They’re blocking the developers of Fortnight, A.k.a. Epic, A.k.a. the developers of UE’s access to apple development tools.

(Let me set up my armchair lawyer stand)

No, it doesn’t.

This really isn’t a case of diminishing the ethnicities of nominees

That... misses the entire point. This isn’t about if everyone cares about the same historical concept of race. This is about how often the conversation about the race of Jesus is dominated by revisionists. It’s about how they will recast him by whatever trendy mental gymnastics allow them to see him as someone they…

Hard nah here. This wasn’t a random bump encounter, this was arguably the most prestigious awards a science fiction author could hope to achieve in their career. The Hugos are to sci-fi and fantasy writing what the Oscars are to movies. I understand all of the excuses people have offered here but none of it addresses…

My position is that you do what you can—the easy, uncontroversial stuff you do right away, and the more difficult stuff you do when and how you can.

That’s exactly the point. It’s taking advantage of the fact that humans interpolate colors, blending pixels to see general shapes while most of the algorithms use direct pixel-to-pixel comparison to recognize shapes... if you distort or otherwise screw with X pixels per subsection of the image, especially aiming for…

Sure, and AOC is part of two committees: House Committee on Financial Services, and House Committee on Oversight and Reform. Within the latter, she is part of the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties subcommittee, which her bill directly speaks to. She’s also been practically littering the congressional floor with bills…

You’re right that the armed service recruitment efforts prey on poor people not just of color, but I would strongly disagree that race isn’t a factor. In the US, as with most first-world countries, race and socioeconomics are tightly connected through generational poverty and systemic racism. The statistic you…

1) As a member of the house of representatives it really isn’t her job to be pragmatic in that sense. There are 435 voting members in the House of Representatives and unlike the Senate, their job is to be a direct representative to the specific problems that intersect federal policy and their constituents. Her job…

The nuance here really matters. Compare my suggestion with the literal words he said and note the following:

I disagree partially. If he were interested in meeting this hearing with good will, he would have framed it as an opportunity for improvement:

So there isn’t any legal reason to go after romhacks since they don’t contain copyrighted material.

In my experience, that’s not how that tends to work. Once you’ve been vilified, any effort to discuss the situation meaningfully is seen as trying to “control the narrative” and is simply further proof that you haven’t learned anything, no matter what you say. Bad actors are virtually indistinguishable from good…

The most horrifying part of all of it to me is that if even a fraction of the rumors about her conservatorship are true, those poor children likely spend every night thinking about the day that they reach 18 and can rescue their mother from their grandfather. I can’t put into words how utterly, desolately sad that…

Reverse importing is where you export and then customers pay to import back because of a difference in the product or pricing.

Sure to almost all points (the motivations at the end sounds suspiciously too glib, but I lack the body of knowledge to even begin to contest that). But treating the topic of detransitioning as inherently transphobic is incredibly reductive and actively harms a group, however small, who are often left even more…

There are people who detransition. They do exist. They do deserve to be heard. I support each and every person being recognized as the gender that they see in themselves, but I personally will not allow my trans brothers, sisters and NB siblings to pretend a problem doesn't exist because TERFs use it to attack them.…

By that same logic, you can’t appreciate the acting of the actual actors unless you speak the language, because subtitles almost never line up to the correct delivery in the native language.