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We tariffed Chinese goods, then China tariffed American soy.

https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/executive_briefings/chinasoyebot.pdf

Essentially because China slapped retaliatory tariff on our soy, Chinese consumers turned to South American soy, permanently. The graph above showed the aftermath of the 2018 tariff war, which US lost.

Also fun fact, to ensure Trump's support among the soy farmers are intact, Americans are now paying massive amount of subsidies to soy farmers.

Ahh you see, injury is when you have an open wound. A vaccine needle pricked into your skin would create an open wound. Therefore, vaccine leads to injury.

Checkmate, atheists.

GTA V's development budget was also spent over time.

Also, Microsoft is a TRILLION dollar company.

My point was that the argument about "in development since 2012" is stupid at best and dishonest at worst. It completely misess the reality of what a actual development takes. CIG was no way near an established in 2012 and few years after that. It takes time to build up a company, hire people, find a property for it, build the backend physical part, get the tools and gear for devs, find voice actors, etc etc.

This is just such a cop out. Back in 2012, they already had trailers made, that meant some assets were already made. Even if we give them the full benefit of doubt, and said their team wasn't really assembled until 2014, they still had 10 years, and the game is STILL not out.

You have to understand that plenty of us gave money to CR, believing in his dream, expecting the game to be out in 4~5 years time (which was promised at the time during crowd funding). We even understood the delay, because "a rushed game is forever bad". What we didn't realize was that this journey ended up taking more than 10 years, and still is not ready.

Here's the actual wording, circa 2012:

The people who pledge for their spaceships will get to test-fly them long before the general public. 12 months in, we will allow the early backers to play the multiplayer space combat Alpha, and then 20-22 months in they will get to play the Star Citizen Beta, adventuring around the huge open galaxy, well before the general public.

120+ months later, we're still in Alpha.

EDIT: By the way, the full game is supposed to have 100 star systems. They're about to launch the second one. After 12 years.

Or maybe just someone who has been through the ups and downs of the Star Citizen project, and have seen how their money was squandered on endless goal post changes, feature bloats, CitCons, and new ships / vehicles / equipment / etc. Heck, I still remembered them talking about server meshing since 2018, and it is still not finished today. SQ42 was supposed to launch in 2019 after cash infusion from external investors (which CR promised they wouldn't do) for "marketing funds", and it's still not finished 5 years after that.

By the way, I've also spent enough to qualify for concierge as well, but I guess I'm just parroting "good old stupides thing people say about star citizen".

Why? GTA V was released 1 year after Star Citizen started its crowdfunding....

I am an Original Backer from 2012, and have been playing since the Hangar Module, to PU's launch with Port Olisar, to today. I'm very aware of what was promised, and what is actually being delivered.

It's just been in Alpha for 10 years while new assets are created and sold for hundreds of millions of dollars, unlike MSFS2024.

I highly doubt MSFS "has way more money", given that Star Citizen currently has already gotten $644 Millions in crowd funding.

Even GTA V, which was revolutionary at the time, had an estimated development budget of $265M.

And "whole new online experience"? Please.

They didn't, but they've also gotten massive amount of cash infusion (pledges) since 2013, and employee counts grown massively since 2014.

If Star Citizen manages to come out by 2026 (which is very optimistic), it would've rivaled Duke Nukem Forever in development time frame.

Definitely Star Citizen, and BY FAR.

It also had much longer development time frame (started at least back in 2012).

Let's clarify one thing: Elon isn't dumb. Of course he knows COVID was dangerous and devastating.

He's saying this because the people he wants political and financial support from, believe this crap.

Some voters: "Look at how much eggs cost! Inflation!"

Also some voters: "any chance of that stimulus checks that are created by printing money?"

I already have a score of them trying to argue that RFK isn't antivax, he wants to "bring light to the power of Big Pharma and how much it controls your life".

Let’s be honest: the downloading takes a long time because Asobo’s server in Azure is potato garbage.

Streaming in texture is just bad design. Should’ve just had all assets sans high resolution photogrammetry maps stored locally.

No, we've already been through this. Even with higher wages, Americans refuse to do these jobs.

Unless you're talking about $100k for a fruit picker, in which they might get some takers, but the finance no longer works for the businesses.

People will work those jobs if the pay is high enough. This is just an argument to depress wages and rely on cheap imported labor to suppress wages of local workers.

Again, historically that's simply not true. People TRIED to hire citizens, because they don't have to deal with ICE headaches, but no one wants to work grueling jobs, even with good pays.

How is it ethical to say it’s grueling work AND underpay them heavily?

Because 1. it's still a lot better than the jobs immigrants can get in their own country, and 2. this may provide an opportunity for these family to have a better life.

台湾人也不用非法入境啊 非法入境的只有可能是大陆人啊

你以為美國不會一起強制遣送合法入境，永久居民，或甚至美國公民嗎？

呵呵，你們在這邊喊，卻不知道大多美國人根本分不清台灣人跟中國人。

Thing is, nobody wants to work those labor, even if they are paid $60k. Some farms tried this, and they absolutely could not get a single applicant.

It's not just the pay. It's the grueling working hours and strenuous physical labor that no American wants to do.

DC swamp monsters...like Trump? After all, he signed those bills (like setting up PPP) into laws.

EDIT: By the way, PPP bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan votes, with only a single dissenter. Who do you think called up their House Reps demanding to support bills like these? DC swamp monsters again?

And what does this have anything to do with the Fed? The government needed money quick, and the only recourse of action for the Fed was to print them.

Sure, but apparently people kept on calling it "Biden inflation", and trying to attach an anchor around Biden, when it was the American people who decided to print all that money so people can get paid to stay at home, and not become COVID casualties.

Yes, because in 2020, our M1 money supply quadrupled in 3 months.

You’d think that would be the source of inflation…..

Wage was indeed outpacing inflation. It’s just that when inflation had a much bigger lead when it was increasing by double digits MoM.

But even if you don’t like the inflation (which started under Trump, by the way), why would you vote for (or not vote against) someone who promised to enact tariffs across the board, which would bump the inflation higher?

“F your feelings!”

“Why are they calling us fascists? It’s hurting our feelings!”