He literally started a war over nothing. At best it was to distract us from the fact he’s a pedophile rapist. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I don’t think he really cares about our country.

They are pretty expensive, but considering each die has to have Bluetooth capabilities and a way to detect the result so it can transmit it, I’m surprised they’re not more expensive.

Fair point, but Americans score lower than several comparable countries, despite a higher GDP which one would hope would correlate to education. There are several reasons for this, but as an American, I’m just mentioning that it’s not a generational thing as much as a countrywide thing. https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=1

I think it’s nice to realize that people aren’t hardwired to understand math. There’s been no evolutionary selection for an understanding of the distributive property or knowledge of a dot product. Math can be difficult and we need to devote more resources to teaching it. Gen Alpha isn’t inherently less intelligent. Math is just hard and this person is probably seeing American Gen Alphas that have grown up in a society that does not value or invest in education the way it should. I don’t think that’s over generalizing as much as it’s drawing conclusions from available data.

People in general, but Americans specifically, can’t do basic math. Hence the infamous 1/3 pound burger: https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fractions/

I imagine it’s a replacement for a bachelor/bachelorette party.

I had that and a wedding, but no gifts were expected at either. The reason we did that is because a traditional wedding tends to be very planned and formal with not enough time to just hang out. We wanted the traditional wedding pictures and ceremony, but we had family and friends coming in from around the world just for a few days so we had a few events to see people as much as possible. I think it was well received, but again, no gifts were expected. We didn’t post a registry and told people that we just wanted them to make it.

Apparently there’s a legitimate legal reason: https://lemmy.world/comment/23893766

They’d be better off with the cash that they could choose to invest or spend as they please and they would be much better off if companies were not able to extract that amount of wealth in the first place. Then they wouldn’t have to threaten a strike to get compensation. They weren’t just gifted this. The union had to fight for it. Additionally, stock valuations change and they have a vestment period and restrictions on selling. If you read my comment as an indictment on compensating employees and not the system in which they exist then I’m not sure you’re engaging in good faith.

I appreciate your response and openness too. I will also sometimes write full responses just to delete them, so I understand that struggle.

I doubt I have a unique perspective to offer, but if at some point in the future you do have a thought or question about this you’d like to share with me, I’ll be around.

Stock is better than nothing, but the equivalent in cash would be better for sure. They can then invest it how they see fit if so desired and unlike company stock there’s no vesting period or restrictions on selling. I’m glad the employees are getting something, I just think it’s important to realize that this is better for the company than paying cash bonuses and is not really similar to owning the means of production in any meaningful sense.

Lmao. They have to pay for NOT listening.

According to the complaints, this service did not, in fact, listen in on consumers’ conversations or use voice data at all—nor did the service accurately place ads in customers’ desired locations. Instead, the service the companies provided consisted of reselling—at a significant markup—email lists obtained from other data brokers.

Some of my favorite games were early access and I’ve played them the entire time really reveling in new features as they come out. Unfortunately, I think Paralives is going to be too buggy on launch even for me. I’m used to buggy life sims in general and I’ve done alpha testing of games, but from what I’ve seen I might wait for a bit. On the plus side, the dev team seems really dedicated. I’m sure they’ll keep working on it, it might just be years before I personally decide to jump in. I also don’t think a price has been announced. If it’s ~$20 I might go for it regardless because I’m sure I’ll get $20 of enjoyment out of it even with the bugs. I think $40 is likely and it’s not a bad price, but I’ll definitely wait for a few more months of fixes at that price point.

I was responding less to the lefty comment and more to the idea that aligning workers with shareholders is a good thing (“reasonable” per your comment). If you don’t subscribe to left-wing ideas, and sit more in the lib territory (non derogatory in this instance) of the spectrum, I can understand why we would disagree on that.

Generic leftist drivel below:

The profit motive is inherently exploitative of the working class. In my opinion, any attempts to align the working class with the profit motive is just a way for the owning class to dismantle class solidarity. Not to get too into theory, but this is where the idea of and disagreements regarding the petite bourgeois often come in. There is a concept of a managerial class who does not necessarily own the means of production, but profits based off of exploitation of the people beneath them. A lot of people consider this its own class, or at the very least class traitors, but what it really is is just working class people who the owning class has convinced to promote the interest of the owning class. If the owning class can divert a large enough portion of the working class into that sector then there is not much hope for change. You often hear about blue collar and white collar workers, but discussions of people who explicitly do not have to work don’t come up as frequently. You’re seeing more people talk about billionaires nowadays though, and if enough white collar workers realize that they are much closer to blue-collar workers than the billionaires I think we would be in a much better place.

Not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but owning stock in a company is nothing like owning the means of production and all this does is give the company a pretext of making employees work against their class interests. An employer might mention that a strike would decrease stock value and scare a worker into staying in poor working conditions despite a strike being better for them for gaining long term benefits. Also, bonuses are a bad form of compensation in general because they often are dependent on decisions outside of workers control and in this case come from AI demand. Now those workers feel as though increasing prices, increasing AI use, and decreasing the number of employees all leads to them personally benefiting. All of these are against the interests of their own class.

Oh! Happy early Pfingsten!

Yea, I’m expecting actual sales patterns to differ a bit for this one because it’s a cozy game. A lot of cozy gamers might not use steam regularly enough to warrant wishlisting a game. On the other hand, it’s releasing in early access and I’m not sure if enough cozy gamers want to play this as an early access game. InZOI was another early access life sim that was less anticipated than Paralives and it sold about as well as Forza 6 (on PC) though it’s not as widely played. I think they are releasing on Monday because it’s going to be pretty buggy and don’t want people playing all weekend and running into a bunch of bugs. That plus they can address bug reports as they come up during the week instead of doing it over the weekend. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on how it sells and player stats though.

Interesting, thanks for posting! Monday is a holiday in the US and Paralives (a highly anticipated life sim) comes out then. I wonder if it’ll have any impact. In my gaming bubble it seems like everyone is going to get it and play all day on launch, but in reality I don’t know how interest stacks up against Sub or Forza.

Not really what you’re describing, but there’s a game called The Duke that’s a fantastic take on chess. If you’re interested in chess it might be fun for you.

I was never a heavy GR user because it felt like homework for reading, but I used to really enjoy reading user reviews on books I particularly disliked. Some of the reviews were more well written than the thing being reviewed. It makes me so upset that amazon is now profiting off of the dedication of the GR community.

This seems like the most accurate explanation considering entire missing sections of the report and “analysis” that directly contradicts the facts. I never expected it to reflect well on the DNC, but this not only makes them seem politically incompetent but also corrupt. I much preferred the world in which I assumed the report was done competently and it just had a bunch of inconvenient truths they wanted to hide.

Not sure if you’re just memeing, but it was raised to 749.99. You’re off by an order of magnitude.

I think part of the issue with moving from physical media as a form of software distribution is that people ship buggy software all the time. In addition to making more money via subscription, the company can ship updates whenever it wants. This often means that 1.x may have bugs still present in 1.z, but 1.z has features not originally included in 1.x. At a certain point you’re maintaining several versions of your product to test bug fixes, since 1.x users still deserve the bugs fixes but technically shouldn’t have the 1.z features. Better companies would be able to handle that, but nowadays bug fixes get extremely low priority since they’re spending a lot of dev time trying to attract and retain users with shiny new features, so that means active development on older versions for longer. Obviously the subscription revenue is also generally appealing.