They weren’t just warned, they extended the concert and moved its location so that it would be hit by the October 7th attack they knew was coming.

It’s one of the most blatantly ghoulish acts of a government to sacrifice its own people to manufacture consent to ramp up genocide.

The fact it took this long for the New York times to admit what we all knew immediately after it happened and what people in the region knew about a week beforehand…

And the players get none of the money are are severely punished if anyone does anything to help them financially.

College sports should pay its own bill and players or it should exist.

look at this country…

I care less about what is in his heart than what he does.

He does bad things and lies all the time. I would look at his donations to Democrats as influence peddling and not evidence that he believes anything at all.

“Rimworld, what’s that?”

“Its like the Sims on a hostile alien planet with robots and cannibalism”

“Cannibalism?!”

"Yea… Usually not intentionally. I mean no one sets to eat their friends or even their enemies but after a few lean seasons and you have run out of pets… But it’s not like you let them go to waste, you can use the leather too.

… (Doesn’t notice them pulling away)

Human leather is actually kind of a premium value product…". “Hey where’d you go?!”

Two policies would make a huge impact on this.

An additional tax on nonresident ownership and a punitive tax on vacancies based on occupancy rates.

Those two would be enough to discourage hoarding, scalping and ghost neighborhoods .

Crazy thing is, I remember studying the pillars of Islam in history class before 9/11. The new textbooks we got after 9/11 started with “since George Bush kept us safe since 9/11…” like it was right on the first page. That’s when I knew we were headed full on fascism.

I’ve never once had anyone push their religious bullshit on me except Christians.

Anti bds laws around the country and state/city level funding to Israel is not going away.

I can see that they are Losing popularity but I don’t see them actually losing power, influence, or resources just yet

There is a game called thrive that is attempting to do a really hardcore version of spore. There’s still really at the early stages of evolution and the complexity of the bacterial stage is pretty intense.

“Will the things help?”

“No the ones that help will be illegal”

Yeah that doesn’t even vaguely resemble what I’m saying.

Valve isn’t regulating your hardware and they aren’t forcing anybody to do anything.

Valve is not a bully here. They have a contract saying if you sell your product with me you can’t sell it someplace else cheaper just to use me for marketing and delivery.

Apple says you have to pay me to even have the right to sell your product and you can only sell it through me. If you sell it someplace else I want to cut of that too.

Google just keeps changing the nature of what you’re allowed to do with your own stuff and they take a cut.

If you feel bullied by Valve or some developer feels bullied by valve then you have a victim complex.

There are other marketplaces to steam. Steam doesn’t prevent you from installing from sources outside of steam. Steam doesn’t regulate your hardware or how you use it. If you want to sell on steam you can still sell elsewhere but it has to be the same price.

This means if you go to steam to find out about a game and then decide to buy it from the manufacturer’s website the manufacturer makes more money because they don’t have to give Valve a cut, and Valve might even authorize you to activate that product on steam.

Expecting valve to offer their marketing and delivery systems without any incentive for you to sell products through it would defeat the purpose of their platform.

Compare that to the other two chuckle fuckers in this mix:

Apple maintains an exclusive platform. Apple has taken specific steps to prevent people from installing software from sources that have not paid them for permission to make software for the hardware you rent from them.

Google maintains an exclusive platform. Google has taken specific steps to prevent people from installing from sources that have not paid them for permission to make software for the hardware you bought from third party vendors and manufacturers.
The ever shrinking accommodation to installing third-party software on your purchased hardware is anti-competitive, and defeats consumer choice.

Maybe they need regime change… And freedom. We should liberate Israel. There’s even an insurgent group we could fund for our proxy war against the mad regime.

Nah, just close the door and bury the room in cement.

Hot take, how about no.

I would go even further and say that they have a right to build a fully functioning national nuclear power grid including the ability to refuse ne and enrich several different types of isotopes for a variety of reasons.

I don’t love nuclear weapons, and we were on a global track to reduce them until we decided to give them to Israel and India while also demonstrating to the world that they are a required tool to protect you from invasion.

Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and now Iran have all been severely punished for not having nuclear weapons at their disposal while North Korea gets repeatedly rewarded through non intervention just for maintaining theirs.

To be fair, they didn’t say who purchased her or what the product actually is.

I think both things can be true.

A tremendous amount of money has been invested to ensure that it is.

Microsoft was trying to build something they could sell for practical reasons as a cheaper alternative to land based data centers. For that purpose it is not cost effective.

Peter Thiel is trying to build something that will not be subject to laws so he can continue to develop horrors beyond human comprehension. For that use case it is possibly very cost effective.

No matter how drunk you get, the horse always remembers the way home.

I usually go with the old tried and true, “Bart’s crematorium you kill 'em we gril em”