And you can play it on mame. It didn't get released because they couldn't figure out a way to make baseball profitable in the arcade.

The problem was baseball doesn't break up into easily monetizable chunks like football and especially basketball. So it's hard to get the pacing right where you're getting a user is done before ordering every few minutes. I think older arcade baseball games could be profitable because they were much simpler, usually just boiling down the home run fests. But by the 90s people expected to play a full game.

It's also possible that those older games weren't profitable but operators didn't really notice as much. I won't say that I didn't see the ball games on the floor back in the daydidn't didn't go to arcades very often. Still it was usually football in the '80s and basketball in the 90s

Cases like this should never be brought, and the lawyers who take them are despicable; they're one reason why we can't have nice stuff, as the saying goes.

This will consume court time, consume the time of people FORCED into jury duty (for which they will not be properly compensated, and ironically, on the demand of people claiming to be improperly compensated). It will add another layer of self-defensive activity to corporate America which is already up to its collective eyeballs in such unproductive garbage only needed to hold-off lawyers... It will add a microscopic additional cost to everything (which is indeed barely measurable in itself BUT adds onto all those other microscopic cost additions that end up being, in total, significant).

Basic question for the griping bank employees: Did you ever sue the bank for the time it takes you to commute to and from the job while working in-person? Surely THAT time took longer for most people and was also uncompensated. Of course, had they tried a lawsuit for THAT time, they probably would have been laughed out of the lawyers' offices because pretty much EVERYBODY has that particular uncompensated overhead in their jobs.

Democrats are fighting for people to have health care and food. Republicans are fighting to starve children, rape children and steal our money. There is absolutely no comparison. You're comparing the Republicans who are Nazi fascists to the Democrats who are moderately competent administrators who occasionally line their own pockets a little.

This isn't 1994. Republican party went full Nazi and never looked back. There are nothing but pedophiles and Nazis now.

After decades of sci-fi movies warning us of the danger of runaway AI, it is now clear to see that we are living through exactly such an event: The social poison called "social media" is an out-of-control "AI" designed exclusively to maximize the amount of attention it gets, and it will gleefully steer civilization off a Nazi cliff to do it.

This is about surveillance and eliminating anonymity on the internet. A handful of victims lobbying doesn't do jack shit anymore if it ever did.

That kind of naivety is why we can't actually solve problems.

They want to dismantle capitalism and installed themselves as feudal Lords.

They are sick and tired of being dependent on consumers and employees. So they want to automate basically everything so they can eliminate virtually all employees and then keep a handful of people around to keep the machines going and then a handful of thugs to keep the engineers in line. Maybe mix in a little bit of religious zealotry and extremism. Set themselves up as gods like the emperor of Japan did maybe or the Pharaohs.

The rest of us, including you, will live in the most unimaginable abject poverty. Think like South Sudan or the remains of Gaza or the Indian reservations before the casinos. Every now and then they'll probably use drones to fire bomb us when our numbers get too high and we might pose a threat. Basically pest control.

It remains to be seen if they will pull it off they've been at it for about 60 years and so far they have achieved all of their goals. They have unlimited money and power so they never stop trying and the vast majority of us are blissfully unaware of what they're doing.

But holy fucking shit did you see those 14 trans girls playing field hockey in the midwest? Stop whatever you're doing right now and stop whatever you're thinking that is the most important thing for you to be concerned about right now.

... with a Linux setup on her brand new good Lenovo laptop with the lates W1ndows pre-installed. Backed up her Thunderbird Mail directory, wipe-installed Mint Linux and set it up in a few minutes. The difference in boot time and responsiveness is night and day.

I started at a new company a year back and hat one of their Win Laptops for a few weeks before my dev MB Air arrived. The system was so finicky to the point of being unusable. I was speechless. I fundamentally don't get why people even use W1ndows for regular stuff these days. If all you need is Mail, Web and some digital project and content management. there is absolutely no need for anything other than a lean modern Linux. The last version of W1n that I used for anything meaningful was Win2k and that was just about 25 years ago.

Totally bizarre.

Facebook was aware of the scams and was actively ignoring them. These are cases where they had upwards to 500 reports that the advertisements were scams, their internal checks detected they were scams and we have leaked internal communications where Facebook employees talked about them being scams.

Those leaked communications also say that they made sure to let the scams go so that they could keep getting money from them. All told 16 billion dollars.

At that point you're just plain complicit in the scam and you're committing a crime. It isn't legal to allow criminals to make use of your business when you know they are criminals. There's a wide variety of laws governing that that were put in place back in the days of the mob.

Then all the other theft combined. Look it up. Corporations steal more from you than any Petty criminal ever has or ever will.

... big techs obscene cash reserves and not so much third-party or VC investment money, so I'm not too concerned for the market, to be honest. The environment and the looming AI threat is a different issue, but's that's not so much about the market. If the bubble pops I hope for little impact for ordinary folks.

They knew how to spot the scammers and kept taking their money. 16 billion worth

Off of the most scammiest of scam advertisements on their site. I don't mean all the other ones that are probably scams but the ones that are so obviously scams that they had been flagged hundreds of times as scams.

Some internal documents leaked where Facebook employees were talking about how they needed the extra cash to fund all the stupid AI bullshit they were doing.

The government should obviously be stepping in and investigating and regulating. It's one thing to get duped into running a scam ad it's another thing to know that you're running 16 billion dollars worth of the worst and most obvious criminals advertisements.

But fuck me laws don't matter anymore. Keep an eye on your grandparents people or your parents if your old like me. It's open season on them.

Diligence my ass. They won't do that because means testing helps dismantle programs and because they get off on hungry children.

I mean, if those 14 year old girls aren't poor and hungry then they're not going to be as impressed when a republican picks them Up in their beat up Camaro and they're not going to put out.

You're going to do a 60 minute commute one way and you're just now noticing the bridge you're stuck under is crumbling because we haven't built infrastructure in 30 years.

It's almost as if giving all of our money to the rich because we were busy being distracted by moral panics was a bad idea.

The funny thing is when I say moral panic everybody agrees with me but if I mention the specific moral panics that caused you to give all your money to the rich then everybody gets upset.

Part of me wonders if Disney is still somehow nervous about the old deals forbidding toy deals around Spaceballs.

As far as I know they no longer apply and Disney can do whatever they want but when it comes to weird edge cases companies can get weird.