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Just because it’s the same doesn’t make it worse though - so it definitely is up there with the best game soundtracks of games from this year

The problem is that without those exclusive deals noone would change

Most people didn’t buy EA games at origin or Ubisoft games at UPlay even though you needed those launchers anyway. They even didn’t buy CDProjekt games at gog despite the games being dem free there.

Excluding deals on sought after games is literally the only way to get a majority of the players moving away from there comfortable “I have ally games and friends there already” position

People are lazy and hate change - without force it’s not going to happen

Let’s also not forget that game developers have no choice but to release on steam if they want to have any chance on breaking even since they have that huge of a market share and that Epic challenging that already lead to better deals for developers since Valve hat virtually free reign before

If the fine is not a fixed amount but actually gets more expensive the more money you have it actually is quite nice though

Always enjoy those stories about millionaires paying some big sums for speeding tickets in Switzerland

It’s really stupid how many people are a sucker for punishment so much that they don’t care if they get it wrong a couple of times…

What happend to “Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer”?

If you pirate stuff they can sue you to the ground but if a fine is not related to total income or wealth it’s just something to be ignored.

Can’t understand why not more people lobby for fines to be proportional in general…

I’d guess a police officer is seeing more than 50 random people a day though which makes it a daily occurrence to be in contact with people carrying which actually strengthens my point

Case in point “luxury” clothes that cost insane amounts of money just because they have labels printed on them for everyone to see and not because.the fabric is particularly great.

Sure it’s good quality but not better than what you get for half the price and not even close to the custom tailored stuff the really rich people wear…

Really don’t understand how people spend a fortune to walk around advertising for Gucci, LV, etc…

why else would this be one of the only countries where officers are lethally armed around the clock

Because it’s also the only country where many citizens are lethally armed around the clock I’d guess

If you stop a random person in traffic in Europe for routine control then it’s extremely unlikely that they have a gun in their car and even less likely that they will pull it on you.

If you are permanently having to think about scenarios where random people pull a gun on you because it’s not a very unlikely situation to happen then it’s not unreasonable to expect certain paranoia to start to form…

While the stats for “people killed by police” are always shown around I’d guess that the “police killed by citizens” also is much higher in the US.

Gun control is the only solution that even has a chance to remove this spiralling violence of trigger happy cops imho

Very interesting read

While money doesn’t but happiness the absence of money surely makes happiness almost impossible with how much you always have to worry about different stuff…

I’m very thankful to be in a position where I don’t have to worry about which supermarket has the cheapest groceries as I know I can afford it if it’s 10% more expensive than it needs to be - seeing my mom spending hours going through ad-magazines to figure out where to buy what only to save a handful of euros is something I’m very glad I don’t have to do

Isn’t that like his whole thing to do unregulated capitalism?

How would you know who did it with such a code?

Also it only works once since you need to reveal the true code to dispute the picture

The most basic difference between “left” and “right” on the political spectrum is that left-leaning people believe every human is worth the same and should get the same chances while right wing people believe humans are fundamentally different and the ones on the top deserve their place as much as the ones on the bottom.

That’s also why so many libertarians (or just recently proclaimed anarcho capitalists) are actually right-wing since they believe in unequal distribution of chances and quality of life based on capitalist principles and it’s also why moderates that claim to be neither right nor left usually lean more right

The goal is not wiping out Hamas entirely but removing their strategic capabilities within Gaza.

The IS being active in the middle east isn’t a huge problem for the US but if they had a base in Cuba you’d for sure have the military there removing it asap…

Yeah I really don’t understand how many Americans are okay with people being murdered in prison.

Their sentence is prison, not death.

I think a lot of people want revenge over justice while at the same time mistrusting their justice system to work correctly…

Sounds fair /s

Good thing the US doesn’t recognise international law since actively making people stateless is one of the big “do not do” things in that law

I think the us is the only country tying taxes to citizenship instead of where you live or work

Or at least it’s the only one that’s relevant for European authorities since that’s the only country everyone gets asked about while paying taxes

So it's not a cost of living issue but a (mental) exhaustion issue that makes people not spend any time on cooking besides their jobs