I hate to be a negative response about negativity (and please don’t think I’m unaware of any irony here) but you kinda already answered your own question.

This is how the internet works.

You can be right, and make a true statement, and yet: someone will manufacture an exception to prove you wrong. Someone will add additional information to act like you didn’t know what you were talking about. Someone will exploit a technicality to make you wrong. Someone will ignore the spirit of your argument and quibble over the literal words you wrote.

Steam made steam linux and a gaming system yay; steam sucks, the system is too expensive, and steam is an effective monopoly.

USA anything decent; USA imperialist killers

Discuss any other nations’ unfortunate events or bad moves; USA imperialist killers

Democrats anything positive: democrats spineless corportate neoliberals

Linux thing; linux users shitting on windows

I want to play the new AAA multiplayer game on windoze on my custom PC ; you loser you should play 5 year old singleplayer on linux because anticheat sucks and why’d you spend that much on a botique build and why spend money on a new AAA PC game…

I wouldn’t care so much it’s just that every post winds up with the same criticisms when it comes to these subjects.

The only solution really is subscriptions to the /c/ you like and avoid /all or as you suggested…ignore the stuff that drags you down. I wind up in the same spot, I’ll open a post and within a couple comments if it devolves into trash talking some aspect of it I close the post and move on.

A corporation that defers taxes and experiences a “loss” as we’ve been discussing may not have to pay those taxes at all - even if they were profitable when the taxes were initially levied.

If you are wealthy using loans, in lieu of selling assets and incurring capital gains taxes, to buy things is absolutely the way to go. And then in top of that, make sure you’re personally worth very little when you die so there’s little for the banks to take from your estate. That’s how the rich stay rich and get richer.

As far as recognizing future earnings, again, there’s the aforementiond deferral and writeoff, as well as banks not normally coming after wealthy/corporations for failure to pay on time. Yes, both rich and normal people get “future earnings” considered, but the consequences and benefits of how those future earnings are handled are wildly different mechanisms for both parties. Corporations might get a tax bill written off for a bad couple quarters, meanwhile a normal person losing their job and being unable to realize those “future profits” could face foreclosure. To make it equal, make the normal person’s loan payment recalculate every quarter based on projected earnings, let them defer some of a payment if they got a good bonus one quarter, and then allow them to completely not owe some payments at all ever if say they become unemployed for half a year or take a pay cut . That’s why it’s not the same thing. I’m trying to keep apples and oranges separate, one is a fiction generated for the corporations’ benefit, a paycheck or lack thereof is a hard reality for the normal people.

Yeah but I don’t get to write off the loan or cancel part of it if I don’t make the money and the bank can come after my assets for failure to pay. This is not the same thing.

Ugh. Terminology written by the rich. Like a multi-billionaire being described as being “poorer” because their assets took a downturn yet they’re still a multi-billionaire. I despise the premise that predicted money not made is a “loss.”

No, you never had the value, so you can’t lose what you didn’t have. But businesses get to act like it and then it helps them ditch deferred tax assets if they get deemed unrecoverable. Isn’t that amazing?

It’s probably the SoS. Act like they were going to hire from the outside, but they were gonna promote the guy that already worked there for cheaper anyway.

Seems like a big switch in the last 3-6 months? Even google is making me do stupid captcha when I occasionally use it.

Double down on terrible seems a pretty consistent MO for this crowd.

Life was friends, school, weekends, and school breaks.

Now it’s no breaks, bills, and where are my friends?

“Do unto others before they do unto you” is the right wing rule. Right beside “projection” as a personality trait.

Longer than that. I’ve had it shut off for the last 4 years because it actively made things worse and has been ineffective at best. Now it doesn’t underline spelling mistakes probably 70% of the time. Highlighting misspelled words hoping for a quick suggestion help is a gamble if it recognizes the misspelled word at all.

I remember it working fairly decently a decade ago, but it’s been a downhill slide for a long time now.

Two billion in chips? So that’s like, what…a dozen RTX 5090s these days?

Op says s/he heats them when they need them. These are standard silica gel beads, dehydrating them makes them usable again. They are not the iron oxygen absorbers.

She’s just as dirty as Temu Goebbels, and she does it all staying out of the limelight. Another horrible human being.

I was hoping for an unusual cause of demise on that plaque. Sometimes old gravestones list a cause of death with wry humor.

Some of us allive, anyway.

Any place that has life, if it does. Like the theorized oceans under the ice on Europa or Enceladus. I want to see it. Otherwise, maybe Daphnis or Pan in Saturn’s rings. The view would hopefully be spectacular.

“Backlash against unwanted resource hogs threatens our pocketbook.”

That’s what they mean.

I’ve bought a couple FTW 3080s used for about $300 give or take. They work great for probably 98% of games even on high settings, I get 150 fps on fast paced shooters with coustomized settings and no OC. I can’t see a reason for a 5090 other than bragging rights or some highly specialized uses, and paying that high five-figure price tag for one is craziness. RAM prices absolutely do suck, though.

Ok, so there’s one. I’ve been on 2 Fords, a Mini, Kia, Toyota, and Subaru. The only one that had a user menu setting was the Mini which had auto headlight tilt for braking and hills.

I’m referring to the “setting”, not the manual headlight adjustment.