SpacePirate

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[–] SpacePirate@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You overestimate the worth of your inconvenience.

[–] SpacePirate@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How have the “interactive” features been now that there are fewer players? Is it a wasteland, or does the game still randomly place in user generated content from when the game first released?

[–] SpacePirate@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty stoked for the upcoming Vault Hunters “vanilla” mod.

[–] SpacePirate@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Definitely second both of these. Cyberpunk 2077 post 2.0 is very solid, with an engaging, 100+ hour story. Similarly, control is a spectacular single player narrative, easily 20-30 hours of mindfuckery and atmospheric storytelling.

[–] SpacePirate@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That isn’t how defense treaties work.

[–] SpacePirate@lemmy.ml 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought Taiwan was China? Hard to invade yourself, eh, Xi?

[–] SpacePirate@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 year ago (9 children)

The logic is very different when there is verifiably an afterlife and true gods.

[–] SpacePirate@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago

Yeah, no shit, you’re the fucking CEO

[–] SpacePirate@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It’s not reasoning, or an argument for or against, it is just a statement. I’d admit that it’s probably a tautology.

What the post described is a taxation and societal problem, not a problem with investing or compound interest in general.

I’d easily agree that society is unfair, and that our taxation policies are directly antagonistic to the middle class, but again, this is simply math (and though it is theoretical, microeconomics).

[–] SpacePirate@lemmy.ml 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

The best description I have seen for single store franchisees is, you’ve paid a lot to give yourself a job. They are not lucrative, and in fact, are capital intensive, and often predatory.

There is a very high up front cost, and you generally do not own the real estate. This means you are locked into 30 year leases, often with complicated terms that are solely beneficial to the land owner.

Next, with regards to liquidity, if you don’t own the real estate, you often can’t get multiple business loans with a single franchise, so you must secure the loan with your personal assets, which means you will go personally bankrupt if you hit a rough patch.

Then, after dealing with the complicated business to business transactions and legal work, you still have to deal with the corporate bullshit, taxes, and supervisory duties, particularly if you do not already have a strong business partner to do this for you.

Pretty much, unless you are independently wealthy, own the real estate in a high traffic location, or already have multiple other franchises, it’s a losing venture that will kill your soul and eat every dollar you have.

[–] SpacePirate@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Tens of thousands of children, killed or injured. And people wonder how the Palestinians become radicalized against Israel, the West, and the United States, or why there can’t be peace in the Middle East?

Forgiveness is probably the furthest thing from being on their minds.

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