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Apple has a free-recycling policy for both obsolete and broken units—it's the cornerstone of their boasts about being environmentally friendly which I'm sure is worth a ton in tax breaks—but I think you have to turn them in at an Apple Store specifically. And of course, as with all recycling, I...

See, that's a fallacy I think we need to get over—treating every drop as the bottom falling out of it. Like, almost as long as the public has been aware of Bitcoin, every single time its value seemingly tanked, everyone was like "Well so much for that lol"... and then the line goes back to...

Dan Olson did a video yesterday. It's long as hell, so I'll sum up the most important part: If you thought the environmental threat was the worst thing about crypto and NFTs... well, you're probably still right, but it turns out there are a ton of runners-up that are each making the world a...

Actually now that you bring it up, that's almost definitely what's going to happen. There was a statement from someone involved with the film—already long buried by the Twitter algorithm—saying something like "Once I started to dig into his past, I knew this had to be a movie." Which contradicts...

Wait, how does that make sense? It's easier to convince them to send him free money if they don't think it's going toward a campaign? What do they think it's for then? If anything, he's tricking them into assuming he's going to run, but because he hasn't declared yet, he has the freedom to just...

On that note, does Lay's/Walker's count? They were both separate brands originally, and then Frito-Lay decided to redesign the Walker's bag to match the Lay's one after the buyout.

The best we can hope for is either (A) Biden choosing to step down and let Harris run in his stead, and/or (B) Trump continuing to alienate the antivaxxers to the point where they refuse to vote for him, possibly combined with a split vote between him and whatever antivaxxer steps up to be the...

Wait, that reminds me... Activision for some reason made a Wolfenstein game one time and it got delisted from Steam because licensing jive. Does this mean we're going to get that back now?

My dad works at a school, and they were throwing out a bunch of stuff, including six iPads. What you see before you are two gen 4s, one gen 3 (32GB cellular model, which must have cost a pretty penny when it was new), and three first-gen Airs. The gen 4s are running iOS 10.3.3, the Airs are...

Great. Now COVID germs can just spontaneously generate, like the stinkbugs in my windows. Whatever wants humanity extinct has just dispensed with the subtlety at this point.

I just realized. The PlayStation's own mascots now belong to Sony's biggest competitor. Somebody find out who at Sony passed up the opportunity to buy those IPs, and check on them to see if they're OK.

Honestly their willingness to bail out a company that's been involved with such terrible jive just makes me want to know how much dirty laundry of their own Microsoft has, and how long we'll have to wait until it's all made public. If someone has, perhaps, been on the fence about leaking the...

Ah, so they're actually tricking people into sending them money. OK, I guess technically that's ransomware. In the same way that it's still a hostage situation even if you always intended to shoot the hostages.

The FCC already has rules on the books that only avoid running afoul of the first amendment because they claim to literally own the airwaves. Rules against salty language, racial slurs, nudity—and the Fairness Doctrine back when that existed. No one has ever stood in the way of that. A rule that...

Good God, Microsoft is just determined to rescue every terrible game company from the consequences of their own actions, aren't they. It was one thing when it was just serially-incompetent Bethesda, but... no, Activision does not deserve to go on existing. And we don't deserve to go on...

That's just called a virus.

People are always talking about "taking money out of politics"; the easiest way they could do that is just have the FCC ban all political advertising. I bet it'd be real popular with people who live in swing states too.

Hungry Jack's has a really fun story behind it. "Hungry Jack" is a brand of pancake mix in the US, and that's not a coincidence: for most of its existence, Burger King was actually owned by Pillsbury. When an Australian approached them about franchising, and it turned out there was already a...

It's not like they couldn't have found real footage of empty shelves in American stores in 2022. They're just lazy about their B roll. Let's not pretend inflation, supply shortages, etc. are some kind of entirely made-up story.

I dunno, I'm pretty sure 90% of the developed world is dealing with this better than we are. It's clear now that starving it into extinction was never an option (pretty much nothing short of a totalitarian dictatorship has the power to do what would have been necessary for that anyway, and...