There's an interview with Vijay Prashad that comes to largely the same conclusion about superhero movies.
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UNRWA is Hamas is a credible but unverifiable accusation? What's next? Bibi is Hamas?
Don't forget how ableist they get if you disagree with them.
This is just a gamer (who btw farms montages in low rated btb games) ranting about Trueskill2 based on an out of context paragraph that in context with the rest of the model of skill they are trying to approximate, your teammates' skill doesn't really affect your change to win/predicted stats in a given match.
If you want, they have talked about the actual algorithm that then attempts to match players based on their rating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FoG4Jtpebs
It biases towards matches it thinks will be a fair fight between both teams with bounds on the max skill diff between the best and worst players between both teams. And they adjust these bounds with player population throughout the day so you can get into matches quickly. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/truematch/
I know someone whose kid became really irritable and started having aggressive episodes after a head injury. Insurance doesn't think an MRI is medically relevant.
It makes me so mad when anglos try to gaslight the success of obamacare and how many millions of additional people are "covered" by it.
I don't even know who this article is for. My boss who subscribes and reads this crap didn't give me a raise, I didn't receive one, and all the big bourgeois did layoffs. Who tf is getting paid more yoy that they need to gaslight and mald over?
Powell explicitly stated last year unemployment was too low. Interest rate raises and layoffs have rebuilt the reserve army of labor specifically to suppress your ability to move jobs and seek higher wages, even in the labor aristocrat jobs.
I think growth is tapped out. Most companies have turned purely to rent seeking behavior and chasing down pennies. Eg the Netflix account sharing changes, Adobe licensing, YouTube moving to freemium model, Twitch ad spam, airline "upgrades". This isn't behavior you engage in unless your monopoly is tapped out.
Boss makes a billion, I make a buck. That's why I don't give a fuck.
Do they actually keep up with cost of living tho?
The thing I think people don't think about is it's really expensive to change your manufacturing process. The transition overseas isn't just about labor costs, but because you are rebuilding the factory anyways it's a chance to switch over to a cheaper manufacturing method. You get what you pay for and cheaper methods tend to have cut corners. You can buy high end stuff from China, it's not like iphones are made there or anything..
There's a reactionary QBC youtuber, AvE who mostly disassembles power tools and examines the quality of construction, components, and manufacturing methods. He has a teardown of a "Juciero" the $1000 juicer with DRM which is how I found him. He whines about "Chinesium" in the Chinese manufactured tool brands but there's other "American made" tools on his channel using similar lower-end manufacturing techniques or cutting similar corners.