So yeah it's up to them. We are very much a nation of men not laws now so whoever has the most money makes the law in that instant.

So the tariffs that would have been on the console aren't.

I'm actually surprised the sales were that good it's ridiculously expensive. Kind of frustrating because thanks to this they have said a new base price for games.

And when the tariffs do kick in the consul is likely to sell for seven or $800. At that point that might be too much but who knows. It's going to be like Australia but without the free health care.

Screw that. Tiger game.com for life. It's the only portable console with dial-up internet. I think.

I grew up listening to KYW 1060 news in the backseat. I don't know if they still do it or not but back in the 90s and early 2000s they had a fake teletype machine sound going in the background for the newsreaders. Harkening back to the early days of the station when the news came over the teletype in the news studio and the announcer was reading it as it came out.

the ability for AI to replace white collar workers is worth trillions. It also decouples the 1% from needing large numbers of consumers and employees to maintain their lifestyles

The laws will be rewritten to suit the needs of AI because they suit the needs of your ruling class.

And human beings won't do away with their ruling class because they like to pretend that all the chaos and misery in the world is under control.

If your business is incapable of existing without breaking the law then the obvious answer is that your business should not exist. How is this even a question? In the past EVERY company that flaunted copyright has been bankrupted but now with companies doing it en masse it's suddenly OK?

I'm calling bullshit on all of these companies. If you want to reform copyright then do it like all the other businesses have, buy a congressman because you aren't special.

You know where I like to spend most of my leisure time? The beach. You know what beaches are actually toxic to eat fish from and even so much as swim in? California's. Regardless, I'm the kind of guy who dives with 15 foot tiger sharks (no cage either, btw, no need for it) and thinks nothing of it. Why? Because I know it's safe to do so. I'm not afraid of machine guns either. Why? Well, I've already been trained with the most deadly variants both handheld and HMMWV mounted that the US Army uses, and they don't scare me one bit.

You know what's actually funny is some Uber driver here was trying to tell me about the Florida man meme, and my response was "wtf, people do that in Los Angeles alone every day and it barely even makes local news, where's the Los Angeles man meme?" and mentioned a gang mass shooting that happened in Long Beach a week earlier that only made news in r/losangeles, and it only made news there because some lady was talking to a local news reporter about how her son was just killed in it like it was no big deal, and then she started going on with something about her being a member of the crips, whereupon the reporter quickly cut off the feed.

But you know what? I don't even care about any of that. I'm not a progressive: I don't make big life decisions based on being afraid of shit. You know why I want to go to Florida? Way better diving there, and the state seems to do a much better job at conservation, AND, it'll shave $30,000 per year off of my tax bill. You probably won't like to hear this, but it's also apparently the top state overall for education, which is exactly the opposite of California.

Since you mention the UK, jaywalking is a crime in Northern Ireland which is part of the UK.

Singapore doesn't ban drinking in public during the day, only late at night. Remember it's a small place, with people living in close proximity to each other. Having drunk people making a lot of noise at night would be unfair to others who are trying to sleep.

Yes public urination makes things stink, and damages brickwork etc. It is absolutely disgusting to go through an area where people have been urinating and having to put up with the smell. A big cause of this is a severe lack of public toilets in many cities especially at night. Generally this is because people vandalise public toilets, which is another highly undesirable activity.

If there were tougher punishments and better enforcement against those who vandalise public toilets, perhaps there would be many more public toilets still open and thus less people urinating in random places. Sometimes people need to do more than urinate too...

More than likely the Californians that moved there are fairly soft-spoken about politics if not more of what you'd often consider to be conservative. The type of Californians you're thinking of wouldn't be caught dead moving to that area. I know because I live among them. The ones who would be open to the idea of moving to a place like that have already left. The ones who haven't but will at some point are still in the process of being disillusioned with the shitty status their party likes to leave things in when it's in total control of a state. Same thing as New York.

Personally I'm not fond of Texas, but I could be convinced to move under the right circumstances. But the place I'd rather go is Florida.

The MSRP for the Switch 2 is the same today as when the thing was announced: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomsguide.com%2Fgami...

This is a strange non-sequitur, but there's no need to pay that much for tuition. Period. If you paid that much, you just ripped yourself off. It's like you walked into a car dealership and paid 10 times the sticker price. And for what? Because the salesman convinced you that this car was shinier than the rest, and you bought it.

Any employer that's worth a shit doesn't care what school your degree came from. You know those tech companies you love to hate? They used to do that and found it was a terrible idea because they were denying themselves access to talent, and they found most employees that come from top ranked colleges aren't going to be significantly better or worse than anybody else. In fact, they found that many straight-A students are likely to burn themselves out after two years, so they don't care that much about GPA anymore either.

And I'm telling you right now: It was NOT worth the price of admission.

Except nothing. A degree doesn't guarantee anything. It never did. Research has shown time and time again that success is determined far more by the quality of the student than anything else. The place I work at is VERY heavy in engineering, and I've yet to meet a single coworker who paid anywhere near that much for tuition. And some of these guys are recent graduates. I personally graduated 10 years ago, long after people were already complaining about student loan debt, and I didn't borrow anything.

If you're dumb enough to overspend on tuition, then what makes you think you're anywhere near smart enough to do well career-wise? If anything, it just says that you're a bit dumber than the average bear.

If you're not stupid, you go to community college, which Pell grants more than cover. And if you're not stupid, you go to an in-state university for the remainder of the degree, which more often than not will provide an additional grant based entirely on the results of your Pell grant. Mine did, and in both community college AND university, the school actually paid me money, not the other way around. Again, based entirely on Pell grants and nothing else.

And I like how you word it, you "put your kid through college" meaning you're making the effort towards it, implying your kid may not have even had the gumption to do it himself. Which means he may not even be as interested in going to college to begin with as you think. I personally did it myself. Whatever the Pell grants didn't cover, I paid for out of my own savings. No assistance from parents, nothing.

This is totally false, and you're an idiot if you believe that. This is because many universities have been raising their tuition rates faster than the rate of inflation for 40 years. Do you know why they even do that? Because they know there's a sucker borne every minute with unlimited money to pay them. A sucker just like you who will do exactly that by spending money that you don't even have.

Honestly, with the bogus figures that you're always coming up with, it sounds like you're just pasting shit you got from chatgpt.

If they were terrified of them, I think they'd have left by now, especially if they thought it was that many.

they don't exist in west so they are fanciful toys. Don't run your mouth off about costs of your imaginary friend's equally imaginary SMR.

bahaha kid here thinks everything made in his wee lifespan.

Nope, Bakerloo line has rolling stock made in 1972 still in service.

Now get off my lawn!

Considering it happened the day before the announcement, I was surprised it wasn't even mentioned in the summary. Every other site that covered the announcement also included the detail of Johnathon Joss' (voice actor of Redcorn) murder.

This was because the return was special in featuring the original voice actors, and it seemed rather newsworthy to note that just on announcement day there would be missing, not because he was holding out, but because he was killed.

Even though most programming is mental, there are situations where typing is crucial.

First is documentation - everyone has to write some eventually, and sometimes you need to do longer writeups.

Second is using the keyboard to navigate - if you use a vi-style editor, touch-typing makes it easier to enter in the commands to navigate through your file. Lots of vi commands are designed for easy touch-typing.