People genuinely choosing a certain option en masse doesn’t mean they have a monopoly, it means the competition are doing a fucking shit job.
A monopoly is where there isn’t a choice, like water and sewerage companies, for example. This isn’t like that at all, and is therefore not a monopoly.
They’re paying the protection racket, obviously.
Or the Brexiteers convinced that the sunlit uplands are just around the corner of the “short term pain” of abandoning the UK’s closest and largest trade partner.
Fucking morons, happily led around by their prejudices.
It takes the aforementioned set of minerals to cease giving a flying fuck what those that have negative comment for showing your feelings have to say.
Society at large doesn’t ridicule for that, merely certain toxic subsets that should be rightfully shunned into nonexistence.
Become the change you want to see.
Pffft. Grow the fuck up, find your fucking balls and fucking own it.
It only plays that way if you let it.
Day 1,529 of the 3 day Special Military Operation.
Fucking LOL.
Yo, what the fuck?
We bear no responsibility for your current crop of shitheels. You collectively put them in power, they’re your problem. We have enough self-fellating fuckwits of our own to be going on with, thanks very much.
Rightly so. If the scientific method is applied to religious claims, they fail as untestable assertions. Every time.
In the case of SUVs, it’s not primarily the oil lobby, it’s car manufacturers. Put simply, they get to charge way more than the extra materials costs, for a “premium” vehicle. They’re making bank out of this shit.
Like a red and white “Santa Claus”? Giving diamonds upon engagement for marriage? Chocolate eggs at Easter?
Mate, it’s universal.
Maybe if Obama had spent as much time on the links as Trump, you all wouldn’t be in this mess.
LMAO
Remember when all the coal rolling micropenises were whacking “I did that!” stickers stickers on everything?
Wonder what they’re all blaming now their man, Mango Mussolini and his team of cum-guzzling sycophants and fascist handlers are fully in charge?
Is it still somehow Biden’s fault? What’s their play here?
I can predict the start of a fuel shortage in a few weeks when the last deliveries get to refineries and refineries crater their output to try and avoid running dry. (Shutting down a refinery safely is not exactly a simple process, nor is restarting one from cold.) Fuel prices skyrocket, shortages start, fuel rationing is introduced, it only gets worse from there.
All the knock on effects from oil (and it’s industrially very important byproducts) going stupid… Well, that may trigger a global recession that makes everything before it look like merely a warmup.
lol
lmao, even.
I’m not even going to explain myself, I think the majority understand already.
There are not “plenty”. I will concede that there are, in theory, a few.
Those that join the police force with such positive things in heart and mind either get ground down and quit, a burned out cynical husk of a person, or get corrupted.
Very few have the diplomatic skills as well as the temerity to be able to stick it out. Those very few that can and do are working within a system that is at best so obsessed with measurable statistics there is no leeway for officer discretion, and at worst actively designed to incarcerate as many as possible.
Which version of the system you get exposed to is mostly a matter of one’s skin colour and apparent wealth, which strongly suggests the number of “good ones” is so vanishingly small as to be statistically insignificant.
Firstly, congratulations on coming to that awful realisation. It’s a shit place to be, and I genuinely empathise.
Secondly though, now? None of the atrocities before this point made you stop and think “Maybe we’re the baddies?”. For the sake of clarity, go and have a dig around and re-examine every single conflict the US has been involved in since the second world war.
Even just the stuff accessible to every online numpty should make you wince, now your blinkers have fallen off. Consider though, how bad the shit you don’t know must be, if the stuff you do is as bad as it is.
Yeah, not conflating intelligent, creative problem solving with a glorified search engine that makes up the answers if it can’t lift them wholesale from another source. That would be a good start, right?
Like the AI assistant following the link to tell the user what’s on the other end? There has to be a way to exploit that.
No-one is forcing certain titles to only release on Steam, that is the developer/publisher’s choice, to make their own lives less complicated. Perhaps they’ve run the numbers and reckon that Steam’s cut is cheaper than doing all the infrastructure (and everything else steam does) themselves?
Your argument essentially boils down to; You’re angry that Etsy is a “monopoly” because the guy who sells particular shirts you like only sells via an Etsy storefront thing to make his own life simpler.