You need to work on your reading comprehension and learn how to think critically. What that article discusses is a tactic known as ratfucking. And it also says it worked because the MAGA loonies they supported in primaries (because theyâ(TM)d be easier candidates to win against in the general election) won their primaries and lost or were losing the general election.

From the article:

So, no, Democrats arenâ(TM)t helping MAGA retards win. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

It doesn't say anything about being clean.

You say it was an echo chamber but remember how much Donald Trump used it? Everybody used it.

Granted that was falling apart by the end of Trump's term and he was banned for comments relating to Jan 6.

Look how twitter got destroyed as a common medium for communication, with no replacement. X (right) and Bluesky (left) together are not a replacement for what twitter used to be. Now wikipedia as a store of knowledge goes the same route? Can't we just have one reality, but have different opinions about it?

Some people make real money in this "market," or try to. Check this out:

I Spent 24 Hours with CS2 Millionaires

I'm not saying any of this is real, but I bet some sizable purchases have been driven by dreams of such.

Cockroaches!

Already 100 million years old when those johnny-come-lately dinosaurs came along.

I guess Pokeman cards were just too tangible.

On this page they identify 1.5C as the initial "tipping point" of specific bad things. There is a fairly wide uncertainty around that estimate, but it's considered the best estimate so in that sense it wasn't picked out of thin air.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"Which means that we're going to have a period, bigger or smaller, with higher or lower intensity, above 1.5C in the years to come"

You cut off the conclusive part - we're going 1.5C above baseline. How much, being open in part to what we do now.

ok I'm going to wave the white flag on this one.

What I'm saying is the new goal to target 30% profit margins (sure, why not?) might or might not be accomplished through further price increases. I know they already did raise prices, and I there's been some pushback and even reductions of announced sky-high prices for upcoming games by other companies. Microsoft doesn't dominate gaming and they don't have the power to arbitrarily increase profits by jacking up prices.

I can't read the paywalled article, but the summary doesn't say anything about raising prices. What it does talk about is reducing costs by cutting languishing projects. For games to be in development for 7+ years is no way to run a business.

To make it fair, how much of the value generated by Linux would go to Linus personally, vs. all the contributors to the Linux ecosystem? For example to the Apache Foundation? Stallman seems perennially miffed that GNU built a whole environment and then Linux swooped in to host it and took all the glory.

Interesting although linux has created so much value because of its ubiquity, which would not be the case if it had been monetized - like Ultrix, Solaris, HP-UX and a hundred others.

An additional level of this is that Reddit is itself crowsourced. They didn't pay anybody to write their content. I'm more sympathetic to something like the Encyclopedia Britannica or NYT or the movie studios. (Although even there I agree it's still debatable).