That’s one of the ways, anyhow.

Lol. Take advantage of who?

Lol. Sure, buddy.

And you didn’t answer my question.

What position are they taking advantage of? If they ask for a smaller cut than 30 percent they get botched at for being anti competitive and being too cheap to try and compete against. They ask for more than 30% and they’re price gouging. Sure, everyone who works there is happy and sleeps in piles of money, but they can’t do anything about it without turning into more of a monopoly. As it stands they at least blow money on potentially cool things in R&D like the steam controller, steam box, and Steam Deck.

What do you actually want Gabe to do? He’s already far and wide the industry leader in employee compensation, and he can’t take a smaller cut without becoming a monopoly. Yeah, he could donate loads of money to charity, but his giant stack of cash also keeps his private company lush with funds to continue paying his employees if anything dire does happen, instead of doing like everyone else and laying off people.

No book store could ever take on a retail store…

Steam will stay great so long as they stay a private company. It’s the enshitification of going public and appeasing boardmembers and shareholders that ruin companies like Valve. I hope GabeN chooses a great successor when he decides to step down. Hoping for another 27 years of awesome.

No. It was to you. “I’ve got a pretty strong immune system and pretty much never catch colds”.

So, no school aged kids?

Not really a “trope” since singers used to, and probably some still use it. The sprays usually contain menthol, eucalyptus, and glycerin, to moisturize and soothe their throats.

I drank with 5 Mexicans at a restaurant total strangers and we could barely talk to each other. Used some Google translate. Great guys and gals. We drank some modelo and tequila. Chill as fuck.

You don’t have any school aged kids, do you.

Are you an idiot? The rona was only 4 or 5 years ago and you already don’t remember the truth?

Not really. It’s more about the anti vaxers not even getting flu shots for the past few years. There’s a lot of those idiots.

No “Dogma”. No one has ever streamed Dogma.

If 5 nuggets are a serving, they must be suuuuper bad for you. Because per their $5 meal deal, that means 1 nugget taken away let’s you also have a small fries, double cheeseburger, and a drink with 4 nuggets.

Step 4. Acknowledge that lower speed jets from smaller motors and less ability to heat water up within the dishwasher actually do a worse job at washing dishes.

Not rocket science to figure out that hot water hitting dirty dishes with more force will clean them better.

The condenser/evaporator, the blower fan, and the air filter is all inside. Larger fan=more efficient. Bigger filter=more efficient. Larger surface area on the condensor= more efficient.

The pump is a tiny and inconsequential size. A Larger evaporator coil outside helps with efficiency, but it does nothing for the blower motor, airflow restrictions, and the condenser coil the air has to pass through that’s all inside the utility room.

For heat pump HVAC systems, the only way to make them efficient enough to meet the requirements that were coming into effect up to now was to make them physically larger. My utility room has zero space left that could fit a larger unit. My current one isn’t looking so hot and is nearly 20 years old. I wasn’t sure what I was going to be able to do when it was going to need replaced. The standard exceeded affordable capabilities of technology.

As to washing machines. They use less water, but they also take longer and kinda suck, now.

The issue I was going to have soon, was going to be the HVAC one. The only way manufacturers have managed to really meet the Biden efficiency standards has been to make the units bigger. I have no space left at all to get a bigger unit in my utility closet. When my almost 20 year old unit goes out, I was going to be kind of screwed. There’s nowhere to put “bigger”. I already have to bend the filter when it’s halfway out just to change it.

The point is like Russian point. It isn’t just to silence you so trouble goes away that the whistle-blower was involved with. It’s to silence other potential whistle-blowers. It’s too send a message.