No, but we do need someone overseeing the production and usage of lightbulbs to ensure that they’re not fire or health hazards. Which they are if they’re not used, designed, or handled properly. And the Republican party sure as shit isn’t going to lift a finger to protect the public if they can’t use it as a cudgel to…

To be fair, a robot apocalypse isn’t the part about AI that concerned him. What concerned him was a deep fake of him making a speech he never made. He was apparently confused or flustered by it. And, yeah, if someone had not been paying attention to the deep-fake world, I could see how that might slip their attention…

“Well, you see, mods rob us of the opportunity to sell all these things that players have made. We simply cannot permit that loss of potential profits.” — Capcom

That would only work temporarily, which the various social democracies around the world are starting to experience. You see, like everything else before it, the people who have ‘more resources’ will invariably use their greater means to warp the system into serving themselves ahead of everyone else. And they can do it…

Yeah, AT&T tried that whole ‘you can only our authorized stuff on our systems’ schtick. How do you think that went, Microsoft? I’ll give you a hint: the FTC and DOJ got involved.

There’s no such thing as a sandbox that’s too big. It’s that there’s not enough sand in it. And in Starfield’s case, the sandbox is practically empty.

First, ESO is a completely different team in a completely different studio. But second, that’s kind of the problem. They went from a team handling a single major IP to a team juggling three major IPs, with very little structural changes to the team itself. So while they are still releasing a new game in roughly the…

No, what’s scary is that they *ARE* sending their best. Fascist, misogynistic, sexist, racist, bigoted, hate-spewing, violence-inciting, democracy-killing, theocratic-tyranny loving, corporate-welfare supporting, anti-education, anti-science, anti-society, etc, etc. That *IS* the Republican best. And it has been for…

The original face of Max Payne says things, and....I’m sorry, but I just can’t unsee his mug as the guns-akimbo, time-slowing excop with nothing to lose. “You are in a computer game, Max.”

Indeed. Consolidations are almost never a sign of a strong, competitive, and healthy industry. They are, in fact, signs of an industry on the verge of spiraling into total collapse. It’s a sign that businesses have grown large enough to gobble up their respective markets and sit on them, blocking any new entrants or…

It may be illegal, but it’s not anti-capitalism. It’s actually representative of the force that drives capitalism — private ownership and control of capital, and what happens when private parties own all the capital. It demonstrates the end goal of capitalism and why the system is so fundamentally broken — it’s inheren…

The best example I can think of regarding the fundamentally broken nature of capitalism is the humble lightbulb. If we could make a lightbulb that lasted a 1000x times longer, under capitalism, there’s no value in it. You can’t ‘run’ a business selling a product that you can only sell to a customer once. You’ll run…

The cynic in me immediately asked, “Ease for *whom* exactly?”

Imagine getting to within spitting distance of one the greatest possible achievements in life only to fall short while everyone is watching. What a disappointment and an embarrassment. Those poor stairs are probably scarred for life and in need of serious therapy.

Did you even bother to look at the relevant numbers? Population growth (1.1%) is roughly a third of average inflation rates (~3%).

The more unions we have, and the more people there are who are part of them, the better off people are ultimately going to be, wherever they happen to be. FFS, *UNIONS* are what made America great. Not capitalism. Unions. They literally built the middle class that American capitalists have spent over half a century…

That’s because they’ve got hundreds of billions of dollars invested in fossil fuel infrastructure assets — refineries, rigs, derricks, tankers, etc, etc. All those assets will become stranded assets (ie worthless) if humanity gets over its ‘Drill, baby, drill’ obsession. The people with huge sums invested in oil…

Yeah, but that whole ‘pivot back to’ thing would imply they stopped focusing on gasoline at some point. That never happened. The most they did was spend a tiny amount on examining how they could capture and control renewables the same way they currently do with fossil fuel. The answer was clearly, “No.” So they’re…

Which only needed ‘saving’ because the people at the top only think about money and made some truly stupid decisions blindly pursuing of it. Decisions, I might add, that they were told, in no uncertain terms, would blow up in their faces if made. But they made them anyway. Because money.

If you understand capitalism, then you understand this is exactly in line with capitalist dogma, especially for the wealthy — sharing the wealth means that other people should share their wealth. Not ‘you.’ You’re a special flower, and you earned your wealth with all your ‘hard work’ exploiting and abusing employees...…