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The general public has no say in what's being debated in Congress, but C-SPAN exists anyway.

There was a US Congressman who proposed a bill restricting how video games were allowed to use lootboxes. He was a Republican, even. I think it must have died in committee because I haven't heard anything about it since before the pandemic.

Or ever.

We had a thread for this before, and it's in the news again, so let's bring it back. First off, Diablo Immortal has just broken the record for lowest Metacritic score (read: biggest review-bombing from angry gamers), and while I'm sure some of it is just gamers being pissy about it being a...

It is sad that the country most associated with "It could happen here... and it probably will happen here, in particular" (see: 1984, The Wall, V for Vendetta) and devolution into a police state has better policies for dealing with misbehaving cops than we do. On that note, I've noticed that...

I should note that some of the smaller cell providers piggybacking on the big three networks are themselves operated by the major cable companies. You'd think the big three's lobbyists would have some choice words to say about the lopsided nature of that deal, if nothing else.

How many Republicans are in Congress? It's at least that many. That's the number they're afraid of being found.

And maybe that's the problem. If someone is attacking you and you refuse to fight back, of course they're going to win.

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

The big three cell phone providers are required to lease their towers out to third parties at competitive rates, which is why smaller providers like Mint and Boost and Cricket are able to exist. The same should happen with the cable lines.

My point is that the public absolutely would not, as MEDdMI suggested, be as blasé about an assassination as they are toward mass shootings. In fact, the attempt on Reagan's life was exactly what prompted one of the biggest waves of gun control laws in US history. Am I saying the solution to...

I dunno, when was the last time a major US political figure was straight-up assassinated? I can't even recall any in my lifetime.

So far they seem to be mostly going in the opposite direction. Third time's the charm?

Yeah. It was either that or a completely custom OS that doesn't natively support anything. And at least this way it has the side effect of making regular Linux an almost-viable gaming platform, albeit at the expense of basically turning it into a glorified Windows emulator.

Eventually it'll be the government who's doing the mass killings. Getting people used to an existence where life is cheap is a necessary first step towards that.

On the subject of emulators, are you able to get RetroArch working? Specifically the one from the Steam store where the actual cores are packaged as DLC for some reason. I tried it on desktop Linux when it first launched, and it wouldn't actually install the cores, and according to the Steam...

I used to think the 10th amendment's wording only granted rights to the states that hadn't been explicitly taken away from the federal government—I swear I was actually taught that in school—but I reread it the other day and apparently I'd been misreading it all along. That's what inspired my...

I remember way back when Brexit was still being run up the flagpole, people were saying they likely wouldn't acknowledge Scotland's independence if they seceded because something something Spain.

And of course it was under his policies that the banks that nearly started a second Great Depression—and broke several laws in the process—were given a free ride and the rest of us got squat. And for that he was handed a Nobel Prize and unanimous praise from the media outside of Fox News, which...