"if we say no, they never talk to us again" is fucking wild.
Furthers my conspiracy that AI and memory companies are inflating prices to destroy consumer hardware and push everyone to the cloud.
One happy money hatting family milking people for subscription fees for eternity.
The lie that was initially sold to us for the transition from physical media ownership to digital rental was cost savings. The nonstop articles early on were about logistic chains, warehousing, manufactoring and how cutting that out would reduce endpoint pricing by upwards of 40 percent.
And what was the truth? Did we get new titles priced at 30 to 40 dollars? No. Not only did it not reduce cost, they increased it. Now games are edging their way to 100 and with codes in a box and download only renting, trading, and collecting die thus enabling full price demand forever. Even worse is digitsl only allows the permanent removal of a product or its alteration at any time for any reason with no recourse.
We got screwed and gta is going to be used as proof of concept and justification for making it the norm.
This is it, the test bed. Not only for normalizing prices at 80 to 100 dollars but at fully killing physical. The industry is banking on this. You will pay more and get less. Some really dirty shit from all parties involved. Cant wait for the industry to collapse.
This is the Indian doctor who implanted a heart valve upside down in a child, and his education was completed in India. In India, a person only needs to earn 40% to pass, which is basically an ‘F’ in the U.S.
Medical Degree: M.B.B.S., 1999, Madras Medical College, Chennai, India.
Internship: General Surgery, Government General Hospital, Chennai, India (2001).
Horrifying medical malpractice by Indian doctor named Ashok Muralidaran
at OHSU. A 13-year-old Oregon girl’s heart valve was implanted upside down during surgery by Dr. Ashok . Her heart wouldn’t restart. For 18 days she was on life support while doctors told her devastated parents she was dying, discussed end-of-life care, and even organ donation.
Seattle Children’s fixed the catastrophic error in one procedure. Her heart started working immediately. She’s now making a “miraculous recovery.”
This level of negligence is unforgivable. Praying for full healing for this brave girl.
https://t.co/Nc4BppPxId
The left is very clear that their plan is to dox ICE agents and then murder their families in their beds
They'll scream it loudly on tape with their face clearly visible, and why not?
There seems to be no penalty for planning the murder of a federal agent if you're progressive
Video games belong in the red rectangle called "applications"
If something wants access to the blue rectangle called "kernel",
they're almost certainly evil.
"Website users are called 'visitors' and not 'viewers' for exactly this reason. They go to the site. The site does not come to them."
"This is not a complicated distinction. A reasonably bright nine-year-old could grasp it over breakfast. Ofcom, apparently, cannot."
British speech regulator Ofcom just fined an American website for American speech on American servers.
The site already blocked UK visitors.
Ofcom ultimately got around the block with a VPN and said the site was still accessible.
That's like saying a locked door is open because someone could pick the lock.
These people who think they're the global speech police don't even know how the internet works...
https://t.co/HeoShFyPeO
Jill is 100% correct. we should absolutely evaluate, test and check-on home-school kids. if they are not performing at least as well as the worst kid in a public school then they should face the same consequences as a public school with similar performance.
so, to take an example, 23 schools in Baltimore have zero children scoring proficient in math. Because of that, those schools have faced the consequence of getting extra funding.
thus, if a homeschooler is found to have performance that bad or worse, they should also be given extra funding, I guess.
“'Being deported back to India, although not anybody's favorite choice, is not a death sentence,' former NHL player Chris Joseph, whose son Jaxson died in the tragedy, told Media Bezirgan. 'What we have is a death sentence.'”
NEW: Blue jurisdictions are rationing homeless services based on race.
In Portland, a non-white, non-native English speaker who is LGBT would get priority over a domestic violence survivor with a 6 yr old child who's been homeless for 12+ months.
The policies are shocking.🧵
@Kerri_Kupec Yes. CNN blasted the "hate map" right afterward. Apple gave $1M, JP Morgan Chase gave $500K. Charlottesville was a bananza for SPLC. SPLC also arguably inflamed tensions to spark the "Unite the Right" rally, too, with its Confederate monuments map.
https://t.co/kXE9yZanw8
DOJ's indictment alleges that SPLC was secretly paying one of the organizers of the infamous 2017 "Unite the Right" rally.
Our research team pulled SPLC's financial statements. Notably, SPLC's public support, revenue and net assets TRIPLED following the rally.
Crazy story out of Qatar:
A British couple honeymooned in Doha, where the wife was harassed at the Ritz-Carlton pool by two men who told her she'd "fall in love" after he slept with her.
The hotel gaslit her, with management denying the CCTV backed her story despite their own WhatsApp messages saying the opposite.
Her husband posted a TripAdvisor review calling the hotel "unsafe for women." The hotel got it pulled, then a hotel employee filed a defamation complaint against him under Qatar's cybercrime laws.
Nearly a year later, when he returned to Qatar for work, he was detained, informed he'd been tried in absentia and fined, and then held for four nights in a deportation centre. The deportation order lasts five years, which severely hurts his career as a Middle East healthcare consultant.
In other words, Marriott International, an American company, used Qatari law to silence a complaint about a woman being sexually harassed at their property.
9 of every 10 new American jobs since pre-COVID went to someone born outside the country.
Triple checked the data. It's real.
+4.3M foreign-born.
+471K native-born.
Meanwhile, 335,000+ American layoffs in 2026.
HOW DO WE ALLOW THIS?