There is a discussion about that underway. No doubt the OP will turn around and spin that into yet another EU being anti-American tech company rant.

"Can't afford" and "CBF" are two different things. You spend your money on the MIC, we'll spend it on our people. There's a reason why we're rated the top in happiness among the west and the USA further down the bottom.

No it's far from the most expensive option. But yes it's not always the cheapest, but that's completely beside the point, TFA postulates a scenario where the cancellations have disappeared. They objectively haven't. They are right there and you're not even denying that fundamental point I was making.

I was in Chicago only 5 months ago I didn't pay a cent extra for 3 day cancellation. The Hilton I stayed at 2 weeks later (the Marriott was sold out) had 24h cancellation, no extra charge.

Exactly. Fortunately many people didn't buy it. https://80.lv/articles/call-of...

Except banning tools used for efficiency isn't about saving jobs. This isn't a zero sum game (in the literal sense). There's not a fixed number of games that developers are able to be hired for or worked on. There's a question of how much of a game needs how many resources attached to it, nothing more, nothing less. Less developers needed for one game allows a second game to be made by the same resources. If anything the world would be a better place if people worked on something other than yet another Call of Duty.

Also it's horseshit to claim you're not a fan of regulation just because you're not a fan of saving job through forcing inefficiency. What next, you're not a fan of regulation unless you support a government program of forced employment because it creates jobs? Just remember next time you hear about unemployment going up while you eat your burger that you're not getting food poisoning because of regulations and that it has nothing to do with jobs. What a fucking stupid argument you just made.

In what way has the market spoken by asking for regulation? The market doesn't ask for regulation. If you want to make a point then you could post references to the fact that Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has underperformed on release quite massively. That's a market response. It's also an indication that regulation isn't needed.

That seems like a lot of effort. I prefer to simply not read WSJ. Post a workable link next time.

Are you a cat? Didn't think so. I wouldn't go criticising other people for being a catn't if you're not a cat yourself.

That's not even remotely comparable. There's no academic debate about the efficacy of essential oils. There's wide spread agreement that they do fuck all. Since you like Wikipedia so much: "There is not sufficient evidence that it can effectively treat any condition.[3] Improper use of essential oils may cause harm including allergic reactions, inflammation and skin irritation. Children may be particularly susceptible to the toxic effects of improper use.[4][5] Essential oils can be poisonous if ingested or absorbed through the skin.[5]"

Cloud seeding on the other hand has had mixed results. The problems with it is that it is unclear precisely on the conditions of it working, on how it works in different cloud types, and how it is best used. The problem is that many of the studies on it question whether it can produce rain from incredible dryness. It can't. It does however actively work in inducing rainfall from certain clouds in certain conditions.

If you want the medical equivalent: I don't have a headache now, taking an aspirin will do nada for my head, that doesn't mean aspirin won't solve your headache, it may be able to, which in turn doesn't mean it will also fix a migraine induced headache, which it can't. Fortunately after years of aspirin's effectiveness being a subject of debate among scientists we do have a clear picture of what it can and can't do to your headache. Unlike essential oils which is settled science that it's "alternate therapy" (i.e. scam) for a reason, and unlike cloud seeding which is still actively debated.

It's almost like you don't know what market power is. Hint: Europe brings them up all the time, and Americans keep buying them out. Is there something in the Literally last week the most recent European cloud company was bought out by an American firm https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/... Is there something in American culture that prevents them from innovating instead relying on buying European companies?

Well I bet they were, they were probably just subjected to a doctor's handwriting.

To be fair typing is a skill you can sort of pickup. I never took lessons. I never was taught. Yet I can type comfortably 85wpm. Kids will learn the medium used and typing is simple to learn based on simply putting hands somewhere and going ham.

Cursive on the other hand is a fine motor skill. You can't just magically pick it up like typing. You need to know what you're looking at and go out of your way to do it since you're not exposed to it automatically outside of education, a doctor's visit or reading a Christmas card from grandma.

Typing isn't part of the curriculum at my wife's school, yet nearly all her kids can touch type.

Everything reeks of something when you don't put effort into understanding it. Cursive writing has practical benefits for improving the speed of note taking, improving reading comprehension (a lot of stuff is written in cursive), and improving fine motor skills.

I'm honestly shocked that it's not taught in Florida right now... explains quite a bit actually. There's lots of useless things to be upset about, but this isn't one of them. Rather than saying it reeks of something, why not research what benefits it may bring? Or do you reek of ignorance?

World record for sustained typing speed is 170-220wpm depending on duration. Also the type of buffers which can't keep up with this speed are also the kind of buffers that fill up with as little as 50 characters and then start beeping at you. No the buffer was never spitting out words for a minute after you're done and every kid could type fast enough to outrun the buffer on their PC and cause it to beep. That's not impressive.

Anyway leaving your completely made up bullshit, you also ignored context switching. Pen in hand for note taking it is far faster to be able to draw a quick picture in a notepad than a PC. Combine that with cursive and you quickly outdo anything you can play with on your keyboard.

You know what is absolutely faster than typing? Shorthand-cursive. Those guys can do 300wpm which is only slightly behind using a stenographer's keyboard which you definitely aren't using.