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I really do hate that people think that in order to support Palestinians one must also support Hamas. One can be critical of how Palestinians have been treated by the Israeli state while still seeing Hamas a barbarous organization that does WAY more harm to the Palestinians than it helps...

May have considered it, but thought it was too low a possibility or knew that the tech in it's current state wouldn't be able to offer much protection in such a scenario anyway. Not sure what Hamas thinks the end-goal would be by doing this. Giving Israelis an excuse to crack down on...

It wasn't even an ally, really. It was an insanely rich person who happens to be a private citizen of a country we have an alliance with. That makes it even worse.

Rhode Island isn't a real state, it's just the disputed territory between Connecticut and Massachusetts. People just say it's real so those two states don't start hurling rocks at each other.

Rich people buy everything with loans. it's a way to get out of paying taxes. Most of his wealth is tied up in stocks. If he cashes out the stocks, he pays taxes on them, if he borrows against his stocks, he doesn't. It's one of the many ways the system is broken.

Not so sure. They can probably get book deals once this is all over.

Not quite. Patric McHenry is Speaker Pro tempore. Doesn't quite have the same level of prestige as Speaker of the House, but can do most of said duties while the spot is empty.

Musk just keeps doing stuff like that. The rescue diver incident from a few years ago comes to mind.

Keep in mind the shows treatment of women was considered progressive for the time. We have, as a society, improved in that regard since the mid-to-late 60s, thankfully. As for Shatner's speech cadence, it's played up significantly for humor in the parodies and jokes.

They could always do a comedy movie where Weyoun and Brunt go on a series of misadventures after getting knocked into the 22nd Century during a transporter accident.

Granted, I'm not so sure how effective removing party affiliation would be from the ballots given the current environment, but everything else I totally agree with. Also have friggin spending limits on campaigns. Don't let people with huge bankrolls buy up all the airtime.(that would require...

Well, the original Twitter investors got some money out of him, so we know it's possible. Just gotta find the right angle.

Eh the whole pay for access to certain sites was always a worst case scenario. Granted ISPs would LOVE to be able to do that, but the PR nightmare that would result keeps them from doing it. The reality is they abuse the lack of net neutrality in a more subtle way. Comcast likes to throttle...

Never underestimate the human ability to generate more stupid. It's like a hydra, the more you eliminate, the more that crops up.

Selling property doesn't require a business license, so he's probably able to do that. He'd likely have to go through a third party agent, though.

Well, yes, especially on the management side, but there are levels. Unions have more power in some industries than they do in others and gaming (software in general, really) tends to be towards the minimal end when it comes union power.

The only problem I have with this is that it can cause issues with legitimate uses of AI voice synth in games. Say I'm developing a game that heavily features procedural generation, right down to place/character names and quests. There's no way in the world I could pull that off with a voice...

My fear is that it's too late and I can easily see the executives in the gaming industry simply saying 'we don't need you anymore' to SAG-AFTRA members. The industry is notoriously anti-union as it stands, after all.

Eh, I kinda went full on Linux a couple of years ago. That would require me to either boot back into Windows( I do still have it on a second SSD, just in case) or run it over the cloud. Too much hassle getting those set up for one game from a studio who's previous work has been kinda meh for me.