They should just go with Ladya. Nobody will have any problem with that.

Nah, I don’t think China is going to give the US a win that easily. They’re going to want something in return. And I hope that they do fight this, not because I’m a fan of China, but because this would open the floodgates for the US government and other governments to bully foreign companies into selling their local op…

If I didn’t know better, I’d say it almost seems like Zuckerberg WANTS democracy.

For some reason? Isn’t it obvious? It’s because f**k you, boats!

A lot of people on the Japanese right really like Trump for one reason and one reason only: he’s tough on China (or at least he appears to be on the surface) and they HATE China. They refuse to listen when I calmly explain that containing China would require international alliances and Trump has done everything that…

QAnon is catching on in Japan as well. I’m seeing a lot of pro-Q activity on Japanese-language message boards these days. It’s really quite scary. It’s like a viral pandemic that infects and destroys brain cells. I like to make fun of them by asking them how aliens are involved.

All of the people who are so cool with Apple’s 30% processing fee really don’t seem to mind that it means that you’re paying 30% more for your apps and in-app-purchases? And yes, I know that it’s “industry standard.” It’s “industry standard” because Apple said so.

You do realize that Apple is now one of the biggest and richest companies on earth, right? Like bigger than Microsoft.

A lot of people in this and other posts about the Epic v. Apple lawsuit keep saying that “30% is industry standard,” but why is it industry standard? Is 30% reasonable? How much of that 30% gets passed on to consumers?

They don’t forgive him...because they don’t think he did anything wrong in the first place. They LOVE that he calls soldiers suckers and losers. They LOVE that he’s helped corona kill off all those undesirables. They LOVE that he likes to grab them by the pussy.

His supporters don’t care about the military. They just want to keep enjoying their white ethnostate.

It’s hard to tell if it works when people keep falling out of windows or accidentally drinking radioactive materials before they even get a chance to be exposed to COVID-19.

A pox on both their houses. What makes the Apple vs. Epic fight so fun is that you can’t help but hope for both sides to lose at the same time.

I am struggling to imagine a scenario in which what you’re suggesting would have resulted in a better outcome. China is not all that sensitive to international pressure (especially concerning domestic affairs, which the virus still was at that time), and taking a harder line with China has a way of making much-needed…

Your first point is valid, but I am not sure about your second point. The WHO is neither an investigative organization nor an intelligence organization, so I do not see how they could have been in a position to dispute the official figures coming out of China or obtain more accurate figures through other means. I am…

He won’t start encouraging civil war until he loses the election. He’ll be like, “If I can’t have America, then nobody can!”

This reminds of how, right before the end credits on the last episode of HBO’s Chernobyl, the following text appeared on screen: “Radiation is not as dangerous as the media makes it out to be. Of all the people who died of radiation poisoning in Pripryat, a vast majority were old and sickly to begin with and would…

Of course Facebook isn’t going to do anything about this. Violence on American streets is good for their bottom line.

Hopefully, more developers will follow Epic’s example until the App Store has as many AAA third-party apps as Tony Soprano had friends at the end. Because that’s how they’re acting: like Tony Soprano. 

No amount of orthodontics is gonna fix your teeth if you keep sucking on a pacifier into your teens.