We have free health care in Canada but if you call an ambulance and it was determined not to be an emergency you pay a fine.

Groups of people don’t act the way individuals do. Sure, individuals can do some unpredictable things sometimes (but often it’s predictable in hindsight, they were just hiding their feelings) but groups are extremely chaotic. You need look no further than how crowds can spontaneously panic and create a stampede for no apparent reason.

Elections might seem a lot more predictable because of polling but there have been many cases where polls were wrong and the election completely flipped!

It’s not even an apology. When you apologize you take full accountability for what you did, you don’t make excuses!

Safety of the tank in terms of evading capture. If the tank explodes instead of just being disabled, it’s useless to capture.

Don’t concede any ground. There’s no need to make it any easier on them.

That’s not the logic we’re operating with here. The GP claimed that if you’re not giving away your excess money, you’re committing the bad deed of inaction. Thus no one should have any savings whatsoever. Every penny beyond what you need to survive should be given away or it’s a bad deed.

We forgetting something? Doesn’t matter who the Dems shove out there, Trump can’t run again.

Nintendo has never sold their consoles at a loss. They sell them at a small profit which then grows to a larger profit as the cost of making them decreases.

Home video game sales peaked at $3.2 billion then fell to $100 million, a drop of nearly 97%. This collapse, largely blamed on Atari shoving out low quality games, lasted for 2 years until Nintendo released the NES in North America.

How much of your excess money are you giving away? 100% of it?

Italian food = heavy tomato sauce

That wasn’t my original claim. I said it would be impossible to imagine Italian food (as a whole unit) without tomatoes.

You can say a similar thing about Indian food and hot peppers. Yes, there are loads of Indian dishes and staples that don’t have any hot peppers in them but when you ask a random person to think of Indian food they’ll almost certainly be thinking of dishes with mild chilis at the very least.

As a side note, you’ve also confirmed my observation that Italian food is the most heavily-gatekeeped cuisine on the planet, and Italian-American the most disdained.

You nailed it! I love that old school vibe!

Pasta dishes containing tomatoes are eaten in every region of Italy. The two most recognizable Italian dishes in the world are easily spaghetti marinara and pizza Margherita. Northern Italian food, with its cured meats, hard cheeses, risottos, and stews are far less well known and recognizable as Italian cuisine (not to mention distinct from French, Swiss, and Alpine German cuisine) to anyone outside of Europe, not just Americans.

I kinda want to play this game. Looks so badass! Reminds me of the drawings in the D&D 1E monster manual!

you’d technically have a good person who was a billionaire, so my declaration would be wrong

And if we instead create a program of hyper inflation so that even minimum wage workers become billionaires overnight, the world will be filled with bad people? Or perhaps this idea is so simplistic as to be meaningless.

There are no good or bad people. There are only good and bad deeds.

Definitely a shrinking audience for AAA games, but I don’t think it will be too bad gamers overall. Consoles will keep marching forward, as will Valve with the Steam Deck and Steam Machine.

I think the highest of the high end graphics stuff has long since hit diminishing returns. You can do a hell of a lot with yesterday’s hardware and less-than-bleeding-edge process nodes for newer hardware. Consoles have never used bleeding edge GPUs and they’ve always done fine with sales (across the whole market, if not always individually). I think we’re highly unlikely to see a repeat of the 1983 gaming crash.

Well I think employed 21-year olds are a lot less likely to have any savings at all (mostly student loans) and also more likely to be working in a job with no retirement plan (working at Subway or Starbucks). Combining their situation to a 64-year old in an office job or a skilled trade is still pretty misleading.

Yes, it’s a huge problem that young people have all this student debt and lack of savings and high living expenses. But we’re not going to be able to analyze that by lumping all their numbers together with older people. If we want to make comparisons we need separate numbers.

Very misleading stats. What’s the breakdown by age group? A 21-year old with <$1000 in savings is very different from a 64-year old. Talking about the “average worker” across that wide of an age range is totally meaningless. What’s the median age?

Hainanese chicken rice would like a word. The most basic version of this dish has 3 ingredients: boiled (technically poached) chicken, rice, and salt. It’s exactly a celebration of the flavour of a high quality pasture-raised chicken (ideally a heritage slow-growing breed).

Yes, it’s usually garnished with chilli sauce, cucumbers, and even tomatoes. But the central component of the dish is boiled chicken.

There are loads of guys who want nothing to do with the fascist movement, are not radicalized, and have no interest in harassing or assaulting women.

All the discourse online would have you believe that you’re either an ardent feminist champion of DEI or a MAGA-screaming, ICE-boosting ultra-fascist, with no room whatsoever in between. In the real world there’s just a lot of regular people walking around going about their lives, except now they hesitate when before they might not have.

Asking a stranger out for coffee was an incredibly rare event in the past. Now it’s become pretty much extinct as a practice. The dating app conglomerate Match Group couldn’t be happier because now they can cash in even more on people’s loneliness.

I’m not going to say that the #metoo movement is solely to blame for this phenomenon. A lot of other social trends have headed in the same direction. It’s another brick in the wall.