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They’re not wrong. Overwatch 2 is in the best state it’s ever been.

Unfortunately, that state is: “the same game as Overwatch 1, but with a worse monetization scheme”.

I'm on my lunch break from working on a React Native codebase, and I wouldn't say RN fits that definition at all... but I think we're just getting lost in semantics.

My point was just that a web app running inside a browser has to abide by the rules and limitations set by the browser, whereas Electron flips that relationship -- your app sets the rules and limitations of what can be done, and the web rendering process abides by whatever environment you create. You can do anything the OS permits. Even from inside a web context, if you want. You don't need a browser-managed sandbox to mediate your interactions with the OS.

Correct

Electron is not just a browser. It's more like a native app framework that just happens to use HTML and CSS to render UIs. You can do anything the OS lets you do, not just what a browser environment would let you do.

Here's what happens when you spoof a Chrome user-agent.

Firefox doesn't implement the AudioData API, which is probably necessary for the waveform viewer and cropping tool Discord presents in the soundboard management UI.

Not everything is about Chrome DRM yall.

Time for some unauthorized bread

Hell yeah. Bring on the Solarbeerpunk future!

Basically… because of slavery.

If you take a look at an indigenous population and decide that both:

1. They are lazy, because their labor only produces subsistence and isn’t captured as surplus value stored in currency
2. Their laziness is a moral failing which will doom them to eternal suffering

…then you have now put yourself in a mental model where you have a moral duty to force that person to work for (your) profit instead of subsistence, in order to save their soul.

If you have a whole country that thinks this way, they will try to enslave the whole world and feel good about doing so.

So in a Darwinian way, that mentality is the most “fit”. It’s very uhhh “successful”. And so it propagates.

You're kinda both right.

(re: doppelgangmember) Interest rates are a pretty shit way to protect consumers.

(re: BraveSirZaphod) But inflation is influenced by them nonetheless. And raising them definitely helped with inflation. And they should've raised them way earlier, and probably not even dropped them so drastically in the first place -- debt-fueled nonsense was already a feeding frenzy before COVID. Also you were kind of a jerk in your reply.

My own thoughts here: High prices are only half of the equation. The other half is low wages. Wages are finally coming back up, but they're still far, far behind. And high interest rates can hurt consumers just as much as low interest rates do. When debt is cheap, large firms can speculate like crazy. When debt is expensive, cash on hand is more powerful.

As a result, if you don't already own capital assets, you're pretty much screwed either way. Both at the micro and macro level. Cuz you're missing out on opportunities, and meanwhile the winners are gaining a bigger percentage of the market so their monopoly power grows and grows.

So yeah, pretty much any action the fed takes could reasonably be met with a scoff when they say it's "to protect consumers".

If you picture the fed as a shepherd, consumers as the sheep, and megafirms as the wolves, then lowering interest rates is kinda like breeding tons of sheep. The sheep do great for a moment, but they become a rich food source for the wolves, which overshadows the sheep's growth. Then they raise interest rates, which is like slathering the sheep in poison. It harms the wolves, sure, but it's not good for the sheep either.

Once upon a time, the government built fences to keep the wolves out. But then farmer Reagan told us that fences were bad for the sheep and everything would be fine if we just let nature take its course. What big teeth he had.

The 3.2% is July 2023 vs July 2022. From June 2023 to July 2023 was only 0.2%

“Inflation slowdown stalls” is a really weird way to say that monopolies are continuing to act like monopolies.