There’s also a layer of obstruction and obscuration between union members and union negotiators. It’s why SAG AFTRA is not a particularly good union, because a union that isn’t open and transparent with ALL of its members has most assuredly stopped representing its members. That failure of representation is WHY it’s…

They cannot see in themselves the very evil they think they are fighting against. But then, the US military is often the muscle used by capitalists who want to seize control of the government and/or economies of other countries. These soldiers are told that they are bringing ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ to the people,…

It’s fascinating how police have no problem keeping records of potential criminals, but want no such records kept or made available about *their* actions.

Sure, just as long as you conveniently ignore the fact that any time any country has *TRIED* to set up a socialist economy, capitalists send black-op thugs into that country to destroy it. Why, it’s almost as if capitalists are actually *AFRAID* of socialism because it’s a better, fairer, and more sustainable economic…

Let’s not forget that every donation is also a ‘sale’ that won’t happen, since the donation replaces what otherwise would have required a sale (regardless of whether a sale could have actually happened).

“If it bleeds, it leads! Even if we have to kill you to make it happen!”

It’s amazing how ‘woke’ is essentially the conservative movement’s (as in bowel) newest dogwhistle word for everything they don’t ‘like’ that not-coincidentally is also ‘socially responsible’ and ‘acknowledging reality’ because all pro-fascist nutjobs just can’t accept or don’t care that *THEY* are the bad guys and…

Thousands.

The thing that makes this whole situation even more absurd is that the writer’s strike has probably cost all the studios involved more than it would have cost them to just accept the union’s agreement. It’s not like what they were asking for was even remotely unreasonable.

Much as I might be interested, all the games I’m interested in are still integrated into and require EA’s special brand of ‘storefront’ and DRM garbage so...no thanks! I’d already have to deal with Steam’s storefront and DRM to play the games I legally purchased and owned the rights to play. That’s more than enough…

AI’s impacts on society, industry, and governance will be at least as transformative and disruptive as the personal computer and the internet combined. And that’s the best-case scenario (the more realistic one is closer to a nightmare). People who think otherwise are like AT&T’s past CEO who thought there might be a…

Yes, they do. By the thousands. And not just in the US. Just because you’re a ‘former car dealer’ does not mean it doesn’t happen. Only that *YOU* didn’t do it, that *YOU* didn’t see it. Your *PERSONAL* experience is not the be-all, end-all. There are plenty of investigative journalists from multiple major outlets who…

I mean, it’s nice that Biden is saying the ‘quiet part’ out loud (and it’s about damn time), but White Supremacy has always been a terrorist organization at its core. It has always been a clear and present danger to a country that was literally built on immigration and cultural blending (whether they were voluntary or…

It’s even more absurd than that. Car manufactures routinely impound thousands upon thousands of unsold cars when the next year’s models are released. Why? Because it’s more profitable to destroy the unsold models and write them off than it to sell the older model at reduced prices in place of what they could have…

I don’t know. I mean, “Thou Shalt Not Kill” is pretty unambiguous, but Republicans never seem to have an issue when someone kills people Republicans don’t like or scapegoat.

It take 10-15 minutes to *smother* someone to death, and it’s an agonizing way to die as the brain is slowly deprived of oxygen. But that’s not what happened to Neely. He was placed in a chokehold. It does not take that long to choke someone to death. A properly applied chokehold, like the one used on Neely, cuts off…

That’s just it. The training Penny used to subdue Neely is the same training that meant he also knew what he was doing would kill Neely if he didn’t stop. Yet he chose not to stop. Chose. That’s what makes it intent. Not an accident. So while it is unlikely to have been premeditated, Neely’s death was absolutely not…

There’s just one problem with your position: an absence of historical context.

The issue has never been about whether it can be done but rather who will pay for it and who will own it. As you might imagine, capitalists are big on having the government pay *them* to build it while they then claim ownership of it afterward. It’s the old ‘externalize the cost, privatize all the profits’ shtick …

Well, unless the EPA addresses the elephant in the room — how easy it currently is for fossil fuel companies to game the ‘carbon capture’ system (to the tune of an estimated half a billion dollars already) without actually changing anything about their business model — this is going to be a complete waste of time and…