That's great for the 80%. It doesn't help the 10-15% where a road trip becomes significantly longer, or when you don't have access to home charging on vacation or a weekend trip. I find a way to work around a once or twice a year event that's not great for an EV, but I can't justify a car that doesn't work for me once or twice per month.

Clearly he's just covering for the mechanic that fucked up a multi billion dollar aircraft twice. He's just a really good guy.

Could they make it worse?

The price is definitely the bigger issue for EVs, but even then they definitely need to either roughly double range or halve charging time from 20% to 80%. Right now, they don't quite cover enough of users needs, especially at the price. I need a vehicle that covers 90-95% of my use cases, and EVs are sitting closer to 80%.

Gamers complain all the time. I also don't really have sympathy for billionaire publishers complaining about the one company not actively fucking consumers.

There's still choices, you can buy from the Microsoft store, or publisher stores like origin or Uplay. Epic is a direct competitor, GOG is in a subset of the market like itch.io. Amazon sells PC games. There's several streaming options as well.

PC gaming is a far more competitive market than your grocery store.

This has nothing to do with keys. This would be like Sony listing a basic PlayStation on their website that was $100 cheaper than other stores and Walmart threatening to remove PlayStation from their stores. This is about Steam (like many retailers) ensuring that they aren't being undercut by other retailers.

This isn't about steam keys, it's about a most favored nation clause. It's a fairly common clause when selling across multiple platforms. It can be considered anticompetitive in some cases. It's also pretty standard in retail agreements. It's why name brand products are generally the same price everywhere.

The same thing would happen if Walmart found Sony was selling PlayStations cheaper on their website than in store.

Dave Ramsey is an asshole person, but he is one of the few people out there giving pretty good advice to people who really need it. Not so much the finical part (that's generally mediocre), but the emotional part that drives a lot of these decisions. He's one of the few voices that's out their telling people with hundreds of thousands in debt with 2+ kids making $80k that they don't have to take care of their 60+ year old parents that never saved and feel like they should be able to retire. He tells people that experience massive trauma and loss that it's ok to take time to process and pause major financial decisions while they process that grief.

Pregnancy is a protected class though, it's going to be an uphill battle to say it's premarital sex, when the evidence of that is the pregnancy.

I don't really know Germany specific law but here's some things to consider.

• remote is worth at least 3k in salary over a hybrid or in person role.
• switching jobs is the best leverage you have for an increased salary as it affects future raises as well.
• startups tend to have increased overtime expectations.
• startups have an increased likelihood you are involuntarily looking for a job in 3-5 years, it's much easier to find a job when you already have one.
• startups tend to offer stock as part of compensation, this is basically a lottery ticket, but you need to understand how it works if you're planning on working at one.
• once you are tired of the bullshit at a place it's time to move on to different bullshit that you aren't tired of yet. There isn't a perfect job.
• going back can be an option, sometimes it works out better.

At a distance they sound communist, but the rigid caste system and ruling class make it very authoritarian.