So it's not a thought terminating cliche numbskull.

A thought terminating cliche exists to end debate by dumping a simple and wrong statement.

You are already thinking about the implications of whether or not it's possible to be happy with a 40-hour work week. That's thinking you're doing is why it's not a thought terminating cliche. And if you had any self-awareness you would have figured that out all on your lonesome

Oddly enough at least last I heard Marvel rivals is fully supported. It can best be described as playable just because it's a relatively modern game and the steam deck is getting long in the tooth but the company does actually support it and when it's broken they've fixed it.

Um... People that want to play PC games in the living room that's who.

There are tons of games that never get released on console that people like to play or that have inferior versions on the console.

The biggest issue here I think is going to be that the console only has 16 gigs of main RAM and I think it has 8 GB of video RAM.

It is at least upgradable but I think you really want 32 GB of RAM.

The Xbox and the PS5 for example have several strategy games that basically grind to a halt 2/3 of the way into the game because it's just too much for the CPU and RAM on the Xbox or the PS5.

Also if you already have a large library of games this is a convenient device that may be affordable with the price of RAM and hard drive skyrocketing because of AI bullshit.

AI is guzzling down all the RAM and hard drives so it's going to be tough for valve to source hardware at a price that's affordable.

And the private insurance companies spend hundreds of billions of dollars convincing the public that you're going to kill grandma

When there was a possibility of a public option in the affordable Care act the private insurance company spent $750 billion dollars that we know of to shoot it down.

I get pissed off when people complain the Democrats didn't give us a public option back then because what the fuck are they supposed to do in the face of nearly a trillion dollars of propaganda?

I don't think you can directly fix the healthcare system which you need to do instead is have a federal jobs guarantee that gets everyone used to the idea that healthcare is a right and then you can gradually start moving in the direction away from the parasitic insurance companies.

Also we need to get comfortable using the word parasite again. We get really antsy about that because fucking Nazis use it. It's a word and a concept we need to reclaim.

More than it needs to because it's a private health care system. So yes the employer gets taxed to pay for healthcare along with the employee but it is substantially less because you don't have the bloated parasite of private insurance.

The problem isn't that your company is paying for your health care, the problem is your company isn't paying for your health care it's paying for the profit margin of the private insurance company it is forced to do business with.

Also, good for Homie the Clown from Living Color TV show.

Disabled passengers are still able to get assistance at disabled counters in airports, including blind people. But people who just refuse to put on reading glasses don't count unfortunately.

What market consolidation? Ryan air isn't just not the only option for consumers, it's not even the only low cost option in Ireland. The number of competitors to Ryanair are too high to count, and certainly massive enough in number that they are trivial to avoid on principle for any start / destination combination (which I already do).

You don't need to fly Ryanair to get cheap tickets. Many people didn't long before this announcement.

Both people on your flight experiencing this problem can have it rectified at the customer service desk. Ryanair may be the first to mandate an app, but all budget airlines use them.

Next time you're at an airport flying a cheap airline take not of how many people have paper tickets vs use their smartphone already. I'll wager it's close to zero. It's certainly been the last couple of times I've flown Easyjet and Corendon (out of principle I don't fly Ryanair, there's such a thing as too cheap).

Your concern would be very relevant were we not talking about an airport. If there's one place I expect 100% of customers to have a nearly fully charged phone it's at an airport, since that's about the only in flight entertainment they will have. There are of course people not 100% charged. You can find those people standing at the countless places around any airport where you can charge your phone.

Normally I'm with you on this idea, but this is the one and only situation where I doubt it applies.

There are distinct benefits to having an app including live update information about flights, delays, where to find your bags, estimated queues. For the most part it is quite meaningless, and I don't typically do it (I usually use an app from a travel agent instead which provides this functionality too).

However the one time I did have an app on my phone from an airline it was an absolute godsend. Multiple planes got cancelled while I was in a layover. There were literally over 1000 people in Madrid queued at the emergency transfer desks and they were processing people at a snail's pace. Everyone who had the Iberia app on their phone got automatically rebooked onto their next available flight (notification popup asking if the new flight is acceptable, and when clicking okay we had new tickets automatically appear) and it was quite weird seeing about 20% of the massive queue suddenly step out.

I had one guy stop me as I was getting out of the queue asking me why everyone was leaving. He was pretty pissed when I told him the app sent me a notification that I had been rebooked and I needed to rush to my new plane while he was standing there with a paper ticket in hand and no idea when he was going to get home.

The whole point of Sonder's system was that there are no people. When you start and end with talking to a computer it can be very damn hard to communicate to real people. God knows there's a world of people who ignore phone calls these days. There's not even someone to talk to to check in.

We have the sole story of one disgruntled person. I wouldn't be so quick to make any assumptions.

Also what do you mean "Hotel"? Hotel is the antithesis of Sonder and Air-bnb. Those whole platforms are built around not being a hotel and not having the comforts of a hotel. Your use of that word makes me fundamentally think you don't know what is going on here.

Yes. Literally Marriott gave up on the company due to them being in a default position on what they owed Marriott.

That makes no sense for the consumer. They will be double charged. The problem is Sonder (the people who had the money from the customer) is bankrupt. But in any case Marriott did cover all consumers who booked via Marriott's systems, the problem is they have little insight beyond that.

99% of consumers don't care, especially when there's a 3rd party to be blamed. Now that it doesn't look good for Marriott what are you going to do? This is the Coca-Cola corporation vs Pepsi Co problem. You can choose not to drink coke and Pepsi, but if you want to cut of ties with both the mega companies in this field you're going to start having problems, it's not like you can drink Sprite, or Mountain Dew, or even water in some cases.

Those people who booked through Marriott into Sonder properties were covered. I don't know why you expect Marriott to cover some 3rd party business's bankruptcy losses.

Also are you sure Hilton contracted a 3rd party for a convention? That sounds unplausible. Normally the convention holders contract a 3rd party because they think Hilton charges too much convention / bulk booking services (which they definitely do), unless you were attending a hospitality convention, then what you said would make sense. You have a beef, but I doesn't look like it is with Hilton.

By the way there's countless Hotel customers who are one-offs in the world. It's rare to find repeated customers and the way hotels do that is with loyalty programs. I've only got some 30 nights with Hilton myself, but there's been plenty of times with another chain I stay at a LOT where they just don't actually give a crap about their policies anymore. It's hard for any company to know whether they are trading 1 night or 100, and the major chains are just big enough that they don't need to give a shit about individual customers anymore.