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That’s a whole lot of distraction from the point, mate. If you found out that a casino was allowing children to gamble on their property, would you not want to shut down that casino?

Yes, the parents shouldn’t be allowing the kids to gamble. But parents don’t always “allow” their kids to do the things they do in the first place. You know damn well you did things as a child that you weren’t “allowed” to do, things that you were told specifically not to do. You know that you successfully hid things from your parents, but expect other parents to find everything? Most of this happens completely under the parents’ radar.

Addicts steal, and that’s no different for children, either. Often they’ll take their parent’s credit card in hopes that the charge goes unnoticed, or they’ll obfuscate the charge by spending money on another currency that gets converted after the fact to one used for lootboxes.

There are even worse things that an addict will do for money. Some may resort to scams; sometimes they’ll set up catfish social media profiles to bait gooners into paying them gobs of money for fake pictures. Some may resort to worse behavior; I’ve seen instructional TikTok videos for children to lure adults onto Roblox for sexual acts, to be paid in Robux, which can then easily be converted into just about any other game’s currency. Literal child prostitution.

But sure. Let’s blame the parents, instead of the billionaire’s child casino.

“Elites” don’t get laid off. Who are you even talking about right now?

You’re right, there’s absolutely nothing to be concerned about when entire communities lose their income while a small handful of elites grow in power. It definitely doesn’t affect me if I’m not one of those workers, right? Surely the entire thing just stops right there and doesn’t cause any damage to the economy, right? That’s what our great, infallible unemployment benefits in this country are for, right?

Right?

pc is a niche. a shrinking one at that.

Absolutely not. PC is growing, and continues to grow year after year. Consoles are on a slight decline, but PC has never really stopped growing.

You’re really gonna need to start citing some sources at this point.

Now, I’m willing to change my view if there’s ever a situation in which Gabe Newall is intentionally trying to avoid paying taxes, but that hasn’t happened yet.

What about exploiting child gambling? Valve’s value, and thusly Gabe’s value, skyrocketed after introducing lootboxes to TF2, CSGO, DOTA2, etc. He can be as charitable as he fucking wants, but he still defends lootboxes while taking little to no efforts to ensure that children aren’t gambling on his platform. He’s had… how many years to fix this problem now? Too many. He’s not fixed the problem, and continues to reap the rewards in the meantime.

As far as I’m concerned, he’s just as much of a piece of shit as any other billionaire. The only difference is that he makes toys that a lot of us really, really like; toys that we apparently like so much so that we’re willing to handwave child gambling as long as it doesn’t get in the way of making it moderately convenient to download DRM-infested games.

they’ve never personally fucked me over. Until they do, I will continue to buy their shit

This mindset, while popularly-held, is precisely the reason Valve has such a monopolistic status in the first place.

First of all, I trust Ubi and WB way less than valve.

You shouldn’t trust any of them. No billionaire has your best interests at heart. Even Gabe.

GOG isn’t really competing in the same market as Steam.

Better start building the Blackwall.

Maybe because they keep happening?

Why do I feel like we could trace the IP of the comment back to Gabe’s yacht?

He needs to be eaten.

Haven’t they already been in the US for a while now? I recall hearing about an infestation in Texas some time ago.

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So why couldn’t one of the passengers have hopped into the driver seat and pressed the brake?

No reason at all. If you touch the wheel or pedals, it automatically disengages the automatic driving.

Maybe we should have kill switches inside these things.

There is a screen on the back of the front seats, with buttons to stop/pullover and contact support.

All the safety options were there, but instead of using any of them he took out his phone to record video of not a whole lot happening. Because that’s what you do when you really fear for your life, after all.

The idea is that you can do both manual and automated driving with one vehicle.

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The article links to another source, but the video they show doesn’t have the elements the passenger describes, like speeding through a construction zone or evading police. All you see in the video is the car moving less than 1 MPH while trying to merge through a clusterfuck of traffic. Is there a longer version of the video somewhere? Because so far, it sounds fishy. Especially with claims from Tesla workers, of all people, commenting on it.

EDIT: The guy’s LinkedIn profile starts with: “As a Content Creator & Social Media Specialist, I collaborate with various stakeholders within institutions to create paid and organic content for social media. I support and drive the overall efforts and strategic visions by engaging in multi-disciplinary cross-functional teams (strategists, marketers, copywriters, etc.).” The man is literally a professional bullshitter. I’m not buying it.

I can believe that the Waymo could’ve gotten stuck in a complicated merge, but I don’t believe for even a second that it would flee from police or speed through construction. I used to work on these cars, and it was nearly impossible to get them to drive through construction zones at even 5 MPH, let alone at highway speeds. On top of that, lights and sirens behind the car will trigger a pullover.

This sounds like somebody who got stuck in traffic and got annoyed, and wanted to put their name on some headlines.

Yes, but he’s rich enough that saying “no” was always an option for him. Their goals were aligned in this. Elon chose this outcome.

He should give his boss a real piece of his mind, then.