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The US military has shared its responsibilities and resources with private contractors plenty of times. What do you think Blackwater was?

All things considered, between the US government having control over them and Elon having control over them, missing their intended target couldn't be any worse than hitting it.

They're trying to repeal Section 230... again...

No surprise that this was his plan all along. Threaten the whole world with insanely high tariffs and then offer to get rid of them in exchange for basically becoming their president too.

The only thing sci-fi like Blade Runner got wrong was the assumption that we'd have to wait until robots could physically assume human form before we had to worry about them secretly walking among us. In reality, all we had to do was remove the requirement for people to show up in person to...

The mere fact that they're capable of building and deploying them at all should have been a red flag. Of course, this being SpaceX, "capable" is being generous.

Elon Musk unironically believes that iirc

Preferably before his meatshield grows tall enough to block a headshot.

Isn't it a classic move for dictators to dissolve their legislatures entirely rather than merely purge them of opposition members? EDIT: And even if it wasn't, Trump has already made it clear that he considers Congress dead weight and would rather do everything through executive orders. That...

All I know is that he had a gun that looks like a submachine gun but he pumps it like a shotgun in one cutscene because someone decided it looked cool, and he says "Where is that DAMN fourth chaos emerald?" To me it seems like a product of its time, a culture dominated (at least in the US...

Yeah, if Nintendo had the money for it, they absolutely own enough IPs that they could have built a whole theme park of their own rather than piggyback on Universal. I've been thinking about that ever since the partnership was first announced. The Hyrule zone would be bigger and more sprawling...

For those of you who were looking at the silver lining of these tariffs that it would cut down on wasteful shipments across the ocean in polluting ships, I have more good news: Starting in 2027, all overseas shipments are getting taxed for their carbon emissions by an international body I didn't...

I'd like to see the statistics on that, actually, because outside of like celebrities I didn't think keeping one's maiden name is very common in general, but I could be out of touch.

The only reason it's not crashing even harder is that there's no obvious path forward for anyone who wants to try to avoid this. No foreign country that's going to benefit from this, or even ride it out in relative safety. The rest of the world has become dangerously dependent on the US, and now...

The burning question is whether this will cause them to refuse to ever vote again, believing Trump is the only candidate worthy of their vote, or if they'll fall for any opportunistic bastard who claims to be speaking for him. And, if it's the latter, what will happen when there are multiple...

The carbuncle really did eat itself???

Oh right. Remember when he almost started World War III and then COVID happened and derailed everybody's plans? Those plans are now back on.

Nintendo has one major advantage over all of the competition: their consoles are the only gaming devices that support a texture compression algorithm called ASTC. It was created for phones and tablets to accommodate their small memory and storage limits, which means the Switch can cram more...

IMDb credits three animators (plus inbetweens and clean-up) for him, none of whose other credits provide much of a hint. I wonder if it's just a DisneyToon Australia thing in general, because I've seen other characters with oddly exaggerated lipsyncing if not quite to that degree (except the...

I hadn't even put "starting a literal war with Mexico" on my Bingo card and honestly I just feel really stupid for it now.