How a lot of things keep happening despite their obvious negative impacts: propaganda, the art of communication that is primarily used to influence an audience and further an agenda.

Now...how much did they spend on a Denuvo license and how many man hours did they spend integrating it into their product? Because I’ll bet that whatever minimal amount Denuvo *might* have ‘increased sales,’ it won’t be greater than the amount it cost them to have it in the first place.

Dumb’merica — where the racism is so thick, it’s oozing out of every pore and spewing out of every ‘hole.’

Other states need to counter by not allowing their state-funded education facilities to use or teach from any textbooks produced in Texas or owned by companies HQ’d in Texas. Let them cut themselves off from reality. And when the banana republic of Texass inevitably implodes from the gross ignorance and incompetence…

No. Dealing with a lawsuit is EXPENSIVE, whether you win or lose. The whole point of SLAPP lawsuits — Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation — is to use that expense as an attack against a given individual or company for doing something the ‘aggrieved’ party dislikes *IRRESPECTIVE* of the legal outcome.…

And how long will it be until uppity (read: racists asshole) white folk, displeased that their preferred ‘sites’ aren’t getting these monies, raise a stink and stonewall the funds like they did with aid to not-white farmers?

Definitely true regarding anti-SLAPP laws. Multiple states don’t even have them. But this is definitely Corporate America attacking consumer rights, the way they have been for decades, steadily chipping away at them until consumers have no rights...because consumer ‘rights’ interfere with their profits. And honestly,…

The first one, possibly yes for modding *tools*, but only if you can demonstrate that it’s for the purposes of bypassing copyright protections — and of course, *mods* aren’t. The second one, no. Not unless they’re actually distributing portions *of the game* which they aren’t, because that’s not how mods work.

Are they distributing materials owned by the copyright holder? Not as far as I can tell. Are they distributing materials or tools with the sole usage of bypassing established copyright protection methods? Also no.

It’s almost as if politicians need to be held to higher standards of conduct, that lying — implicit or explicit — should never be tolerated from them, and that unethical behaviors of any kind should be grounds for immediate removal from office, regardless of how their ‘supporters’ and ‘voters’ ‘feel’ on the matter.

And what, pray tell, was so important about this skating rink that they had the funds and permission to install the hardware and software necessary to *DO* facial recognition (poorly or otherwise)?

Exactly. Let’s not pretend this is a *new* problem. Republicans weaponized misinformation and disinformation decades ago and have been using it ever since to stay in power wherever they can. It’s just added some extra lethality to its arsenal: plagues and pandemics. Killing in the name of...

Bad as this barely habitable shithole place is, I can assure you, when it comes to heavy industry and mineral extraction, it most assuredly can be made worse. It can be turned into a literal toxic shithole in which *NOTHING* can live. Not even bacteria.

Fuck Texas. Nothing’s bigger in Texas but penis envy and assholes.

True story: the ‘red’ in these states is from all the people the state government is killing to maintain their power. Dyin’ to own the libs.

Brought to you by the same people howling “My body! My choice!” about being told to get vaccinated. Not that they’re hypocrites or anything.

I’m aware of the near-insurmountable challenge involved. Why it hasn’t been done. Just trying to organize something like that is mind-numbing in scale. But that just underpins the sad reality — until it is, the radicalized minority will continue to control these states. They *WILL NOT* let go. Not now. Not ever. Not…

I feel sorry for the people who live in Texas and don’t want to support the Abbot-level insanity running rampant, the same way I feel sorry for people who live in Georgia and don’t support Kemp-insanity or Florida and don’t support DeSantis insanity, and all the other GOP-led states floundering around in their…

Well, there are some who don’t ‘support’ a lot of what Trump did. They just don’t have the spine to admit it publicly, to say nothing of standing up to the raging Mango Hitler directly. And that’s never going to change with what happened to the handful of Republicans who did take a stand against Trump. Because staying…

LB, like the rest of her constituents, live in an alternate reality apart from which they can no longer exist. Which is why no matter how stupid, no matter how totally asinine LB and other politicians like her show themselves to be to the rest of humanity, the people voting for these idiots never see them for idiots…