So, to clarify what you were saying: this game console is geared “more toward” streaming... games... as you play them on your Xbox. Which, we should note, is not a thing: unlike PSNow, Microsoft’s cloud gaming service does not stream to its consoles.

This device which cannot load discs is geared “less” towards digital purchases?  Digital purchases are the only kind of purchases you can make with it!

Correction: those who were saying “Russia interfered with our elections 4 years ago to boost their preferred candidate Donald Trump, and he received enough votes to win” are now saying “Trump sabotaged the USPS in an attempt to steal this election, but he was unsuccessful and Biden received enough votes to win.”

I knew the “STICK TO SPROTS” crowd had to have went somewhere after Deadspin died!

40% of Americans can’t even afford a $400 unexpected expense because they are already swimming in debt. The notion of “Just buy another car for $6k!” is not even remotely feasible. They can’t afford to buy a replacement car, and if they are priced out of refueling with their current car then it means they can’t drive.

This is what we have been doing and it doesn’t work.

Hey, at least the Converj made it to production.

If we had approached this by making fuel more expensive, rather than trying to legislate outcomes, people would have been incentivized to buy more efficient vehicles and manufacturers would have been incentivized to satisfy that need.

Uber is also a lie built on a house of cards.

This is a great example of the difference between what we are talking about. Back in August 2016, Ford said that in 5 years, they would have a level 5 autonomous vehicle. Two months later, in October 2016, Elon Musk said that a Tesla would be able to perform a fully-autonomous cross-country drive... in the next 15…

It’s going to be interesting to see what happens if the market ever decides to apply Real-World Requirements to Tesla... or, alternatively, decides to start punishing Tesla for Musk’s endless stream of absurdly ridiculous “predictions” (e.g. Fully autonomous cross-country trip in a Tesla by the end of 2017! 500,000…

Sounds like the same logic people use to argue for elimination of the minimum wage. “We’ll have many more low-wage jobs that don’t pay enough to cover your bills!”

The fact that U/L’s business model is fundamentally unsustainable is not a particularly compelling argument for allowing them to exploit their workers to help make up the difference.

Where “regulatory suicide” = actually enforcing existing labor law, instead of letting techbros abuse loopholes in the law to reduce labor costs.

A patent from 1980 would have expired 20 years ago in 2000.

So then, the Green Party is electorally meaningless and doesn’t influence any significant amount of votes... BUT ALSO we have to be nice to people who boost Green Party candidates because bashing people who are soft on Biden “is something that we should absolutely not want.” (I do like how you preemptively called out…

There was zero sarcasm in my reply to you. Search/replace “Howie Hawkins” with “Joe Biden” and “Green Party” with “Democrats,” and you’ll have a precise representation of the position that a) I vocally oppose and b) you are currently defending in the name of progressive unity.

Maybe consider that the people you are castigating feel the exact same way about you.

The exact point Biden is making is that although he does intend to significantly increase taxes on the rich (that he was directly addressing), nothing will fundamentally change for them. Does a “sane” person agree with that statement, or not? Ultimately, you cannot reasonably argue that:

Put very simply, I believe strongly that absolutely nothing is gained by degrading those who are soft on Biden, and in fact, it has the exact opposite effect, which is something that we should absolutely not want.