Ascyron

As a casual off-and-on player of this game for at least 19 years, I'm not opposed to this battle pass. It replaces the "must play 7-days-a-week to get max rewards" task system with one that gives you freedom to play when and how you want.

Too early for me to give an informed opinion on whether the rewards of the pass are worthwhile, but I'm a fan of the intent behind it at least!

Holy shit I just read it and... Wow. I am never, ever, ever in my life buying a game that Peter Molyneux has involved in.

Link for the curious: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/peter-molyneux-interview-godus-reputation-kickstarter

Having not yet read the article, if the species in question aren't Bezos, Musk, Gates et al, then the report writers have missed the mark.

Exactly! If it's not already, breaking the law should be an examption to the whole concept of a limited-liability company - so you can't just shut down the company and move on to another.

Wouldn't it be nice if fines were based on the past/present/potential revenue (not profit) from the location where the offending took place?

Dig a trench on an archaeological site without permissin? Pay the full amount your business case said you might ever receive from the work you were making the trench for.

Drink drive? Instantly lose the vehicle you were driving.

Knowingly breaking the law should have extra penalties, I.e. corporate death penalties should be commonplace for those who knowingly break the law.

I mean, cuntdown still found the money for a $400,000,000 rebranding... Were their profits down by $400,000,000 or are they spending hundreds of millions on a vanity exercise with a side benefit of good PR?

Also, reminder that they all made record profits over the pandemic and "slightly less than the most ever but still well above traditional levels" isn't a fair amount of profit for them to make.

I see you have a couple of straw-men responding to you, so I'll try answer with a real world actual answer from my own lived experience.

I used to know a guy, who I'll call Dave. Dave had some major developmental disabilities, like major major ones. At the time I first met him, my country had a law similar to this one being debated here, and Dave was employed for about half of minimum wage to push a broom around a carpentry workshop. It was the first and only time in his life that he'd ever earned a wage, and there was an unsaid understanding among the crew that Dave was doing would otherwise be a couple minutes work for them. Everyone loved him because he was so happy, and always wanting to help.

Dave was so proud of being part of the team, and he kept the place incredibly tidy, tidier than I've ever seen any other tradie's workshop. (Also - it's important context that over here we have good social safety nets, so Dave didn't need the money to survive, he had government benefits and a full time carer).

Then the law was revoked - suddenly the guy owning the business had to choose between paying Dave or getting a full time qualified apprentice. So he did what he had to do.

There isn't a happy ending to this story. Health and safety meant that you couldn't have an unpaid non-worker running around a workshop, and Dave was never able to come back - even though he'd have been happy to stay unpaid just to be part of the team. And a couple years later, my work happened to take me to a small government -owned townhouse, which turned out to be Dave's. His carer recognised me, but I didn't recognise Dave. He was a sad empty shell of the person I once knew; he'd lost his purpose, his armchair literally had the cartoon-style outline of his body because he was there so often, and I was told he hadn't left the house for more than six months, even for a walk around the block.

It's possible to both protect disadvantaged workers from exploitation, while also giving inducements to businesses so that it's worth hiring people who otherwise wouldn't be hireable. We had that here! And when we lost it, Dave lost his purpose and the only part of his life that had ever given him meaning.

Ah yes, a 650k company for a company making billions.

Proprtionate to my own income, that's like $50 fine. Pathetic.

How the hell is it that the RMA has, by all accounts, been the largest single drag on construction in this country and is one of (the many) causes of the housing crisis, yet it can't even prevent literal shit being dumped in our rivers "for years"?

I despair for this country. We're fucked. I'd say bring on the election but whoever gets in, it'll be more of the same.

Every person in a leadership role at that hospital should do time for this. It's a disgrace.

I think that's because you're used to hearing dates said that way? Over here in DDMMYY-land, we often would say "20th of May, 2024" and that sounds equally sensical to me tbh

If Im reading the GitHub history right, this PR was accepted at age 3 years and 1 day? Guess the cake worked!