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.

It’s not that the FCC doesn’t regulate cable, it’s that cable doesn’t have broadcast licenses. No spectrum license to revoke.

The path to regulating a cable TV channel is not a straightforward one in the US. If it was, cable news a la Fox would have been in the crosshairs devades ago.

Yup

Voted 99-0 in the Senate.

Good job, Democrats. We know Republicans were pieces of shit, but the reason Democrats’ polling is in the toilet is because of stuff like this.

Yeah, but only because “CBS” doesn’t have a broadcast license, stations do.

Also, cable TV doesn’t use “broadcast licenses”, and IPTV & streaming certainly don’t.

A lot of what Trump does makes sense when you realize his brain ossified in 1982.

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.

Hey, John Roberts, you know that thing that we all said Trump would do, that you said he wouldn’t?

Guess what, you numpty?

So, what you’re saying is we need a party of dicks fuck both the pussies and the assholes, before the pussies are covered in shit?

(All credit to Team America: World Police)

Technically they can’t dismantle USAID either.

A lot depends on the courts now.

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.

“National Conservatism” on the wall, without a hint of irony.

I wonder if in a decade or so, if NaCo (nacho?) will replace Nazi in the lexicon.

One hole, because of Danger Diabolik

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.

GaetzGate