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Can we talk about the real reason they did this? They need to label every room in the place so Trump can pretend he’s not lost. He’s completely deranged and clearly sunsetting. This is also why he stays at Mar a Lago instead so often: the familiarity. He’s easier to calm down when he can figure out where he is.

Hey, Ken only liked the patriarchy when he thought it was about horses. These pieces of shit aren’t K’enough.

My question is, do generals found to have low T need to start taking supplements? Are they going to receive gender-affirming care?!

Not sure what you’re calling elderly, but my FIL turned 70 this year, and I just set him up with Mint a few months ago. Dude is loving it.

Private Equity’s housing stock is actually pretty small when compared against so-called “Mom and Pop” landlords. This law creates exceptions for Mom-and-Pops that own ten properties or less.

PE accounts for an average of 2.4% of home ownership in the US. Mom-and-Pops take up another 6.5%, nearly 3x as much. This law will have an outsized impact on sunbelt cities where PE owns double-digits portions of the market, but most of the country won’t perceive these changes at all.

if this doesn’t become profitable in a mainstream way

This is exactly what I meant by Bernie being caught up in tech CEO bluster. He can’t imagine that this shit doesn’t change the world in monumental and lucrative ways. He’s talked about how the tech people he’s spoken to don’t like his proposal because they don’t want to share the profits, but I haven’t seen any CEO make public comments one way or the other. With everyone involved knowing it’s a bubble, I’m sure they secretly love to insure their investments with public money. They just can’t say it out loud or the bubble might pop early.

And, yes, people of every age are tech illiterate. But overwhelmingly the elderly are the people crafting legislation about tech. Old age is heavily associated with cognitive decline, which makes it harder to understand, examine, and interrogate unfamiliar ideas, such as “AI” or “Whatever the Fuck Private Equity is Doing Right Now.” Bernie’s a smart guy, and it seems like he’s still sharper than a lot of his contemporaries, but you can’t fight nature. I’d rather see him cosponsor legislation with a younger senator and mentor the next generation of congress, instead of hanging on to the bitter end and giving us half-baked policy like this.

I listened to a pretty comprehensive interview Bernie had regarding his proposal a few weeks ago. My big takeaway was that he fundamentally misunderstands the technology as it currently exists, and while he’s skeptical of the motives of these tech CEOs, he’s completely bought in on their nonsense claims of fully automating the workforce.

AKA an octogenarian suggesting legislation on a technology he doesn’t understand. This is a thing that has bitten Americans in the ass countless times in the last four decades.

But Bernie’s been advocating for this, guys! You know, Bernie! He’s surely not another octogenarian career politician with a limited understanding of the tech sector!

You really held out for a while, huh?

Not quite as strictly as what you’ve cited, but some of the older Sierra point-and-clicks relied on maps/pamphlets/etc that were packed in with the game. Most just used them as low-budget and thematically in-universe anti-piracy gating (the Dagger of Amon Ra), but some stretched beyond that. Conquests of the Longbow: the Legend of Robin Hood had royal family crests, language keys, and (of I remember correctly) a catalog of gems that were all perused outside of the game interface.

GOG has PDFs of all those documents if you buy the games there, so you can still experience it fully. Might be worth checking out, since it’s usually less than $5.

The police officer didn’t witness the crime. They’re making that Judgement based on evidence provided by a third party.

If my house were broken into, and I managed to capture video of the incident, I can’t just hand that to the police and call it a day. The accused has a constitutionally protected right to face me in court, not just the video or the officer I gave the video to, so that their defense can interrogate it fully. What if there is additional context that undermines the narrative presented by this single piece of evidence? If I know the accused and had a reason to see them convicted (such as getting a kickback from any fine they pay), now my clear evidence becomes a little more suspect. Now there’s a very clear motive for me to skew, misinterpret, or completely fabricate the video.

That’s what OP is referring to. If a company is going to install cameras and claim their cameras caught me doing something I shouldn’t have, I have a right to ask that company for more details regarding their claim. Ideally in a public court, with a representative of the company under oath.

The joke is that Cain has been dead since 2020. Presumably he and Mitch chatted in hell.

Politicians are fine with this because the cameras will just point at their chauffeurs.

Biden campaigned as the dragonslayer who was going to get the Nazis out and force Trump out of politics. He spent four years tripping over his own dick and letting Trump get away with everything.

Party Democrats aren’t going to “repair (our) democracy.” They don’t want to, because doing so would jeopardize their personal economic interests.

Trump didn’t trick leftists into not voting. Democrats showed that they were unable or unwilling to do anything. Harris ran the same campaign as Biden: “I’m the only one who can defeat Trump.” There can’t be two Only Ones!

And before you say it, I held my nose and voted for Harris. Plenty of people did. But you can’t fault people for disengaging when the Democratic Party doesn’t deliver on literally their only campaign promise. Not universal healthcare. Not the minimum wage. Not housing. Just “Trump bad” and “this is democracy’s last chance” twice in a row.

It pains me to say it, but Schumer is bulletproof. He appeals to wealthy Long Islanders and older New York Jews. Outside the city, the state is swingy enough that if Schumer somehow lost a primary, any “crazy leftist” Democrat would lose the general.

No, it won’t be. That’s literally the point. Publishers have viewed the second-hand market as craven scalpers for decades. Companies like GameStop make an absolute killing selling the same used disc 3 or 4 times at $65/ea than selling new for $70 once.

Every few years there’s a new and more aggressive push to limit what people can do or get with a trade-in. It’s why pre-order “bonuses” have gotten to be such a big deal, why live-service games got such a huge push, and now why Sony is eliminating physical media. They think cutting the resellers out means they’ll get more customers, not that less people will play their games.

That’s the appeal of the game. These characters having protracted discussions about existentialism, the nature of free will, and death, and Goofy’s just there going “Gawrsh, Sora!”