That's exciting - I'll be keeping a close eye on this as it's likely what will make me switch to Linux for gaming in the near future.

HORI has been around for a good whole, and they make what are arguably the best aftermarket Nintendo switch controllers.

The horror is in the fact that the system forces these kinds of choices on people. Any system that forces people to consider suicide to avoid bankrupting their loved ones due to medical cost is barbaric.

True, but Göteborg has its own areas to avoid. Hjällbo comes to mind...

Thanks! Sounds like decent progress hady been made in this area already. I'll keep an eye on this project so that when 24H2 drops I've got a way to avoid turning my headset into e-waste.

That sounds pretty promising. I know the headset camera-based controller tracking will be a pain to implement, but at least there's some hope for people that plonked down 600+ bucks for these devices. Some, like me, just a month ahead of the eol announcement....

Nice strawman. "If you really cared you'd be destitute" - sadly I live in a capitalist society that through systemic violence makes it impossible to survive if I gave away all the money needed to survive. So, as a means to counterbalance that, I strongly support systemic solutions to the problem. Unions, progressive taxation, and charity are all valuable tools to achieve this.

Also, I'd like to point out your hypocrisy by calling me evil and wanting more evil, while simultaneously advocating yourself for less social support. If wanting to survive while supporting a more equal society makes me evil (because I am not giving all my money away), your desire to lower taxes and subsequently reduce access to public goods and services would make you even more evil by your own standards.

No, I strongly support unions. People have a right to gather and demand their labor be compensated fairly. Don't see how that's related to taxation though.

As for flat taxes - they are a scam that hurt low and middle wage earners much more than rich people. A progressive taxation system is the most fair implementation of taxation - where people that have little means pay less and people with lots of means pay more. This equalizes the relative impact taxation has on the individual's income to be much fairer than any flat tax every could be. A 20% tax on a 30k/y income is much harder to bear for the individual than a 50% taxation on a 3m/y income. Someone with 24k to spend after taxes will have a much harder time to make ends meet than someone with a 1.5m take-home income.

Okay let's play this game since you obviously don't get it: Please tell me who should pay for the roads you use to drive on. And who should pay for the wildfire services that protect your house from burning down. And who should pay for police services to keep you safe. And who should pay for all other public good and services that exist to better our lives collectively.

Once you go down the rabbit hole of "everyone pays for only the things they need" you either end up re-inventing taxation with private entities instead of public ones, or you end up in utter chaos. For society to function, taxation is a necessity.

P.S. I do agree with you that misspending and corruption are serious problems that need to be addressed to maintain public trust in government spending, as I already stated. P.P.S. I do actually donate to charities that operate on small margins and put the majority of their donations towards their cause.

Counterpoint: I proudly pay taxes and am happy to pay more if it means the betterment of all people living in the province. Taxes are the wave that lifts all boats (*when applied correctly - corruption and misspending are serious issues that should be addressed to keep taxation equitable). Anyone who has an issue with making sure we're all better off is welcome to go and build a society based off the "each man for himself" principle and report back how that turned out.

Face it - Humans are group animals by nature. We are stronger as a species when we band together.

Also, you can't actually donate to revenue Canada. So I have no clue what you're on about.

Yeah, that's how the US got to where they are. Profit incentives have no place in healthcare, as it incentivizes the exact opposite of what you want.

If a patient is a revenue generator you'll want to make sure to keep them sick for as long as possible to make more money (or, alternatively, drain them as quickly as possible with exorbitant cost of care then boot them out the door when they can't pay anymore). If a patient is a cost you'll want to make sure they are healed as quickly as possible to avoid a further drain through expenses. And you've also got an incentive to provide high-quality care, because that patient returning means they will increase cost again. So you better do it right the first time around.

I think this is still the most played game on my Switch. I need to stay far, far, away from this if my productivity is to survive.

I know what you mean, but just to be pedantic I'm perfectly fine for calling the tour whatever they want. They can call it the "defecate on DEI tour" for all I care. It's the announced intent of spreading hate speech part that make me wonder why they are not persecuted yet, and why they can openly announce this stuff without fear of legal reprisal.

I know we should celebrate freedom of expression and freedom of speech, but sometimes I wonder where "tolerance of intolerance is intolerance" begins and how we should apply it to groups like these.

I'm looking forward to this. Lego games always seem to deliver on capturing the spirit of the original work while adding some (often much needed) levity and charm. Having played HZD and having struggled to get through Forbiden West, I am looking forward to their take on the franchise.

High pay means nothing when the cost of living is even higher. Making 20 bucks an hour sounds great until you have to pay 3000 bucks in rent each month.

A tow truck driver once decided for me that a failed hood release latch on the side of the highway wasn't an issue that needed towing (he flat out refused to tow my car even though I specifically called them to tow my vehicle, and asked him to tow it to the nearest dealer).

He "fixed" it by cutting a bunch of holes into my bumper to attach zip ties through and then ducttaping the remaining gap closed. His genius solution made a 100 or so dollar repair (that would've been covered under warranty as I learned later) a several thousand dollar repair that required a new front bumper, new grille, and a bunch of paintwork. And a new hood latch of course.

Zero fucks to give seems generous in my experience.

With Oden on our side - Amon Amarth

Through the ashes of empires by Machine Head?

Wasn't the original quote by Nigel Powers about the Dutch?