I meant, the way the debt was repaid was possibly what caused the crisis, it’s possible to repay a country’s debt through better economic policies as a very long term project instead of just selling land…

As mentioned in another comment, wouldn’t be the first time

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Russian_apartment_bombings

At the same time, the way it was done might have been the issue, right?

Private planes emit significantly more CO2 than passenger planes per passenger.

Read my message again, I never said they don’t. They still represent an insignificant proportion of air traffic emissions.

Private jets is a very small part of airplane pollution and four people travelling in a Chevy Suburban with a big V8 actually use less fuel per km per passenger than the big passenger airplanes use per km per passenger. That’s not even taking non CO2 pollution into consideration.

People in general rely on airplanes way too much, may it be for personal travel or to get shit shipped to them ASAP, it’s not just a rich people issue.

https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws/single-firm-conduct/monopolization-defined

Microsoft was found to have a monopoly over operating systems software for IBM-compatible personal computers.

You: “But other OS exist! So it’s not a monopoly! People could just install another browser if they weren’t happy!”

If you have the power to sway the market in the direction that you want, you’re the only one with that power and you’re the default option for your product then yeah, you very much are a monopoly and that’s the position Steam has in its market.

It’s currently in court for adopting anti competitive policies regarding pricing.

Valve is a multi billion dollars company, it doesn’t need you to defend it bud.

A company can be considered a monopoly without having 100% of the market. Microsoft is considered a monopoly, so is Google.

As for the rest, I don’t know how their competitors being bad changes the fact that you don’t really own the games you purchase on Steam.

A monopoly is a monopoly is a monopoly.

The vast majority of games you pay for on Steam can be taken from you in a couple of clicks from a Valve employee. The second there’s a chance in management everything can go out the window very quickly because their position is ripe for abuse.

“that aren’t even the”

Because mods are doing their job or they’re not federated with the communities you instances in…

And mentioning on social media so it’s public/informing journalists so they can make it public beforehand that you don’t plan on killing yourself.

I wonder how many of them realize that in a couple of clicks someone can decide they don’t have access to their games anymore…

Profit/employees isn’t a measure of efficiency, completed projects/employees is and I’m willing to bet that a company without any real organization like Valve doesn’t complete as many projects/employees as companies like Apple or Microsoft.

Sure but that third party doesn’t exist so you knowingly letting an even worse option win thus enabling even more genocide just shows you didn’t really care about genocides in the first place

Wrong conversation

Not voting against Trump is enabling even more genocide and the end of some women and minority rights so don’t pretend like you’ve got the moral high ground if your refuse to vote because of the Democrats stance on Israel.

Is you regional settings set to a European country?

(by the way, life pro tip, setting your region to a European country solves a ton of issues people have with Windows, most complaints I see I never had a problem with even though I live in Canada, my settings are set to UK)

That makes me think of the two pro Trump ladies on the Channel 5 video that were complaining about social security being too low. I’m sure their reaction will be “But it won’t affect me, only cheaters!”

No, I’m giving examples of things you accept being banned without calling it fascism.

CSAM, underage pornography, hate speech, death threats…

“There are narrow exceptions of course”

Yep, exactly and these exceptions apply to the web as well, just because you’re on the internet it doesn’t allow you to do whatever the fuck you want.