As someone who’s has to replace bad batteries in my ds4 controllers, at least once each over the last 6 years, I’m glad the Xbox SeX still uses AA’s. While I’ve no interest in those overpriced battery packs, I do use AA rechargeables, which cost less, have higher capacity, and last much longer than DS4 batteries. I…

That’s a valid assumption, but at this point, largely meaningless. Consider how extraordinary PS4 and Xbox one games look *today*, then realize these new machines are significantly more powerful. Even if nothing improved beyond loading times and frame-rate smoothness, there’d be nothing to really complain about.…

Not so. it is definitely still very expensive to get into Bitcoin, but Litecoin is very affordable right now and will certainly triple or more when things recover.

That is effing brilliant. Perhaps coincidentally, completely accurate to boot!

I hope he’s been shaking hands with every single member of Congress and the white House.

He definitely should. That said, Congress has its own healthcare.

I think you mean “Crony” :D 

Why would that surprise anyone? Trump has proven time and time again that he’s not a free market guy on any level, he’s a cronyist, through and through.

Worth noting: if you haven’t gotten into crypto because it was too expensive, now’s your chance :P. 

Obviously, the preferable situation is for the infection to run its course in a staggered fashion so we’re not all infected at the same time. So far it looks like the fatality rate is around 3ish percent(though that’s a number that varies wildly depending on source).

Here’s a good article on the issue, why it’s more…

Yes, exactly. We’ll be fine with sensible precautions. My point is only that we’re not seeing sensible precautions, we’re seeing panic.

It’s dangerous for some groups, that’s true. Older folks and folks with compromised immune systems are most at risk. That’s equally true of many viral infections, year in and year out.

Panic and fearmongering *are not helpful*.

Death rate will obviously vary from one age group to the next, and one kind of health status to another. That’s always true of every viral infection, though.
Obviously, we should take it seriously, but right now that’s not what’s happening. We’re seeing panic, which is not the same thing.

ALL bailouts are a bad idea. Under no circumstances should taxpayer money EVER be used to save a failed private business. It’s a misuse of public funds at the very least, and a catalyst for cronyism at worst.

I’d suggest that, in fact, we’re overemphasizing it and making it a bigger concern than it really is. As a consequence, we’re seeing people engaging in the ridiculously extreme purchases of masks, gloves, etc, most of which aren’t even certified for medical use, so they’re pretty much just a placebo anyway.

That’s not capitalism, that’s cronyism. That’s what happens when you feign a free market while managing the economy with graft and pull.

Universal health is a villain of civil rights. While I support providing healthcare access to those who cannot provide it for themselves, forcing people who *can* afford healthcare to only buy what they’re told, where they’re told, and how they’re told is profoundly unethical.

It’s likely that I’ll be free to the customer via their insurance plan anyway. But it’s important to remember that even that isn’t really free: you pay for it through your premiums, whether you realize it or not.

When I was a kid, KMart was the biggest retailer in the world by a MILE. Nobody had ever heard of Walmart outside of its home markets, and Target was basically a knockoff.

You seem to have failed to look at a history book. Government and cheating are basically synonyms. Further, where are you finding this “Capitalism”? It doesn’t exist. Hasn’t for a century. What we have now is *Cronyism*, courtesy of the Democrats and Republicans.