It’s certainly a step in the right direction, but it’s more telling about the sorry state of American’s organized labor movement that unions have devolved this far from what was once the backbone of the American economy. And I’m fully serious when I say that unions were the backbone of the American economy. Not…

This was a choice by Twitter and Musk to replatform Trump for personal and financial reasons. As such, Twitter and Musk should now be financially and legally liable for every lie that Trump posts, every libel, every word. Everything. It is well and truly known exactly who and what Trump is, so the choice to bring him…

Republicans haven’t let facts and reality get in the way of their agenda before. They’re certainly not going to start now.

It’s not like they ‘announced’ anything gamers didn’t already know — another Elder Scrolls game was coming. Eventually. It was never a question of ‘if.’ Only when.

It’s a nice and timely reminder that capitalism and its dogmatic, cultist adherents don’t give a shit about people and never will. It and they are only responsive to profits. It is the only mechanism that exists within capitalism. Profits go up = good. Profits go down = bad. That’s it. That is the sum total of its…

The strange thing is, when you think really think about and break down how the typical JRPG battle works, it maps quite well onto the the standard wrestling match design: a fixed set of opponents, mostly taking turns, with a predetermined and largely fixed space for the combat. Which, honestly, shouldn’t come as a…

Who also like the idea of a high-risk, potentially one-way trip to Mars, where they will live in cramped, unpleasant conditions, in extremely close quarters with a bunch of other people, eating limited and mediocre food for foreseeable future. And then they have to deal with the same conditions for even longer once…

Which the Paramount Decree put an end to in Hollywood. Fast forward a few decades, and suddenly that decree is viewed as ‘unnecessary’ and ‘antiquated.’ Or, at least, that’s what powerful PR firms and think tanks are trying to convince everyone to believe. With an alarming measure of success, because what the…

Walled gardens are never good for the customer. Anyone who says or thinks otherwise is too shortsighted to see how it always goes. They’re not building walled gardens to benefit consumers They’re building them to ABSUSE consumers. And the employees. And anyone else they can extract profits from.

Better idea: cut from the top. Like the CEO and president. That’ll save hundreds of millions of dollars a year. I mean, how much do you really need to pay someone to run a company into the ground? Bob the intern can do that in his spare time between coffee runs.

Yeah, and then you get the ‘Boeing’ phenomenon, wherein you’ve drained all the legacy talent and institutional knowledge out of your engineering teams, and suddenly your teams can’t design their way out of a wet paper sack, let alone test and validate their designs properly.

Considering how rampantly predatory, exploitative, and abusive the healthcare industry already is, gleefully holding your health hostage for ransom, can you imagine how much worse it’s going to be when those same people literally control the very air you breathe?

I didn’t say that was the *only* way they ‘think of the children.’ But it all shares a common theme -- pettily, vindictively, cruelly, etc.

Let us not forget: this is how Republicans and the NRA are ‘thinking about the children’ — both the ones killed by their complete disregard for sound public laws and firearms regulations and the ones who are punished for it.

Hopefully the spreading ‘right to repair’ laws getting onto the books will lead to ‘right to service’ laws that will include blocking exactly this kind of ‘proprietary component’ bullshit that HP and other manufacturers have been pulling. I bought the damn printer. It’s mine. Any and all obligations to the manufacturer…

Because billionaire ‘philanthropy’ is almost never philanthropic. And in fact, it’s emblematic of a rotten societal structure. Their philanthropy is akin to waiting for a thief to let you borrow your own phone to make a call. Because they only have their billions to support their ‘philanthropy’ through deliberate and…

The ‘keeping this shit quiet’ thing is *EXACTLY* playing the *STUDIO’S* game. Their attempt to create a layer of ignorance is specifically intended to keep people in the dark about their power over the studios. There’s only ONE REASON why they don’t want the WGA to talk about the offer, and it has everything to do…

Is this a question? Clearly the answer is Saints Row IV.

Why would you save Twitter? It was always a money pit, surviving on the illusion of profitability attracting investors dollars (gee, that sure sounds like a Ponzi scheme). In reality, Twitter was never a profitable business or business model. Musk’s incompetence as a leader simply exposed this truth for all to see.…

“...the parties would try for better discretion about the current offer’s details.”