Young Americans Are Spending A Whole Lot Less On Video Games This Year

I miss the days of Metrowerks Codewarrior

There’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time…

Yes, but they get there “backwards”.

It’s not like they believe healthcare is inherently demotivating, it’s that they’re already Red Team members, and “Healthcare and welfare breed moochers” is a Red Team belief, and since they’re good Red Team members, they synthesize it into their belief system–despite the fact functionally no one rips off the healthcare system because, frankly, you have to have some kind of pathology to visit a doctor enough for fraud to be an issue.

I mean “Oh noes, they’re ripping off the healthcare systems by… (checks notes) …getting antibiotics for their earache!!” is not a thing. Ever.

Everyone, even in countries with socialized medicine, avoids interactions with the healthcare system until they need to. I mean, do you you really want to recreationally get your throat swabbed? I’m sure there’s four people on this planet of nine billion who get off on that, but that’s it.

Now, rich people, they come to this believe authentically. They hate public healthcare because a) they have to pay for it, and b) it’s one less piece of leverage they have to keep people shackled to work. But make no mistake, they also suffer from the delusion, above.

Just reminding everyone that Lutke is a right-wing shitheel, and that he and Shopify explicitly platform, support and make money from Nazism.

Carry on.

IRC, XMPP, Usenet.

We need open options that aren’t beholden to a given company. Email is the last vestige of a more civilized age.

Is the intent to make Taiwan just roll over and invite China in?

Because it sure fucking looks like it.

He’s an opportunistic jackass, but he’s not wrong.

I know it’s a gag post, but I always like to see a reference to After Man or Man After Man.

You’d think this, but so far he just seems to keep damaging more things and rolling everything up into a kind of metastasizing grift that gets it’s tentacles into everything.

What the age of consent in every legal jurisdiction.

NT 3.5 was the last good version. Fight me.

You’re absolutely right about this. 7 is basically a Vista service pack that got rebranded.

All of the “good stuff” people credit 7 with came in Vista.

8 wasn’t nearly as bad as people think, and there were big improvements to the kernel that make it a definite improvement over 7.

The problem for most people was the Start screen, which if you could get past, left you with what was a really good OS.

Less ads and telemetry than 10, too.

I’m old. That’s what I know them for.

No less than The Economist uses the BMI (“Big Mac Index”) to compare economies.

I was going to say, this is how we get “I am Legend”.

Cellebrite isn’t American.

Representives Omar and Tlaib would disprove that point.

As a slow cyclist, I’d totally wear this.

We used to have progressive income taxes that did this.

Reagan, Thatcher and their ilk pulled them because “trickle down, a rising tide lifts all boats, thousand points of light, blah blah blah”