Not quite. It's more that the airlines' business model is, oddly, no longer centered on actually providing travel: the loyalty partnerships they have with credit card companies are now more profitable than the airline operations.
A similar trend happened with the big 3 just before the '08 banking crisis. They made more money financing vehicles rather than building them. Same problem GE had, they started chasing profits by becoming a bank instead of a manufacturing company. It's like the old adage of "all software feature creeps until it can read email, or gets absorbed by software that does," for big business, it's "all businesses expand until they become a bank or get bought by company that already did."

A huge issue with the DragonAge game was that they spent a massive amount of development time trying to turn it into a 'live service' game, then pivoted to a classical single-player experience. Putting the sociopolitical messaging aside (and whether it was 'real' or 'perceived'), a development cycle that completely pivots that sort of underlying, fundamental paradigm shift is going to undo a massive amount of development work...and EA still found it necessary to have the devs do a bunch of last minute 'crunch' and 'ship now patch later'...which meant that the early reviews reflected some of the rough edges, and then the sociopolitical messaging accusations at the height of "anti-woke" sentiment was just the icing on the cake...and thus, the flop.
You are half right with "development hell" being a problem, Inquistion came out in 2014 and it took a decade for the sequel to come out. Now I loved Origins, enjoyed Awakening, tolerated II, and enjoyed Inquistion again. However 10 years is a long time, and Veilguard looked contra to everything the previous Dragon Age titles stood for. The characters were annoying, the combat was very dumbed down, there seemed to be no meaningful choices or even the appearance of important choices, other than ignore your companions and they all die in the end(spoiler). As you mentioned BG3 came out and really set the bar for what a cRPG could be, so Veilguard looks even worse in comparison. The gender politics being shoe-horned in was just the chipotle aioli on the shit sandwich that was DA:Veilguard. Hell 5 years ago when it changed from kill the dread wolf in Tevinter to whatever this was(I guess they wanted to reset the world and start over again, only reason to destroy the country you spent all of Origins trying to save[again, spoiler]). Hell, I'm surprised this game didn't become a card draft auto-battler or a MOBA.

You say Zionist, he says Klan. What's the difference?
As of this post 0,flamebait vs 4 insightful(don't ever change Kosdot, don't ever change. LUL)

Anything can be taxed. Anything.
Well, almost anything, not poll access, but otherwise you are correct. Thanks Obama

Yes, b/c it states that in by a 2:1 margin people would rather kill themselves rather than others with a gun. Now, if you are on an anti-gun rant, you'll not want to look at a country with notoriously strict gun laws like say Japan, and then compare their suicide rates. If you want to make a mental health crisis argument, then perhaps homocide vs suicide would be worth considering. To quote your namesake, "Would you rather those people be pushed out of windows?"

My favorite example was a case where Joe Biden was taking a question from somebody off camera and multiple news outlets reported that as him staring off into the distance. He was just looking at a person that wasn't on camera waiting for them to finish their question.
My favorite example of the opposite was when the world acted like Trump was mad for dumping the fish food at the Koi pond, and then we saw the footage of his host doing the exact same thing. Of course you can claim that JRB was in sound mind and body, but there's several million voters who saw his debate performance, and beg to differ. Then there's Jake Tapper's book where he(ironic given his part in said cover-up)lays out how the media failed to report Biden's decline. But yeah, score the parent post +3 for Kosdot.

Woke bullshit has a chance to go viral, so it gets put in. Its not to push an agenda
Nope, there was definitely activism, pale and male is stale, was not a mantra for going viral it was about replacing existing heroes with "new less problematic" versions. So Hawkeye gets replaced by Kate Bishop, Iron Man gets replaced by Iron Heart(lul), Capt. America gets replaced with Falcon, Hulk gets replaced by She-Hulk. Thor gets replaced by "The Mighty" Thor. As South Park pointed out, put a chick in it, and make her lame and gay.

You've forgotten about the delayed response from delayed transportation (tariffs), and reduced agricultural production (ICE raids). If an economist isn't warning you about an upcoming recession, they are huffing bronzer farts.
Yeah, the economists have warned me about 15 of the last nine recessions. You delightful crypto-trotskiites really should change up your messaging.

Candidate A: hardworking successful and respected prosecutor, Senator, and Vice President. Exemplary record of promoting health care, voting rights, and reducing gun violence and crime. Full understanding and adherence to the rule of law. Well educated. Articulate as a court officer should be.
I am sorry but Wille Brown's comare, was many things and articulate was not one of them, don't forget she got exactly 0 votes in the 2016 primary b/c she dropped out before a single vote was cast. And the exemplary record? What of lying, and just being a terrible person to work for? Finally if this candidate was/is so great where are they now? After all Hillary lost, and she didn't just disappear from public life.

And then you have climate change causing food shortages and natural disasters they're all being mismanaged plus you've got bird flu also being mismanaged by a man who literally said you shouldn't ask him for medical advice.
How is this any different than the previous administration? No seriously, how well did JRB handle the flooding in western NC? That egg price spike? Caused by all the flock purges in response to bird flu. You have also fallen for the broken window fallacy vis-a-vis Medicaid, if we don't have fraud in Medicaid that money can be used elsewhere.

It is perhaps relevant to consider that the mainstream media lost its credibility not due to significant failings in the media to present reliable and accurate reporting, but instead due to a concerted campaign on multiple fronts, conducted by multiple parties, to falsely claim that the actually trustworthy sources were somehow untrustworthy. Or perhaps it only seems relevant to me.
Yeah, was it the Macedonia content farms or perhaps the stream of lies about a President's mental capacity counter to evidence, and then writing a book about the stream of lies once they could no longer sell said lies? Yeah, that might explain why there's little trust in the media, But you go on believing it was those evil "others" who tried to erode trust in the media. Really go all in on the "smug bubble" you've surrounded yourself with.

Note that the harm for low-dose exposure is an increased number of cancer deaths, rather than people dying immediately from radiation sickness. But it's still deaths.
Depends what are you comparing the low dose exposure to? International flights? Eating bananas? Living in higher elevations?

I mean there's solid evidence that Republican voter suppression prevented 7 million Democrats from voting.
Those would be the dead and non-citizens. Again, for those in the cheap seats. By most measures the 2020 election was the aberrant one not the 2016, or 2024. Looking at who won the bellwether counties, JRB won 1 of 20, previous low number was 13 of 20 to take the White House, and we know the Harris did poorer the JRB in every county. Conversely, JRB was the first presidential candidate to take the White House despite losing both Florida and Ohio(since Nixon v. Kennedy, and we know that election had problems). So please do yourself a favor and acknowledge that 2020 was a flawed election with terrible candidates, and try to do better.

https://www.niehs.nih.gov/heal... Yes, it would blow up to 100's of chemicals under suspicion. Yet the definition needs to be since mankind has audacity to find loopholes in the law.
That's ok we'll stop using HFCs and HFO's for refrigeration and go back to good ol' safe Ammonia and Propane. It will be interesting to see how one etches silicone wafers with just hydrocarbons, but hey who needs semi-conductors and integrated circuits?

That's a good comparison. MAGA would absolutely crucify Reagan for any his policies today. In 1984 Reagan offered amnesty to people in the country illegally. In 2025 we're calling in the national guard and marines to round people up.
Yeah, there was a second part to Reagan's amnesty, which was supposed to reduce the need for performing a second amnesty decades later, we did not do that and now here we are. Funny that. Almost like most problems don't solve themselves if you merely kick the can down the road.