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I want to see Atlus mop the floor with Nintendo over this because Shin Megami Tensei had all these features 6 years before the first Pokémon game ever existed.

1. Texas can’t even properly support their own power infrastructure inside their own state

2. The vast majority of the population of Texas (Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas/Ft Worth) are solidly blue. The state maps are gerrymandered to death such that 100,000 square miles of empty land has the same voting power as over ten million citizens. This is the sole and only reason Texas is consistently “red”, is via rampant voter disenfranchisement.

There’s a super easy way to solve this. Especially for corporations.

“The company’s operations will be suspended during the suit, until such time as the court can determine whether the company is operating illegally.”

You want to flood the zone with shit to draw out your court case for 18 months until everyone loses interest? You can still do that. But you won’t be making any money while you do, and I expect your employees still need paychecks if you want them to still be there when this wraps up.

This isn’t a silver bullet for every sort of court case, but I think this is a very sensible and obvious solution to corporate crimes.

I’m not buying it strictly because I can’t support Konami firing Kojima from their team and then trying to parade the corpse of his projects around to get more free money. It stinks of the same bullshit that Disco Elysium does where no matter how good the game is, it is an objectively moral choice to pirate it instead of paying the publishers for it.

monochromatic flag referred to as a “no quarter” flag

Intent or not, that’s what it is, the black flag or no quarter flag is one that states I will kill you dead even if you surrender.

Chuds think this means they’re tough manly men, what it really means is a declaration that they cannot be trusted with anything for any reason. It’s broadcasting to the world that you don’t intend to abide by any rules of engagement so it’s best to just blow you off the map pre-emptively. Flying this flag, even if you don’t even engage with an enemy, is itself a war crime according to the Hague conventions.

Oil and petrol companies are some of the richest and most politically connected industries in the world. Each person who rides a bike is a person who does not spend money on fueling a car.

I just assume that Exxon/BP/et al have thrown blanket bribes at every politician in every country to be generally against bike lanes for whatever reason they can pull out of their ass, so long as they don’t come right out and say “BP has paid me directly to decry bike lanes”.

I feel like that’s a little disingenuous because all those things actually serve a purpose. You need that computing power to keep up with modern software. But in 99% of cases, plugging KB+M into a USB2 vs USB3 makes no difference whatsoever. Excluding edge cases where say, your keyboard has its own USB port that you’re then trying to put a splitter on, or charge your phone on, it otherwise just legitimately doesn’t need the extra power of USB3. The basic input processes of the keyboard and mouse haven’t changed in 40 years and that’s why such a comparatively ancient piece of tech is still usable. Even just USB2 already has enough power and bandwidth on a keyboard to run your RGB backlights while still taking input with no additional latency.

I think if the manufacturer cared more about their customers and their brand image, then yeah, they’d just go ahead and make all the ports USB3 regardless. But if you’re cranking out 10,000 shitty PCs a week that you want to sell for under $500, and you can save 3 cents a unit by making two USB ports USB2, that’s still a technically viable product that can be sold and used without issue (at least, without issue pertaining to these USB ports, anyway). It makes the manufacturer a bit skeezy, but it’s not like they’re selling you something you can’t use, the things work just fine. You just don’t want to be doing mass file transfer or power transfer through them because they’re bad at both, that’s what your 3.0 port is for, which you have been provided.

This is a Minimum Viable Product sort of thing, this isn’t going to win any awards or any glowing customer praise, but for the market it was intended for (likely business) it’s a cheap ass PC tower that works well enough. I don’t know if that’s actually the case for what OP is posting here but that’s what I imagine the design decision was behind this sort of style, and it makes sense to me. I don’t really like it, but I do understand it.

I don’t, but I doubt it beats my autoclicker script ;)

On one hand yes, on the other hand though USB3 is wildly overkill for driving your keyboard.

I can really see both sides of this argument to be honest.

Been seeing some of that as well, so I looked it up myself. The actual text of the EULA states:

"You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with the foregoing restrictions Nintendo may render the Nintendo Account Services and/or the applicable Nintendo device permanently unusable in whole or in part.”

That’s a brick. They haven’t actually done it to anyone yet, but they’ve reserved their rights.

I can’t imagine what might have given it away.

Hell yeah. I saw this yesterday when you first posted about it, immediately sent it to all my friends, and then I’ve been busy afterward.

Absurdism - How to Party At the End of Meaning

I very much love exurb1a but I think I particularly love this one most of all.

Kids do.

Their problems are smaller than us adults’, but they feel those problems with the same intensity we do. Being ostracized from your social group is a big problem even for adults. It’s worse for kids.

And kids, being kids, will bandwagon the hell out of anything. If somebody clowns on your shoes every day, give it a week and half the school will be doing it. Give it a year and you’re “that guy with the shoes”.

Is your brand of shoes important in the long term? No, not at all. Your social status in high school also, largely, doesn’t matter in the long term. But “the long term” is difficult to keep your eye on when you’re looking at 4-8 years of pointless bullying in your future.

All this to say - yeah I think this is pretty dumb, but it’s important to the people who are living it. And something that’s important to a child should also be important to their parents, in my opinion. I was the kid with the ratty shoes and the hand-me-downs. That stuff can really do some permanent damage to a kid’s psyche.

Does this mean that every middle schooler needs to have a fresh set of Jordan’s and a fitted suit every year? No, of course not. But if I can spend an extra $50 once every two years to make my son happy then why wouldn’t I?

When this baby hits 8x10^8000000000 fs/Z you’re gonna see some serious shit

I would agree with this if Zuck hadn’t been in the news recently talking about how Meta is desperately filling their userbase with bots, on purpose

Yes, but that doesn’t make it any less of an absolute scum sucking move.

This is the correct answer

I mean, these are all real CIA documents being referenced, you can go read them yourself. It’s trustable in as much as you can trust the CIA to be straightforward within their own documentation that wasn’t declassified until 20 years later.

They made a pretty good case through a series of generally ethical experiments to prove that at least some forms of psychic phenomena like remote viewing are almost certainly real, if not exactly reliable or common. I thought that was pretty neat.

Other than that, no, I can’t think of much.