The chain of events:

1. A woman game dev posts something work-related. Innocuous enough so far.
2. Some guy on Twitter annoyingly tells her how to do her job.
3. The game dev overreacts, humiliates the guy and turns it political. This was unprofessional and stupid.
4. Said guy on Twitter overreacts as well. Oh boy. Stupid.
5. As things get uglier, a co-worker of hers decides it's a good idea to risk his career and join in the now politically charged discussion. Unsurprisingly, it doesn't go well for him.
6. In a perfect storm of stupidity and immaturity from all sides, it snowballs on Twitter.
7. The game company fires her and her co-worker as damage control. They were justified to do this, since they acted unprofessionally, but this turned out to be a PR disaster for them. No way to win. That's what they get for associating with idiots.
8. The media smells blood in the water like the sharks they are. It's a national political issue now. And yet, it's such a stupid, pointless fight that made 2 people lose their jobs over something so frivolous as "mansplaining".

I have no comment. I just look at the stupidity of everyone involved and laugh. It's better to laugh than to get depressed...

Although Twitter's PR department raises several thought-provoking, manufactured points, there is a simpler reason evident to all: because Trump is the most powerful man on the world and there's every reason to believe that he'd damage or destroy Twitter if provoked.

Polygny "causes war", but Christian, Islamic, Jewish countries are embroiled in war all the time.

I understand what this article is about. It's one of those articles that show fake concern for a little-reported on country so as to advance a xenophobic image of them as backwards so as to justify in the public aggressive political or military intervention.

This sounds like a job for GNU Taler.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftaler.net%2Fen%2Findex.html

Most people on Patreon have multiple things going on at the same time, and that adds up to a full wage.

Plus, they can monetize in other ways the stuff they create with the Patreon money; for example, a musician can get funded to create a music album, and then use the songs they created to tour and sell merchandise.

Article is knowingly deceptive.

It has no new ideas.

Blade Runner was pleasing to the eyes, ears and intellect. It set off many pleasing gongs of meaning that resonated with each other.

This short makes it seem that it's going to be mindless action-fodder. The Slashdot summary describes all the meaning in the short perfectly -- it's that shallow.

He was fired for political reasons.

He got fired for political reasons.

No side is right on this. Both sides were crass and didn't think what they said through.

And Google is supposed to be the place where even the janitor has a PhD! Why can't anyone there look at this with a level head?

The social rifts in the US run so deep that a civil war seems like a real possibility.

From the Intercept article linked:

"While the document provides a rare window into the NSAâ(TM)s understanding of the mechanics of Russian hacking, it does not show the underlying âoerawâ intelligence on which the analysis is based. A U.S. intelligence officer who declined to be identified cautioned against drawing too big a conclusion from the document because a single analysis is not necessarily definitive."

If one reads other articles by the Intercept, one finds that Glenn Greenwald, who works as editor at the Intercept and helped publicize the Snowden leaks, is of the informed opinion that Russia did not manipulate the US election, and that the whole claim was manufactured by the US intelligence, and that both political sides saw it easier to treat this well-established lie as if it was true than to publicly confront it.

Just look for the articles by Glenn Greenwald in Intercept. He has stated this explicitly a good time before Putin said the same thing (but in Putin's mouth, it was subtle pressure against the US intelligence community to stop attacking Russia).

So many words, and yet they're all half-lies.

He reminds me of the Iraqi Information Minister Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, but then again what guy with a PR team preparing their words doesn't?

...but the press release promises it will change everything, and isn't it nice to be informercialed about these exciting, slightly different phones every day on Slashdot?

Sure he will. You better believe it, because Trump never fails on his words!

What's a "taxi mafia"? Is that like... a mix of Taxi Driver with The Godfather?

Uber might have its "flaws" -- insignificant crimes, disrespect for the law and other illegal activity -- but at least it's not a mafi-- wait.

Waiiiit.

Illegal activity... That's what the mafia does! But the mafia does it in an organized fashion... Like a corporation. But they do it while operating above the law.

And Uber doesn't operate above the law. It just changes the law. Like in a South America banana republic. The Uber States of America banana republic.

But really, you guys, it's the taxi mafia! They're out to get us! RUN! With your feet! Because Uber is just as shitty, if not shittier, than getting a cab!

That's totally bananas!

Bananas!