The problems causing drug abuse reflects on the speaker’s treatment of people and the people close to them, it makes them responsible for the fallout of their actions or lack of action.

Blaming the user absolves themselves of any responsibility.

You can apply that to pretty much any social ills, like poverty, homelessness, etc.

IOW, the person blaming the user: may have abused the user in some way as a kid, voted to end substance abuse education in schools, voted to end afterschool programs that might’ve kept kids away from abusive situations or drugs in the house, voted to limit or end food programs that would have allowed people to not become completely destitute and take to drugs for escape, and so on.

Rent Extraction is the objective, and I partly disagree that killing the secondary market is the blanket objective. Look at ticketmaster. They sell the tickets, then they also take fees on the resale of those same tickets purchased by customers/scalpers. They profit twice thanks to the secondary market. Doesn’t work (yet) for something like books, but give it time.

The general objective is to force everything to subscription and also force upgrades thanks to them controlling EOL for everything. They never want to give users the ability to run their own servers for sunsetted services.

Yes. I have regularly been using DDG, but would wind up using google sometimes anyway. Now I’m actively forced to use other engines because google is now a monetized results server and will return zero or no relevant results in favor or sponsored or monetized results.

“Where’s the sunscreen?”

Lol, damn. Going to hell for that.

That’s OK. China will happily sign an economically beneficial agreement with them and the US will get fucked again by trump’s stupidity.

Did it sell out to actual individuals or did scalpers buy up a bunch?

Thank god the tornado destroyed my neighbor’s house and not mine.

Thank god those kids in poor countries are starving and not me.

Thank god for killing kids with cancer.

They never attribute to god the things that a god could prevent, or in fact deliberately willed to happen, but they’re sure happy to strip someone of their accomplishments and effort by attributing them to god’s will.

That logic works just fine if you have all the money and lawyers.

JP went from a Dinosaur Movie to a very generic monster movie with the exact same plot every time.

Greedy evildoer wants SuperDino for nefarious purposes and must be defeated. Repeat.

Instant read digital thermometer.

Game changing.

No more over-cooked meats and ending up with tough chicken and rubbery fish. No guesswork if something has reached safe internal temperature. A must have in the kitchen.

Slick for ebay parts. The 3d printed extras are sharp.

There was nothing hostile in what I said. Maybe you don’t like being proven wrog? I didn’t expect anything of you much less a hyperbolic research paper, but nonetheless you chose hyperbole and shuffled the goalposts instead of actually continuing the discussion. I never said when I bought the games, but convenient of you to arbitrarily decide how old a game is before it’s not worth it for you. Nonetheless they’re on sale by your own admission, so that blows your “rarely” out of the water while you ignore BF6 being repeatedly on sale. But I suppose you’ll make excuses about that too?

Literally BF6 is on sale right now for 40% off. It was 50% off on some locations on Black Friday. It was 30% off 4 months ago. It was released early October. That’s 4 sales in 7 months for a AAA game.

I’ve bought Stray, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA, Elite: Dangeorus, Borderlands series, and many others all on sale and even a couple games for free.

I can’t help it if your particular games don’t get discounted, but telling me AAA games rarely do is completely wrong.

You can buy new AAA games. Be /patientgamers. Just wait a few weeks or months after release and they almost always go on sale when companies want to boost server numbers to make quarterly reports look good. I haven’t paid release price for any AAA game in years. And it should go without saying: Do not preorder!

Well, at least they’re outside.

Hah. I get that.

I’m reading a book series that’s more like a serialized tv show than a novel set. They’re not good, but they’re certainly good enough to grow on me. I think I’m on book 32 or something and actually waiting for the next one.

$4/gal today.

Here we go again acting like rich people don’t get paid. It’s not the poor CEO’s fault, we don’t actually give them much money ~just millions in stock options~ . It’s all the fault of the people that do the actual work.

Yeah, I get what it is. But I’m wondering who the culprit is that really opened the door for it to be used against the average consumer.