This is an example of "overthinking," also known as "underthinking" or "over-concluding."

Based on your UID, you're old enough to remember when games actually worked at release and have no excuse for your ignorance. The current situation is one we allowed to happen with prebuys and a passive acceptance that all software is now effectively in beta forever.

It doesn't need to be like that and you damned well know better.

That's fair; I should have worded that bit better. There can be different reasons people vote for/against someone or some thing.

Adding that 49.8% of voters did re-elect a man found liable of sexual assault, who undeniably, obviously, constantly lies, over the 48.3% who wanted a black woman and 36% (90 million) of eligible voters who did not vote at all. I'll add that the first and third stats are pretty sad. On the upside, we didn't get those sky-high prices and new Middle-East wars Trump promised Harris would give us - hooray! /s (*heavy-sigh*)

Banning teens from social media will never be widely successful - Because it doesn't need to be.

These laws have nothing to do with protecting kids, and everything to do with stripping adults of their privacy. The kids will find workarounds like VPNs or AI generated IDs, because they have no alternative; meanwhile most adults will grudgingly hand over their ID cards and subject themselves to completely untrustworthy biometric tomfoolery rather than go cold-turkey from their daily doom scrolling.

And the world gets worse for all of us.

The entire point of gaming consoles is that we can stick a game in, turn it on, and we're more-or-less instantly in the game. Absent that fundamental benefit, why exactly would anyone want yet another locked down computing appliance in their house?

I'm not sure Sony has really thought this one through - They're not just killing physical media (and more importantly, second-hand markets), they're shifting markets entirely. Rather than competing with only Microsoft and Nintendo, they're effectively making themselves nothing more than another AAA gaming studio combined with a lock-in to their walled garden of a marketplace.

Effectively, they're now competing with Steam rather than Nintendo. And unlike Sony, most customers like Valve.

Trump puts the blame on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. From Trump blames governor, not Iran, for Minnesota cyberattack

Governor Walz has a different theory (also from that article):

As seven states have been impacted, either Iran or Governor Walz has been very busy ... :-)

Shhh! Don't give anyone any Alito replacement suggestions for SCOTUS.

That's what they're trying to claim, yes.

It's not a flawless argument, however. At it's broadest, a swap could basically refer to any financial transaction whatsoever. Courts generally frown on such promiscuous definitions, however, and the CFTC and SEC have both issued several clarifications on how they interpret that - For example, they don't consider insurance as a swap, even though by any reasonable interpretation insurance is absolutely a form of swap, and the way swaps are used in practice (prior to this gambling nonsense) is almost indistinguishable from a type of insurance.

That said, Minnesota and New York have a serious uphill battle ahead. Feds just love throwing around the "supremacy" clause, and rarely care whether or not their rules make the least bit of sense. NY does have a pocket ace, though, in that both Kalshi and Polymarket are both based in NYC; they may not be able to force the CFTC to play nice, but they can make life hell for both companies if they so choose.

Have they investigated the giant casino in Manhattan?

It would still be encrypted at rest. This was someone opportunistically walking off with a milk-crate full of hard drives, not a sophisticated attack on their network.

Of course, you could still be right - I've grown numb to how often people fail to communicate sensitive information over alternative secure channels. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to see the instructions, including the password, written on a post-it note slapped right on the drive itself.

"Persons" means not tracking and logging everyone that walks by via facial rec. "Papers" refers to your identifying documents - Like your license plate or IMEA. "Effects" refers to your possessions, explicitly including mobile ones, like say a car or phone. Every aspect of Flock's business model violates the 4th amendment...

...That said, you're not wrong because Flock is a private company and we Americans are apparently dumb enough not to make the connection between corporate mass surveillance for the government's benefit, with mass surveillance by the government itself.

England and Wales recorded 499 homicides in the 2025/26 period, representing the lowest annual count since comparable records began. That's with the huge influx of migrants too btw.

What part of the bill of rights protects your whereabouts in public from being recorded? Are you referring to this: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated"

You aren't being tracked inside your house. Nor is anyone doing a cavity search on you.

Now I agree "mass surveillance" is creepy, but we can have Flock without mass surveillance. If someone is kidnapped or attacked in a particular location the police should have the right to see what cars or persons were around there. How is that different from the police going around asking neighbors if they saw any vehicle or person leaving a building? That's literally what law enforcement has done in the US for over a hundred years. You know, a detective finding out from a homeless dude that "a guy in a red shirt left the building at 11:10am where the crime took place", and then someone else says "a guy wearing a red shirt ran into apartment 13B across the street at 11:15am" . DA takes the case and red shirt owner in apt 123b;We're okay with people convicted on flimsy stuff like that, but not surveillance that shows the perp's movements clearly?

We should make it illegal for surveillance to be abused or utilized to solve minor crimes. Only major felonies. Make it highly illegal to abuse it -- strong jail times attached, and also make any surveillance obtained information on minor crimes impossible to use. So if they catch you smoking weed they can't use that against you.

Similarly for many/most Fox News evening shows with the added irony that the network literally has "News" in the name. Then again , they tend to says things the Trump administration likes to hear.