If one were to give someone shit for a lot of modern monetization schemes, valve would be the prime candidate.
Personally I don't mind those systems though, if anything crates and the whole ecosystem valve built around them are pretty neat.

Isn't that basically just one of the LG B/C series oleds?

Offsetting a significant number of defaults is a reason. The alternative would be that said vulnerable wouldn't get any credit at all, so how's that any better?

There are very few situations where using high interest credit makes sense and all of them involve paying it back very soon

Just don't use credit that is too expensive.

That's how bad it was

Embarrassing post

Nah, they delivered on weed legalization, self-id, preventing the SPD surveillance state plans and some decent economic policy together with the other parties in government.

Greens and FDP are the only decent parties in germany, especially for Ukraine. Unfortunately can't bring myself to vote for a party whose top politicians sue hundreds of people for slight insults.

Bluesky's opt-in labels based moderation where most content that gets moderated doesn't actually get deleted seems like a great system.

Checkmarks being at the top of replies is the single worst change he made, among tough competition