This movie sequel will be mandated by Trump’s Freedom-of-Speech Certified ™ state media critics, to recreate the Jackie Chan saying the N word scene, in order to be approved. /j

I love that none of the media has stuck with Trump’s renaming of stuff.

Call me a shill, but Valve’s actions indicate that they care about the money that comes from improving a product or service. That differentiates them from many publicly traded companies that care about money at the expense of the quality of their own products and services.

Folks, they were definitely the best numbers ever in Donald’s living memory, which has a capacity of 30 seconds.

Climate change deputy minister going to climate change conference, in a glitzy oil funded country. $18k for a six day conference is within the realm of reasonableness. Round trip business class tickets for one person YVR - DXB will run you around 10K CAD. Economy is still like 2.5k.

I guess he could save 18k, attend remotely and let Chevron, Shell, bp, and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers do all the handshaking and talking.

The bill has in the provision that those redactions must be specifically targeted and temporary. Redactions must come with a summary and legal justification.

This judge was like, Texas had a whole plan to gerrymander away PoC while pretending it has nothing to do with race as approved by the Supreme Court. The DOJ can’t keep their mouth shut and are too incompetent to understand the nuance of the case they were citing.

I think it depends on how much the implicated billionaires and some of the smarter Republicans are involved in editing the files.

If the Trump admin is doing it alone, I bet that this redaction will be completed so sloppily and incompetently, there will be enough crumbs and hints leftover that we’ll be able to paint a picture to see more on how Trump and Republicans are involved.

I think they are referring to the conservative justices on the Supreme Court.

Much of the point of an preliminary injunction is to prevent irreversible harm to parties… but in their selective application of them, they repeatedly value the executive branch’s feelings over the Constitution, the rule-of-law, and in this case a US$1T clusterfuck on the people of the United States.

I hope their faith guides them but does not control nor blind them.

This bubba thing is making my day.

Oh boy I also hope this comes with the login queue battle royale mechanic (video) as well. Couldn’t call it a modern AAAA experience without one.

1.5V Li-ion batteries in AA size that can be charged by USB-C are now available. For stuff like TV remotes, flashlights, little toys and gadgets anything more seems overpowered than needed.

This scene is definitely going to get dramaticized in the future movie/documentary about Trump. Maybe just a 3 second unmentioned reference, maybe with context, who knows.

I think this is a little different because I believe in unreleased form this is more of a monkey on the Trump fandom’s back. Had they just been released at the start, there would have been massive coverage for a week, but MAGA would believe that Trump’s different by being open and transparent about it, and Democrats are just whining and people would forget about it much like the Papers. Whereas this way, it’s clear the Republican swamp has something it REALLY doesn’t want to reveal, to the point they’d be willing to starve the country and hold the entire government hostage over releasing them.

If the average American voter’s days were filled with lavish dinner parties, golfing trips and vacations where famous people gave them golden trinkets, then I could imagine they would think their country is on a good path.

Here’s the thing. Mamdani’s a good man, the mayor has some levers like rent control, but he doesn’t have the power to fix everything about the city completely alone. He will need every New Yorker who was moved by his campaign to help him accomplish his promises.

AP calls the race for Mamdani as well.

Beacon of hope in a dark time for America. Now it’s time for all New Yorkers to prepare to make the city that lifts everyone up in a way that every North American city would want to emulate.

In one sense yes they are a monopoly. But there are alternative game stores. However Valve has earned their cut of money by actually trying to make a platform that works for game developers, game players and themselves.

Don’t get me wrong, they have a high risk of turning bad and extorting the market they have captured. But the truth is that every equally or greater sized competitor (Microsoft, Ubisoft, EA, Epic) has already skipped to the extortion part of the cycle and Valve simply hasn’t, and hasn’t really expressed any intention to do that. Being a privately owned company, Valve is allowed to sit back, enjoy the money they do make and not have to constantly ask for more, and develop what the staff feel like making without strict deadlines.

The smaller competitors are still great even if not as feature filled (GOG, itch) and you should support them too. So while I reject that Valve is the big bad, I also reject that Valve could never enshittify. My position is that Valve has earned a trust no one else has (even itch had to cave to Credit Card companies), and that trust is Valve’s to break.

Go and ask the clown ambassador Pete Hoekstra.