No, the sum of all premiums paid by all Americans is way more than is required. You could make it a flat tax and it'd still be cheaper.

The tax increase is more than offset by the cost of premiums.

Why? UHC is cheaper than the current system. You wouldn't need any extra taxes.

There are 113 known cases, and there's a 76% fatality rate.

But then perhaps you could articulate what the exact issue is? Like, what ill effects is Steam being a very major player having on the gaming industry as a whole?

But the barrier to entry for publishing a game on Steam is super-low, it's honestly dead simple. And even though Steam takes a sizeable cut, they do tons of work in exchange w.r.t. promotion, distribution, community management, the modding workshop, Steam Input, testing Steam Deck compatibility, etc..

For indies it's one of the easiest routes to publish a game. And given the relative success of indies on Steam, it seems to work quite well.

The default settings look pretty bad, but with some setting changes you can get it to look a lot better without sacrificing too much performance.

It's not really the type of game that has to run at a solid 60 FPS or anything.

I think this is just a case of unclear UI. This is the default stance of the meter, before you've entered a vote. After you vote it shows the most common answer underneath the meter.

I voted just now, and the most common vote was "fair/center".

Note how the needle is also off the meter, instead of pointing at one of the segments.

What? I'm categorically against the death penalty. I don't think it's controversial to think Roof is a bastard for what he did.

Because the media now mostly mentions the three bastards who didn't have their sentences commuted, instead of the 37 that did. Changes the focus. Now people agree with Biden not to commute these sentences, and don't think much more about the ones that were commuted.

Baseload is by definition not on-demand, baseload is always there.

The SC could just make a bullshit ruling that this only applies fo4 being elected president, rather than becoming president through succession.

First-Past-The-Post system sucks but systematic change can happen. Its just... you guys elected Trump.

Systemic change is being made next to impossible due to the rampant legalised bribery and corruption at all levels of the political offices.

How would you even go about going against the corporate oligarchy? Your candidates will get primaried and out-funded, your party colleagues will get bribed to vote against tackling these issues, and that's all assuming you could get close enough to having enough candidates for all races across the country, you get your messaging picked up by the media and you somehow poll so high that strategic voters won't split the vote, actively putting the worst party in charge instead.

You'd somehow have to get elected, get enough supreme court justices pushed through and have them repeal Citizens United to even get started. That's a tall order to ask from a political class that actively benefits from the current situation.