Median means half the people earn less, half earn more than 150k

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/air-traffic-controllers.htm

This is a better source. Lowest 10% ear below 76k a year, highest top 10% earn more than 210k. Median is 150k

Median is $154000 a year https://www.bls.gov/ooh/transportation-and-material-moving/air-traffic-controllers.htm

I’d honestly call it ‘yeah, you should be earning that much in less demanding and less important jobs’ rather than ‘high paying’, but I’m corporate trash and high salaries I see are higher.

Me:

30% markup

Them:

everyone only talks about the 30 since thats all they hear about. Only an Epic Games apologist would parrot this as a talking point

You:

He didn’t. He said people who parrot it are [Epic Games apologist]

Confused noises.

Semperverus said anyone who says that 30% is too much is an Epic Game apologists, whatever that is.

Semperverus is insinuating anyone who says that 30% is amount taken by Steam is wrong, and saying that is parroting, and should be instead thought as “Poor Steam is forced to take 30% because this is industry standard”, but Valve, and I quote here, “goes out of its way to make exceptions to this rule”.

And no; realistically, if you lose Visa and Mastercard, you can close shop. Obviously it’s for profit, because a 99% reduction in turnover means all employees out of work.

Doesn’t change the fact that bending over backwards for Visa and Mastercard and banning some content because of their whims is enshittification. The service is worse than it was before, in the name of profit.

Only an Epic Games apologist would parrot this as a talking point.

Why are you trying to offend me? I didn’t call you names, why are you doing that?

but ultimately it wasn’t for profits so much as it was survival.

Visa and Mastercard aren’t the only available payment options in Steam. Yielding to them was for profit.

Survival? Steam has enough profit to create it’s own payment processor and make it popular.

Ad hominem, ad personam, who cares. The point is that calling your interlocutor “dumb fuck” does not enrich the discussion, nor the readers.

To be a devil’s advocate, during WW2, Polish insurgency forces were also sponsored by the USA (fighting first against the Nazi occupiers, then Soviet occupiers), UK and few other nations.

What’s the difference? Is there a difference?

Steam

30% markup. Predatory currency conversion policies. Recent scandals with Steam censoring games on behest of Australian Right nuts groups.

I’m 35. Math major. Work in STEM. Well educated.

I hate analogue clocks. Why use subpar way of reading time if digital is so much better?

Cucumbers. You can pickle it, eat it raw, semi-pickle it (google Polish 2 day dill pickles). Or try raddishes if you want stronger flavours.

Side note:

gooey and seedy

That’s not a tomato. A proper tomato is firm and sweet and not uniform in shape or colour. Source: am eating some right now, took me forever to find seeds.

The shit we are sold as tomatoes are bulldogs of tomato family. Crossbred damaged line created to maximise profit and decrease production cost, by sacrificing quality and taste.

Nordic retirement funds famously don’t invest in shitty companies or housing property… directly. In Nordic countries.

They do own a sizeable chunk of middleman and own a lot of empty estates as well as renting agencies, e.g. in London UK, Gdansk Poland (and I forgot all other places)

The bigger the sample the less likely survivorship bias of the respondents.

Took me forever to find the last study, for those interested, link:

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/142/4/e20174218/76767/Transgender-Adolescent-Suicide-Behavior

As you can see it’s rather lackluster in presenting it’s findings.

derogatory language towards sexually promiscuous women

So… She called (an imaginary?) slut “slut” and had to apologize for it?

Good advice, except that’s not a long term storage. Bit corruption is a thing.

I’m surprised to see you (of all people) posting an article glorifying the capitalism.

China is (a form of) capitalism and also famously is against free competition though?

I may have given up my career to sit in therapist offices, but I believe every troubled kid deserves a shot.

Every other kid and teacher in school deserves peace and not being assaulted by your kid.

I honestly think that LLM will result in no progress made ever in computer science.

Most past inventions and improvements were made because of necessity of how sucky computers are and how unpleasant it is to work with them (we call it “abstraction layers”). And it was mostly done on company’s dime.

Now companies will prefer to produce slop (even more) because it will hope to automate slop production.

I’m talking that US massacring people doesn’t suddenly make the genocided place fun to be.

And claiming that North Korea is a good place to live, and not seeing that it’s turning people AWAY from Communist support is either blind or stupid - truly worthy of a false flag operation.

Middle East and the spread of Islam.

Zimbabwe and Ghurukundi (I made a typo here somewhere).

Shaka and Mfecane.

Rwanda and Tutsi.

Just adding a few because you clearly need more thorough education if you can’t name one in Africa by Africans.