The French judge dropped the charges for lack of evidence, not because he was proven innocent. The accuser is currently pursuing a complaint against the judge in question.

That’s because the games for Essential come out at the beginning of the month, while the games for the higher two tiers come out in the middle of the month. So most game sites are doing these updates twice a month. (It doesn’t look like Kotaku ever did one for the regular May update two weeks ago, which is weird.)

At the risk of repeating myself: 1) Montana Judge Mike Menahan’s order [1] spells out why he rejected her preliminary injunction request. This looks like another case of a legally correct, although unjust decision. 2) Kwaneta Yatrice Harris has been put in solitary too often and for too long [2], to sum up even just th…

“We cannot just blanketly say what a passenger should or should not do in a situation like that.”

They do if they have investors!

One of the inherent flaws of capitalism is that in order to see return on their investment capital, the investors need to be able to liquidate their holdings. To do that, someone else needs to want to buy them. Then they expect to get a return on their purchase.

Welcome to capitalism - this is the way. It objectively makes almost every business worse from the customer perspective all in the name of shareholder value. 

It is so strange to me that some people will be so insistent that the woman in that video use the men’s room. That would be so fucking weird!

I mean, none of that is particularly out of the ordinary, or even interesting.

End of the day, his protestations of intent are too little, too late. I personally believe that topic isn’t in-bounds for jokes, and the only time it can be appropriate for storytelling is with clear disclaimers that the account is fictional and all involved have given aware consent. Even ‘back in the day’ of 2014,…

Because that’s not how it works.

it’s landlordism for art. the hungry maw of capitalism will not be satiated until everyone is having their value extracted at every given moment and no one owns anything except a handful of people at the very top. They would make you rent your clothes if it was possible.

This is unfortunately how it happens. There’s zero need for the copyright holder to contact you in any way with how Youtube is set up.

I can tell by the mustache that this man is a Senior Elder at his evangelical church somewhere in middle Missouri.

The linchpin of this entire “heist” was having access to the 1000 shares, something that’s apparently not usually possible for a non-member, and the poster is intentionally being coy about how they got them.

Edge of Tomorrow is still the greatest video game movie of all time.

If we took care of people, as a rule, in our society, than I would agree with you. 

you mean free people up to pursue a career in something fulfilling that they might actually enjoy, such as art?

Actually, CGI has done massive damage to the moviemaking industry. So many little stupid things get CGI’d, like having an actor hold a stick and then CGIing in a gun later because it’s cheaper to pay a graphics sweatshop to add in a gun than it is to pay a unionized prop manager. Actors having to try to portray nearly …

“There is literally nothing ethically dubious about artificial intelligence.”

Just needs to be expanded slightly to ‘As a consumer, I hope there is properly compensated and respected human labor behind my purchase’