On average. Since the average person is basically illiterate.

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They definitely know how to make customers happy, something EA never understood, but I’m old enough to remember when Valve used to be horrible 15 years ago. They’d sell you broken games with no return system. They’d straight up delete games out of your library with no recourse, amounting to outright theft. The EU rolled out regulations targeting Steam’s shady practices. They’ve been okay since.

Valve is a company that garnishes 30% of all video games sales. It doesn’t matter what their corporate structure is at that point. It could be two guys with buckets on their heads and they’d make bank.

Valve has the sweetest of all business models: do almost nothing, make tons of money. They have so few employees.

Same vibes as “my calculator has a tiny mathematician trapped inside.”

Or “there’s an artist inside of my printer who turns numbers into pictures.”

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When conservatives say that folks can teach themselves they’re hoping for the exact opposite.

Because not everyone can “teach themselves.” In fact, almost nobody can, otherwise we’d all be geniuses and not a bunch of dumb apes.

There is no “fantasy,” just indifference. I have no clue what everyone else is doing, but I didn’t fight my way from homelessness and into college “to get a job.”

For your own sake, I hope you don’t actually believe this.

EDIT: other people and cultures can’t dictate your purpose for doing anything.

Completely lost sight of the purpose of education, which has nothing to do with being an effective corporate drone… unless you get a business degree, in which case 4 weeks is too long.

That’s such a good point.

Sometimes I do wish that my world were small enough to exclude knowledge about Hasan, or about the worms that burrow into children’s eyeballs, or the genocides of history, or any other kinds of evil.

No idea. I could write a lot about Hassan, but it’s not worth my time and it’s faster to relegate his fans to Trump supporter status.

I’m not denying that he sometimes utters the correct sentiments, but he has no principles. I’d consider him basically soulless.

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I watched Hassan become famous and his dishonest narcissistic imbecility is about the only consistent feature of his character. The cult of celebrity has its hooks in you.

Performative politics is all the rage.

Hasan is a socialist at random. He’s utterly philosophically illiterate, so his positions are a flip of the coin. You might say, “fine, let’s use that,” and I agree - as long as you don’t lose sight of the fact that he’s a narcissistic grifter.

In all seriousness, you can’t entrust political significance to character-deficient, uneducated dingdongs with no commitment to reality.

Anyone know the source of this quote?