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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...

It's hard to even cite Trump's handling of the COVID crisis as the reason he's our worst president ever now that we know it's no different from what everyone else in our government would have done.

Well, the declaration of war against Germany was unanimous in both houses (there was actually one vote against declaring war on Japan, the country that actually attacked us), so that's a pretty clear yes.

I thought Ko-Fi and Buy Me a Coffee were literally the same thing until just this moment. Why are there two tip jar services with the exact same labels??? Also does anyone else find it patronizing that they both force their users to insinuate that they, like stereotypical millennials, will be...

Even for people who've gone their entire lives paying nothing for medical treatment, a couple hundred dollars seems like a small price to pay, but I might be underestimating people's capacity for making a mountain out of a molehill. Hashtag first world problems and all that, after all.

I feel like we've definitely reached the point where people are actually intentionally spreading bogus "cures" as a joke, but not only are they indistinguishable from the ones that aren't, the people who have been tricked into trying them are also too dumb to ever realize they've been tricked...

So basically, those fashionable masks that an entire cottage industry sprung up around making back in 2020 are and always have been useless, and somehow we're only just now learning this. Meanwhile, I'm assuming the overseas equivalents of the CDC figured it out a long time ago and it's just...

You know things are assbackwards when even prisoners, who otherwise have no rights in this country, aren't required to get vaccinated.

I've been watching gameplay videos of this game on and off for the past year or more, and tried it out during a free weekend. It sounds like it could easily be my new TF2 if I got it, but also it seems like the kind of game you need mic chat for, and that's not really feasible for me most of the...

Honestly, this tracks. Whenever I see mobs of vaccine protesters on the news, it's mostly people who haven't gone gray yet.

wow a whole two people in the entire party don't like each other surely this will bring about the downfall of the whole house of cards oh wait it turns out the house of cards was super-glued into place decades ago nevermind nothing to see here

Don't blame me; I voted for Dewey.

I imagine the Series X is powerful enough that it could just straight-up emulate the 360. Whatever they did to get eight 1.8GHz cores to do the work of three 3.2GHz ones is still witchcraft to me, and it's no surprise it required effectively modding the games, but the Series X's CPU is clocked...