Badeendje

Badeendje, 1 day ago

So Brexit was a good idea just implemented badly. Why don’t people remember that when he got his way he immediately bailed and left others holding the bag.

Badeendje, 3 days ago

First rule… follow the Money.

Badeendje, 3 days ago

On the plus side, this means that Ukraine will be getting the bees knees in terms of modern interceptors.

And probably a lot of countries will check expiration dates and check if they can trade their old for the newer production dates.

I also wonder if the patriot software will be made aware of the age of each of her missiles and tasked to prioritize launching the oldest if possible.

Badeendje, 3 days ago

Anti migrant sentiment among women is probably helped by the news of the rapes. Just this week the 12 year old was raped by other minors for being Jewish.

Badeendje, 2 days ago

Well, the people with migration backgrounds are overrepresented in crime stats, and crime is getting more violent. People just tend to ignore that the main driver for crime is lack of economic opportunity. These same people are also overrepresented in the low income bracket. Easy pret for criminals… hey wanna make 500? Just climb over that fence and get me a package from that shipping container.

• There are traumatized war refugees that cannot function normal on a good day, they get no guidance and nothing to do… and people wonder why they flip out and do crazy shit.
• There are young (adults), that get to sit in asylum centers and get to do nothing… months on end. And people wonder why they go out and do stupid shit.
• And then you have migrants that actually come to these countries to profiteer, knowing they will get kicked out so they enjoy it while it lasts.

There is plenty to be worried about with migrants of varying generations. But most of it is not solved by repression. But also not by bussing in more while wagging your finger at people worried about the crime in their neighborhood while telling them they are racist for noticing it is always dark skinned people that break in or deal drugs in their street.

My main issue with the right is usually their anti immigrant shit does not work, and actually solving the issues meana they lose their main recruitment tool. So they implement a lot of other bad laws while ignoring the issues that get them elected.

Badeendje, 3 days ago

South Korean artillery shell production goes bbbrrrr.

Also a fine chance to get some battle testing on a battalion of K9’s and maybe even a brigade of K2’s.

Badeendje, 3 days ago

In a little over 2 years the EU went from being primarily dependent on Russian gas to now slapping on sanctions.

I’ll bet China is watching this.

The EU has now started identifying which resources rely on china that we can’t live without and will also start divesting there. Russian gas crunch was a tough and expensive lesson.

Badeendje, 4 days ago

Kim should check with Armenia how it works put to be in a bilateral security treaty with Russia and you get attacked.

Badeendje, 4 days ago

Isn’t this a common thing that before summer break they collect cases and defer judgements and dump it all on the day they leave for summer break?

Badeendje, 5 days ago

What is a pilgrimage without risk and suffering.

Badeendje, 5 days ago

And the fact that there really is nothing you can add to Trump to make him look worse. People that currently still vote for him will not be dissuaded.

The danger in the US seems to be Biden keeling over dead before Trump and the crazies yelling “genocide Joe”.

Badeendje, 5 days ago

Or a MaccieD

Badeendje, 5 days ago

And Russia is able to cart in supplies by road and rail. If anything Ukraine is also showing that supply across a 100+ miles of sea will be nearly impossible. The navy does not have to control the waters, they just need to deny the Chinese access to it and that is much easier.

Badeendje, 5 days ago

And the Russians where also very vocal about not invading Ukraine right up to the moment that they did. So what I’m trying to say is “talk is cheap”.

Badeendje, 6 days ago

Exactly. The R’s have shown how this works plenty of times. And more importantly the public has a right to know. So yeah. And you can subpoena the judge, and if he does not want to show his tax returns, subpoena the IRS. The justice can either come and provide context, or we do it for you.

Badeendje, 6 days ago

Rofl

Badeendje, 7 days ago

12 hours a day, 7 days a week. Or 6x14.

Badeendje, 8 days ago

If there is nothing wrong then the investigation will show this. But the claims argue that they use their undisputed market dominance (your words) to do stuff that is anti competitive.

The fact there are alternatives does not matter if the dominant player abuses their position to stiffle competition.

A prosecutor has to make their case, Valve gets to rebuke the claims.

I’d say, welcome investigation into large corporations. There should be more. The fact that mega corps like the Petro industry where and still are not properly monitored is bad for everyone. A corporation is not a human being, and it’s feelings cannot be hurt, but it can do a lot of bad things.

If it turns out there is Merrit to the claims, it is good for everyone. Why the urge to defend a multi billion dollar company? I’m not saying everyone should dust off the pitchforks either. Let the law do its thing.

Badeendje, 8 days ago

One leads to the other.

Badeendje, 8 days ago

For sure there is something to be said for not “moving fast and breaking stuff”

I think the incremental improvements have been good on steam. They move slow, but there is development. I especially liked when they added the additional user tags.

That said, if Valve does indeed use their dominance to stiffle competition it needs to stop, regardless of the other things.

Badeendje, 8 days ago

Everyone is very focussed on the 30pct. But there are multiple points in the claim. Price clauses and such.

Badeendje, 8 days ago

Me2… I mostly buy outside steam. But that is not the issue at hand. If a dominant company is thought to abuse their position, it should be investigated.

And over the last years several indie devs have said there are some narly contract clauses.

Badeendje, 8 days ago

Why the rabid defense of a multi billion dollar company. Relax, breathe, let their highly paid lawyers deal with it.

And the 30% is only a part of the charges. Here is my response from a few days ago: lemmy.world/comment/10610894

Badeendje, 8 days ago

lemmy.world/comment/10610894

The issues at hand:

1. Price parity obligation clauses: We say that Valve Corporation imposes price parity clauses that restrict and prevent game developers from offering better prices on PC-games on rival platforms, limiting consumer choice and harming competition.

This seems to be common practice, but is anti competitive. If another platform would charge 20 instead of 30 pct and the publisher would give half this discount to the customers this would be against these clauses. Good that these are looked at.

2. Tying: We say that the restrictions Valve Corporation imposes, that mean the add-on content for games must also be purchased from Steam, restricts competition in the market.

And vice versa, steam dlc does not work with games on epic. Interesting case here too.

3. Excessive pricing: We argue that Valve Corporation has imposed an excessive commission, of up to 30%, charged to publishers, that resulted in inflated prices on its Steam platform.

The 30% market standard seems to be under fire across the board, so if there is a solid case to be made that this is excessive, I’m glad the watchdog is trying to make it.

In all good that this is investigated, cause just paying for another yaght or house for Gabe is not nessecary.

Badeendje, 8 days ago

Oh don’t get me wrong, I’m plenty sceptical about the whole ordeal. I just argue mega corps should be audited when there is even a wiff of impropriety.

And I don’t understand the rabid defence of a corp like valve. Just look at the downvotes and the users defending valve. As if it’s their sports team.

And even sports teams move to another city if the money there is better.

Badeendje, 7 days ago

I’m sorry but do you hear yourself? A multi billion dollar company is not incentivised? To what? Follow the law? Tying is not allowed… The fact it’s hard should not be a factor. It’s also not as if they have not had some time to fix this issue already. But as you write, there is no profit in it (following the law).

But this is the essence. It is not profitable to follow some laws, and if a company chooses to not follow it. They have been told by their lawyers this is a potential liability many times. Then you bring down the hammer.

Badeendje, 6 days ago

Well the question is indeed why can’t I buy my DLC on epic if I purchased the game on steam. If the price on epic is better at the moment I want to buy. The answer is because these things are tied to the purchase on the platform.

Indeed some publishers work around this by having their own back end/ launcher etc. but then still have you ever seen anyplace it is possible to buy the game on steam and then buy dlc on epic or GOG? I can’t think of any. Only option then it buy directly from the publishers launcher.

And the fact this is hard to solve… it is going on for over a decade and hundreds of millions of profits where made by publishers, valve and other storefronts.

Badeendje, 9 days ago

There ain’t no enemies like CSTO friends.

Badeendje, 10 days ago

In the article

1. Price parity obligation clauses: We say that Valve Corporation imposes price parity clauses that restrict and prevent game developers from offering better prices on PC-games on rival platforms, limiting consumer choice and harming competition.

This seems to be common practice, but is anti competitive. If another platform would charge 20 instead of 30 pct and the publisher would give half this discount to the customers this would be against these clauses. Good that these are looked at.

2. Tying: We say that the restrictions Valve Corporation imposes, that mean the add-on content for games must also be purchased from Steam, restricts competition in the market.

And vice versa, steam dlc does not work with games on epic. Interesting case here too.

3. Excessive pricing: We argue that Valve Corporation has imposed an excessive commission, of up to 30%, charged to publishers, that resulted in inflated prices on its Steam platform.

The 30% market standard seems to be under fire across the board, so if there is a solid case to be made that this is excessive, I’m glad the watchdog is trying to make it.

In all good that this is investigated, cause just paying for another yaght or house for Gabe is not nessecary.

Badeendje, 10 days ago

Sure it has been brought up. But that’s why these investigations are good. If it’s true, slap em with a fine, if it’s not… valve can make a victory lap.

Badeendje, 11 days ago

But that’s the job of law enforcement. A law is created by the legislative branch and then enforced by the FBI or such. If they find evidence of a crime it is then prosecuted by separate people.

Badeendje, 10 days ago

Like everything else about the west, NATO was also presented as just a paper tiger and not even worth the paper of the founding document. The cynical way Russians view the world is through their own exceptionalism, and if we can’t do it… noone can. Like the Americans… but then with less value on human life and dignity.

And if you repeat lies long enough you start believing them yourself. Now it turns put CSTO is just the Russian goon squad cosplaying as NATO.

Although I dont think anyone knows what would happen if 2 NATO countries would end up in an open war.

Badeendje, 10 days ago

True, they where till 99. Hence the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan should have brought down the Cato hammer. And when it does not I can imagine that staying is not an option.

Badeendje, 12 days ago

Yeah… fuck those German car makers with their safe reliable vehicles.

Badeendje, 12 days ago

Well looking at their income per sector commercial is the largest. And they probably split r&d across these sectors. So losing civil aviation probably would mean they can be less competitive as defense contractors.

Badeendje, 12 days ago

And found liable, so now families of victims of the group can also litigate.

Money won’t bring back loved ones, but making this as painfully as possible means that these practices will diminish.

That said, it hopefully opens the doors for actual criminal investigation to throw in jail those responsible.

Badeendje, 12 days ago

Or, Don’t let their government funded cheap vehicles kill of your own industry only to price gauge you once they destroyed the competition.

And no, hybrid is not the plan. The aim is full electric in Europe… per law.

Badeendje, 12 days ago

No the European car makers need to make 15 and 20k EVs for sure. But letting your industrial base be atrofied by government funded companies worked well for out pharma industry… or our solar panel industry.or… should I go on?

Dependence on china for anything is asking for trouble.

Badeendje, 12 days ago

The issue is with the Chinese owned and operated companies. Not Tesla. Tesla sucks for many other reasons.

Badeendje, 12 days ago

Sure… we need Evs at half the price point we see currently. The luxury SUV is a cash cow for the carmakers so there is their focus currently.

The cash subsidies was first unlimited, now in the Netherlands it is capped at cars of 50k. Next stage it will be capped at 20k I believe.

The market is being transformed from expensive to cheap. I’m confident we will get there.

And the BYD proposition looks awesome. So I hope something is done. But letting chinese subsidied cars wreak unfeathered havoc should also not be the way to go. Just like string free protection of the European car makers is also not the way to go.

Badeendje, 13 days ago

Noone cares. GDP is a metric that helps noone.

Badeendje, 13 days ago

Who knew that completely rebuilding a capability after having dismantled it almost e tirely would be so difficult.

Badeendje, 14 days ago

Scalp/storm shadow or HARM probably.

Badeendje, 13 days ago

Jdam er and aasm primarily use gps for targeting. And have been rendered pretty much useless under Russias constant gps jamming. But if there was a window I bet they’ll use anything they can.

Badeendje, 14 days ago

It’s a bold strategy, let’s see if it pans out.

Badeendje, 16 days ago

How is the quality of life now? When we played we had stuck palls the entire time in our base. And base building more interesting now?

Badeendje, 16 days ago

Sorry… I was more asking in general. I watched the trailer… some cool looking stuff in there.

Badeendje, 16 days ago

That is some revisionist shit right there.

• Noone joked about the pending invasion, actually people took it deadly serious while Russia spent all their efforts promising everyone it was a nothing burger.
• Then post invasion everyone feared Russia would roll up Ukraine in 2 days, and large supplies of simple AT weapons where rushed in to give Ukraine a fighting chance.
• Then indeed everyone laughed at the miles long convoy stuck on the roads to Kiev due to fuel supply issues and indeed the farmers that took the abandoned vehicles all over Ukraine.

Now 2 years down the line all we have is hopes for Ukraine, dark humor and vitriol for the Russian military.

And that it won’t help Ukraine is false. It helps by:

• Keeping the conflict in the active consciousness, these communities help fundraise and more.
• Jokes keep up spirits (also ukranians see these jokes and memes).
• Plus it’s fun.

So, I respectfully would like to tell you, you’re wrong.