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Valve's Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing

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Re: Valve's Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing

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Post by Hikikomori »

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #45
eloisant wrote: post #16

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In democracies money going to governments isn't sucked to some kind of vacuum. It's reinvested in infrastructure, social programs, investment programs, etc. The US would be better off if it had more money to invest in healthcare and education, and Gabe would still be fine living in a house worth a few millions instead of on a half billion yacht.

> In democracies money going to governments isn't sucked to some kind of vacuum. It's reinvested in infrastructure, social programs, investment programs, etc. In practice it mostly goes to other rich people/corporations and affluent retirees. Around half of federal revenues go to retirees (and disproportionately to the affluent ones), another trillion+ dollars goes to defense/VA contractors, another trillion dollars…

That the American system is broken doesn't mean we shouldn't have a government.

Re: Valve's Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing

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Post by niek_pas »

vga42 wrote: post #29
preisschild wrote: post #9

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Gabe Newell? Yeah. He deserves it frankly.

Gabe is pretty cool and Valve is an amazing company that has done great things for both PC and Linux gaming. But this is not enough to counter the absolute shitshow that is USA right now. But hey, they have midterms coming up this year. That's a great opportunity to redeem some of their earlier sanity. That is, if the democracy still exists then. It's not just the left that is worried -- many american centrists have…

Man, that is a really fucking great article. Thanks for sharing.

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Post by enricozb »

newsclues wrote: post #34
enricozb wrote: post #4

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What about it is incompatible with the EU?

All sorts of content that EU bureaucrats find objectionable like the sex games

As a counterexample, the BBC financed the show that this sketch was from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuPBbFOiygo

Re: Valve's Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

Hikikomori wrote: post #61
AnthonyMouse wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In democracies money going to governments isn't sucked to some kind of vacuum. It's reinvested in infrastructure, social programs, investment programs, etc. In practice it mostly goes to other rich people/corporations and affluent retirees. Around half of federal revenues go to retirees (and disproportionately to the affluent ones), another trillion+ dollars goes to defense/VA contractors, another trillion dollars…

That the American system is broken doesn't mean we shouldn't have a government.

If the money is currently going to the wrong places, and collecting more money only causes it to go to the same places, then you need to focus on getting the existing money to go to the right places and prove that you can actually accomplish that before "just collect more money" becomes anything resembling a reasonable proposal.

At which point you wouldn't need to collect more money, because there is already scads of money being collected, it's just going to the wrong things.

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