nagaram

nagaram @startrek.website 3w ago

Bowling For Soup either made it or covered it. Hard to tell with punk tbh

nagaram @startrek.website 4w ago

You see how

"Link" is highlighted?

Highlight "discussion"

nagaram @startrek.website 4w ago

I have a near complete control of a market segment.

I want to monetize that control further.

I release slot machine mini games into my most popular games.

I have contributed to the gambling epidemic that plagues modern society.

I am not a trust worthy entity.

I am Steam

Does that make sense?

nagaram @startrek.website 4w ago

Thank you for your click saving service

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nagaram @startrek.website 4w ago

Loot boxes are not a monopoly.

Its a bad thing they did to abuse their monopoly stance

nagaram @startrek.website 4w ago

Insane to think an in image attribution is advertising, but a direct link is fine.

nagaram @startrek.website 4w ago

And didn't you learn a valuable lesson about scrolling socials when you should have focused on those KPIs?

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nagaram @startrek.website 4w ago

Maybe the difference is effort versus objective reality.

You and OP are concerned with whether or not they became a monopoly maliciously when I think the previous commenter is concerned with whether or not they simply are a monopoly.

In my view they are a monopoly and they have abused that. I'm thinking of their loot boxes and silent support of skin gambling.

We should be mistrustful of institutions with this much power, regardless of if they're actively abusing it.

nagaram @startrek.website 1mo ago

The joke is that one would assume its a sappy sentiment that I'm thinking about home and my spouse while I relax with a beer.

And the punch line is alcoholism

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nagaram @startrek.website 1mo ago

Beer I get on the last day of a work trip by myself and tomorrow morning I fly home to my spouse I haven't seen in a week

(They don't let me drink)

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nagaram @startrek.website 1mo ago

Your username is almost relevant though

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nagaram @startrek.website 1mo ago

I'm delving into astrology for once. It seems interesting.

If you do consider getting a tarot deck, Lisa Porters mystical Tarot is very pretty

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nagaram @startrek.website 1mo ago

Would you like to talk more?

I'm interested in making friends. I'll send you my email if you'd like

nagaram @startrek.website 1mo ago

You will say his silly name with respect! Dr. Glaucomflecken

I think it's "eye spot"

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nagaram @startrek.website 1mo ago

Tax stamps (recently repealed)

For the longest time, if you wanted certain types of weapons, you had to pay a $200 tax to own that weapon. These include surpressors, full auto guns, short barrel rifles, and short barrel shotguns

The point wasn't to ban these things it was to make them prohibitively expensive because "its the poor's who vomit violence". And this tax was implemented in the 1940's where $200 was off 2 or 4 times the cost of the gun itself.

A different example is gun registries and concealed carry license databases. I don't trust the police to act calm when interacting with me when they know I have a gun. There are special classes that CCL holders take often so that they know how to read a cop and keep them calm during a traffic stop or a welfare check because cops are trained to shoot first and are very scared of the masses.

Think of Paretti here. Shot dead for having a gun. People blamed it on the ICE agent being a violent fascist thug trained like that. I don't see it that way. I think he operated like a cop who was told no consequences.

We have videos of cops approaching black men, committing the crime of being in white people spaces, who ask them if they have a gun, the man says yes, the cop tells them at gun point to pull it out and drop it, and then shoost the man when he touches the gun.

I don't trust police to use surveillance state information like who owns what guns in a way that won't get me killed. Its why I'm still hesitant to get any tax stamp items. I'd love an SBR, but then I am legally required to let the ATF "inspect" my home if they ask me to. I have to tell the ATF when and where I'm moving to if I change states.

nagaram @startrek.website 1mo ago

Holy shit they're locally available too!