It's the year 20X6.

I, his inheritor, am sorry to inform you that GabeN has passed. I've realized that I want an even larger pile of money, and it's come to my attention that you aren't paying for us to maintain your account.

You have 30 days to download your content or subscribe to Steam Plus at a cheap $X9.99/mo to avoid account deletion.

Why these people absolutely hate this one guy is completely indeterminable.

it's like the only thing dumpy really wants is to never be told no, regardless of how wrong his mistake is.

You're literally not their market. That's why so much of what they focus on are digital only sales, consoles, deals and schemes. They want buy once at full price, never resell.

They aren't your friends, they don't care about you - they care about the money in your pocket.

They know they are too big to fail, so they are gonna raise prices 50% no problem.

Steam is not free. Steam is 30% cut to businesses.

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft offload their costs via yearly subscription costs as well as developers paying a protection fee to launch on their platform. Steam just has the highest protection money scheme. You wouldn't want anything to happen to the games you're publishing through them, would you?

As you get older it's no joke what kind of medical conditions can make something so simple end up being so difficult. 1/50 is not even a stretch.

I'm certain this can be disabled in windows at any moment as without it loads and loads of criminal evidence would be available for discovery and litigation against the wealthiest people and businesses across the world.

A real fear is being a worker in a world with micromanagers inspecting your workweek, 3 second snapshots at a time.

I'm not ok with shipping anyone to foreign prison camps. There's zero reason why we should ever do that, with exception of a valid extradition request from another country.

Education quality is a tip of the iceberg.

Talk to someone who went to a public school in say the dominican republic. I've heard stories of years of kids just waiting around with next to no actual teaching involved from someone who was physically there in their childhood. If you don't go to a private school odds are you aren't going to get any real education or structure beyond what you pick up at home... and odds are your parents were in the same boat.

The US education system has been nothing like that, it is going to get like that in the south though. In remote low population areas it's very possible to get bad - and clearly some teenage pregnancies disrupt things in the US, but in the DR it's a lot worse.

You should see major cities in latin america if you think that's bad. In many countries it's like they don't even care.

The US has no excuse though, we should be way, way better.

I swear the nation of israel is trying to go down with the ship that is the trump administration.

No nation, or organization should be able to get away with murdering hundreds of thousands of civilians just because they want their land.

He's certainly old enough to be significantly impacted by mental decline. Some have it happen much earlier than others.

shipping people to a concentration camp in el salvador without any due process sounds like a violation of many laws to me.

3300/6600 here. 6000/12000 out of pocket maximum though.

I'm basically dinged for 3300 whenever I need health services other than a yearly physical or an eye exam.

Every january we drop 3300 on meds for my wife and she gets eaten alive with copays for all her specialist visits.

The $1000 deductible plan my employer offers costs $1062/month for family and you still pay $40 per visit as a copay, and the employer is still dropping that $1500/month - so you're effectively paying $30,744 to insure a family of 3 and that's not all-in on expenses. Plus since $1000 is a "low" deductible you don't get to keep basically anything you put into your FSA, unless you know you're gonna use it all. Why medical expenses are ever subject to taxes is beyond me. The whole thing should be single payer... we could probably operate on a third of the budget we have today without giving any worker providing care to patients any kind of pay cut. The middle men (insurance) do very well.

They can only make profits off of something like 20-25% of overall revenue, the rest must be spent on "providing and improving" patient care. Hiring bean counters to make sure you maximize your revenue and reject as many costly applicants as possible is part of the "providing and improving" part, so they spend substantially less than 75% of their revenue on actual treatment.

Yes, but it takes time for people here to realize the effects of that.

Less travel to the US? Well we'll start seeing layoffs in holiday destinations... but probably not that hard, yet. As things continue to decline and prices increase it will get worse, and worse, and worse.

Most of this stuff takes time to ramp up is my point. We still haven't seen the effects of deporting hundreds of thousands to millions of immigrants in legal status before being arbitrarily revoked, and that will absolutely cause some major issues in all kinds of places. They were paying tens of billions of dollars in taxes per year based on 2022 data and getting no benefits from it. Even the immigration process is not free, you pay for all the workers who touch your case with all the fees involved. I know, my wife is living that. We're not talking about our lawyer either, literally the filing fees paid to the US.

That's cute that you think $450 a month gets you an insurance plan. At that price it's subsidized by somebody.

My employer sponsored plan costs me $300 a month and they pay $1200 a month. It's still high deductible. It still covers next to nothing. My wife's necessary life saving meds still hit the deductible each year, costing me several thousand dollars additionally.

tariffs can and will be the death knell if he comes back to those original rates.

No real effects from tariffs have happened yet across the board so the impact isn't truely felt. Even chinese imports don't have the tariffs yet because it's only goods that were on boats after it took effect.

We won't see the downstream impact of even 10% tariffs for months. It won't be until sales slump that people start getting fired and then sales will get even worse...

I haven't. Is it a function of willing able bodied men being lacking, or is it talking about a draft?

Back then I don't know who could have picked up the reins and taken over.

Vance didn't have the following he has now.

Ramaswamy wasn't white enough (I don't think it's possible for the right or center to vote non-white-male for president.)

Nikki wouldn't have worked either, she couldn't be dumpy and she also didn't have a penis.

So it's hard to say. I think the magat mentality is here to stay regardless of if dumpy is around, but the absolute control of the party probably wouldn't survive him.

You been on the internet lately?

Every single thing is like this now. It's always some "i'm right, the other guys are idiots!"