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Great. Now don't stand in the way of voters mandating billionaires pay their fair share of taxes come November.

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

Shakespeare

It's still above the IPO price so it has plenty more to fall.

We got 4 years of relative stability and recovery with Biden but Americans quickly forgot the reason they moved away from Trump and thought they needed to go back to the racist pedophile kleptocrat dictator because "Sleepy Joe" and "muh economy". I'm not at all confident the US can recover because this country is determined to go fascist one way or the other.

2001: A Space Odyssey still holds up incredibly well. A true classic of the genre that not even the equally great Kubrick adaptation could fully capture.

John Scalzi's other books are pretty great too. Check out The Interdependency Series. It's about an interstellar empire that can only navigate through wormholes that are now closing up. The last emperor foresaw this and is trying to save as many humans as possible while fending off political rivals and assassins.

For a similar series check out Foundation from Isaac Asimov. It's more of an anthology of stories over the course of a millennium but Asimov has a brilliant way of piecing the story together through the vast gaps in time.

Hyperion is an honorable mention. It's another anthology told a la Canterbury Tales revolving around a mysterious and invincible metallic monster known as a Shrike, which is known to impale its victims in a metal tree - dooming them to an eternity of agony in a pocket dimension.

Best value was Desperados III. I intentionally paid full price for the base game and DLC on GOG after playing Shadow Gambit: Blades of the Shogun and loving the gameplay/concept. It was one of the few titles I've ever 100 percented and played repeatedly for months. I loved it so much I bought an unopened collector's edition for the PS4 at a steep discount and it now sits proudly on top of my bookshelf next to my Batman Beyond statue and Venture Bros. discs.

My worst was LA Noir on Steam. That mandatory Rockstar Social Club DRM login was such bullshit that I uninstalled it and hid it from the library list. Fuck Rockstar for forcing this. Never bought anything of theirs on PC again.

All kids are guilty until proven innocent. /s

Players should start showing up to tournaments wearing hazmat suits and Febreze holsters.

That's a good deal. Microcenter was selling a WD 20TB external HDD for $600. Didn't end up pulling the trigger 'cause I'm going for a 2 drive Raid1 config on my janky setup and $1350 w/ taxes is way too steep.

Maybe have a booth with a Confederate flag on one end and a Union flag in the other with a torch sitting in between. Have a sign saying "BURN ONE. SALUTE THE OTHER." I'd love to see what they'd do.

Yes capitalism is just another imperfect economic engine with inefficiencies made up by imperfect beings. Like any engine however it can be tuned to optimize certain metrics. Executives get paid exponentially more than the floor workers? Cap their pay as a multiplier relative to entry level pay and tax the rest if they still receive too much. Use the tax money to provide free healthcare, childcare, basic food assistance, public transportation, housing, social security, and infrastructure.

Even if the pay the average worker receives may not be high their standard of living would be noticeably improved. It's the same reason why Americans receive higher pay than Europeans but Europeans still have a much better standard of living. I'd love to see a better economic model emerge but for the meanwhile, capitalism is one of the few things driving technological and scientific innovation in a lot of fields.

Capitalism is a tool that can either be used for everyone's benefit, or serve the elite few. When used right, it's a great way to produce what people actually want and be harnessed with taxes and regulations to provide goods and services that shouldn't be made for profit like healthcare and housing.

The current implementation is extremely unbalanced thanks to the corrupting influence of money in politics and the fiduciary duty to company stockholders demanding infinite growth. If a bunch of stockholders and CEOs can be prevented or severely punished for trying to buy out politicians then a lot of these problems would go away.