I like the thought process. But for that to work, it would require a robust, well-staffed and funded contact tracing program to identify who’s getting infected by whom.. Which most areas of the US don’t have (and might help reduce the scale of some of the casualties if they did).

I already have a family Apple Music plan and a 2TB iCloud plan, which together run $25/mo. I could care less about the AppleTV and Arcade pieces, but assuming the included Apple One storage is the same - this should save me $5 a month.

According to the right, distrust in government is a feature and not a bug. This was all intentional, as a way of consolidating power from career professionals and bureaucrats, and to justify cutting spending on previously critical governmental functions because “we just can’t trust them anymore”. Conservatives have…

Yeah, the US’ immigration system has been a mess for a very long time. But there’s a big difference between keeping detained immigrant families together in sanitary, humane conditions while their cases are resolved and jamming people into completely unacceptable conditions while their kids are sent elsewhere, and…

As a Floridian, I am deeply offended that this state is fucked up enough that you’re not wrong.

I would say the best Fallout killer I’ve seen lately as far as setting and weird post-apocalyptic humor has been Wasteland 3, though the isometric turn based combat is closer to the original Fallout games than the newer FPS ones.

The idea of giving everyone an equally weighted voice in an easily accessible forum sounds nice on the surface. But when you see evidence of troll/bot armies like that, it becomes apparent that everyone is not getting an equal voice and that the system is easily manipulated to try to sway people’s opinions and spread…

Game reviews only go just so far, though. Sometimes you just have to take a flier and see how it goes. That’s the beauty of GamePass. You’re only out the time (and potentially the data, if you have a cap) that it takes to download something and a few minutes of your attention to try it out.

Further proof that having a PhD doesn’t guarantee that the recipient is actually smart so much as they just keep showing up and paying their tuition.

On the bright side, it would teach an entire generation of teens and tweens how use VPNs within a week or two.

As a longtime Floridian, I can tell you that the mere threat of being without power for a few days in August or September around here is enough to make me evacuate well ahead of the rush of/when a hurricane is coming.

Unlimited. Replayability.

“I could probably get by just fine with a Series S for my gaming, but then what would I watch my Blu-ray/DVD collection on? Having to buy a decent separate Blu-ray player negates most of the cost savings of buying the S instead of the X, and ends up taking up just as much space - maybe even more!”

But what if you have some time left on GPU as a prepaid balance? Do you get a refund/discount/credit? Or does it just kick back in after you’ve fulfilled your two-year contract for All Access (or - God forbid - does it go to waste as concurrent to All Access)?

Would it have been nice for him to try earlier? Yeah, sure. I hope Bob thinks long and hard about his judgement call here.

I kind of miss Sony and Nintendo exclusives, but GamePass has sucked me into the Xbox ecosystem for the foreseeable future. I took a flier on converting a couple years of XBL Gold that I got for cheap into GPU on a promo deal last year. And I haven’t felt the need to buy another game since. And with MS constantly…

Yeah, this could have been a softball crisis where he could have rounded up the heads of the CDC, NIH, etc, handed the ball to the Surgeon General and said, “We’re going to listen to the professionals, do what’s right and get through this together! Yay,‘Murica!”

Every time I hear someone who “votes for candidates, not parties” say something stupid like that, it takes all my self control not to grab them by the lapels and shake them vigorously.

That assumes A) that Trump & Co - and by extension, the Republican sycophants in Congress and the state level - wouldn’t have just shrugged and said, “Yeah, so? What are you going to do about it?” and B) that right-leaning and otherwise selfish/apathetic Americans would have been willing to do the right things in the…

Yeah...seeing as how Antifa consists of a few hundred anarchists, mostly out on the West Coast (who, by their very nature, are largely disorganized), I’m pretty sure the tens of millions of heavily armed Trumpsters across the Deep South and Midwest will end up being more problematic - especially if they lose the…