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Cake day: January 3rd, 2026

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  • My dude. At over 4% market share companies are incentivised to buy out competition and become monopolies because it’s more profitable.

    No one would be able to scale to serve global demand in any way, shape, or form

    Yes. Perfect. Because any and all global companies so far are evil and anti-consumer. Disagree? Name 3.

    The problem isn’t market share, it’s enforced market share. Anti-competitive practices. Lobbying. Buying out competition

    So yeah, I’m glad we agree, that any company at 4% market share must be stopped from growing, because otherwise all of that happens.


  • Any business that has over 4% market rate should be forcibly split.

    Steam is not FORCED to compete and innovate or go under, they do that at the whim of the owner. Who can change his mind. Or die, and the company will be inherited by whomever and sloppify.

    Heck, anyone shilling that Steam is a good guy - ffs, you do not own the games you bought.

    (Why 4%? There are some old studies that at 5% it brings more profit to get rid of the competition, below innovations are the way to get the money).


  • As a foreigner whose native tongue has gendered nouns and adjectives: we default to sir to sir-presenting people, ma’am to ma’am presenting, and "sir? ma’am? " when unsure and clarification is needed.

    I do not understand why you’d want to preemptively force gender someone by choosing a neutral/or newspeak/ form of address - to me it seems much much much worse than defaulting to asking for preference (“sir? ma’am?” option is the best - it declares you’ve noticed the interlocutor is a nb and passes the ball to them).

    If you’re looking for 1 word that would always work, I recommend embracing your inner old British Lady and calling everyone pet (petal), dear or love. :-)