What about biodegradable plastic?

AFAIK in comparison to the median income the wedding only cost him 18,50$ relatively

The thing with products like games, textbooks, movies etc is that a large part of the cost is the design. This means that while you can make the products cheap and still cover the cost of manufacturing, you won’t make back the money from the design if your margin is very low. This gives manufacturers the ability to sell the same product in differently wealthy markets while still making a profit.

If you now take the product from a cheaper market and sell it to more wealthy consumers at lower price than they usually pay, you aren’t actually selling at a better price because you are providing a better service. You are selling at a better price because you’re breaking the manufacturer’s business model.

This isn’t something that can permanently work because either A: the manufacturer doesn’t get enough money to cover the design, can lead to bankruptcy or change of business model ©, B: through regulations this is prohibited or C: The manufacturer raises the price in the regions your buying from, breaking your business model and screwing over the people who can no longer afford it there.

Of course this depends on the scale you’re acting in, but in theory preventing you from doing so would bring more equality between richer and poorer nations

Nintendo is selling them for cheaper in Southeast Asia because people there have less money. They could sell them for less in the US as well, but people are able to afford the prices there so capitalism dictates that the price is higher. What Amazon and the retailers are doing undercuts this strategy, which in theory means that Nintendo should raise their prices in Southeast Asia to make their business model work, making the games inaccessible to consumers living there. In classic liberalism this is the logical way things should be, in neoliberalism the state should intervene.

The problem with capitalism in a representative democracy is that is almost impossible to maintain a perfectly sized government. If the government asks for too many taxes (on an extreme level) etc the market doesn’t function anymore. The “free market” needs some level of class difference to make profit attractive and keep people committed to their jobs. Because of these differences class conflict is created and through privately owned newspapers, corruption and short term economic gains regulation’s get liberalized. This results in wealth accumulation, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This then leads to the social and economic conditions that allow for the rise of the populist right.

As a European I can currently see this happening in all countries to which I pay attention (namely Germany, Netherlands and Britain).

Can someone share some insight with us non Americans, how close are you to a civil war? Between the LA protests and this it seems very imminent

I have made good experiences with GPT4ALL

AFAIK per EU law the collected data has to stay in data centers in the EU, ChatGPT and Gemini at least pretend to conform while Deepseek explicitly states that the data is stored in Chinese data centers.

According to Meta it runs on their private servers

Is there any concern to be had with archive warrior regarding legality (like scraping piracy sites)?

Ich glaube das ist eher was dauerhaftes

Mit der SPD koaliert niemand, da sie ein rechtsextremer Verdachtsfall ist. Die MSP ist relativ nahe bei PKA/CSU, kann aber die Grünen nicht ausstehen

This may be a joke and I’m just to dense, but I’m pretty sure there is one

Muss man ja nicht wählen.

Ich traue es den Leuten zu, dass egal was man macht sich eine politische Mehrheit findet die scheiße ist

And then all the history books will be “Trump History” so that everyone can finally learn the history as Trump sees it

Scheint ein echtes Bild zu sein. Wenn man nach “praying otter” sucht kriegt man sehr viele solcher Bilder: “🦦”

I was talking about written reviews, not just a like/dislike (star) system

Where are you getting 0.1%? According to Steam Hardware Survey Linux is over 2% of Steam Users. This puts Linux way ahead of Mac which supported by Epic

Steam is, in my opinion, way better for the user (even if it may be worse for the developer).

Epic lacks features that are important to me like reviews, the ability to view your library in a browser, warnings about DRM, Linux support, a hole bunch of features to discover games, a workshop, big picture mode.

Additionally, in my experience at least, their official launcher under Windows is a buggy mess compared to steam.