They will sue a teenager sleepover if they're playing a modded version of Smash Bros. They have always artificially restricted supply of their own products just for the prestige of it all. Their image with the current US government is not something they're worried about.
Oh this is something. Nintendo is the number one we-don't-give-a-fuck company when it comes to litigation.
There's just no world in which the New York Times can be construed as pro Trump. It can't be construed as any milder version either, whether that's "Trump friendly", "Trump sycophantic, "Trump normalizing," whatever. It's just not true!
Had yet another blueskyer telling me the other day that the NYT is a "pro Trump" outlet. It's just not true!
NEW: Pardon seekers are routinely being asked to pay $1m+ to lobbyists & lawyers claiming access to Trump, often with bonuses if clemency is granted.
I investigated the Trump Pardon Industrial Complex, & detailed the backstory behind 1 interesting pardon.
"A conservative wants to preserve some parts of the existing order and reform others, a fascist wants to overturn all of it."
If anything the movie treats him much too sympathetically like an honorable person who maybe went too far. He is very bad!
And he covers it up! He lies about ordering the Code Red and coerces Kiefer into doing so! He's trying get innocent men to take the fall! He lies under oath before breaking down! He is very dishonorable by any traditional metric. He is the one who treats honor and codes and loyalty as punchlines.
Kaffee very obviously does not consider loyalty and honor to be punch lines. The idea that Kaffee and Galloway are woke is wrong. They're honorable by any conservative definition of the word. Jessup is just an amoral maniac. He doesn't have a code.
Right here: Cruise's character obviously has more honor and loyalty than Jessup. Jessup's "loyalty" does not include the idea that weak soldiers under his command should not die in hazing incidents. That's a warped and distorted view of loyalty!
Authorial intent is not worth much but authorial intent has little impact on the character of Jessup bsky.app/profile/stat...
The big thing is that Jessup's conception of loyalty means dead American soldiers
but this is exactly Yglesias's point, isn't it? if you think that victory speech was better/outlined a more viable path to victory than one that talked about climate or trans kids then you're agreeing with MY
actually, secretly, most Texans are DSA members and they just need to be activated to vote. I would simply turn out the DSA majority in Texas
This is a bad plan, it would give nothing to the bottom 40% while giving the most to people in the 60-80th percentiles of the income distribution.
"why not both" sorry there's no both. AVs are coming and you can't stop them. You should want the non-Musk company to win
Tesla is worth more than Toyota, GM, Honda, Benz, Stellantis combined. They're valued as a tech company, not a car company. Musk can afford to torch his money because of the idea that his magic tech company will win. If it becomes clear they won't, he can less afford to light his money on fire.
People on this site should be gung ho on Waymo if for the sole reason that Elon Musk's fortune is 100% tied into the idea that his AV company will beat Waymo, and it would be extremely good for the world for his net wealth to crater
The worst that I've ever had (genuinely doxxed) was on Twitter by alt-rightists during the 2016 election, but I was a bigger account then. I also recognize there are a lot of problems over here, largely because there are major accounts who think brigading and harassment are legitimate online tactics
lol the DC streetcar
I mean by that argument gaming on your PC is creating all the environmental impact of the entire computer industry
An individual user using an AI also isn’t using all 1000 data centers at the same time though
Didn't this already play out in Ukraine? Cons were posting about Russia's hyper masculine military recruiting videos and... It turns out they are much weaker than they thought!
"oh, so I should have to engage with Nazis?" I mean, no, you don't have to. But if there are certain beliefs that you describe as Nazism that are held by like 20% (not to even mention 70-80%) of people in your society, you kind of have to engage with them. You have no choice.
It's fine if you want to build an anti-AI (or anti-any topic) bubble. But the maxim that *everyone* should do that and retreat to their bubbles is self-defeating for a social media network.
Good thread on the Bluesky idea that it is not only appropriate but necessary to "just block" anyone you disagree with to curate your feed.
Target isn't the NFL but the NFL knows they're more powerful than the current political moment and it was valuable long term to have Bad Bunny play their big show and risk losing 500,000 viewers for 20 minutes
"we're going to have high prices for a little while but as soon as this ends the prices will drop" - famously popular economics of the Biden Administration
I'd have to look into it. I don't put much stock into allegations made alongside allegations that I know to be false, like "the New York Times is a pro trump newspaper"
