That labor should be paid from the profits of goods sold and not returned--just like every other liability.
unmagical
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In general I'd agree. Unfortunately, private entities and lobbyists don't and they'll pay politicians for the privilege of getting free money at the expense of the rest of us.
For rural communities to get higher speeds ISPs have to actually use the money the government gives them for increasing rural community internet speeds on increasing rural community internet speeds. If broadband is defined as "one house in the county has access to internet as fast as your grandparents had growing up" then they've already met their goal and they don't need to spend any money and collect pure profit from government subsidies.
Biden thought that was bullshit and established policy to direct them to do the right thing. The current administration, however, is more than happy taking their checks to the back.
Or another car
Many of them grew up in the church, attending 2-3 times per week and spend every single Sunday surrounded by people of one mind. As children we tend to default to believing people and when everyone you know says the same thing constantly it becomes real fucking easy to just accept as truth without questioning (especially when your religion contains a fancy "faith" clause that exists to hand wave away any inconsistency and when doubt itself is enough for an eternal trip to the fire pit).
The real kicker is that, having been trained since birth to accept as truth anything the powerful man in the front says you are primed to fall for politicians making wild and provably false claims without presenting any evidence.
I would recommend starting with an engine--it doesn't much matter which and follow several tutorials. The exact amount will vary based on your programming experience and game design knowledge. Once you've followed some tutorials start trying to connect concepts from different tutorials to make something new that you weren't explicitly guided to. After you've done that a few times, start a new project and try to make something from scratch and use reference materials, documentation, and tutorials to help you when you get stuck.
Start small. Now even smaller. Tic tac toe is a reasonable first project. It will teach you how to use the UI library, user input, game state, scene transitions, basic AI for a computer opponent, etc.
Then do some game jams. There's a lot hosted all the time on itch.io. You don't have to finish, but it gives you good practice, let's you see what's possible in a weekend, and let's you connect with others that love game dev.
I've seen a lot of comments encouraging you to try out Godot. It's a great engine, and with its resource library and active community it can be a good choice, but it doesn't hold your hand. There's very little logic that is pre-produced and ready for you to tweak. You start with nothing and build what you want rather than starting with a template (though there are templates available in the resource library). I've used a lot of engines and Godot is my personal preference, but depending on your experience Scratch or Unreal may be better options for the easy of use and active communities/tutorials.
1000 people pouring over docs that like a week ago "didn't exist" and were a "hoax" just to burn the ones with Trump's name on them seems to indicate there's either 1) a fuck tonne of documents or 2) Trump is mentioned a fuck tonne in those documents.
OOXML spec is annoying in the sense of deeply nested structures and an opaque naming scheme, but the documentation itself is public and not that hard to parse (aside from being split into multiple documents and being thousands of pages long).
As a reference guide for adding new features to an existing product it's usable, but wanting to hit 100% feature parity by starting at the beginning would be pretty much impossible.
An image claiming to be from them is not to be trusted at face value, however.
You can drive, you can kill and die for your country, you can vote*, you can be tried as an adult, you can have kids and pay taxes, but you can't press pause on puberty.
Also forcing "irreversible consequences" on someone in the name of preventing "irreversible consequences" is pure dystopian evil.
*voting rights for citizens of Puerto Rico are vastly repressed compared to the states that are part of the US.
There are so many cases where you must be able to use an item to determine its suitability. If brands and vendors don't facilitate that prior to sale then I have no way to test it without buying it first. Vendors take a gamble then if the product works for me. If it doesn't, well that's the cost of doing business. They make money enough for purchasing wares, paying utilities, rent, and salaries, covering logistical overhead, and turning profit all from the sale of their goods. There's no reason consumers should have to subsidize one of their risks through a special medium beyond the sale of product.
If a company doesn't like that then they can adopt consumer friendly protections like permitting trying on clothes, test driving a car or having a tool rental option prior to sale.
But if I:
Well, then, they can process a return.