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  • Whenever I see his uncanny face, in the back of my mind I always think he looks like what Mark Zuckerberg’s dad must look like

  • Wow - while I sympathize with their goals, this represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how the Internet works. They need to restrict and govern corporate entities, not the Internet itself.

  • This is definitely the work of Sony, not the developer. There is no motivation for the developer to require PSN signups for the game and all the motivation in the world for Sony. In addition, anything dealing with how the game is distributed is solely within the purview of the publisher- the developer almost never has any say in what happens in that case.

  • That’s because there’s nothing he can do - this was Sony’s decision as the publisher and the developers can’t do squat about it unfortunately

  • The fines are limited by statute, so $1k per instance is the max the judge can order

  • “…would 100% identify as female just to walk into the girls bathroom”

    That’s not “boys being boys” thinking, that’s the thinking of a future sexual assailant.

  • “Blue MAGA” - what does that even mean? MAGA isn’t even a cogent ideology, it’s a fawning cult of personality acting in lockstep and built up around a single man – in what way is there any equivalent on the left? Ask twelve liberals for an opinion on something and you’ll get fifteen different answers.

  • The secret is ICANN never has known what the fuck they are doing.

  • Good article but I think the thing it misses is those that currently make up “the base” on the right seem to share the commonality of wanting to be conned. The Christian nationalists, the conspiracy theorists, the buyers of whatever snake oil are currently on offer all want easy, unnuanced answers that continue to validate whatever they’re used to. They ignore systemic issues in favor of the fear du jour because solving the real problems strike at their sense of identity and they’re willing to believe literally anything rather than face the issues that really matter. A feedback loop has taken hold of the GOP which just keeps cranking them further and further away from any sort of reasonable ideology and instead replaced it with spurious and unfounded anxieties and fears. The media has constantly exacerbated this because it increases their metrics and ad dollars to sell the side show.

  • I think I remember this post - wasn’t this like an eight year old article that you posted to the News channel?

  • From a strictly moralistic framework, unless Putin has attacked you personally, it is in cold blood. We can discuss a global societal morality and what would be justified under that, but sadly the global community has let Putin be Putin for decades now, so globally at least, it could be argued that current power structures value the status quo over what risk may be inherent in going after Putin. The kind of mindset you seem to be displaying is essentially just a complicated vigilante.

    The issue seems to be that you are confusing your personal moral framework with some objective moral framework that you have yet to define.

    Would I be absolutely happy to push a button that sent a meteor hurdling through the atmosphere until it sandwiched Putin between itself and the ground? Yep. But I won’t pretend that it’s some “extremely moral” decision.

  • I absolutely hate Putin. But yes, killing in cold blood is indeed murder. If he attacks me personally, self defense is of course morally justified in the minds of many, but killing him before he can by brought before the international courts is assassination and killing him afterwards would still be murder.

  • Under which morality is murder okay? Punishment is an understandable instinct but not as helpful as treatment/rehabilitation/etc. and it never works as a deterrent or “correction” of antisocial behavior. “Extremely moral” seems to be a bit of a reach for “state sponsored murder”.

  • “The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) records the first printed use of the word initialism as occurring in 1899, but it did not come into general use until 1965, well after acronym had become common”

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym

  • You know the whole acronym vs initialism thing is a somewhat new idea? And there’s no hard and fast agreement on it. To correct people on whether something is an acronym or not (especially when they are using it within the term’s original meaning) is simply pedantic.

  • Just curious as why not Portal 2? That’s honestly one of my “chicken soup” comfort food games - Portal 1 is great but to me, Portal 2 is so much more.

  • Probably less geo-location and more just shared IP block/address

  • I’m looking forward to this not going as planned - which seems to be the norm for the GOP these days. How wild would it be for one of their witnesses to just add “…as was directed by President Trump” after something particularly heinous? Hell, this will just keep reminding Americans of how crazy the Republicans are and it’s a presidential election year, so even without a bombshell I think this is probably going to backfire.