Didn’t Steam essentially create the “standard” for 30% price point for digital distribution in the first place? While a 30% margin makes sense for physical retail, it’s never made sense for digital distribution.
If they created the problem in the first place, then isn’t that actually an issue?
Yeah, for reference, here are all of the deals currently available for me in the McD’s app…
And that’s it. Meanwhile…
A Quarter Pounder with Cheese or Big Mac is $7.29, for the sandwich alone. The meals are $13.39 and $13.19 respectively. Why is there a difference? The sandwiches cost the same independently and the fries and drink are the same for the meal.
Or let’s get into the grift now… they’re ripping you off with some of the meals. A regular basic Cheeseburger is $2.69, and the meal is $10.39. so they’re saying the “discounted” meal bundle price to add a regular drink and fries is $7.70. So they’re saying the fries and a soda are worth nearly 3x as much as the cheeseburger, which is already ridiculous. But let’s ignore that and look at the cost closer… a regular medium fries is $4.99 and a regular medium soda is $1.39 which comes to $6.38… so they’re actually ripping you off for an additional $1.32 if you get the meal versus the items separately. So you’re paying an additional 10% by getting the meal… Isn’t that what the discount should be?
It will be the US. No doubt at all. China doesn’t need the US, but the US cannot replace what China currently does, and it will take decades to begin to get close.
China will soon have a bunch of capacity for every other country to utilize. With minimal time required to spin it up. Likewise for international companies that used to send a large percentage of their product to the US, they’ll have a bunch of inventory to facilitate expansion in other countries.
The only loser in this trade was is the US.
The point they’re trying to make seems to be that the specific unofficial Signal app they are using does archive those messages. So the fact Signal by itself doesn’t, is irrelevant. The government is paying TeleMessage for this Signal app instead of using the official Signal app… The only reason for that would be for the archiving capability.
I mean… If they’re using Signal specifically because it doesn’t store messages, and they are trying to hide the communications and not archive them… They wouldn’t be using the app capable of archiving them in the first place, they’d just use the official Signal app.
Not sure why this is hard for people to understand since the article is explaining exactly what this app is and does and how it bypasses the “Signal doesn’t arching texts” issue entirely, because it doesn’t matter what the official Signal app does or doesn’t do.
Keep in mind the Tesla board is filled with sycophants and close friends/family type of people. If they’re looking and he didn’t know, that’s a pretty deep betrayal from his perspective.
To combat the heat, the house utilises 18-inch thick external walls and a soothing lime plaster interior, effectively keeping the rooms cool and breezy.
Yeah, 18 inch thick adobe walls work great in the Arizona heat as well. But it costs an arm and a leg to build.
Building into the side of a hill, or 5 feet down into the soil also works well. Or burying a water tank that you then pump through the walls/floor to cool the place, similar to some under floor heating systems.
There are a number of ways to deal with heat passively, or actively without resorting to direct cooling methods, but all of them either require a bespoke piece of land, or custom architecture and floorplans. Or you can just overpower it with Evaporative Cooling and/or Air Conditioning regardless of the rest. There’s a reason that’s the go to answer.
McDonald’s forgot their place as a cheap fast food burger. It’s almost as expensive as places like Five Guys now, and nowhere near the same level of either flavor or sheer quantity.
It used to be that their app promos made up the difference but now it’s the same like 4 so coupons for specific items and a generic 15% off that really only covers taxes, not the 50%+ increase in prices in the last 2 years. It’s just not worth it anymore.
Even ignoring the international portion, I wouldn’t be surprised if Americans started to notice as well.
The fact he’s alive is a miracle, the fact he looks like almost nothing happened in interviews, etc. is absolutely fascinating.
It’s because some people despise the idea of inspections.
Because ensuring the basic safety of a 2-3 ton hunk of metal flying down the road at speeds up to 80mph is apparently government overreach. Or because it’s an inconvenience to have to take it in once a year. Or whatever other bullshit reason they try to justify in their heads that basic safety inspections are a waste of time and resources. You know, shitty people.
Ah somehow I missed that sentence when reading it before.
Thorium research was abandoned in favor of Uranium because it couldn’t be turned into weapons. Simple as that
He claimed the figure was misleading because companies had stockpiled imports ahead of his imposition of tariffs.
I mean he’s probably right… Except if they were importing ahead of time to avoid the tariffs, you would assume things to either be the same or have a slight increase… Not contracting.
I get the issue makes total sense. Slower charging you have no control over means you get charged more per kwh. However, since I don’t see it addressed in the article… Are they legally able to charge for the electricity itself there?
I know in some areas only utility companies can charge for electricity, so charging for the time connected is the only way they can legally charge you for the power provided.
So a few possibilities.
At least you can buy a house in Detroit. May not be a nice one, probably abandoned a decade ago, but there are options available.
Unlike the average new home price being $1 million or some shit Nationwide now that was reported a few days ago.
There are several states already that require safety inspections.
Hell emissions tests are required for ICE vehicles in nearly every state, and guess what they do when those roll through for emissions testing? They record the mileage.
There’s no additional red tape here, it’s the same red tape that was there before it was an EV that didn’t need emissions testing.
Antique and Classic plates usually have pretty restrictive use policies associated with them. Assuming you don’t ignore them and risk a ticket every time you drive outside those uses.
For Oklahoma for instance:
Affiant further states that the vehicle described above will travel highways of this state primarily incidental to historical or exhibition purposes only.
From the application form: https://oklahoma.gov/content/dam/service-oklahoma/Documents/mv-forms/license-plate/763 Classic Vehicle Plate.pdf
Given the antique registered vehicle is supposed to only be used on public roads in very limited scenarios, the small cost is appropriate, regardless of the specific vehicle.
Is it easier to implement? Maybe, but not really.
An alternative and would just be an annual inspection. Some states already require this, many just emissions. Just have it as a blanket annual safety inspection requirement for all vehicles, including emissions for the necessary vehicles.
FYI, this is one of the major reasons to use digital wallets. Like Apple Pay and Google Wallet. They don’t use your actual card info when paying, but a generated virtual card instead.
Likewise one of my accounts provides both a physical card and a separate virtual card, so that’s what I enter whenever making online purchases. Easier to cancel and reissue a virtual card if there is fraud.
Eh, I would argue that the expansion of broadband internet and the increased expectation of instant gratification by consumers made it a perfect time for Steam’s expansion. The death of physical media is a side effect of the ability to near instantly download anything you want.