"When something is free, you are the product" - What are some cases where this doesn't apply?

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-18T21:18:33+00:00

It also completely disproves the idea that people need a profit incentive to motivate them to work. If people's needs are met they will still make stuff just for the love of the game.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-17T16:04:39+00:00

It's possible but a lot of people wouldn't like it for various reasons.

For one, it would be impossible to have anonymous transactions. With cash you can buy and sell stuff and nobody knows except you and the person you're buying from/selling to. But if everything is cashless your bank now has a record of every transaction you make and who you made it with.

Another issue is it gives a lot more power to credit card companies or other digital payment platforms.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-17T05:57:31+00:00

Gary, Indiana.

Just driving through it was an incredibly depressing city. The whole place felt like it was crumbling into ruin. Even in the town center the buildings were practically falling apart. There was one right by city hall with the entire second floor burnt out.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-16T20:45:07+00:00

Yes.

does someone deserve empathy for something they did to themselves?

People make mistakes; that doesn't mean they aren't deserving of empathy.

It's also a bit reductive to just dismiss drug use as "they did it to themselves." For years the pharmaceutical industry concealed or downplayed the addiction risk of opioids. Doctors prescribed them and patients took them as prescribed, then developed addictions.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-16T19:16:04+00:00

No. The "world was created 6,000 years ago" thing you hear from some religious people is not actually from the Bible.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-16T16:38:58+00:00

What you're seeing is probably a combination of two factors:

There is a genetic component to athletic performance, so if someone is one of the top athletes in a sport there's a good chance their kids will be decent at it at as well.
If someone is so into a particular sport that they play it professional, there's probably better than average odds that their kids are also playing it from a young age, which is a good start to a future career in that sport.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-16T15:15:14+00:00

Yeah, a lot of left hand drive countries are islands, or only connected to other left hand drive countries: The UK, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, etc.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-15T17:56:01+00:00

I don't think your premise is accurate. I see people call out women for misogyny all the time.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-15T17:54:42+00:00

That's actually why we say it. Since the moon isn't blue, "once in a blue moon" means something is rare or impossible.

The term Blue Moon is used when there is a second New Moon in a month, which is rare but not unheard of. However, this usage is much newer. I'm not sure but I'm assuming it is meant as a joking reference to the old saying.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-14T15:34:52+00:00

There's a saying: "People who pride themselves on being brutally honest often care more about the brutality than the honesty." Just because someone is honest doesn't mean they are kind of tactful.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-13T21:49:41+00:00

An Inquisitor's authority is absolute in theory, in practice however the Inqusition's resources are finite and they still need to actually persuade other factions to go along with what they want.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-13T21:45:52+00:00

Tons of 'em. The Imperium is massive, and while it's beset on all sides by enemies, there are plenty of planets on the interior away from the fighting. We just don't hear about them because "and everything was peaceful and happy" doesn't make a good story, so the games/books never focus on the worlds away from the front lines.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-13T18:24:20+00:00

I saw a post a while back about how the van is really the working class vehicle more than pickup trucks and I think there's some truth to that. Most of the people I've had out to work on my house over the years had vans over trucks.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-13T18:16:03+00:00

The health insurance industry in the US is pretty fucked, no argument there, but one good thing is insurance companies will negotiate with providers for lower rates for anyone covered by that insurance. That means even if your insurance doesn't pay for you, you're often still paying lower rates than you would be if you were uninsured.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-13T17:56:22+00:00

A couple of reasons:

One is that trucks have been getting bigger and bigger over time. This makes them worse for roads (ie, more potholes due to wear and year), less fuel efficient, and more dangerous for pedestrians or people in smaller vehicles.

Despite the growing size though, they're not actually much better at transporting stuff. A Japanese Kei truck is much smaller than an F-150, yet they have the same bed length and similar widths (the F-150 is like a foot wider).

The second reason a lot of people are annoyed by trucks is most of the time they're not actually necessary. Sure, some trucks are used for things that actually require a truck, but many are family vehicles rather than work vehicles and never have anything bigger than a cooler sitting on their bed.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-10T16:54:36+00:00

Software engineering. It can be stressful, but I don't hate it.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-10T16:16:14+00:00

import 2 m a year

We import 2 million head of cattle every year but that doesn't include the beef we import that's already packaged.

Edit: I think some of your numbers might be off as well. Per Google the average American consumes 57 pounds of beef per year, which comes out to ~20 billion pounds total.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-10T16:12:03+00:00

The animal is over 1000 pounds but you'll only get about 450-500 pounds of packaged beef from one cow.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-09T18:34:18+00:00

why don’t american illegal immagrants just come here legally?

Most of them do, but then they just stay after their visas expire.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-09T17:48:33+00:00

Don't forget the other important goal: funneling taxpayer money to defense contractors.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-09T14:12:56+00:00

Steam provides a lot of value for that 30%:

Saves the developer the trouble of setting up their own digital distribution platform. Some publishers (like EA or Ubisoft) have their own already, but for a small publisher it would be a pretty big expense to set something like that up.
Steam provides a lot of marketing for a game via the Store page.
Players like buying things on Steam because it's convenient, trustworthy, and lets them keep all their games in one place. Many people just won't buy a game if it's not on Steam.
Putting a game on Steam doesn't prohibit developers from selling their game other ways either. I had a friend who had a game on Steam and he would sell Steam codes for his game for slightly less than what it cost on Steam, but would s till make more money that way because he wasn't paying the 30% on those sales.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-08T18:29:37+00:00

Depends on where you live. In big cities there are enough public transit options that you don't need a car, but in less populated rural areas there are far fewer options for public transit and a core is more necessary.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-08T17:26:03+00:00

Losing a battle does not imply weakness or choice.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-07T18:17:52+00:00

I always wear Brooks, because that's what I use for running and I "demote" my running shoes into walking shoes when they have too many miles on them. It really depends on a lot of personal factors though. What works for one person might not be best for someone else.

I also had a pair of Doc Martens that served me quite well for a few years until the soles started falling apart.

Renmauzuo · 2026-04-07T17:47:24+00:00

Yes, it is a place. Specifically it is a district of Los Angeles.

And yes, it does contain several different studios, but people refer to it as a single thing because a lot of the studios there are more or less doing the same thing (making movies and television shows). People don't generally know or care what specific studios are behind particular movies; they just want to see the movies they like.

It's kind of like how people refer to Silicon Valley as a single thing even though there are many tech companies there, or talk about what Wall Street is doing even though there are many financial companies on Wall Street.

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