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- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 10 hours ago:
It’s harder to do insider trading if you aren’t manipulating markets by posting contradictory statements every morning from your gold-plated toilet.
- Comment on The Brits had an anthem ready for when Margaret Thatcher died. Americans should also be prepared. 13 hours ago:
Always eat your veggies first. I recommend asparagus.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 1 week ago:
Yeah, I don’t remember all the details myself, so you’re probably right. I was basically trying to support your thesis that Bethesda getting nasty over mods would be something entirely new and out of character. The only example someone could even try to point to had a bunch of other (better) explanations than “mod bad, Bethesda mad.”
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 1 week ago:
For all their faults, Bethesda may be the most mod-friendly AAA studio out there right now.
I can vaguely recall a single instance where they shut someone down, and that was over re-used audio assets from an older game. That was almost certainly about contractual licensing obligations to voice actors.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 2 weeks ago:
On the one hand, it has to be a mistake, right?
On the other, malicious harassment of an immigration lawyer with a “foreign” sounding name is exactly the sort of thing you’d expect right now.
Absolute best case scenario for this administration is that they are prone to making stupid, dangerous, embarrassing mistakes that will end up getting someone hurt or worse. And that’s giving them way more benefit of the doubt than they’ve earned.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 2 weeks ago:
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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
President Mike Johnson outlaws women going out in public alone and institutes daily Bible reading classes. Attendance is mandatory if you don’t want to end up in an El Salvador slave prison.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 5 Will Require a Microsoft Account to Play on PS5 1 month ago:
FH4 and 5 are effectively MMOs. There is plenty to do alone, and the other players can mostly be ignored, but it’s still a shared world.
- Comment on The world might be a whe different place if Ask Jeeves won the search engine wars 2 months ago:
I was working tech support at my university when all these search engine first started appearing. It was also the era of aggressive typo squatting domains.
AskJeebes dot com was a super hardcore porn site.
- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 2 months ago:
So what I’m hearing is that we need to throw 99% of our garbage away at the north pole.
- Comment on Microsoft removes Windows 11 24H2 official support on 8th 9th 10th Gen Intel CPUs 2 months ago:
Unless I’m reading this wrong, it’s all kind of moot.
Devices with these CPUs may not be manufactured with Windows 11 pre-installed and may only be upgraded to Windows 11 by a customer.
They won’t sell OEM licenses for chips that haven’t been manufactured for a few years. Users can still update themselves, and retail licenses appear to be unaffected.
- Comment on We are becoming the first digital grandparents 2 months ago:
Shout out to my mom, who really drove us as a digital family when I was growing up.
She just turned 80 this week.
- Comment on Heroes of Might and Magic is the best Might and Magic 2 months ago:
It’s always amazing to me how consistently it’s in the top 10 best sellers on GOG.
You’d think at some point everybody would have a copy, but month after month it’s in, or near, the top of the list.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 months ago:
Causing a complete collapse of society to own the libs.
- Comment on what is the actual name of this type of „logic”? 2 months ago:
In addition to the others this is also an association fallacy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
For example, a fallacious arguer may claim that “bears are animals, and bears are dangerous; therefore your dog, which is also an animal, must be dangerous.”
- Comment on xkcd #3034: Features of Adulthood 3 months ago:
I go by my middle name, and the number of people this confuses is amazing.
- Comment on Moderators banning/censoring people arent oppressors violating your rights; they are customer service representatives curating the space for their intended costomers. All this to say, I see Karen. 3 months ago:
- Comment on If trump appointments someone that doesn't last as long as Anthony Scaramucci do we measure that in fractional moochies or do we abandon the mooch system because it failed us? 5 months ago:
I’m looking forward to a few negative moochies as his picks get dumped even before the confirmation hearings.
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 5 months ago:
Left of global center? No. Left of USA center? Probably.
news.gallup.com/…/political-ideology-steady-conse…
More Americans identify as conservative than liberal. It’s not something we have to like, and certain policies may be quite different individually, but in order to win nationally, Democrats have to defeat voters’ own self-identification. Obviously it happens, so this isn’t some insurmountable challenge, but the deck is stacked.
- Comment on There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation 5 months ago:
I call them “my people.”
- Comment on USA President term limits 5 months ago:
- if he ran as VP for another person, which is constitutionally allowed, he could be elected as VP
This is an interesting, but untested, legal theory. When Al Gore ran in 2000, there were murmurings of whether he should try to get Bill Clinton on the ticket as VP. Ultimately, there was some consensus that this part of 12th Amendment wasn’t superseded by any others: “But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”
It’s a bit of an open question whether that means only those parts of the eligibility requirements in place at the time (35 years old, natural born citizen, etc), or whether new requirements are also included, such as already serving two full terms as President. Clinton/Gore didn’t want to push those boundaries, but Trump certainly could try.
- Comment on USA President term limits 5 months ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the…
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
“No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,” doesn’t say consecutively. It would take a HUUUUGE leap of logic to insert that word where it doesn’t exist. I’m sure someone will make the argument, but by the letter and the intent of the law, Trump is done after this term.
“and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.” If Trump has a heart attack and dies before January 20, 2027, Vance would take over and serve 2+ years as President, meaning he could only be elected once for one four-year term.
The rest of Section 1 just means anyone who was in office at the time is grandfathered into the old rules (no limits).
- Comment on Microsoft: Windows Server 2025 now generally available alongside System Center 2025 5 months ago:
Or some sports games. Madden 2025 is almost entirely obsolete by January 2025.
- Comment on Why is Boimler so pale even though he grew up on a vineyard? 6 months ago:
SPF-1701
- Comment on Tencent, Guillemot Family Said to Consider Buyout of Ubisoft 6 months ago:
Tencent and Guillemot combined are considering a buyout of other shareholders. Most of that is Guillemot, with Tencent increasing their share very slightly from 9.2% to 10%.
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 6 months ago:
If we’re gaming the whole scenario out, I imagine it would go something like this.
None of his current convictions are expected to come with a custodial sentence, but say he loses the election, and the more serious trials are heating up. At that point, he knows he’s toast. 2028 is too late to run a fourth time; he’s got no more hail marys, so he dismisses his detail completely, retreats to Florida, and sneaks away to Saudi Arabia in the middle of the night.
He’s got a private jet, so getting out of the country shouldn’t be a huge problem. But I think you’re right that he has to set all this in motion before a guilty verdict is delivered. At that point, getting away from the secret service would be much more difficult.
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 6 months ago:
Security is a privilege, not a mandate. Nixon dropped his in 1985.
Becoming a fugitive from justice would count as voluntarily giving up lots of privileges, the very least of which would be a publicly funded security detail.
- Comment on Phonebooks 6 months ago:
You want to feel really old?
