The “ideal” of free market capitalism is that competition will increase innovation - selling to customers better products for lower cost. But purchasing third party exclusives isn’t innovation, it’s just the dude with the financial might gobbling up the market, which is essentially how monopolies work — and monopolies…

I will never understand the childish anger of internet gamer bros. I get the social/cultural/political roots of it, I just can’t imagine being so angry over something so miniscule. I like to believe it’s just teenagers who don’t know any better, but it’s so often overemotional adult men. It blows my mind every time…

“This picture is obviously everywhere now.”

Help me out...correct me if I’m wrong, my takeaway is someone took a shot of a photo in the Knowles-Carter home that was meant to be private? If this is true, why are you reposting it?!?

Researchers at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health have found that sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) contribute to a higher risk of early death from “any cause”

Just remember that a “21% increase” in the likelihood of an unlikely event such as early death makes it....still pretty damn unlikely. If you have a 0.1% chance of early death, and you drink 2 sodas per day, you now have a 0.121% chance of early death.

I can guarantee you there’s loads of examples of people that lived how they wanted, eating whatever they wanted, and dying early. There’s probably also loads of examples of people trying to be healthy who end up living long lives. And there’s probably examples of loads of people trying to be healthy but dying early…

Oh hey look, another alt-right troll using BAA as the new Vivian James for your hate boner towards Captian Marvel

Alita on the other hand is an original work

Civil War II was the second worst thing Marvel ever did to Carol Danvers. The absolutely worst thing they ever did to her was have the Avengers let a clearly brainwashed Carol walk off with her child/rapist/kidnapper in Avengers #200.

Well, just came out of the 11:30 3D screening at Disney Springs.

You discovered why aging is a thing.

It’s rather remarkable that Invisible Hand® enthusiasts have such a hard time with this. In a free market, no one has an obligation to sell you a goddamn thing if they don’t want to. Hypothetically then, if there’s such a hot market for violent crime simulators a competitor will come along and sell them, thus driving S…

Yes. Perspectives that are shared amongst a wide group of people are called mores, which is what I am describing here.

You know what else someone should be able to do in a free society?

Because, depending on the reason, killing another human can be seen as a righteous and celebrated act, or at least a necessary evil. When we see something in media deviate from those ‘appropriate’ killings, such as in GTA like you describe, it feels like less of a deviant act than something has just about no…

Having boundaries doesn’t mean there’s a thought police out to get you.

In case the article and the above comments didn’t spell it out for you: There’s a difference between games that have rape in them and a game that’s ABOUT raping people. This one was the latter. It’s their platform, they can remove it, and certainly this has no more reason to be owed a platform than that school…

Please explain what SJWs are and why they are bastards.

Shoutouts to Mark.