Valve is basically a small business one bad Monday from going bankrupt compares to payment processors.

Banks and payment processors are the single largest most powerful forces in a capitalist market.

You literally do NOT get bigger. Full stop.

It’s the height of stupidity to try to pressure collective shout.

You don’t tell the child to stop drawing on the wall for the 20th time and expect it to work.

You take it’s crayons away so it can’t anymore.

You fix the tool of abuse so it can’t be abused.

Thats cause they are all boorus they are all based on the same thing.

Iv been blessed with perfect eyebrows. Never had to groom them, they don’t get busy, or become a unibrow.

I never thought much about it till I got a job that had a girl obsessed with make up. She got really pissy over my perfect eye brows cause she had a bad unibrow problem.

Since then iv come to find most people iv asked say I have weirdly perfect eyebrows.

Only good part of my face really. So we take the wins where we can get them!

Everyone else talking about linguistics and etymology while I’m here like, Ok show me the undead army of skeletons with riboobies.

I’m just picturing Diablo 2 necro with a horde of gremlin energy skeletons and a wide Russian babushka clay golem beating a horde of fallen to death.

The entire movement and group that’s pushing this is the Australian branches of these companies and Australian groups partitioning the companies.

So this is entirely Australias fault.

International companies are international.

It’s Australia not America that’s doing this.

Crypto is great for peer 2 peer money transfers. But when you have a legal big business you end up still having to deal with the big payment processors to do anything of substance with that crypto.

So for illegal and underground stuff it’s great.

For big businesses that need to stay above board and legal. It becomes a dead end.

Crypto still has to deal with payment processors when it comes to large businesses. It doesn’t side step the issue at all unless the business can entirely pay all it’s bills with crypto.

Gift cards only function because of payment processors basically.

If visa and MasterCard decide they won’t support steam means you also can’t buy steam gift cards with your debit card suddenly it requires cash.

Stores will get pressured to no longer stock those giftcard or also lose visa/MasterCard support. This has been threatened before and has caused gift cards to be removed from major grocery stores in the us in the past.

You CANT avoid this even swapping to crypto has the same problem. At some point you HAVE to deal with the payment processors.

Even just getting your crypto back out into cash can quickly become problematic for a business.

We the people have options and ways around it sure, but businesses really don’t.

The only upside to Kraft singles is they are one of if not the best types of “cheese” to melt. Since it’s basically just a premade slab of emulsifiers and whey.

While it’s not cheese it’s also not not cheese. If you want actual cheese it’s awful for sure. But it does have a very good use case and gets a lot more hate than it deserves.

Kraft single are a VERY useful tool to have for things like grilled cheese or omelets. You should realistically add some real cheese to go with it. But still don’t sleep on Kraft singles.

I use to order small drinks frequently with no ice. Was the perfect amount of drink and I don’t like cold drinks in general. So it worked out.

But recently places have started switching to a very thin cup that basically falls apart if you take longer then 10 mins to drink it all.

So iv stared ordering the larger drink just so I don’t have the fucking cup fall apart on me.

Microwaves are useful cooking tools and can be used to make many things.

Using a tool as a tool to solve a problem?! Blasphemy, hectic, you shall bring about the end times!

But to be serious ai is here, it exists, you can’t put things back in the box. Bitching about ai at this point is like bitching the sun is bright and hot.

People need to just get the fuck over it and move on. Focus on regulating and updating laws to the new status quo. Not just bitching like some child having a tantrum because people are using a fucking tool.

I can think of one. The Debian logo is boring!

It’s healthier for the hardware to just leave it running then turning it off and on all the time.

We ain’t in the days of mechanical moving parts anymore. Idle time is way less of a problem then power ons.

Instead of two steps forward two steps back. Proton likes to take one step forward, punch it self in the face. Then roll a d20 on what to do next.

If your parents made billions and all you are doing is pissing it away then you arnt doing shit right.

It just takes a VERY long time to piss billions away.

A good few generations can do literally nothing but fuck up and stay billionaires if the first generation did things right.