I mean, research funding is a huge problem, but half the problem is that journalists and reporters are largely people who went into English or Communications and stopped taking or learning any science past the high school level and thus don’t actually know how to read papers or report on them. Not to mention that critically reading a scientific paper and evaluating in the context of other research takes a significant amount of time, more time than is given to write a normal newspaper article.

And they’re reporting that science to people who on average know the same or less than them, so their mistakes and misreporting is never caught or corrected.

The allegation says nothing about steam keys. The lawsuit is alleging that they are contractually prevented from selling the game cheaper elsewhere.

According to Shotbolt, the developer and digital distribution company is “shutting out” all competition in the PC gaming market as it “forces” game publishers to sign off on price parity obligations - supposedly preventing them from going on to offer lower prices on other platforms.

Like the anonymous whistleblower who went to a lawyer and triggered this lawsuit?

If you have a point to make about why Valves is not abusing it’s monopoly position make it. Otherwise no one wants to hear your dumb ‘but the free market is always right’ statement.

Proof? What would proof look like?

Do you expect companies to just leak contracts they signed while under NDA?

It’s not tho.

I feel like Sony did a Sony here.

I’m old enough to remember when Sony shipped 22 million malware infested CDs because they were worried about Napster.

Licensing reduces the number of guns in circulation and ensures that their owners are more responsible than the average unlicensed owner, making their guns less likely to end up on the black market.

Outside of potentially a car or truck, all of those things take significant time and planning.

The reality of most murders is that they do not happen when given a cooling off period. Similar to suicides, they’re often situational and in the moment.

Because every other country with similar problems can be slapped with the label of “underdeveloped”, I assume?

What countries are you thinking of?

“Gun violence” is not a cause of death. Murder is.

Technically no, a bullet wound is, or a stab wound, or blunt force trauma, but murder is the legal definition of a crime that involves death, circumstances, and intent.

Do you think if they took away the guns, people would just stop being violent? Or that they would just find another tool?

I think that they would find another tool, be forced to decide whether to commit to a close quarters fight to the death instead of sitting back and spraying from a distance, and in the vast majority of situations the overall outcome will be far less severe and easier for police and security to contain.

Have you really thought about it?

That’s not why.

Lol, yes it is absolutely part of the reason.

It’s because not enough people care

Yes, that is also part of the reason.

and because police work for the government and secure the interests of the government, so putting them in jail is essentially kneecapping yourself if you’re a politician.

No, that is the case in literally every single other country too.

Again, nothing to do with firearms and everything to do with culture.

Sounds like a gun owner in denial, not a reasoned point.

What’s insane is thinking that we are the only country in the world with a problem with violence.

You are the only developed western country with a problem as severe as yours. You’re the only one where there are regular and repeated mass killings. You are the only one where violence, and specifically gun violence, is a leading cause of death amongst children.

The Nice, France mass murderer killed more people with a commercial truck than any mass shooter in history.

Yes and more Americans have been killed by gun violence in 2024 so far.

They’re not entirely wrong, handguns should also be banned and regulated if you actually want to address gun violence in the way that literally every single country that doesn’t suffer from regular gun violence does.

You realize that the reason that police get away with homicide in the US so much is that every single person might be strapped?

You know that in Canada and the UK and countries where guns aren’t common, police have a much harder time justifying drawing a firearm, to the point that just drawing one unnecessarily often makes national news?

What’s insane is being the only country in the world with regular mass shootings and thinking that you’ll shoot your way out of the problem.

Not in Canada, the UK, the entirety of western Europe, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Australia, New Zealand…

This is dumb as fuck, literally nothing about that mentions anything about firearm licensing. Did you understand the words you quoted before getting high and mighty?

It’s illegal for felons to possess firearms regardless of whether or not legal owners require licensing, and nothing in here says that they didn’t just get a tip that some criminal was stockpiling weapons.

This is awful article. I’d be curious to read about any role Steinem had with the CIA but this article has jack shit in it other than weird vague accusations based on one of her organizations receiving funding from the CIA at some point.

It’s not an editorial outlet, it’s a platform that lets people publish their blogs. It’s the equivalent of substack, or blogger.

Maybe game developers should wake up and understand that people like to be able to customize their characters cosmetically and not just click to slash over and over and over again.

You want consumers to spend money based on how much effort you put into a product instead of how appealing it is to the consumer? Newsflash, that’s not how capitalism works.

Lol I take it you’re a republican?

Let’s blame the consumer for buying something they like, and not the system of capitalism for it’s inevitable march to enshittification which happens across all industries amirght?