“U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, pushed Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon; Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta; Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla; Tim Cook, CEO of Apple; and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, on their attempts to secure billion-dollar tax handouts paid for by ripping away health care coverage, food assistance, and other services from millions of American families.”

I wish headlines like this would use their names. These aren’t an amorphous immoral blob responding to stimuli, these are specific human individuals who can still be held accountable to the rule of law:

Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai [are] Attempting to Secure Billions in Tax Handouts Paid For By Ripping Health Care, Food From Families

That’s five people whose actions, per the article, may cause an additional 51,000 deaths.

Sure. Prison would be fine. Hell, I’ll gladly argue for the reduced sentence after they’re brought to justice. I bet I’ll be feeling generous.

Yes. And I understand that one of the character’s expressed gender is opposite inside and outside the Matrix.

I hated that when it happened in Titan A.E.

Animals is Peppa Pig get dumber as they age, and some become so dumb that the rest cage them or eat then. Peppa’s father is about 70% of his way there, already.

I joke. But on a serious note, there’s so many better children’s shows out there. I hope you manage to switch it up, before it becomes the favorite of any young people in your inner circle.

Some of the jokes in this show seem targeted to adults, which makes no sense, as absolutely nothing in this show is watchable to anyone above the age of 4.

Exactly. They don’t seem to know who the intended audience is.

I haven’t seen the Lego games mentioned here. (Lego Indian Jones, Lego Batman, etc.)

They tend to be story driven, and have excellent amounts of play-testing, resulting in an enjoyable playthrough that I’ve always been able to finish.

(Except Lego Dimensions, which was developed separately, and not to the same play-testing standards.)

I may have missed it, but Dave the Diver deserves a mention here.

Boss battles are very rare, and slow paced enough that I have not run into the dreaded “I understand the pattern but I lack the dexterity”. (I often have this problem with other games.)

The Elk is probably thinking it finally met some sensible humans who know how to take a minute to sit and look around.

That person is being needlessly cautious.

Results are nice, but shortsightedly juicing the appearance of shareholder value for a single quarter is forever… Somehow.

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Oh. I missed the sarcasm. But yes, that is how conclusions work in my country, as well.

That’s the official reason, yes.

It has also been the official reason for every illegal merger in the last 50 years.

And somehow almost every merged organization ran into tough financial times about 5 years later (or less), and had to reduce staff, disperse the previous competition’s staff, while filing away the dangerous intellectual property safely out of sight.

But sure, we could assume that Microsoft meant to do the right thing, and that it just went wrong this time.

Honestly maybe the last Xbox will be the last one I buy.

Yes. I also stopped buying XBoxes with the Series…G. (I’m lying. I have no idea what my Xboxes are called. Is the 360 still new? Was there a G? It felt like we were doing letters for awhile.)

Even if they put out another one what’s even the point anymore?

I agree. But I gave up when I had to do research to figure out which one was the new one.

Copyright (in many jurisdictions) is 70 yrs after death until next time Disney extends it

Telsa used to be a status symbol, and sexy.

But then their chief chap couldn’t seem to publicly pronounce the popular phrase “Nazi’s suck and I wish to have nothing to do with them”.

Now Telsa is an anti-status symbol.

I remember. But don’t quote me on that. Actually, I guess no one can quote me on it, it was in a discussion on Google Wave, anyway.

If the randomizer algorithm isn’t allowed to leave any numbers in their original position, it sacrifices a tiny bit of security and a tiny bit of processing power, and a tiny bit of disk space, for no real benefit.

That’s a relief. I was starting to worry about them, with all these breakout indie game successes.

Maybe the indie developers will start buying the AAA CEOs a coffee once in awhile.

(This is intended as surrealist humor.)

The joke is on you (and all of us) though. I’m going to start using “backflip” in my agile process terminology.

That’s the point of the saying. The law can be crafted to treat everyone equally, while only benefitting the king.

Edit: It’s why the billionaire media is so angry at the concept of “equity” and “wokeness”. Both terms help us beggars discuss our situation, and both might threaten the king’s throne, if we realize how simply the laws could be adjusted for what we want from them, rather than for what the king wants.