Crazily, it plays better on the Steam Deck on than on many gaming PCs. Valve did some special optimizations for it specifically in the translation layer. Since all Steam Decks have the same hardware, they were also able to ship out precompiled shaders, avoiding all shader compilation related hitches.
Curious what data have you seen that shows that masks have decreased Covid transmission? When you compare states with and without mask mandates it shows it's made little to no difference.
I didn't know whether studies had shown them effective or not, so I quickly googled "do mask mandates work study" and pursued the first handful of results.
The first result (for me) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... -- an observational study from June'21, shows what appears to be a 14% reduction in transmission, a 13% reduction in deaths, and a 7% reduction in hospitalization.
The second result https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014564118 -- seems to be an epidemiological meta analysis from Jan'21. It cites a 70% reduction in infection for those that always wore surgical masks.
Fourth: https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01072 -- this one from Feb'22 compares 414 US counties both with and without mask mandates. Oddly, showed that the benefits were greatest to Republican counties that imposed mandates, where a 25% reduction was found in masked over similar unmasked counties.
That isn't even remotely close to being true. In fact we know that each dollar the government spends usually generates income somewhere else down the line.
> In fact we know that each dollar the government spends usually generates income somewhere else down the line.
That's kind of a non-sequitor; downstream income has nothing to do with the cost of the good. Somebody could quadruple the price of steel, but people down the line will still make income.
Student loans is a great example here. Government comes in, gives everyone financing, and the price of college just so happens to rise to the level of financing the government will offer.
I don't see a way this ends well. If they offer it to everyone, housing prices simply factor that in. If they only offer it to the very poor, it just collapses two existing housing brackets into one (the very poor can spend like they're only kind of poor, making very poor cease to exist as a category and lumping the existing "very poor" housing into the "kind of poor" category).
We need more housing or lower demand. That's the solution. Anything else is just shuffling around hardships.
1. This presumes Spotify will still be in business in the next 10, 30, 50+ years.
2. This presumes 100% of the music collection is on Spotify. Personally speaking, 60%~ of the music I listen to ISN'T on Spotify.
3. This presumes music is only desired to be listened to when an available internet connection is available.
Having to shuffle my media collections around whenever a third party went out of business or pivoted was such a massive headache that it was the inspiration for just managing my own media collections locally.
This is just my own personal perspective on the matter but one could do that until the Spotify domain is gone. The mp3's will remain provided they have a habit of keeping their software backed up. I have CD's, DVD's and music files going back as far as such things existed and no internet connection is required for any of it.
Do you believe that kids that do online learning never leave their home or have any friends? That's a pretty ignorant view. There are tons of opportunities for kids to have positive social interactions with peers as well as younger and older children, as well as adults. Being forced to interact with a handful of kids around their age in a public school is not a great way to socializing.
My kids are all homeschooled, including parent taught as well as online education, and have friends of different ages with caring parents that are all very involved. They have outside activities including, music, PE, play time with friends at the park, zoo trips, museums etc.
What is misinformation and who gets to decide? At one point we were told the covid vaccines worked and you wouldn't need to worry about getting covid. If you disagreed it was "disinformation". We now know that that is not true. I'd prefer to use my own brain to decide for myself.
At this point I assume anyone that wants my SSN, etc. has easy access to it. I did some work for a govt. agency and they ended up having a breach that included all my personal details including fingerprints. I use a credit monitoring service (paid for by them) and keep an eye on it.
All of Trump's policies were inflationary. Tax cuts, trade war with China, limiting immigration and threatening to leave NATO.
The only good thing would be that OPEC+ would almost certainly be producing more oil since Saudi Arabia much prefers Trump. They even recently invested $2 billion dollars in his son in laws fledgling investment fund.
Trump pressuring the Fed to keep interest rates low is exactly why we are in this mess in the first place. Had he done the responsible thing and allowed the Fed to raise rates while the economy was hot, then we would have had more wiggle room when covid hit.
If you truly think Trump could resolve this issue, then please explain exactly what he would do to resolve it. I hate to break it to you, but more liberal tears are not a solution to higher inflation.
Oh, you mean a symbolic lowering at the end of term to get votes? Yes that happened. But rates were not zero at any other time during that term. One can speculate that they would have gone right up again had the election decided differently.
The CARES Act was signed by Trump and was $2.2 trillion. The American Rescue Plan was signed by Biden and was $1.9 trillion. And yet you blame Biden?
Meanwhile the current Fed chair, a Trump nominee, has way more control over inflation and was responsible for raising interest rates way too late. And yet you blame Biden?
I am still waiting on an answer as to what exactly Trump would do to curb inflation if he were in office. As far as I understand, wishful thinking and partisanship does not impact wheat prices.
American Rescue Plan may not have been necessary. Biden became president when vaccine rollout was already happening; we were entering a new pandemic phase of hope and recovery. I fully blame ARP for inflation being 8% and not 5%.
