I hope broader international recognition of Palestine helps spur more recognition of Kurdistan.

That shit should be illegal.

Moderna has their combined vaccine currently in clinical trials.

We put Kalashnikov on Sergey’s rowboat, Ukraine cowers before invincible Russian engineering!

To me, the most unrealistic part of that ad is not the edge to edge displays, or the holograms emanating from them, or the overall inefficiency of it all, but rather just that you could never have a place that full of screens without ads being everywhere.

I remember first watching that video on my first smartphone and thinking “When will they ever make a phone without bezels?” And now they pretty much have, but my experience was not some artistic interface full of aesthetically pleasing data and art. It was a YouTube video completely surrounded by ad content.

Forbidden Kitkats

Hard to compete when the government heavily subsidizes the local industry while simultaneously making it very difficult for foreign companies to operate.

I as of this very minute just got the alert that it was back up (and yes, it did also ask you to not call in to check)

Right as a big heat wave kicks off, too.

When I saw the message come up on my phone, all I could think was how glad I was to not be whoever is responsible for the outage, because people are likely going to die from this and I’d never want that on my conscience.

Amazing progress. Hopefully the rest of Asia can follow suit in short order.

I met a number of LGBTQ+ folks in China who were wonderful, honest people, but most of them were afraid to publicly display or talk about their sexuality/gender identities due to the risk of social/legal reprisal, given the deteriorating state of policies towards LGBTQ+ rights in recent years.

While other countries in East/Southeast Asia have begun to open up to the idea of same-sex marriage like Taiwan in 2019 and now Thailand, a lot in China see this as a symptom of growing westernization to be opposed. Logic being that if the westernized countries who we don’t like start to embrace the idea, we should reject it. And unfortunately a lot of Asia follows China’s lead in particular.

Fair, but not-shitty companies eventually become shitty companies in almost every circumstance. I hate making the argument that someone is fine because they only hurt a few people compared to the guy who hurts lots.

Sadly, I don’t think there’s any way this goes to court. Opinion on genocide is not a protected class, and as long as it’s not a protected class, a company in the US can decide not to hire you for essentially any reason.

You are able to click again to skip the animation. The rest of the setup though is important to be able to apply bonuses.

Well, it’s not siding with Microsoft, it is Microsoft. This is a Microsoft game.

I suppose this scenario is actually somewhat reassuring, because the guy who killed 12 people deserves whatever misfortune falls upon him. You wouldn’t have to feel bad stealing his knowledge and memories, and could also go to the local guards to turn him in with the knowledge you’ve obtained.

Though good luck sleeping at night with the knowledge of what it felt like to murder 12 people with your own hands and see the life fade from their eyes.

Companies are never your friend.

Valve is like any other company. They’re as good as your money is good.

Is that in American dollars?

If those 300 games were even US $70 each which is exceedingly generous, you’d only scratch $21,000 as the cost of everything. Unless Steam was literally giving you $180,000+ for using their store, you’ve not saved hundreds of thousands.

Unless you’re referring to hundreds of thousands of pennies.

He only can get one more term

Until the corrupt Supreme Court decides to adopt the “unconstitutional constitutional amendment” doctrine and gets rid of that pesky 22nd amendment.

Moot point though because the old fuck will probably die before a third term is even on the table.

Not great if you are also trying to de-Google, though.

If they offered you 20,000 more than what you expected, might be you are underselling your actual worth and could have negotiated for more.