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Aljazeera | How Elon Musk funded his $44bn Twitter takeover

A curious read, seems he spent $27bn in cash on the transaction - so he ‘only’ has loans on ~$17bn, across a swathe of investment groups, wealth funds and banks. Basically, I don’t think a margin call is imminent.

Which is a bit of a shame, as it would be somewhat hilarious to see it fall into the hands of a bank like Chase - being such a toxic asset at this point, to know whether they’d try to salvage/pivot it (ideal, but unlikely) - or just sell it on and write off the loss.

No offence to you Canadians, but goddamn your politicians are fuuucked.

Neoliberal politics will be the doom of us all.

Yeah; we’ve got one too - primarily for when you first get out of the shower. It’s really good for drying the soles of your feet, so you don’t slip on tile - and the water evaporates very quickly.

NY Mag article review

Don't even try to explain the numbers to conservatives, just make it clear that if it resulted in them getting more money somehow, it would be literal blood money.

One issue with this is, Conservatives don’t care about random people dying - they’ve been conditioned by right-wing media into believing those people who die deserved it, or that it’s just a deep-state conspiracy with crisis actors.

They will only ever change their stance (and even then, only temporarily) when it happens to a friend or family member.

Appealing to their better nature is a fool’s errand.

Christ, I can’t believe I’m going to have to begin a comment with these words so early in my life..

..but back in my day, the vast majority of the back of a game case was reserved to screenshots, and to describe the features and plot of a game. Not the intricacies of the T&Cs you need to agree to prior to playing!

My personal use devices are all some variation of Pingu (eg. iPingu, Pingtendo etc.), and my NAS devices are based off Pokémon puns (Storlax and Archivysaur currently).

My wife on the other hand is boring, so her’s are just system default.

..and to think that a significant (but probably not primary) reason why Trump is punishing Ukraine is because he wants to oversee a peace treaty regardless of the circumstances, all so that he can earn a Nobel Peace Prize like Obama.

Yes, the man is that shallow and vain.

I’ve barely played anything Nintendo post-SNES, so my assumptions are largely academic.

But to me at least, the primary advantage of dedicated emulation devices such as this (o er a smartphone + controller), is that you’re somewhat actively invested into the games you’re playing, and not distracted by notifications etc.

For me, having access to every single ROM/ISO means I’m rarely as engaged into any single title than I was as a kid and only had access to maybe 2-3 new games a year. Back then, I played the hell out of every single title because I didn’t have a choice; that was my Birthday/Christmas present, or I saved up all of my pocket money for a while.

But to each their own, I’m quite happy with my Steam Deck - and it does the job of enabling me to play my PS2 collection admirably!

Ah, yes - good point! I completely forgot about all of those arcade cabinets with the sideways mounted screens, loads more titles and a bunch of unlocked memories 🤣

While I’m all for emulation getting all the love it can, is there really much demand for such a screen orientation? Are there any other systems that could take advantage of this kind of layout and not just have giant black bars?

I can only think of the DS, 3DS and maybe WiiU..

Happy to be proven wrong, though!

“Let me be very clear” is such a Bernie-ism.. even unattributed, it’s so easy to tell that it’s him.

Truly a global loss that he was never given a fair chance to challenge for the Presidency.

We have a cavoodle, basically a smaller version of this breed.

He’s not aggressive, basically a big wuss-bag, but he gets along with our 2yo like a house on fire!

My biggest issue with the breed is that they seem to hhave no sense of self-preservation - picking fights with much larger, more serious dogs (German Shepherds, Border Collies etc.), and are one of the only breeds I have ever encountered that aren’t primarily motivated by food.. ours in particular is a ridiculously fussy eater.

Our in-house joke about him is that he’s not a dog at all, but a sentient teddy bear.

Slight correction; you’re referring to Super Mario Bros. (1985).

The plain ol’ Mario Bros. (1983) was the arcade platformer about bunking mobs coming out of pipes:

Multiple Ceasars are spinning in their graves, at your first sentence. 🤣

Oh don’t you worry, they’ll still get vaccinated using whatever blend a competent government (EU) decides upon in collaboration with the WHO.

You know that they will still get the best quality healthcare, right? In the taxpayer dime no less!

Unrelated, but what’s the source show for this meme?

Not yet mentioned:

Prince of Persia Trilogy (Sands of Time, Warrior Within, Two Thrones)

God of War 1&2

Devil May Cry 1-3

Bully (Canis Canem Edit in PAL)

Killer7

Under the Skin

Viewtiful Joe 1&2

She’ll always be Jenny from Eurotrip to me. 🥺

Replace mega corp with ‘a publicly traded entity’ and you’re spot-on the money.

There are a very few studios that aren’t beholden to the whims of vulture capitalist investors, and they’re the only ones still putting out absolute bangers (Larian), upholding their promises (Hello Games) or keeping the entire gaming industry from consuming itself in a blaze of pure shitfuckery (Valve).