Could have something to do with MS waiting for Switch 2 hardware.

How many other titles besides CoD were supposed to be cross-platform due to the Activision buyout?

Pretty much all stations now accept credit cards. I think you can pay physical cash on some chargers that are attached to actual gas stations.

Probably nothing, if we're being honest.

Okay, you do it. Go get rid of all the Bitcoin. Also why are people still repeating the lie that crypto is only for money laundering, when that has repeatedly been shown to be false?

Because Claude 4.7 sucked and set them back by quite a bit.

The same way Deere made money 50-60 years ago.

There's a lot of things corporations do that is not "capitalism" in the free-market sense. It's more corporate feudalism.

Russia does not have much of a military left. If/when they lose Crimea to Ukraine, it will be a very long time before Russia can go back. They have problems brewing in the East as well . . .

Otherwise, Ukraine does not need to "hold territory" with missiles and drones. They can afford to bleed out the Russians to the point where they surrender or (if possible) flee. Also the way things are going, Ukraine won't be using conventional armored columns for door-to-door fighting once the time comes:

https://www.independent.co.uk/...

Meta is not the only bad employer out there. But given the enormous amount of talent that filters through Meta on a regular basis, it is quite probable that ex-Meta employees could create their own startup and set their own rules - including rules that do not require keyloggers on work machines.

There is no motivation to do anything in Russia. The war is most definitely not perceived as "defending the motherland" internally, so the only remaining real motivation is monetary.

And Putin managed to build a system where regular engineers are treated as scum, while the real money gets siphoned off into the right people's wallets. This was recently demonstrated by the leak of the internal emails and source code of the system designed to send mobilization notices. It's supposed to be a part of the "digital GULAG" so that the government can send mobilization notices to the people whose disappearance is not going to be highly visible. With centralized tracking and all the related good stuff.

Its leading developer was paid around $700 a month. And was battling to get reimbursement for an extra $100 spent on a hotel in Moscow during a business trip to present their system to the chief of staff of the Ministry of Defense.

And of course, a lot of good engineers left the country in 2022 or soon thereafter.

Ukraine has already "gone to Moscow" with drones and missiles. They can hit targets over a thousand miles into Russian territory. Apparently they've also cut off Crimea. That's the actual target - not Moscow. No telling how long it will take for them to gain operational control of Crimea, but the groundwork is being laid now. Crimea is all but cut off from resupply, and now it's just a matter of starving out the Russians while picking away at their remaining defenses.

Putin's most ardent supporters in the media and blogosphere started turning on him months ago. He's sacked enough of his cronies already that it's unclear how much support he has left in his own government. There's no telling how much longer he'll last or how much longer the rest of Russia will be willing to keep up this war. Everyone knows Putin fucked up. He has to keep the war going to maintain his own office. Without it, his government and much of his wartime economic stance will collapse.

by working someplace else.

The NSA can hit them with a letter and force them to open up all their systems. And those guys are probably qualified to assess what's going on.

Aedes aegypti mosquitos are an invasive species. They should be completely eradicated in North America (at the very least).