My personal favorite platform is GOG simply because it offers actual ownership instead of a crippling dependency on their ecosystem. My second favorite is Steam because it has games GOG doesn’t. I’m not sure why I would want EGS beyond the free games, which are frequently not of interest to me anyway.
“We had been operating relatively conservatively, in how many people we were allowing ourselves to hire and capital expenditures,” Romo said. “This will allow us to release a little bit of that conservatism and lean into some stuff like electric propulsion and potentially other vehicles that are going to allow us to grow long-term.”
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He said this but then never really elaborated. This was the only part of the article I wanted to read more about. It sounded like he was talking about something akin to the EmDrive, but my understanding was that the EmDrive had been debunked as a measurement calibration error, so I’m curious WTF he’s talking about.
As a mostly liberal American, I just don’t know where to begin.
As an Irishman, I would say Ranked Choice Voting. It’s not a silver bullet, but it does solve the main problem that prevents the other problems from being solved.
Again: in what way was it responding to anything I said? There’s a difference between talking WITH people and talking AT people.
I’m just saying, nothing there was a response to anything I said, aside from me saying I liked it and them saying they didn’t like it. I see no reason for that comment to be a response to my comment specifically. Singling out me, someone expressing positivity for the movie, to tell me “actually IMO it was bad” is what’s hostile. I’m not interested in a non-conversation argument where I say something and somebody else basically says “nuh-uh”. What’s my response supposed to be? “Yuh-huh”? I’m not here to convince people to like something they don’t like, and I don’t see why anyone would want me to do that. If you don’t like the movie you can say so without needing to make me a part of it. Like seriously, what was I supposed to say in response to that? And if I wasn’t supposed to respond, then in what way was it necessary to make that comment a response to my comment?
Are Marvel relying on people going to see it multiple times? Because those days are over.
Doubling the already over the top european military budget isn’t going to fix any of the things in your first list.
Can I ask you to expand on that thought?
I think most of us have experience of the concept of something being said ironically, as a joke, at first but then being increasingly serious. It’s like magic really does exist and if you say words often enough they start affecting reality, like a spell. Freedom of speech is a right but it’s also a profound responsibility.
Can I ask your security assessment of:
The Transatlantic cables?
The recent network outages in Spain?
Transnistria?
Gagauzia?
The EU-Belarus border?
The North African migrant crisis?
The ongoing cyberattacks that have been hitting Europe for years?
The price of wheat?
Then I would ask your assessment of how much the EU should plan on relying on the USA for its security over the long term.
Threats to annex Greenland?
Threats to annex Canada?
Threats to seize control of the Panama Canal?
Kill switches in the F-35?
Sentiments expressed during the Signalgate Incident about the US doing all the work in securing the Red Sea?
Attempts to influence European elections?
Growing American control of the Western Internet?
Not to mention if they were able to pull off a mission like this, allegedly using cell towers to fly their drones, what’s stopping them from doing similar limited missions to tank factories, recruit depots, and other places that are further away from the front? Literally all of these targets now become viable because they will be much less heavily guarded than the nuclear triad bombers.
I assume the cell tower thing was exploiting an oversight or other vulnerability that can only be exploited once before Russia plugs the hole. Maybe they can do it again but it would be relying on enemy incompetence, which is in plentiful supply these days but still not a good idea to rely upon.
Well that comes under point #3 but yeah
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What’s wrong is that some people have decided that they’re at war with the rest of us.
This is most likely a combination of:
Trump’s tariffs driving international users to seek alternatives to American OSes
Windows 10 support coming to an end soon despite most people not wanting to upgrade or not having a desktop capable of upgrading to 11
Steam supporting Linux increasingly well
The money saved will pay for one dev, or two if you cheap out
Also She-Hulk took Thing’s place in the F4 for a while (EDIT: in the comics) and her name is Jennifer Walters.
Yep in my opinion it was the best movie of Phase 4, due in no small part to Namor being completely awesome as well as a fascinating character. Shuri’s encounter with Killmonger on the Ancestral Plane was also very well done. Pretty much every aspect was good, except, as with the first one, some of the visual effects. The Midnite Angels looked cartoonish and the Ironheart suit lacked weight. Not all the visual effects were bad, though, and everything involving the Talokanil looked good. Especially that opening sequence. Gott DAYUM, that opening sequence was excellent.
Landfill #2 moment
Come again?
We all choose makey-uppy things to believe in, through which we interpret the purpose of our own existence. There’s no objective reason to be kind to strangers beyond what we can get out of it - there are plenty of billionaires in the world to prove that selfishness and greed is a valid life strategy - but we CHOOSE to BELIEVE in made-up concepts like fairness and love, because it makes most of us happier to live that way. I see no reason to look down my nose at people who choose a few more made-up concepts to believe in than I do. I’m only bothered by the people who are pig-headed about it, incapable of accepting that people believe in different things than they do… and that category includes people who say “faith is idiocy”.