What’s not cool is shitting on a movie just because you didn’t like it or it didn’t make sense to you.

If you don't like or don't get a work of art, it is entirely reasonable to shit on it.

The emperor has no clothes.

with the platform officially launching on July 5, 2023

1 year, 6 months, 21 days excluding the end date

So it takes about a year and a half for the true colours to shine through.

I think the refund feature is not intended for testing any game and getting money back.

This is the first sentence from the Steam Refunds Policy page: https://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds

You can request a refund for nearly any purchase on Steam—for any reason.

If those subsidies are coming from the government that means the burden is shifted to taxpayers.

Which means the common man is not only being grifted at the store with his hard earned, after-tax dollar, the tax portion of his earnings are also being grifted.

It says "low interest" on their website: https://www.smallholderfarmersalliance.org/programs

They've had 100% repayment rate for over a decade. One of the quirks of the program is that women band together with other women to ensure the loan is paid back. The maximum loan term duration is 6 months.

NB: All of this information is from the alliance. I haven't seen anything from a third party to verify the claims.

Economics is science but with resources.

Economics is like ecology for the financial / resource world.

being gay is more accepted.

Fair. A win for all.

there’s also much less pressure to conform to masculine standards. e.g., being able to talk about feelings

Not the wider experience. Men are still stigmatised for expressing themselves. Example: how often do men get to be emotionally vulnerable in a public setting compared to women?

joining in traditionally feminine careers like nursing/teaching

This is flat out wrong, it's actually getting worse.

https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/gender-equality-and-through-teaching-profession

Sex ratios in healthcare occupations: population based study.

they also haven’t used the draft in 50 years

That's because there are enough men who are financially destitute, who sell their lives into the military.

Don't need a draft when there is enough blood money going around.

Could I get the opinion of a MTG player? Would you put this card into your deck?

Similar vibes: "Done reading? Check out anti-reading."

Of course by then, the time you’d have spent would be worth more than $25

Yes, but you'd now have a script that can be used in the future as well. Automation is a magical thing, my friend.

Yeah, that's pretty egregious. It looks like North America is no better than Poland in the first graphic.

The AI narrator sounds okay. The words are clearly pronounced. It mostly has a even tone and doesn't seem to give a lot of emotion, this is fair though. When it reads a quote within the text it changes its tone, which I think is cool.