Progressive taxes ensures this is the case btw, even if what the company pays is linear.

Imo I think actual pay ignoring taxes is linear like the experience, but starts at minimum wage and has a lower inclination <0.5

Some of those rich people would pay 3000 for a painting but not 300, because they’d not want a “cheap” piece in their pricy living room. If one manages to catch the attention of those people it’s way more healthy to dedicate yourself into making your stuff a little more eye-catching to those eyes and sell less often but of a pricier value, imo

It’s a timezones vs actual sun time thing. In Spain near me they are like 2 hours away from their actual sun time so you can even add that to the lag you said. I’m sure it’s the other way around somewhere in the world, specially in medium and big countries

Credit was the one with AAA, AA and B which is already “trash”

Isn’t the A terminology from credit rating? Or does that have the same origin?

I don’t get why you say well not entirety, then proceed to say something that has nothing to do with the bar being set anywhere.

Games come out good or bad, but if it’s a triple A it is expected to have a quality soundtrack, good voice acting etc, like a movie. Indies is forgiveable if they got simple stuff replacing those.

Thank you for the rabbit hole

Really? Over here we get the idea our taxes aren’t competitive to draw foreign investment and some of the big industry ones are on the verge of moving out, like VW.

I understand drawing in some service industry that doesn’t go to Ireland, but for the industrial sector sounds off to me. I am, however, not an economist.

%20 is encoded space if I remember right, so even then they were already incorrect

They are less powerful and easier to tax. It’s all about power, The rich by themselves are less powerful than the masses when the masses are together. Which is why they’re taxed at all. There’s something more powerful

A year ago I was surprised how large the Portuguese bicycle industry is, as I thought we had none. I assumed we wouldn’t be able to compete with you guys, but turns out the Dutch are that Big an importer

They might realise you play paradox games and be weirded out

Same! Telling myself I’ll get back to it tho

The rivers bring salt to the lakes and ocean that they erode when passing. Those get saltier over time. Evaporation filters that out and feeds the fresh water to everything again, but the salt gets deposited in the more permanent structures.

Glad you linked it, I had Japanese Soba in my mind

Garlic butter spread over bread (alentejano bread has a tiny bit of olive oil and it’s preferred but it’s the bread that’s at hand, white form toast bread usually), toasted with filling of green olives, mushroom, dried tomato and peanut butter.

It’s all preserved stuff so it’s back up when you don’t have fresh things and the sweet of the peanut butter ties in with the olives quite nicely, I only like black oxidated olives otherwise.

What’s your standards for food you’d make for other people?

People who enjoy eating enjoy tasting or enjoy the feeling of things going down their throat. Can be psychological too and not attached to the physical stimulus.

Do you guys not like sugar or the sting of spice? The whole ritual around eating, making food or heading somewhere to eat influences how good food makes you feel.

Just want to add that the Portuguese document there is a scientific paper, not legislation. Not sure on how proposals might have been changed the law in the 4 years after it but it’s become more pertinent because the increase of tourism was accompanied by these scams (my source for this is word of mouth, take it with a grain of salt)

The first one had one advantage the others will never have, it was brand new, everything was new. Any other that comes out you’ll have expectations. It needs to be better to even match how good it felt to play for the first time.