Here in Massachusetts, we still call it Romney-care because, spoiler: it's still the same thing
Republicans don't like having that pointed out either, but, as the bumper stickers said after Nixon carried 49 states for his second term, "Don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts."
Wage theft (when employers don't pay their employees what they're owed) in the US accounts for more stolen value every year than grand theft auto, larceny, petty theft, and breaking and entering combined. Yet wage theft is not considered a crime.
It's the same story all over the world. The real issue isn't the economic system but rather greedy people in positions of power with no accountability.
There's a reason they're called "Human Resources" and not Human Relations.
Far-right extremists stop telling on themselves challenge: impossible
I'm pretty sure this isn't about early access games. It looks like it's about AAA games like Cyberpunk that release in a completely broken state and take multiple rounds of post release patches to make them even close to what was promised.
I wasn't here for what happened, but I saw the thread on both servers about it, and here's the whole thing as I understand it:
A user here saw a photo they thought was of a minor, reported it as such, and it was also thought to be so by whoever followed up on it. They reported it to Lemmy .NSFW, who, upon further review, found out it wasn't and was of a porn actress who often does "cute" looking pictures.
While this was going on, Ada looked at the community it was posted on, which was focused on porn in a "cute" aesthetic. The description of the community had some concerning language in it that made it sound like it was hosting pictures intended to look like porn of minors. Ada asked .NSFW to do a clean sweep of their communities and do something about this specific community, and they refused.
This came to a head that resulted in Ada defederating from .NSFW and posting a thread about why. They also posted a thread on the subject on their own server, which, from what I read, largely consisted of them saying Ada was overreacting and personal attacks against Ada, with screenshots of messages out of context to make Ada look bad. While this was going on, the community in question also quietly changed their description, removing the concerning text.
TL;DR: Blahaj had concerns over possible photos of minors on NSFW and asked them to do something about it. They refused and posted a thread basically saying Ada was a triggered snowflake (not in those exact words) when Blahaj defederated from NSFW.
It's probably a uniquely American thing, similar to how many malls are dying here while they thrive in Europe. Cities have been dying a slow death since like the 70s here because suburbs are a net loss in terms of revenue because they're more expensive to maintain than the taxes they bring in, so the only way cities can afford them is to sell more land to developers to build more suburbs, which then cost the city money, and repeat into infinity.
Cities have also had a general decline in the population within urban areas during that time, with people moving out to the suburbs for the "American Dream" of owning your own house with a white picket fence, 2.5 kids, and a cat or dog (and to avoid having to look at any poor people, immigrants, or black people). This was exacerbated further during COVID as people fled denser areas. The house prices in my town that's about an hour away from one of the most expensive cities in the country (comparable to LA prices in the city here) jumped up practically 50% during COVID while prices in the city dropped something like 20% during the first year. Prices in the city have since come back up and are now above what they were before, but prices here never came down.
Cities here also tend to have a business district, sometimes even a "central business district" that's at the heart of the city, which is made up almost exclusively of office buildings/other companies, with workers commuting into the city. Even my town has people who drive every day to their job in the city. With many of these buildings sitting empty during COVID, there's been a push for urban renewal by converting them into apartments, but that's easier said than done. Offices simply don't have the same infrastructure that apartments need in terms of basic things like plumbing, and would need to be entirely gutted, but it would be a much needed fresh supply of housing that would probably help reinvigorate these city centers.
I may be remembering that wrong, as it was before my time, but I had heard that people moved to cable for the same reasons that people moved from cable to streaming services. You bought one cable package, it gave you access to everything, and there were no ads. Then came the ads, and eventually, the packages you have to buy in addition to your cable subscription for the channels you actually care about.
...I ain't one to yuck on somebody else's yum, but that's definitely a Valentines Day style heart she's holding...
I think they mean that because of the unique process that 3d printers use to create something, stuff that can be made easily on a 3d printer can't be replicated through other manufacturing techniques, and vice versa. For example, I designed an earring that is 1 solid object, but made up of 3 separate moving pieces; like links of a chain that have no split in them. This would be an impossible task for any other kind of manufacturing process. It would be like making acar engine all at once, rather than having to make the individual parts and then assemble them afterward. You can have gaps and cavities in a print that you could never have in a cast or injection molded piece. But this method means that you also have to worry about things that you wouldn't using more traditional manufacturing techniques.
I think part of it is that it's a single-player RPG (or co-op if you want) with a focus on the story experience. No mmo-lite features, battlepasses, always online requirements, live service, etc. bloat to be found. A concept that the current AAA market seems to be allergic to.
It says what it is on the tin and delivers that. That's a breath of fresh air for many people right now.
Also, there was that whole drama with devs complaining about how BG3 was going to ruin it for everybody else by making gamers expect a higher quality product from studios. Which isn't really what those devs were saying, but it's what it came off as to people, and that probably gave the game a lot more positive attention than it probably otherwise would've gotten.
As a whole, the Dems are pretty center of the aisle, because America as a whole is fairly conservative compared to Europe (despite 60% of the population being more liberal than the government at most times). Europeans generally consider the Dems in the US a conservative party, and corporate Dems are definitely closer to the right than to the left. The other issue besides the general conservative leaning in the country though is that there's about 50 other groups of various left leaning shades that would be their own separate parties in Europe but are bunched in with the corporate Dems and therefore have little say in the party platform.