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BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Sir, we are cratering in the polls, please try and not do anything nuts for the next month. Maybe on social, just keep it benign.” “Like what?” “I don’t know. People like animals. A lot of people just post like cat videos and stuff.” “Gotcha, say no more.”

They're doing the meme

>My pitbull mauled a toddler >Ok that’s horrible and you are legally responsible for your gross negligence Vs. >It’s absurd for you claim a pitbull could ever “maul” a toddler. Pitbulls only follow their instinct and are categorically incapable of consciously choosing to maul like a human would

It’s underrated how many of the cardinal achievements of modernity are things that allow for you to interact with people you don’t personally trust. “Contracts are enforceable” and “my safety doesn’t depend on someone being willing to avenge me” really changes the ways you can live.

this sounds awful but that’s because she’s actually mocking Trump and Mr. Smoothgroin deceptively clipped it to own the libs

to me the question at the heart of AI and data center discourse is: how and how much should society be computerized? we’ve spent 75 years bringing computation into every activity and institution. it has always made people nervous, but we’re now at 4-5% of US electricity going to computation

I have said, partially in jest, partially in exasperation, how every single election I have been eligible to vote in has been about Donald Trump, including ones where he wasn't even on the ballot, and this fucker just goes out and admits it

a well regarded music critic, Willi Schmid, got killed during the night of the long knives totally by accident. happened to have the same name as someone on the list and the thugs fucked up. political violence becomes a regular occurrence, something like that is your most likely relationship to it.

The world of Half Life 2 is really fucked up

Sorry but this isn't really true - the March solar export spike was due to the Chinese export tax rebate ending as the title mentions, the exports were down again in April and May. We do expect effects, but mostly longer term except in a very few markets.

"Well, if they'd send us more guys and maybe bomb the hell out of the North, they might, uh, they might give up."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH x.com/lauraloomer/...

"The Ukrainian campaign knocked out more than 30 and 45 per cent of Russia’s actual and nominal capacity, respectively," bruh? www.ft.com/content/3990...

RIP to every regime killed by poor economics because of it‘s hubris but I’m different. and smarter. maybe even smarter than the economists

applies to foreign affairs too, there is no cabal of dead-eyed ruthless technocrats in Beijing mercilessly looking to maximize every advantage. it's bumbling upper-middle class white collar professionals all the way down.

The “enshittification” happened because everyone who interacted with them knew they were shady as fuck and screwing their customers via information asymmetry. People were HAPPY to get shittier service to keep their money! Online travel agencies, discount brokerages, Carvana, it’s all the same story

Matt Stoller is trying to find the monopoly responsible for all this

hot take: no one actually wants 'authenticity' in politicians: people want a performance that is both competent and has them as the target audience. lots of politicians derided as wooden and stiff are being more 'authentic' than politicians who are personable and likable, who are performing

this is one thing where I'm firmly on the side of the teacher's unions: a lot of the 'criticism' of public school educators is simply 'why can't you all be the extremely self-motivated teachers of these intrinsically motivated students'

“working class” has ironically become a tool that’s used *against* class consciousness by appealing to a small mythical privileged class of “real workers” which you, desk job rentier with barely any assets, aren’t “worky” enough to identify as part of.

Pretty much the solitary reason for left-wing softness on Russia is that a lot of leftists are not historical materialists but constructivists Which it is fine to be, this is coming from a constructivist, but being the latter while insisting that you’re the former leads to weird-ass conspiracism

Even if any of this were true (which it’s not), the only thing to say is: too bad! You can try to organize a society on feudal lines if you want, but the only thing you’d accomplish is getting conquered by a neighboring industrial society. A system that cannot defend itself is a bad one.

This is true, and I think also mostly in spite of himself.

Like a kind of psychotic homing pigeon, Trump has a long record of regularly returning to terrible ideas those around him thought he'd let go of a few weeks before.

So a force with zero modern combat experience has been training a force with zero modern combat ability.

Guys, stop giving Trump supervillain-level schemes. He’s doing this because he likes it, not as a humiliation ritual for the county, and the people who are enabling it are doing it either because they also like it or because they think it’s going to make people like us upset.

I do think we've missed a crucial aspect of "was hunter gathering a better way of life than early sedentary agriculture?" which is "who gives a damn?"

"The Russians have to go through immense effort to evade sanctions and source components for their ballistic missiles and drones which drives up their cost but ultimately does not stop them from being built so they're pointless"

Live look at the Half-Life fandom:

Time to pick up the red telephone in the Oval Office that links directly to Barak Ravid

BATTLE BROTHERS, I REALLY LIKE THE WAY THAT CANDIDATE ATE A FRIED FOOD OBJECT AT THE STATE FAIR. I BELIEVE THIS QUALIFIES HIM TO CONTROL THE EXTERMINATUS WARHEADS.