All the information available to investors is "somewhat useless" without the context of other information available to investors. Guess what information is available to investors? What the company they're investing in actually does. Entities have plenty of opportunity to put any information they make available (voluntarily or not) into sufficient context.

I thought people liked free markets? Free markets depend on sufficient transparency, and I don't know who these days would think environmental externalities aren't a type of risk exposure with present or future potential consequences.

this may come as a surprise for you, but different people from within the same private or public organization may have different concerns, priorities, goals - sometimes even at odds with one another

there is no "these people"

Yeah, plus stores like DollarTree deliberately try and muscle sources of fresh food out of neighbourhoods who lack the resources to push back, to create food deserts, so the only practical place to get food from is there (and guess how much of their "food" isn't fresh or ultraprocessed)

While people should be encouraged to eat fresh, the reality is that making access to fresh food difficult for people *on purpose* is a transparent and open strategy pursued by some rather large retail entities in the market.

cayanne8 is the fucking worst. Self-entitled boomers saying they worked their way through college on a minimum wage job and graduated with no debt before insisting that everyone should do the same thing today are relatively tolerable compared to cayanne8's smug, stupid, dipshittedness.

Ugh. Everything he writes makes me want to go find the people responsible for raising such a dumb shithead.

Why does it need to be without? If you imagined your life with less plastics, would it be frighteningly different? If so, I might think you're frightened rather easily.

(or OSX .... There's very few end-user cases in which most people *need* Linux, and very many cases where most people *need* Windows or OSX)

More accurately he should say, "Most of the time, most people don't need Windows."

But most people have at least one use case for which they need Windows. At that point, why would people maintain two different installs and two working knowledge sets of two different OSes?

That's why Windows is the default go to for most people. Most of the stuff they do doesn't *need* it, but most people do at least one thing either personally or professionally that does.

what kind of fucking moron thinks "use plastics" or "do not use plastics" are the only options and how can I achieve such an enlightened state of stupidity? it sounds blissful in it's abject simplicity

Fwiw, I much prefer Win11 to Win10. It feels more mature and responsive to me. I don't mind being derided for this, I'm well aware this is not a popular opinion around these parts. There's a certain groupthink around these parts that the best version of Windows is always [current version - 1 (modulo 2 sometimes)] but as an avid, seasoned and active user of all OSes and not particularly fond of playing favorites, I really think MS has gotten it's act together over the last half decade. There are some minor quibbles, but for my money bleeding edge Windows is the place to be these days unless you're severely allergic to change.

"Most people Do Not need MS OSes any longer."

There's a certain percentage of users on /. that could have been replaced with a script that just posted "nobody needs Windows" to every article referencing Windows for the last 20 years.

You're one of them. I haven't the foggiest idea for whom you think this is a novel observation (leaving aside how irrefutably stupid it is), nor why on earth you think they'd be on /. .. but hey, you do you, I guess.

There are husband and wife teams building premium titles and making millions

For every indie that "makes it" there are a bajillion that make babkas. The marketplace is littered with home developers. This "now anybody can do it" trope isoft repeated, but rarely connected to the reality on the ground. "It's easy to be rich!" Great, do it and stop telling us about it. "Anybody can make a top 40 tune!" Cool, do it.

whilst EA burns hundreds of millions and produces trash

EA also makes a shitton of money. As does Epic. As does Sony. As does MS. As does Ubisoft. The biggest money making games are still games being made from big studios - they also just cost a lot more to make. I've been in this industry as an engineer for more than 20 years. Nothing much insightful about your post, just a bunch of sweeping generalizations with zero actual connection to the actual lay of the land today.

And if you think 90% of the jobs will be gone in 12-18 months, I counter with - those are some nice drugs you're smoking. Had Sony laid off 900 folks 12 months ago, I highly highly doubt you wouldn't have posted the exact same thing. Talk is cheap. Come with the receipts that you've put the money where your mouth is.

We are full swing into the impact of Biden economic and foreign policy.

uh oh here we go

As a software developer, my hope for the future is significantly worse due to this administration's choices

the fuck are you on about?

Most inflation was simply due to corporations deciding they can charge higher prices, Biden decided the solution was to make people poorer so they wouldn't have enough money to pay the higher prices. Great, inflation got reduced, but people are still struggling to survive.

ah okay, you're just a run of the mill moron

https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/...

" If we all worked 10% less then our standard of living would fall roughly 10%"

Whoa! Amazing! Well, we work 40 hours a week, right? So imagine if we all worked 80 hours a week, all our standard of living would roughly double! It's an airtight case that for the best standard of living, we should all be working all our waking hours and that standard of living scales roughly linearly with however the fuck you've defined as work on the back of that beer soaked napkin you've got there.

you could negotiate yourself a better salary than your peers even if you underproduce, but are better at negotiation .. so yeah, pardon me for not drawing a straight line from the freedom to negotiate salary to a superior meritocracy