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  • I will tell you a trick now that may blow your mind. Xbox live gold, upgrades at a 1:1 ratio to xbox game pass ultimate. If you stack 3 years (thats the max) of xbox live gold for maybe $50 a year. And then buy 1 single month of xbox game pass ultimate once you have loaded up all your live gold. It will automatically convert all of that gold into gp ultimate. So you end up paying like $165 for 37 months of game pass ultimate.












  • I mean, in the 19th century London was the biggest city in the world, and like most cities was very progressive. If you look back now and judge from our current lens then it looks really conservative but people in the streets campaigned to end slavery, and the British government outlawed slavery across the whole empire and used their very large and impressive navy to enforce these laws. Just because some private individuals made vast profits off of selling slaves to the US doesn’t mean it was legal or even a popular thing.



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    Except the banks payed it back. The US government profited about $15bn from the bailouts. Potentially a loss if considering inflation. Also banks were forced to take the bailouts to prevent a bank run. You would almost certainly have taken your money out of CITI bank if they were the only ones receiving a bailout from the government. Which would have cost the government more in the long term.

    Large banks like JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs had already paid back the government bailout by July 2009.


  • I like your idea, but my opinion is that people hear a lot about capitalism in the news (it feels like it has been showing up more and more in mainstream discussion), and simultaneously feel like their own quality of life has been dropping recently, equate the two and reject the faux capitalism they think is ruining their lives.

    It could very well be that capitalism is ruining their life, it could be that the governments in power do not do enough to regulate for their best interests. It could be that they don’t do enough physical activity and so they feel worse.

    I would bet that most of those polled chose socialism because it’s not capitalism (which shares a name with an idea they think they dislike) but it’s not as “extreme” as communism (because that’s the bad evil thing!!!).

    It could create potential for positive socialist change like you say, but I fear that when people don’t know what they are voting for, they won’t know if it’s being implemented effectively.



  • Look, I love having a blu ray player embedded into my console. But the fact of the matter is, a lot of these consoles have decently high end blu ray players in, and they are expensive. Consider the fact that low end consoles such as Xbox Series S are probably losing money for every sale. Asking them to tack on another feature means they either increase the price of the console or lose even more money on every console sale.

    You should have the option to select a digital or a disc version of a console. Maybe even be able to pay extra to upgrade the blu ray player inside your console to a higher quality or more capable one for those who want them.