You can only issue arrest warrants for criminal contempt, meaning Trump can just issue a pardon. Civil contempt isn’t subject to the pardon power.

And the people to issue the contempt judgements against aren’t Trump and team. They need to issue them to the foot soldiers. It sounds weak, but it’s effective.

I work in in the development department of a very small municipality that’s an enclave for the mega-rich. Literally 100% of households are at least multi-millionaires. The average new house being built is about 8 million dollars. That means that when we Rey tonfine homeowners for illegal shit, it means nothing because they can just write a check if they don’t want to comply.

So we’ve recently changed tactics on code enforcement. We start by telling them to stop and issuing a citation to the owners, but when they don’t we fine the individual workers on site and if things aren’tcleaned up we start to cite them each $500/day until they start to comply. It didn’t take long until the rich assholes couldn’t find workers willing to do their bidding.

A bunch of social media accounts with their name and address may start attacking Scientology and right-wing crazies.

The plan is only for very rich and poor people to exist.

Hundreds of things that cost tens of thousands of dollars versus thousands of things that costs hundreds of thousands a year.

You’re literally saying that Steam’s server costs are orders of magnitude less than Gamestop’s retail store location costs.

I’ve worked in retail and in tech. Tech infrastructure is expensive, but they save a metric fuckton by not requiring physical space. You could fit the entirety of all of valve’s Tech infrastructure in a single building. Of course, they don’t do that - they have it distributed in data centers all over the world. But they are renting space in server racks, whereas Gamestop is renting thousands of retail spaces for 100 grand a year, another 100 grand each on staffing them, and a metric fuckton on inventory. And their cut of the sales is tiny.

People saying they charge 30% are wrong. Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo charge 30%. Gamestop’s margin on a new game is like 10-15 percent. They make more on used games, but only if they sell. Their 100% markup on used games versus what they pay doesn’t mean as much when lots of those games go unsold. At least new games can be returned to the manufacturer.

Not 10 times the employees. 10 times the nunber of stores as Valve has employees.

Let’s look at the cost of just floor-level associates. If Gamestop employees made an average of $14 an hour and they have 2 employees working and were open 11 hours a day an average (standard is 10am to 9pm - they actually work shorter hours on Sunday, but there’s also time spent opening and closing the store and extra hours on holidays other than Christmas, so 11 is low). That comes out to over 100 grand per store just in nominal hourly wages for floor associates.

Valve would have to pay 7 figures on average per employee to have the same staffing cost as Gamestop’s lowest-paid employees.

You know what it costs to run a retail store? And even in 2025 GameStop had 10 times as many retail store locations as Valve had employees.

And it’s not like retail has no tech infrastructure expenses.

30% makes sense for a physical store with high overhead, inventory, staffing, and other expenses.

Valve could take a 5% cut and still make a ton more than a retail store for the same product.

I’m not sure where I stand there. Steam is a great platform, but for purely capitalistic reasons. The only reason they aren’t as bad as other platforms is because they’re privately-owned and take the long view because they don’t have to worry about the day-to-day fluctuations on stock value.

Gabe isn’t your friend. He’s a billionaire yacht-collector who makes the vast majority of his money by taking a massive cut from other company’s products because of their virtual monopoly that exists because they launched an online marketplace in 2004.

Just throw hard enough to trigger fusion reaction then.

It’s as if extreme price increases causes by tarrifs, loss of migrant workers, and now memory/storage shortages combined with and devaluation of the dollar drive inflation and the stock market nominally goes up.

I suppose we could make Flock feeds into porn sites…

I used to follow them back in the 90s. The lead singer then left due to drug and alcohol problems.

That’s Capitalism, baby!

Their most-recent lead singer, formerly of DC Talk, turned out to be a super rapey POS.

Universal really is the worst on that.

Disney didn’t charge extra for fast-pass last time I went there. Anyone could schedule their rides on an app so they didn’t have to wait in long lines. The only shitty thing there was that they used to make you schedule day-of, and when they changed to letting you schedule months in advance it meant that when I went on a trip with like a week’s notice all the reservations were booked.

He actually has raped girls and women both.

And I’m absolutely not defending him. I’m saying that it doesn’t make sense to go after the publication for not calling her a teenager by providing a sentence quote that clearly and directly says that she was a young teen when he forced her to give him oral sex.

Focus your anger on the rapists, not a sentence you can’t be assed to parse out.

As opposed to “forced a a teenager to have oral sex with him when washed was 30 years younger?”

It literally specifies that she was a teenager when the crime occurred in the same sentence you’re criticizing.

She’s a woman now, and was when the interviews occurred over 30 years after the sexual assaults.

The woman was sexually assaulted when she was in her early teens.

It’s Austin. The traffic is so shitty you can’t go fast enough to get in a wreck most of the time.

I live in the area, and can confirm anecdotally that the Teslas are bad drivers and the Waymos generally are excellent.