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The GOP is the tax cut/deregulation party. Trump's 1st term featured a $2 trillion stimulus in the form of a tax cut that primarily benefited the wealthy and corporations. And now you have Trump trying to claim he doesn't want to incentivize through tax breaks. It's so transparently false. That's all the GOP/Trump do: claim that tax breaks juice the economy. And it's guaranteed that they'll renew the $2 trillion in cuts from 2017 and add even more on top of it. 

hexclock said: You mean abandonment of outright censorship demanded by the previous admin on differing opinions, inconvenient facts, and even jokes in some cases. 

The Biden administration wanted social media companies to cut down on misinformation/disinformation about Covid, Covid vaccines and the 2020 election. None of that includes "differing opinions" or "inconvenient facts". Example: saying that vaccines cause autism isn't an "opinion" because it has no basis in reality. Same thing with claiming that the 2020 election was "stolen". 

tht said:

Gruber’s monthly sniping at Siri is not really helping imo. Most of the time, it has something to do with how Gruber enunciates, grammar, or perhaps how he has his devices setup. 

Yeah, I'm not sure why he doesn't realize that the quality of the answer is typically based on the way that the question is asked. Asking Siri about Super Bowl winners by year seems to work fine.

beowulfschmidt said: Except that Steam (SteamOS is an operating system, not a store) doesn't really "compete" with Apple's app store.  They serve two different markets, with little overlap. 

The overlap is with consumers that can be considered "gamers", which I would personally define as people who are interested in playing games across multiple platforms. Not everyone who plays games on mobile fits that description, but a significant percentage do. The "whales" that spend large amounts of $$ on mobile gaming are very likely to be "gamers", for example. So every gaming platform is in competition for those "gamer" dollars. 

It should be obvious by now that they aren't actually trying to compete with the App Store. Way too small.