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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

What's the tariff on something made in international waters?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Where is the extra finger? I swear I can't find it. A disappearing pinky

I feel like most artists would make the daughter similar to their mother. I don't see how that's weird.

The characters all have different and "accurate" reactions

Sherif is stern.

SS is annoyed.

ICE shows some compassion

Native American is noble

Jew is startled

"Illegal Aliens" are scared

There are a lot of details in everything.

If it wasn't for the comments I wouldn't think it is AI, but I do feel like people bandwagon on it. Top comment says AI, and everyone is going to say AI.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I think a lot of the problem is that they cheap out to maximize profit.

They could spend 1 million dollars and make a decent game for $70.

Or

They could spend 2 million and make an amazing game for $140.

But the price of the video game has been locked around 60-70 for years.

Even if you made star wars outlaws just a little better it's not going to sell that much more.

Looks like it's already at least 50% off

You can't spend 2 million, sell for $70, then expect your game to go on sale anytime soon.

Spending 1 million, and selling a ton at $70 or even $35. Turns a profit.

TL;DR: We'd get better games if we were willing to spend more

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm not trying to argue either

The perfect world wouldn't need a death penalty, yet we don't live in a perfect world.

To me, spending ~50k a year to keep a person behind bars is not worth it.

An 18 year old school shooter has ~60 years behind bars.

That's 3 million dollars

Do you know how many lives you can save or improve for 3 million dollars?

Thats if the cost of incarnation doesn't increase in 60 years...

Thats not counting all the interest you could earn from investing the money for 60 years...

It's millions of dollars

That school shooter is 100% guilty and will never, hopefully, get out of prison.

It's inhumane to just keep them locked in a box for 60 years

But if you want to pay millions to a private prison because "The school shooter might be innocent". Even with videos, eye witnesses, and cops arresting them with a gun.

Then okay. Doesn't make sense to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It's alright to put a person in jail for 90 consecutive life terms and never look back. Feel good about ourselves because if we got it wrong, we "could" look into it.

Death penalty should be used sparingly

Wife poisons her husband? No because there's never going to be 100% proof

Kid shoots up a school? Yes because you know it was them 100%

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

"games are ridiculously expensive at full price"

A board game with paper and plastic pieces can range from 12-45 dollars

People will go spend $20 at the movies for 1 night

Hell I'll pay 100 if it's a good game

I have 1200 hours in Overwatch. $60 (free now). I have paid 5 cents per hour to play it. I am completely happy with my purchase even though it's free now.

If the game isn't worth it, don't get it. But to complain about it is ridiculous.

Some N64 games were $50-$60 dollars back in the 90's

I feel like we are fortunate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

You can make money on the stock market when it goes down

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (5 children)

"Montoya (DA) said he supports the death penalty and believes Crusius deserves it. But he said he met with the families of the victims and while some were willing to wait as long as it took for a death sentence, there was an overriding desire to conclude the process."

NPR news

This is the problem

You can throw a man that pleads guilty in jail for 90 consecutive life sentences and be "over"

Now, to see if he really did it and deserves the death penalty...yeah going to have to take a lot longer to just make sure....

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Magicians

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

You hate standard time

DST moves the sun an hour later in the day

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Credit cards = Free Money

1-5% cash back at most stores

So you can either pay in cash (or debit card) and get nothing. Or you can use a credit card and get 1-5% cash back

I need to spend $300 on groceries this month. If i had a credit card that did 5% on grocery purchases (one reason for multiple cards), then I'd have an extra 15 dollars this month. 180 dollars a year just because I used a credit card for a purchase I had to make.

I could have used my debit card, and the funds could be pulled directly from my checking account. Or the funds will be pulled directly from my checking account at the end of the month when I need to pay off my balance.

If I had an emergency $300 dollar expense in the middle of the month, I would have access to $300. If i purchased the groceries with the $300 in my checking account, I'd have no funds to hold over for 2 weeks. Longer if needed, a credit card can hold a balance for a price.

There really isn't a reason why you shouldn't use a credit card in America, other than poor spending habits

Credit cards can even give you perks like free cell phone accident protection when paying your wireless bill

Have multiple cards with multiple limits = higher available debt

The higher your available debt, the less percent you use out of it

Debt utilization is a big part of a credit score. And just getting that down having multiple high limit cards is a strategy.

Like if I spend 5k a month. One card with a 10k limit I am using 50% of my available credit. If i had 3 cards with 15k limits, I'd be using ~10%. Using 10%>50%

Opening up cards hurts your credit score in the short term but helps in the long run. You shouldn't close a card unless you have to because having it is going to help your score for reasons mentioned above.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can not simply "shift" billions of dollars from one currency to another.

As much as the rich people with billions want to get rid of the USD, the people willing to give GBP or Euro for USD don't have to accept. Why would they want to be holding on to the USD if the others don't?

They could be slowly doing it right now, but if the shit hits the fan, the exchange rate would jump.

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