Oh, I’m fully aware it sucks, just not sure why that person is defending it

I’ve literally never seen any person argue that forced arbitration is a good thing for consumers…

It’s always corporations

It’s usually a pretty hard sell of “make the company you work at shittier to make more money”, especially since most of the employees probably know gabe personally (valve has less than 400 employees) and likely approve of his leadership.

And most of the ones with the high percent have been there since the beginning, probably close to Gabe’s age, looking towards retirement. They make good money, but retirement is expensive.

I mean. That link from this year said Microsoft was thinking 16 billion. 1% of that is 160 million.

Or they may die and their kids see dollar signs when a vote comes up

Steam is great now, it’s not debatable. But its naive to expect it indefinitely. 10 years, 20 years from now? It wouldn’t be surprising if Valve was a lot shittier than it is today

It won’t last forever

Usually it’s forced arbitration, you can’t sue

It really favors the company. Steam is explicitly saying no arbitration which levels the playing field.

Arbitration doesn’t save money. You still need lawyers.

What’s bigger is this explicitly says it allows class actions. Something that most prevent and require individual arbitration, consumers are better off when they can pool resources for lawyers against a giant corporation, especially since most would require an upfront payment for a large class action.

Not sure, apparently the 25% figure is really new, Wikipedia is sourcing something from 2017 that says he has 50+.

This is the most up to date I can find that attributes a source

https://www.guru3d.com/story/microsoft-reportedly-readies-billion-bid-to-acquire-valve-steam/

Insights from Dior, a prominent figure in the Counter-Strike community, reveal that Gabe Newell owns less than 25% of Valve. This suggests that a significant portion of Newell’s wealth is tied to his equity in the company. The decision to sell Valve wouldn’t rest solely with Newell; numerous employees who likely hold stock options could also have a say through a voting process if an offer were made.

So it sounds like a lot was given to employees from the beginning, which track with Gabe.

Then he may have cashed out a couple times, but I doubt that when he could just do the billionaire thing where he borrows against his stock counting on the value increasing enough to pay off the last with a new?

But then again Gabe is different and might not do that out of principle.

It’s not publicly traded, so I guess we don’t really know unless Valve discloses who owns what. Which I just realized is pretty concerning on its own.

Yeah, but Gabe is down to 25% ownership.

He could be pushed out at anytime. It’s this weird situation where if a serious challenger to Steam really takes off, the 75% may demand Steam gets shittier to make more money.

But Gabe won’t last forever anyways, who knows what will happen without him. Which means people do want some kind of challenger to prevent a monopoly, but that just makes the other scenario more likely

Steam is already a huge outlier

We could be at the end of Bernie’s second term right now if Hillary hadn’t staged a hostile takeover of the DNC during the primary.

trump would have been nothing more than a dated joke from TV reruns, Covid would have been handled appropriately, pretty much everyone would be measurably better off.

Dont forget what the moderate branch stole from us, they’re still the ones running shit. That’s not just an expression, literally the same people from back then are still running the DNC and in the current administration, they’re literally still the ones running shit.

Hondurans arrested in L.A., San Fransisco, Portland, Seattle. That’s the exact definition of a “pipeline”.

No. That is kind of the definition of racism tho, assuming that they’re all connected because they came from the same South American country.

You do know where Honduras is compared to Portland, right?

Yes, it’s in South America …

But it’s kind of racist to say a Honduran national can only smuggle drugs from their home country.

They’re bringing the drugs up I-5 which means crossing the border.

Maybe. But for some reason you’re having difficulty providing any kind of source that actually backs that up

On the third attempt, you’ve completely thrown Portland out of the discussion.

Only one of those mention coming thru the Southern border, and that just says they’re investigating if it comes thru Mexico…

Your sources aren’t backing up your claim, just that a single digit number of people from Honduras were caught with Fentanyl in Oregon.

Like. Why smuggle it to South America to smuggle to Oregon?

Why not straight to Oregon?

That link just says he fled there, not that he was smuggling from there they the Southern border…

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/25/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news#un-cease-fire-resolution-gaza-israel

Took like two seconds to find an example of Israel not stopping one of their genocides when the UNSC told them to stop…

Tldr:

Mayor is a Trumper against these boxes.

As soon as it was sat outside and before it could be fastened to the ground and unlocked, the mayor stole it and put it inside because “someone else might have stolen it”…

And is now refusing to let it be moved back and secured to the ground, because that ruins his excuse for stealing it

Remember when Joe Biden said “no one is above the law”?

It’s against US and international law to supply munitions for a genocide, and while it will never happen; Joe confessing to his crimes and resigning would blow all the “both sides are the same” arguments straight out of the water.

But he won’t.

Both sides aren’t the same. Except they do both think they’re above the law, and that the other “team” shouldn’t also be above the law.

I’m thankful to Bernie and the Squad for being a few rational voices insisting everyone should follow the law and not just people who disagree with them.

Charlie Brown has commented that this time he is 100% confident Lucy won’t yank the football away for the millionth straight time…

He’s better then Rudy Ghoulani, but I’m glad to see the shittiest person to hold that office isn’t the bare minimum a moderate has to beat to be above the law.

The lawmakers pointed out that only an arms embargo to Israel — as has been ordered by international and domestic law — can result in the de-escalation of tensions that the Biden administration has claimed that it supports.

It’s fucking insane that Dem leadership is acting the same with Biden that Republicans did with trump.

5 to 1 odds a foreign government buys it and has him keep running it.

He is and he’s been saying it for half a century…

But to truly believe Israel is the good guys working towards peace in 2024 is completely illogical and in direct opposition to every piece of intelligence that isn’t coming from Israel.

And he does seem to truly believe it, I don’t think he’s just lying to everyone. It’s no different than an elderly relative going hard trump, he’s being taken advantage of by a foreign government.

It’s not an excuse, and it’s definitely not a reason to let him keep doing this shit, but it’s important to understand why people do horrible shit like support a genocide.

Just write him off as a horrible monster and it’s hard to prevent it from happening again. That’s a big part of why we’re still fighting fascists all over the planet. It’s not enough to say they’re monsters, we need to understand the why so we can stop it from happening again

Biden is literally being taken advantage of by Israel at this point due to his age, or he’s flat out lying to everyone about what he thinks is happening.

Like, his continually denial of reality at this point doesn’t have any other explanation

He believes it and age isn’t just why he couldn’t be the candidate, it’s why he shouldn’t be president right now.

Or he knows that when people criticize him, people and the media will label them trump supporters for having standards higher than “not trump”. Which I’ll never understand but still happens online often.

Either way, Biden is faciliting a genocide.