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Ice

@ Iceblade02 @lemmy.world

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  • Over 5,000 games released on Steam this year didn't make enough money to recover the $100 fee to put a game on Valve's store, research estimates

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  • If you're just looking for critiques there's plenty of other spaces to post your product. 100USD for the outreach & services steam provide a developer is actually quite cheap in western countries. I could see it being more difficult in parts of the world with lower purchasing power though unless they have some regional pricing scheme.

  • What technologies are ubiquitous today which will be irrelevant in ten years?

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  • Possibly sim cards! More and more phones have the option for e-sim, which companies seem to want to push on us.

  • How far do you travel on an average month?

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  • I was thinking total, but interpret the queston in any way you like :)

  • How far do you travel on an average month?

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  • To answer my own question, approximately 1900km of which:

    • 80km on foot (if my smart watch is to be believed)
    • 700km in car with at least one other person
    • 1120km on my own in my car
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  • Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

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  • No worries. I think the more interesting discussion that I'd like to have at some point is how a good system for immigration actually looks. It's not a trivial problem to solve and can't be done in isolation either. Societies are systems where everything is interlinked in one way or another.

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    When Bad Math Spreads Misinformation

  • Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

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  • Thanks for a well-written reply. Here's some quick responses:

    1... as mentioned the primary costs here come from increased crime which is hard to document. In high trust societies (which social welfare countries usually are) this has a disproportionately negative impact on the economy. Also, in several Scandinavian countries everyone has a right to emergency healthcare, regardless of their immigration status.

    2... I believe you're correct when it comes to countries with less social welfare such as the US, however, this isn't the case in countries with robust social welfare systems. As recently as 2023 Denmark assessed the net contribution of migrants and their descendants on the public finances and published the results. The sum total effect of migrants was negative (-19B DKK). Per capita the average Dane had an impact of (22k DKK) per year and the average migrant (-21k DKK). Some migrant/migrant descendant subgroups were better or worse than others (best 52k DKK, worst -109k).

    3... Sure, I assume this accounts for other societal costs such as law enforcement and crime?

    4... See the response to #2. The taxes don't cover the costs.

  • Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

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  • If you have a society with robust social welfare systems - education, healthcare, social security, pensions, childcare, housing etc. etc., mass immigration becomes a massive problem.

    Everything is taken care of via taxes, and those taxes come from a productive working population. Slow population growth (whether from births or immigration) allows social institutions to expand at a matching rate over the decades.

    Rapid population increases from migration can overwhelm the systems in place and put society in a spot where it is no longer able to maintain them.

    Furthermore, when it comes to illegal immigrants, it gets doubly bad. They can't hold down a legal job (at least in my country, and thus not pay taxes either), which inevitably pushes them towards crime or illegal jobs which brings a whole host of other issues.

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    If you found someone attractive, would you date them if you found out they were trans?

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    Calm Traffic Needs More Than Calm Driving

  • Seriously what's that idea?

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  • for the sake of clarity, honesty and responsible communication

    No? We're already using pseudonyms, which is intentional and has a purpose.

    at least have that vote public, IMO

    It already is public, just not easily accessible. Why do you want to know all the votes? A voter is not an active part of the conversation. I'd equate it to the audience cheering or booing on a talk show.

    For the ones actively participating you can read their comments and it'll be obvious what their stance is.

    Ideally, votes wouldn’t exist

    Absolutely disagree on that one. Votes are a fundamental part of this type of social media, and the low-pressure interaction of up/down votes encourages a large number of people to interact and rank content. This shifts focus from the loudest/most active people dominating the space to the most widely appreciated content dominating the space. This is explicitly one of the parts I like about it.

    Also, more replies are not necessarily useful. Consider all the "This!" or "Same!" comments from Reddit. An up/down vote is much more information dense.

    Honestly it sounds to me like you actually want a forum based on fundamentally different mechanics. Technically it wouldn't be that difficult to create a Lemmy clone that just scraps votes entirely from the UI, but you'd need a new way to rank content.

    In an ideal scenario I'd actually prefer the votes be entirely anonymous, but that's just not feasible with the fediverse system.

  • Seriously what's that idea?

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  • 95% of the time when downvoting content it's a question of...

    Disagreeing/considering the content bad/thinking the user is behaving poorly.

    Also, writing comments takes a lot more time, which (believe it or not) is a limited and valuable resource for most people on the internet.

  • Seriously what's that idea?

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  • The solution here is obvious - creating an instance and/or community with stricter moderation rules, much like blåhaj.zone.

    Each instance/community has the ability to set their own general rules and whilst (yes) this means that an individual person can't guarantee their "safety" everywhere it does mean anyone can create their own little bubble and then pick & choose which parts of the fediverse to connect with.

    The fediverse is at its core a free speech project, which is why I like it. There are many other platforms out there that focus on safety.

  • Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?"

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  • False question fallacy.

    Conservatives don't solely define fascists as "being violent", at least in my country.

  • Is Rotten Tomatoes Still Reliable? A Statistical Analysis

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  • Usually look at the user ratings and it's a lot nicer than IMDB since they aggregate critic & user reviews.

  • Looking to change to a Linux-based OS on a laptop, but I don't really understand coding so I haven't tried any of them. Is LinuxMint a good place to start?

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  • Mint is a great starting point. I might also recommend having a look at KDE (the desktop environment) which will feel very familiar coming from windows and is available on quite a few distributions. I use it with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed - less beginner friendly than Mint, but still an ok plafe to start.

  • YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report

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  • Most companies with specific dei reporting in my country started because of political pressure via us investors to begin with.

    HR is a scam - if you've an issue go to your union rep instead, that's why we have them. If you live in a country w/o them, get some.

  • If You Have Choice then Which part would you choose to be born in?

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  • Probably:

    K>B>H>E>G. They all have decently developed countries whilst ensuring that you don't end up born in a developing country.

    For the big slices, F should be best (guaranteed to avoid the worst outcomes).

  • Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now

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  • What I did was mass edit all my comments. According to reddit customer support (about a year ago at the time), they do not retain old versions of edited comments.

  • Calling VISA to discuss the censorship of Valve & Steam games

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  • If you are a MasterCard customer, like me, and have any concerns you'd like to bring up with the company they have a very convenient PDF with toll-free numbers for all countries available here:

    https://www.mastercard.com/_assets/docs/GlobalServiceTollfreeNumbers.pdf

    I was very lucky to be able to find the link, because their customer support number wasn't advertised anywhere on their website for my country!

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    Calling VISA to discuss the censorship of Valve & Steam games

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    Is there like a cheat code for dating apps?

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  • hadn't heard of that one, sounds like a fun comedy series

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    UK

    Grooming Gang Survivor Tells Her Story

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    Politics

    What is, in your opinion, a necessary set of minimal restrictions on freedom of thought, speech and expression?

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    The horrible truth about Iran that the West doesn't understand - Matthew Syed

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    Why US Workplace Surveillance is Banned in Europe

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    Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer

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    What is something non-physical that makes you physically uncomfortable?

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    Who is your preferred Democratic presidential candidate, and why?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Finally made the move

  • Casual Conversation @lemm.ee
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    "The Price of a Mile" hits me differently nowadays

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    What makes a (good) monarch?

  • AI Generated Images @sh.itjust.works
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    "A Killer App"

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    With a Broken Heart

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    The Price of Progress and Prosperity

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    A view in a fantasy world

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    A Fire Fox