Oh yeah. I forget sometimes that that was the most expensive shitpost of all time.

Based. I hope they didn’t get fired.

They are 20 years old at this point but the original Guild Wars was full of pop culture references.

It’s painfully obvious lemmy is overrun with astroturf. Kamala spam has been oppressive and it’s just cringe most of the time. I refuse to believe that most of the real users here are that cringe. Also, I support Kamala.

Hard to make a generalization from this one asshole who dropped the bag. How many people have been to the caverns and not destroyed the ecosystem?

Lowest common denominator, tragedy of the commons, etc.

This was for 2023 and the job market was hot that year. If you switched jobs you probably got a double digit pay rise, and many people were doing it. That’s what drove the number.

However, the job market is kinda crashing right now in 2024. So I don’t think it’s a trend that will continue.

They were betting he’d win and just blatant cronyism and corruption would ensue.

We don’t need more small businesses. We need less corporations, less ultra wealthy and more healthy middle class. This does not solve anything and a one time tax deduction doesn’t make small businesses sustainable when they have to compete against corpos.

Since the games in the first image, Valve has released:

TF2

Left 4 Dead

Left 4 Dead 2

Alien Swarm

Portal 2

CS:GO

Dota 2

Artifact

Dota Underlords

Half-Life: Alyx

CS2

At least you’ll be able to protest without getting slaughtered ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Unless you’re organizing a revolution before November, you better vote against the fascists.

It’s a classic dog whistle. He knows exactly what he’s saying. He’s just disguised it to appear so stupid that no one will hold him accountable for it.

Should have just went into STEM dude /s

Meanwhile I have a body that tries to kill me when I exercise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoRBVG0Jtso

The reason capitalism leads to fascism is that inevitably capitalism will lead to untenable inequality. Injustice will be too great to ignore between the rich and the rest. This will lead to populism.

There are two forms of populism. One will seek to rectify the imbalances caused by capitalism. The other will seek to divert blame to minorities. If there were less blacks, immigrants, gays, Jews, etc. etc. then our society would not be in decay. One is much more useful to the Capitalist and so it will ultimately prevail. The capitalist will devote all resources to crushing the leftist populism up to and including directly funding fascism.

“There was not a family relying on me to pay the rent, put food on the table and keep the bills paid by the end of the month,” she added. “But the reality of McDonald’s is that a majority of the folk who are working there today are relying on that income to sustain a household and a family.”

Yeah I had that feeling. Kinda like how everyone thought Bill Gates was a good guy before the links to Epstein.

Mmm, then they wouldn’t have had the money to buy back their shares to boost the stock price. So no, your ideas would not pass muster at a board meeting.

The problem with free markets is they are incredibly unstable and create booms and busts and people don’t like this so we get the worst of all worlds which is unfettered capitalism and no competition or failure weeding out poorly managed companies. Maybe free markets are just a shitty ideal?