What next, is Beijing going to be renamed to City 17?

Don't drink the water. They put something in it to make you forget.

3,474km in diameter, but really it's not the size that counts, but the mass (and how you use it).

Yeah, it's got electrolytes.

People use Chrome because it's popular! Anyone who's anyone uses Chrome!

We live in a world destroyed by industry, but the landscape is not a burnt wasteland, it's a golden land of opportunity. It's all in how you look at it... and how much money you have.

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.

So does a "blanket ban" mean everyone in the UK will need to provide government ID to access YouTube?

Wow, that will be a boon for advertisers... Not so much for the parents.

It'll be a Brave New World, surely.

The real question is, does it really matter?

Unless it's about filmmaking or storytelling, I try not to worry about what anyone in Hollywood believes.

Isn't this the plot of the first Pokemon movie?

A military experiment creates Mewtwo, a weaponized Pokémon who rebels against his makers and forces humans and Pokémon to confront the consequences of treating living beings as tools.

I believe they're actively working to do just that.

Eventually it will be free and ad-supported, they just haven't figured out how to fully monetize its userbase yet. The potential is huge since advertising will gladly pay to manipulate your behavior by subtly working suggestive product placements into every response.

By the way, I'm selling these fine leather jackets...

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

It's definitely not specific to Steam. Apple and Google Play gift cards are also used a lot in scamming, they may even accept Target and Home Depot cards. Really, they go for any gift card that is easy to re-sell. There are black markets for this kind of thing, people can buy cheap gift cards from sketchy sites and turn those stolen gift cards into cash or crypto. And to the retailer, it makes no difference... they already sold the gift card, the customer's money is gone and if someone else uses it, it's not their problem. The only difference here is that Steam would rather their customers have a good experience, even if it means losing a little bit of potential revenue from allowing scammers to exploit their customers.