Pro: a handful of my state’s absolute worst officials are set to quit their jobs and we get a do-over.

Con: they’re quitting to join the administration and they’ll be way more powerful and everyone else will suffer.

Sorry. I did what I could.

RobCo

Military contractor and aerospace giant obsessed with autonomous AI.

Replace Robert House with El*n and it’s halfway there already.

(Paraphrasing an old comment from the Bad Site)

“Make America Great” would be a fine, if bland slogan. Everybody wants that. It’s not controversial, but also not distinctive in any way.

“Make America Greater than Ever” would be better. The implication being that we can do better, and be better. But they intentionally went with something else.

It seems to me, and as you have identified, that the “Again” is the key part of the phrase that drives the whole narrative. Here’s the kicker: by nearly every objective measure, the country is safer, richer, more equal, and has a better overall quality of life today than at any point in history[1]. The only thing that has significantly declined over the last 40-50 years is “the percentage of total societal influence held by straight white men.”

“Again” is the dog-whistle of misogyny, racism, and homophobia, wrapped up in the plausible deniability of nostalgia for an objectively worse time.

[1] There may be some room for disagreements here, primarily because of the first Trump administration and the pandemic years causing some backsliding, but this was especially true in 2016 when the slogan first really appeared, which is when it should be judged.

IIRC, there was a bug in the race car (F1? Indy?) where if you max out the speed, it would get stuck at that speed no matter what. Then you could take it off any ramp and jump most of the way across the map. Just messing around with the map editor and that car wasted so many weekends for me.

Article II, Section 1, Clause 5:

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

Even if he were a natural born citizen, he’d have to live in the US for 14 years first to be eligible.

$30 for the early access plus a bit of micro transaction currency.

Questionable value, but a terrible headline.

That’s Washington State in a nutshell.

The mod includes everything needed to downgrade other stores’ copies. To the end user, the idea is to make it as transparent as possible. This will work on Steam (with some work) and GOG (with less work), but not Epic(at all). Calling out one storefront unnecessarily would be “provocative bullshit” but in this case, it matters.

Tough to tell from a picture alone, but maybe something like this?

https://www.amazon.com/ACROPIX-16-4ft-Universal-Plastic-Optic/dp/B0C7KX1GFL

I was at a friend’s house playing Utopia: The Creation of a Nation on SNES.

He warned me not to save my game, but I blanked and did anyway. Apparently there was only one save slot, so I overwrote all his previous work. There’s not really anything to fess up to here, since he was sitting right there giving me the most what the fuck look a teenager can give. But for the record, I’m still sorry 30 years later, Rick.

He followed up a few days later, having continued my game, and the aliens absolutely fucked up my (our) colony almost immediately the save point. I didn’t even give him a good mid-starting point to begin from.

1. They auto-promote anyone with a blue check, which are disproportionately elon stans, which are increasingly nazis.

2. The Russian troll farms are active on Xitter.

3. The algorithm likes engagement. The actual nazis, the trolls, and the useful idiots are only feeding each other since that’s a huge portion of accounts left on that site.

“To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”

They recently started releasing viewing data for all shows in six months intervals.

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/what-we-watched-a-netflix-engagement-report

That sounds like the report for the first half of 2023, but also has a link to the second half.

Their exact criteria will probably change depending on a number of factors, but one could look up figures for a cancelled show to get some idea of what isn’t good enough.

It likes bots writing to the site, for the engagement; it doesn’t like bots reading the site (for free).

The first is on GOG as well, for only a few cents more.

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Create the problem, sell the solution.

No, no. All the NPCs are supposed to have 7 fingers on each of their three hands. It’s in the lore.

I saw so much praise for this game, which got me to buy. Then I genuinely felt like I played a different game than everybody else.

Not that I thought it was bad or anything, I just walked across the landscape for 2h15m and then haven’t thought about it since.

People are weird about gasoline. They’ll drive around looking for the cheapest option, to save 2 cents/gallon. Even with a huge tank, that’s less than 50 cents of total savings.

So a grocery store can offer, say, 10¢ savings, and it only actually costs them like $1.50-$2.00 per customer. That’s way less than other sales that are harder to advertise and don’t bring in the same amount of business.

Ultimately the psychological benefit for the shopper is more than the financial cost to the store. The others societal costs don’t come in to that equation.