PanoptiDon

If it's not on Steam, I don't even consider it.

I'm the same, but I'm dreading the day if steam stops being the savior of gaming.

Yet lobbyists exist. Every single government official is sponsored by companies via super PACs

Correct, but the other ones sucked

I don't know if this helps, but I didn't meet my wife until I was in my forties. You have time.

My wife and I both quit cold turkey, independently of one another before we met. It was like we discontinued a hobby our ADHD brains got bored with.

AI companies*

Deleting it all together is better.

You lost me at Chinese startup

I feel like that just makes the customers pick up the bill. They need to go after CEO income/bonuses

Reminds me of Beethoven writing Für Elise for sometime he loved, and when he was rejected, the music was finished in such a way that she could not play it.

To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. "Can I interest you in the chicken?" she asks. "Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it? To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.

David Sedaris