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That's... how does that even happen? Surely there was a database back before Twitter Blue was a thing, because reading data off a database is how dynamic websites work. And even if there wasn't, there have to at least be a table of who has a checkmark, and a table of who's a paid Twitter Blue...

Isn't that pretty much what we all said about Trump? At this point, the dude just needs to be able to stand behind a podium ranting like a Fox News pundit and the base will eat it up.

The part about banning modems and routers that are made in China... do they not realize that's all of them? Are they just going to make having a working internet connection a crime in and of itself???

Why do none of these cases seem to have any front-mounted ports at all? Also, I noticed recently that all the ATX cases put the power supply at the bottom nowadays. I kinda get that you're getting fresh outside air that way instead of air that's already been heated by the internal components...

Wait... so Disney had set it up so that, even in the event Reedy Creek were taken over or dissolved, the company could just take over its rights and duties officially? Does that mean Reedy Creek was only ever there to lend an air of legitimacy to the company town they were running, while the...

And history will remember Merrick Garland as an accessory to America's downfall for not prosecuting Trump's very obvious federal crimes and instead leaving it up to the states. Possibly a willing one, if history is feeling particularly sassy.

And it's not just the current administration. It sounds like this grants sweeping powers to the executive branch that are just begging to be abused by the next Republican to inherit the office. Does Biden... think?

Well, there won't be an aforementioned TikTok anymore once the bill goes into effect, since it's operated out of the company's US-based offices and is separate from the Chinese equivalent Douyin. Unless they manage to find someone outside of China to sell it off to, which seems like the most...

Man, imagine if one of our leaders did something so awful that the entire country shut down in protest. I mean, I'm not sure how someone that unpopular got elected in the first place, unless their elections are as big of a sham as Russia's...

One key difference is that we didn't just completely stop making new cars 40 years ago; we've spent that whole time continuing to improve the tech. Meanwhile, even building a plant as reliable as the 40-year-old ones would require the expertise of people who have long since retired or died. But...

And you think American corporations have gotten better at following safety regulations since the pre-Reagan era?

Or maybe it should just be the environmental disasters thread. Hey, remember when people were saying we should go back to more nuclear power because technology has advanced and we know how to make them not break anymore?

Ah yes, back to the halcyon days when the only sources of information were curated by billion-dollar corporations and the only way to connect with likeminded people was to hope some happened to live right next door. Pass.

Even though actually getting attention that isn't glowingly positive also makes him miserable. He's like a heroin addict who's long since stopped being able to actually get high but still has to keep hitting to stave off withdrawal.

I should do a teardown of my used computer chair sometime, and try to figure out why it has a habit of making a clunking noise when I swivel it.

Napster also wasn't killed by a bill sponsored and signed by a sitting president who was up for reelection; it was killed by a court ruling and laws that were older than most of its users' parents. Big difference.

And honestly, for those of us who want to see social media as a whole shrivel up and die, a comprehensive crackdown on data harvesting would probably accomplish that too, because 90% of these companies have no idea how else to make money anymore. That said, it won't turn back the clock and...

Heck, I wouldn't have minded a return to the gruff Brooklyn-accented voice for this movie at all. Even now, 99% of the complete sentences Mario has uttered over the course of his life have been in some variant of that voice, and I'm the kind of person who's seen enough footage of the Super Show...

The thing is, letting a site fade into obscurity naturally is different from everyone waking up and discovering it's just been wiped from existence, all at once, by force, by your own government, at the height of its popularity. The only other time I can think of when that's happened was...

Hey, you know how Biden can guarantee losing the votes of nearly all Americans under 30? By sponsoring and passing a bill to shut down TikTok.