Let's go for the low-hanging fruit:

  * Living things are driven to exercise using an evolved feedback loop whereby exercise reward us with brain drugs - there's an inherent benefit to exercise leading to increased proliferation of genes with this feedback loop

* Sport is organised exercise so satisfies the drive to socialise - again likely an evolved feedback loop resulting in brain drugs (mmmmn :-) because groups have benefits over individuals

  * Standing next to sport whilst it's happening gives some proportion of the same reward - of course there's no health benefits so really it's gaming the system to get (probably greatly reduced) brain drugs from the socializing aspect

  * Watching a recording of someone else standing next to sport whilst it's happening let's you listen to other people experiencing brain drugs - recall the excited two-person teams of commentators clearly having a great time watching sport happen - again limited exercise benefits for commentators or second-level observers but some brain drugs and we've been psychologically conditioned that sport is good so watching sport must be good also, right? - even via a time-delayed intermediary

* Now there are likely conversations along the lines of: "OK, we've repurposed the feedback loops 'intended' by evolution to promote socialising and exercising - now they promote watching other people doing those things - <boxing mc voice>Leeeeeet's - seeeeell - spooooort </boxing mc voice>" happening. It's super-cynical.

But yeap, choice would be good. This fuck-up might just be great for Vizio and consumers. Thanks Stallman.

corrupt SCOTUS will fix everything in favor of republicans and large corporations.

This will self-correct once the campaign donations he requests become so onerous they're worse than the problem donors want fixed. Free market wooh yeah *fist pump*

Racing sucks when no one makes any passes

Arguably any 'sport' you're not engaging-in yourself sucks ass.

Forgot the link:
  * https://youtu.be/e0qh1kkEAaM

doh

This is so awesome - I want one for the UK - can we get Paedo The Bear who explains that we need to support genocide in Gaza or our citizen score might be reduced abruptly or we might end up starving to death in detention? It's important for children to be taught their country's moral values as soon as possible.

Police believe one suspect alone hacked 63,000 cameras and produced 545 videos that netted him 35 million won ($24,000) in cryptocurrency

Assuming for a moment the hacking and distribution of the feeds is completely ok - this haX0r seems to have spent way too much time developing the side of their personality which allows hacking and almost zero to not-getting-exploited by business partners - wtf - 38 cents per camera?

Its not limited to physical contact.

Also, it's not microsoft per-se - it's any gigantic company being chased by a ravenous zombie horde of hungry investors.

Everything turns to shit as they desperately try to avoid being eaten.

It's something that you could run on your own machine to build software but then github persuade people to instead run it on github hardware with an additional power-user option to run the thing you could run on your own machine... on your own machine whilst looping them in to give the opportunity to charge you money because they've not extracted enough value from trawling through your codebases.

It's small-minded really - any truly creative company would just have people spontaneously send them money explicitly for no reason.

Anyway, the point is that he has to pick his battles. He often signs legislation he disagrees with because he knows the GOP-dominated state legislature can and will override him i

How is what you described a coalition? It sounds much more like internalised oppression. The wrong thing must happen. We know we have to do the wrong thing otherwise someone will override us. This is not in anyone's interest.

Something which reflects the increased risk of eye and head cancer - but catchy and sexy at the same time...

Anyway, the point is that he has to pick his battles. He often signs legislation he disagrees with because he knows the GOP-dominated state legislature can and will override him if he vetos, and being overridden is politically costly. And if you think that's a cop-out, you should look at the field of competitors he had in the GOP primary, none of whom could be called thoughtful, reasonable or anything close to centrist.

I'd prefer someone the left of how Cox acts, but he's not only the best we've got, he's the best we're likely to get. And I strongly suspect that Cox would prefer to move significantly leftward (which would still leave him right of center, nationally), but he's an astute politician and politics is the art of the possible.

Try to read this from the perspective of an alien who thinks politics should be solely about the issues. Is ANY of politics about the issues or is it only about playing schoolyard popularity games. Jesus fucking Christ - hopefully the (actually looking much more likely than a few years ago) robot uprising or alien invasion happen soon.

Trump-tastic.

Apparently clean free energy is.. bad? Uhh wait, wtf are you guys doing over there?

Maybe the AI can be more effective at faking emission tests then more of the world's people can be killed covertly whilst VW profit from dishonest and immorality - again.

Maybe a steam-powered weapon would be appropriate...