Sometimes direct action is the best action.
So typically American.
First solution to any problem is violence.
Makes it easy to dismiss your complaints as that of a raving mad man and all it results in are more sales of the surveillance cameras and the corporation being more ambiguous about what they're really doing once they've done the rebrand. You're not actually punishing the people violating your privacy, you're rewarding them.
So can I come to the US illegally...?
50 million already have.
We need to be dismantling the illegals, not the cameras that are catching them.
And when you succeed, you will find the illegal immigrants were not the cause of society's problems.
They'll find someone else to blame... never admitting that they got it wrong... or that they are actually the cause of many of society's problems.
The solution to tribalism is never the eradication of the other tribe, those racists... Sorry, "legitimate concern about immigration types", once the foreigners are gone, they'll just move onto the next favourite target (Irish, Catholics/Prods, Jews, Northerners/Southerners, so on and so forth) as the next cause of all their problems. You know, the people they blamed before the foreigners. As each group is eradicated, they'll concentrate on the next one until there are two towns left and each one is blaming the other for everything that is wrong... Hell, it'll continue until there is one street with two houses, each wanting the other one gone.
In all of this, they never seem to figure out that the only common denominator with all of their problems is them.
Like I said, the solution is not getting rid of all the foreigners because they'll just start hating someone else baselessly. Not that they'll ever succeed mind you, as soon as the first thing goes wrong they turn on each other like a pit of vipers.
Xbox has been around a while, and has its marketshare. It is also available on PCs, and anyone w/ a Microsoft account can access it. And it's not like Microsoft has a marginal presence in the overall computer market
Did you read the summary or even the article? The problem is not nobody knows the brand "Xbox". The problem is MS marketing has been shifting the branding to include PCs, phones, smart TVs, etc creating lots of confusion. In October 2025, Asus launched the ROG Xbox Ally; it cannot play Xbox games but PC games. Anyone buying it would have to read the fine print that it cannot play their Xbox games they may have previously purchased.
The problem isn't that no-one knows what the XBox brand is, it's pretty much common knowledge.
The problem is no-one wants the Xbox brand, not even most XBox owners (they're just stuck with it.
Marketers and managers refuse to accept the obvious and simple reality that no-one wants their product and services because better alternatives exist (GOG, Steam, et al) so they think that it must be no-one knows about it and this can be fixed through the Magic of Marketing. Not like we haven't seen umpteen single use stores fail before (EA Play/Origin, Uplay, so on and so forth) that has made gamers weary, also not like it's Microsoft's first attempt (Gone for Windows Live).
Same with TVs, phones, et al... No-one wants it. XBox's only selling point was the hardware which was sold below cost and now Microsoft doesn't want to even do that.
We're practically seeing the results of 40+ years of Leftist bias in public education and higher education, and Rightist bias in private / catholic / christian education.
I would not assume Catholic education is right-biased.
What we're seeing are actually second-order effects of conservative policies towards education — specifically, chronically underpaying teachers. Teachers often don't know how to teach the material because they didn't really learn the material in the first place, so the blind are leading the blind.
This is what happens when you pay teachers poorly for decade after decade. Instead of getting the people most qualified on the material to teach it, you get whoever is willing to do the job at the sad salaries that they pay. So you have two choices: Teach the teachers or pay massively more so that you can steal people away from industry to become teachers. Those are your options.
What you're responding to is 30+ years of someone watching Fox News, it's gotten to the point that they can't tell reality from fantasy any more. Anything bad is "left" and all things good are "right" (two legs bad, four legs good).
This is more likely the knowledge that companies contracted to provide something to the government in the US know full well there are no consequences for delivering under target. Especially with the current US govt. So they deliver the cheapest possible product regardless of if it's fit for purpose knowing they won't even get a slap on the wrist... and people who've spent 30 years fed on Fox will defend this to the hilt (nasty government daring to even question goodly private business... unless its a business Fox doesn't like of course, all are equal but some are less equal than others).
Clowns are running the circus (animals running the farm) and they're supported by even worse clowns.
It wouldn’t be beyond the wit of humanity to require data centres to pay for all their own genny power, insist on it being low carbon, and require them to pay a fee on top of that. If it means some of them go off in a huff, well, that just lessens the strain. If they go bust in a bubble, we end up with lots of loverly overcapacity, and it shouldn’t be that difficult to rejig the distribution to take advantage of it.
There is no reason that taxpayers or domestic energy bill payers have to shoulder the costs or suffer the problems.
We managed to auction off spectrum quite well, and we have S108 for housing which is not brilliant but better than nothing. We should just bloody do the same, and if Matt Clifford kicks off about it, tell him he’s a clever cookie and can help Claude and BX and all the rest of them figure out their new NPV calculations.
That is the case in the UK. Datacenters pay business rates, not the regulated consumer rates... and constantly complain about it. Also have to abide by strict environmental regulations.
I'm sure a Libertardian will be along shortly to explain why not subsidising businesses and not allowing them to pollute willy-nilly is harmful whilst saying that people they don't like shouldn't receive public funds out of the other side of their mouth.
Using solar, wind, and batteries is not green any more.
Now it's just the obvious smart choice.
You can easily discern who is smart, who is dumb...
Texas ignored it's infrastructure for years to keep it cheap which has lead to regular problems... now they're just looking for the cheapest way out of the hole they dug themselves into... which is battery and solar (those cheap Chinese made PV panels). Being green is entirely accidental, if burning orphans coated in baby seal oil was cheap ERCOT would completely support it.
I suspect they're still going to have the outages California doesn't.
People like that are idiots.
I've relocated five fucking times halfway across the continent. Four of those times I've either stayed with friends, or taken a motel room while I searched for somewhere to live.
I've relocated halfway across the world (Australia to the UK)... You start by getting short term accommodation to look for long term accommodation. It's more expensive than just getting long term accommodation but it's cheaper than getting scammed. There's almost always someone who leases by the month, you pay a premium for it but cheaper than a hotel/motel. It's useful as it lets you try before you buy, see if you like the place and find out where the good/bad neighbourhoods are.
This sort of thing is already illegal (at least in the UK, and I'm sure many other countries,) existing laws just aren't being enforced. If you purport to "sell" something but it will actually stop working at some point when you do something of your own due to how you've programmed it, then that's not suitable for the purpose it's advertised for, you're breaking the clause in the Sale of Goods act about the buyer enjoying quiet possession of the goods, and it's a deliberate implied false representation, so that's fraud.
The thing is, it's never been tested in court and won't be until a major game is shut down.
The second is someone takes the pictures/ad copy and lists the unit separately at a lower price, then has folks use payment services to send them money. I watermark my ad pics to increase the friction of doing this.
Who is leasing a property sight unseen?
I'm definitely not one for victim blaming but if they haven't even looked at the property in person they deserve what they get. Along with the old addage of "if it looks too good to be true..." (caveat emptor as well, there are a lot of applicable cliches)
Its harder to do this in most countries as we have a free interbank transfer system, so asking me to PayPal money to a property agent is a giant red flag. Not saying it won't ever happen, but it's a lot harder and the pool of idiots is a lot smaller because the red flags are so obvious.
I rent out a house in England and the tenant had a (reasonable) complaint. She emailed 3000 words to the managing agent. The agent sent her a 2000 word reply. This bounced back and forth a bit with each sending long emails with bullet points and the like. My guess is that both of them were using ChatGPT both to compose their own emails and to summarise the replies they got.
In frustration, she phoned me to complain and got what she wanted in less than 60 seconds. In my opinion, we will see much more examples like this where AI is reducing efficiency and lowering productivity.
This is more likely the agent running interference as they don't want to pay for anything (as do most of their customers). They would have kept doing it if they had of phoned the agent. Few tenants in a property managed by an agent get a direct line to the landlord, doubly so for one who'll make a decision, especially a decision to spend money on a rental property when they don't have to.
Also 3000 words isn't hard to do, especially if you're an experienced typist or writer. However when dealing with issues that might end up in court, someone with half a brain usually looks for a template and for renters there's usually a couple of good sources. You also want as much as you can get in writing as you really dont want a court date to devolve into he said/she said, you need records.
Personally I hate calling people, I'd much rather do it via an official ticketing system, if that's not available, email. Calls can get so ambiguous, especially if you start dealing with people in other countries that not only have difficult to follow accents but zero understanding of context of culture. It was hard enough dealing with a Iberia recently (despite both parties speaking both Spanish and English) and they had their call centre in Spain. I refuse to fly Lufthansa in no small part because their Indian call centre is designed to be as unhelpful as possible.
This got going on threats and planning on banning X for AI childporn fakes by UK and others. Musk is probably involved.
Then you have all that neo-nazi stuff that gets banned and Musk was upset at Germany curtailing that...
If Musk in involved I don't think anyone has anything to worry about, it'll never work and he'll forget about it before it first gets hacked (which is will).
Because the gutted program effectively worked for freedom of speech by building technologies that enable censorship evasion in each country. The new program will only provide access to contents through the censorship filter of the US administration.
And here we come to the crux of the matter, hate speech is anti free-speech.
By asking me to defend the rights of hateful people, you're effectively asking me to support the stripping of rights from the people they hate. So in effect, you're asking me to select which group of people I would rather deny rights to... the right of a few hateful people to spread their bile without question or criticism (which freedom of expression does not protect you from) or the more fundamental rights to an entire group of people based on things they can't control like the colour of their skin, what's betwixt their legs or with whom they lie. Dunno about you but the choice seems obvious if you really want to force it.
The Epstein Regime will soon be over hopefully.
Opens first X file...
Race: Kiddifidlarians
Planet: Epstienius 7
Distinguishing features: Orange skin, small hands, mouth shaped into an O.
There are probably many illegal aliens in the Epstein Files, but the criminals are the oligarchs.
Erm.. its exactly the same with undocumented workers.
There's no shortage of them no matter how many get deported because there are rich locals willing to hire them... Considering that it's impossible to punish a rich white man in the US, it won't ever stop.
The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it. -- Allan Sherman
