“As a show of our appreciation for our community, starting March 31, 2023 we will make all the game’s Marketplace, Challenge Card, and Shipment cosmetic content available to all players for free.”

Actually the real lesson here is this is why lack of regulation is bad. We should be regulating the SHIT out of companies... there is literally no for-profit on this earth that would not enslave children and kill old people if they thought they could get away with it for a profit.

That’s because the non-shitbag way is also guaranteed bankruptcy for the lender. The reason these people have to go to places like this is because non-shitbag banks... well.. less shitbag banks will not lend them money at non-usurious interest rates because they know the overwhelming likelihood is that they will…

Bernie Sanders submitted a bill to allow the USPS to offer microloans that would’ve put an end to these types of predatorial loan practices. It went nowhere as a result of lobbing efforts from the big banks because they underwrite all of these loan products.

Here’s a brief explainer of how and why it could work.

These people have the entire GOP and probably soon the partisan hacks on SCOTUS as well. The case headed to the court is based on the funding mechanism of the CFPB coming from the Fed instead of Congress. This was done on purpose in the aftermath of the 2008 banking and mortgage crisis to insulate the CFPB from bought…

Sure financial literacy education would be good, but we also need to shut down these sorts of predatory businesses and put the people behind them in prison. It doesn’t matter how much education you make available, allowing these companies to exist will ensure that desperate people will fall prey to their scams.

Lobbyists at work. Congress has made these kind of businesses possible. We need to establish laws that address usury rates again. No loans should be issued, with exceptions, that will not have an end date built into the actual payment. It’s expensive being poor, it’s worse when we have predatory lenders victimizing…

They already paid ten fucking thousand dollars (or whatever it costs now) for the promise of “appreciating robotaxis next year” every year for like the last decade. What makes you think they wouldn’t go ahead and pay the 8 bucks for the opportunity to display their undying zeal for their attention-jealous deity, St.…

...but if those same human beings can’t account for what other human beings might do, what are we even doing here?

Imagine being so delusional that when your eyes literally watch a car slam on its brakes coming to a complete halt with nothing in front of it, you suggest it “seems the car slowed to the speed limit.”

Wow, we already have three top-level comments defending the malfunctioning Tesla and blaming the other cars on the road.

For what it’s worth, I think Ford’s bluecruise and GM’s supercruise (I’ve used both) are LEAGUES better than what I’ve experienced in Teslas, and it’s how automated driving should be implemented. I used navigate on Autopilot for a few months several years ago, and I’ve been in 2 Teslas using FSD in the last 6 months.…

Alternative hot take: If any single driver caused as many accidents as Tesla’s autopilot/NOA/FSD has, they would be uninsurable and would have had their license revoked.

Look, I think we can all agree that if anyone gets to be an egomaniac jabroni (...sure, that’s a word), it’s The Rock. I mean, come on, he took over the name of the most common object on the planet. You know how cow milk is so prevalent that we just call it “milk”? How chicken eggs are so overwhelmingly popular that…

This is exactly why loot boxes are gambling. Your addicts are complaining that they’re no longer getting their high - because just paying for what you want doesn’t trigger that endorphin rush for them.

It’s just that rationally you should be able to understand that in the long run it’s cheaper.

Came here to say this. They’ve always been fucking trash. How is anyone surprised by any of this.

A reminder that these are the guys who literally picked the name “Rooster Teeth” because it was a minced version of “Cock Bite”.

“...2020 was a year of broad societal change that brought past conduct to our attention...”

People who like to abuse people, like to be in positions that allow them to abuse people.