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Mass Effect players know and expect that players will have their own version of the main character with different genders. Nobody has that expectation about the Legend of Zelda.

Why is that? Males have poor taste in role models?

An X is also a commonly accepted way to select a checkbox though. The only sure way to indicate a checkbox as not selected is to leave it empty. That's the true opposite, and actually does work.

Humans are complacent and humans are risk-averse. Increasing reward and decreasing risk play to different aspects of human nature.

If a company wants to pay them less, they can find a way.

Companies get cheap labor and foreign workers get great opportunities. Protectionism may appear to help local workers in the short term but it will damage the entire country in the long term.

Sure, but my point was that in the meantime, payments aren't actually higher, which is what was originally asserted. IOW, the average citizen such as myself isn't materially affected by this ballooning debt.

But even eliminating the wars, spending is higher than revenue. And historically, we can see that the government does not finance its spending with revenue, it does so with borrowing, and it pays back its loans with more borrowing. Lower spending does not reduce taxes, nor does increased spending raise them. To say otherwise is to ignore the facts.

If you believe that the US government determines the tax rate based on anything remotely related to the amount that it spends, I just don't know what to say to you. Did your taxes really increase by 11% when the wars started?

Yes, who wouldn't count aspergillosis as an upside of taxis? If I don't have enough fever and lung bleeding, I'm just not happy.

The wars we are currently in have not affected me one bit, except perhaps by adjusting prices for various goods by slim amounts that I can afford to ignore. Most people are like me. Saying that wars will affect all of us and our children as well is a huge exaggeration (unless you actually believe the government will attempt to pay down the national debt, which is just preposterous). It doesn't affect most people in any noticeable way, which is verified by how most people don't care.

How is promoting the Uber model better for drivers, if it forces them to pick up customers that are located in places they would rather not drive to and forces them to destinations they would rather not drive to?

An effective way to be friendly with another person is by collaborating to hurt a third party.

Hurting other people is an instinct.

Sure, there are other boards, but /b/ is bigger than all of them combined, and is the primary reason for 4chan's fame. It's not entirely accurate to assume that they are one and the same, but it's mostly accurate.