Phoonzang

It would in a properly free market. But late stage capitalism's goal is monopolization, because it maximises profit. Or to quote Marx: "Monopoly is the inevitable end of competition, which engenders it by a continual negation of itself."

And this is exactly what Steinbeck is describing here: "you buy food from us, at our prices, or nothing at all. We'd rather destroy our product than to sell lower." And they can do this because no one has access to the products, or the means of production (e. g. the land to grow produce).

And this is where we are today with Amazon, Nestle, Walmart and so on. They don't have any real competition anymore.

Dude, you have some tiny ass washing machines.

Additional day 3: be overjoyed that you can just replicate your basic needs, so you now can work less (or not at all). All that free time! Think of all the projects xou could do!

Start by replicating junk food and beer and sloth around until the evening of Day 29, panic, make plans for some way to big Project for Day 30. Day 30 replicate stuff you need for the project. Before properly starting, realize you forgot to ~~buy~~ replicate some crucial stuff but ~~home depot is now closed~~ you've already used the replicas quota, be discouraged, overwhelmed, give up, promise "next month is going to be different!".

I guess since most devices don't have removable batteries anymore, you'd be violating checked baggage regulations as they don't allow batteries. Not sure what the consequences would be, though.

I would say that this is not just to blame on the Generation, but to large extents of how stuff is designed these days. It has been becoming harder and harder to control where stuff is stored, and to find it outside of the intended app, and this, IMHO is by design, to wrestle the control of your own device from your hands. Just look at how aggressively Microsoft is pushing one drive in its office suite, they want control over those documents so they can lock you into a subscription model.

It is advanced access, however Firaxis did an announcement shortly after release, addressing the rocky release and promising to fix things, where they (accidentally) called it early access. It seems they changed that now, still, it was there (and was made fun of) in forums and other Lemmy like communities.

Wouldn't that be "hundreds of a thouseand"?

Civ 7 is Early Access (Firaxis called it like that themselves) and the founders edition is 130 bucks, so I guess this is becoming normalized...

Welcome to the publish or perish world of academia!

Hey, I've been a shit human being to make a fortune in Hollywood, and now I made that fortune and can afford to be a nice human being, so I can talk shit about Hollywood.

What better way to demonstrate international simultaneous television broadcasting than with an annual song competition? It's quite literally the only reason why I turn on my telly anymore.

Oh, they are talking about ESC!

The only thing I hate about it is the fact that it can get quite political,

Awww, not really.

Seriously, ESC is the least political show on whole of television, they are trying to avoid anything controversial as much as they can, just look at how they handled that Dutch singer who fell from grace. There was zero discussion or mentioning, he was just cut from the show.

People on the Internet and people going to the box offices are very different demographics.