It would not be a " good move for both companies. " Nintendo would suffer under M$ mediocrity and lack of vision. And the gamer would absolutely take it in the pants by an M$ monopoly.

These kind of comments enrage me and indicate to me about the complete lack of vision that MS execs have and really no respect for gamers or games in general. To them it is just another business line.

But it wasn't 1 in 1.5m for the target population of the problem, younger women.

These epidemiologists behind the vaccines go to school for 10 years then spend decades of research and what must have been an insane amount of time during this pandemic trying to get a vaccine to be over 70%-80% effective and some moron who doesn't understand a damn thing won't take the vaccine because it "doesn't work 100% of the time".

Fuck these people and social media for basically giving them a megaphone to spread their stupidity.

You can blame the brits all you want, I can't stand AstraZeneca or the Tories, but the initial vaccine purchasing strategy of the EC was stupid. The strategy assumed that pretty much all of the vaccines would be successful at the beginning.

LATER after they realised their mistake, but the availability was initially piss poor and cost 6-10 Weeks precious time that could have been used to make sure that variants were even more isolated by the mid-summer.

So I am very skeptical about how fast the EU can do things, and that was initial point. I don't believe their time estimates.

I don't buy the 2050 date at all (just like the EU had bought enough vaccines for all of us right? they never make unrealistic projections right?).

Europe should have been wise enough to take off it's stupid "Atomkraft, nein danke" bumper stickers , stupid hippie ideals (I say hippie, because it definitely is not peaceniks, as they will beat you up for expressing support for nuclear power). and gone with more nuclear power decades ago.

Instead we have decades of coal ash and now have to deal with dictators for natural gas.

That is nonsense and Americans should actually face the fact that the government fumbled the ball.

N95 masks should been at pretty much every pharmacy in the states to even be in the ballpark of what EU had. Hell they even gave away FFP-2 masks away to vulnerable groups across Europe, when the CDC was still advising that they were only for medical professionals.

Same thing when the test production ramped up. Now the market is absolutely flooded with tests in the EU.

None of this happened or is a problem in the EU. You can test your kids with the sniffles all you want. And tests for coworkers that aren't yet vaccinated or don't want the vaccinated are not a problem either.

Same with the masks, N95 (ffp2 masks in the EU) are and were everywhere and cheap, despite the high demand. Hell they gave them away even when you had shortages in the US. It is amazing how when a government actually determines that something is in the public interest and makes it...it actually gets made, instead of depending on some company that might not see a long term profit in something.

The problem always comes down to the government in the US, where other governments have stepped in and went ahead with creating PPE because it was in the public interest.... even if companies didn't see a profit . Whereas in the US, you don't have that and the waves are still hitting the US market. It is stupid really, given how much the US could have accomplished but just didn't want to.

What is the evidence based on this? Because I haven't heard of apple selling your data at all... and who to? Because if you haven't noticed, Apple makes money on selling hardware. Not selling ads

Ok I will take the troll bait. How are they not better?

They don't break and they offer much more security... sounds like Apple phones are better to me.

300 years ago, you're exactly the sort of person who would have argued in favor of loyalty and obedience to the monarchy in a feudal system. Firing employees for expressing an opinion on the company's direction is bad leadership.

Everything you just said makes it abundantly clear that you are not one of the "good men." Your contempt and pathetic whining could not be more transparent.

Wow you're seriously comparing public concern with police conduct to the Salem witch trials where innocent women were burned alive? What is wrong with you? Why is your sense of reality this warped? Where is your concern for the people who are being killed and brutalized by the police? Corrupt cops have more in common with the patriarchs who tied women to the stake than they do with the witch trial victims.

You'd rather force people to play along with the "gender dress-up" that you dictate? Because I'm guessing you wouldn't be very comfortable with a muscular, hairy cisgender man who decided he wanted to wear dresses because they're more comfortable. No, you'd mock and deride him for not confirming to the socially prescribed gender roles and clothing that are promoted by the dominant culture. Your level of thought about gender and gender performance is not much more developed than that of a 5 year old on a playground who tries to enforce social rules he had just learned by teasing and bullying those who don't confirm. You're like an adult child.

Nobody pushes this on kids. Trust me, even the most progressive of parents are not sitting around wishing that their kids turn out to be Transgender, considering all the hate and the bigotry and the suicide risk. Everything is far easier in life if you're cis.

It is the easiest gender neutral way to refer to someone when compared to all the other proposed alternatives like "xe," "ze," and so on. People tried those once upon a time and people complained just as much as they complain about they/them now. So now we're trying this out and it seems to work for most folks who care to try even just a little bit. The problem is not grammar, the problem is that you're so invested in your idea of a gender binary and pre-defined social gender roles that the existence of people who don't want to be gendered feels like an existential threat to your entire reality.