If Nadella was visiting Musk, why was Trump there? /s

Anyone who thinks he’ll do it at all is delusional; he’s gotten $200 million in bribes to increase corporate profits, not lower them.

It’d be great if California’s consumer privacy protections could be applied at the federal level, but as long as the Republicans retain the presidency, either house of congress, or the Supreme Court, it would either never get passed or simply get struck down and returned to the state regulatory level.

Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry Series and New Funky Mode

An odd way to state that African Americans have disproportionately high amounts of medical debt; if anything, it’s an indicator of unequal access to economic opportunities that let people afford expensive medical treatments.

Therefore, rather than shifting the narrative into one of handouts, a better solution would be to make progress on reducing the country’s inflated medical costs—the result of capitalism being applied to the inelastic demand for essential medical services.

For many Palestinian civilians, ‘all hell’ and more has already broken out.

Stopping people from demeaning people on account of their sexual orientation or gender identity isn’t censorship, it’s ensuring the platform is sufficiently inclusive for everyone to feel safe participating in the first place.

While I don’t personally encourage the use of Facebook on account of its data profiteering, anyone who doesn’t mind that shouldn’t be subjected to harassment by bigots, regardless of how many such bigots get elected to Congress in any given year.

Black Flag was the first one I played. As a result I then played Rogue and 3, then tried 2, which seemed mechanically a bit outdated (might try it again; just wish its health UI were more like Black Flag’s), so played Unity instead. Still have to try Syndicate, which seems to still be mechanically similar enough to the original formula to be interesting.

Played Origins past the first boss fight, but stopped since it no longer felt like an Assassin’s Creed game. Odyssey and Valhalla appear to replicate the Origins formula, so skipped them altogether. Might try Mirage at some point, given its lack of the RPG mechanics of the prior three games, but probably won’t get Shadows due to it seemingly returning in part to the RPG formula.

Narrator: But they didn’t, and nothing changed. /s

Wouldn’t be surprised if JetBlue paid a $1 million bribe to Trump’s ‘inaugural’ fund to keep the regulation unenforced, in the unlikely event that it would even be pursued by the incoming administration in the first place…

The ‘restored’ version is an official ROM hack of the NES version, so it can be played on the NES itself too via a flashcart.

Pokémon Pinball: Ruby and Sapphire; unironically more addictive than the mainline Pokémon games.

Legislation like that might happen in places like the EU, but in the US at least, unless lobbying rules are amended, consumers stand next to no chance against the commercial interests of advertisers.

If you’re the one paying for internet access, you should also have the right to determine the content that you’re paying to have access to. While something like pi hole could be used to metaphorically take down most of the billboards without impacting the ground below it, even everyday users should be informed about the data advertisers are getting from them, whether it is anonymized or not. Hiding an important setting about data sharing near the bottom of a page in settings doesn’t help anyone but the advertisers.

Plastic Makers to Lawyers: Keep up the lobbying and we’ll be fine!

stay in islands

“With wall-to-wall flatscreen displays and surround sound, our luxury bunkers let you have the scenic beachfront property you’ve always dreamed of!” /s

I’m sure any and all chicken producers will use it as an excuse to keep increasing prices.

Perhaps more like what fridge companies do via incessant water filter replacement reminders: Enjoying your Super Deluxe CoolPlus™ Fridge? Don’t forget to check out the CoolPlus™ Fridge Magnetic Spice Rack and CoolPlus™ Fridge Juice Dispenser Add-on!

There isn’t a free alternative that works as well, unfortunately. Bing not only has many of the same issues, but has worse results. Since DuckDuckGo makes use of Bing’s API for its results, in addition to lacking features such as date range searches, it is still a step down in terms of the quality of one’s search results. Having switched to Firefox due to Google’s efforts to make unilateral, self-serving changes to Chromium, I’d be only too glad to switch search providers if an alternative provider had a similar number of accurate results.

Isn’t it only source available, and not open source, due to a restriction on reusing the code?

A success does not include leaving a victim of failed experimental medicine with a non-functional implant. In contrast to how animal subjects are used as test subjects (often conducted with less oversight than there should be), using experimental medicine on volunteering patients should be done not just to collect better data than the chimps before them supplied, but with the genuine expectation that the product in question will benefit the patient beyond their usefulness as a test subject for continued product development.