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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.

Welp, looks like the "special master" that Trump demanded look over the documents isn't working out so well. He basically said "Whaddaya want me to do about it?" pointing out that he's not authorized to see the contents either because they're classified. Even if it was just a delay tactic, it...

Their disinformation is chaotic, self-contradicting nonsense that only fellow Qanoners even attempt to take seriously. Trump's disinformation campaign—that he is first and foremost a great leader and that secondly he had the 2020 election stolen from him—is simple, consistent, and to the point...

So despite all our efforts to avoid starting World War III, he's determined to do it anyway just out of spite.

Isn't that kind of an oxymoron? In order to be a train wreck, surely it has to be a lot worse than just mediocre.

The news this evening made a big deal about Trump using a Qanon dogwhistle at his rally, but like... does Qanon actually represent any kind of threat beyond being followers of Donald Trump? If he's "hiding" references in his material, it's probably just to appease their desire to pretend they're...

I was thinking more Count Olaf.

Ceremonial monarchy in a nutshell: They're only allowed to make one rule, that everyone has to pretend to care about them. And they milk it for all it's worth.

That's the other thing. Nintendo's remakes and remasters frequently (always?) launch at sub-$60 prices, or are sold bundled together. I think they understand, on some level, that it's silly to try to sell people games they already own for the same price they already paid for them, prettied-up...

Sounds like someone tried to "make it look like an accident" but had the brain of a Saturday morning cartoon villain's bumbling minion so they made it look like the kind of accident that's still criminal negligence at best.

I'd say "Imagine being so full of yourself that you'd remake your game twice in a row" but then I remembered that they already did that with Shadow of the Colossus and Ico and it was probably a smart move, and also that people would be thrilled if they re-remade Wind Waker for the Switch.

I looked up their Twitter just to like and retweet that one; they have another one today that's pretty good:

Oh yeah, I skipped over this, but it dawned on me that this is also ridiculously fudged. They make it seem like time dilation caused his trip to be longer than anticipated, not just the failure to achieve lightspeed. Which is stupid because getting closer to the speed of light makes the trip...