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The funny thing is, NFTs actually represent a step backwards for microtransactions, if anything. Because under the current system, the game's publishers hold all the cards. In-game items are often not transferrable at all, forcing anyone who wants one to buy it directly from the in-game store...

Even ones whose opening move was a random act of violence?

I can definitely see that turning into a slippery slope, where our idea of what's a safe place to live gets more and more narrow until we're all huddled together in the one place that the data shows has never been hit by a single natural disaster... only for the long-overdue natural disaster to...

How does one go about removing judges, anyway? I assume the president doesn't have the authority to just replace any federal judge they want whenever they want.

I'm curious if snake handling is legal in all 33 of those states. Because that's the usual case that's brought up when discussing the idea that freedom of religion has limits.

The same people who are "dumb enough" to live in a state that's perpetually on fire, or in the middle of Tornado Alley, or on a volcanic island, or anywhere in the third world... It's not always a case of having a choice.

Now the fun part: sitting back and watching what happens to the tech industry's master plan for a dystopian future where everything is based off those stupid things. Do they backpedal, or do they forge ahead on the hopes that they have the power to reshape the world according to their will...

Or it's possible the pipe just randomly sprang a leak because it was poorly made. Apparently that's a thing that happens. Remember how the one the US built a few years ago, under heavy protest, ended up developing a leak within only a month of being finished or something?

Wait, you lost me. What does abortion have to do with the UK's economic policy?

Well, that or it's a race thing. Because I can tell you there are plenty of places in the world where the population is very much not declining, and it's almost entirely places where there are almost no white people.

OK, can somebody explain this to me? I thought "the markets" are controlled by the kind of rich people who would love a policy like that. But it seems like the UK is so progressive that even the rich don't want policies that make them even richer???

Nvidia has always kind of been the BMW of video cards, targeting people who think it's worth paying three times as much for a card that's 1½ times as good. AMD only has to remain comparatively affordable to keep their own niche. Ironically if anyone's going to shake things up it's going to be...

Well, I have been informed that hell finally froze over. Etherium actually switched to proof-of-stake, which I think means the very existence of NFTs no longer hinges on the expenditure of entire countries' worth of energy. I've been told that it also means the value of graphics cards is going...

I suppose it's a matter of unions being a power multiplier for whoever they represent. In much the same way that unions representing already-horrendously-overpaid people like actors and athletes are used to make them even richer, unions representing violent thugs enable them to be even more...

I don't know what about police unions in particular would make them more effective than any other union in protecting their dudes from consequences. What is effective is society's underlying assumptions that cops are always the good guys, that interfering with their ability to do their work...

Oh no, Russia's getting mad at the UN. I sure hope they don't do something rash like voluntarily pull out of the Security Council. Then we'd be free to make even more decisions that they don't like.

Eh. They're aiming to become one of the 600 most powerful people in a nation of 300 million; I feel like we can afford to be picky.

I don't know where you're getting this one from but I find it hard to believe he had promised to hand the documents over to someone in particular and was just putting it off for a year and a half.

Imagine having one of the loosest borders in the world and still having to import a foreign-language version of a product from overseas because you can't get the one in your own language from across said border. Canada, are y'all OK?

More Republicans voted for a bill protecting gay marriage than voted to protect democracy. Imagine going back in time to the mid-2000s and telling someone that.