementary on an old Lenovo and Mint on an old MBpro, i’m decently comfortable with Linux. But you can bet I’d rather a steamOS experience for gaming just so I don’t have to think about it basically ever.

Yeah which is why we have legal guardrails - to protect us from folks who think “eye for an eye” is a sane way to operate in the 21st century. They can have their opinion, but I sure don’t want them setting what is legal.

If steamOS finally updates again for desktops it would certainly help. I know that is literally the last thing I am waiting for before I build a PC. I am fully ready to completely build it around steam OS.

Yes I know about bazzite and no that is not what I want to do lol

No argument here

It has two sources of funding (taxes being the second) and there isn’t a middle man skimming a cut while paying older participants simply with new participants’ money while claiming their money is invested to generate money to pay them all out. The entire point of a Ponzi scheme is you are pretending there is money being generated that isn’t, you are just using new victims money for as long as possible until the music stops. They literally make up numbers to cover their tracks. It’s a fraudulent enterprise by design.

It is not a Ponzi scheme. It is literally not a Ponzi scheme by definition. You are making up your own rules and definitions because of how it feels to you. Do I think it is flawed and not a great way of handling these funds if you want them to be steady in the longterm? Absolutely. But it is not a Ponzi scheme.

I’m done man.

It can sound like someone’s whistling Dixie if you want to claim that, it doesn’t make it true.

“No”? Then kindly fuck off. I have no desire to waste my time having a discussion with somebody who refuses to back their claims with evidence like some right wing tinfoil hat election denier. And no I did not read a word after “no.” Why waste more time?

Feel free to have the last word, I’m sure it’s very important to you