If your microphone is active, it should at least show an indicator light and a top-row icon, I'm pretty sure.

I don't know about your food banks, but here in Canada, they're not run by the government. They're charities. I'm ALREADY paying taxes to try to make sure our government takes care of less fortunate people, and they've failed by foisting that off onto food banks, which are run on shoestring budgets, charity, and luck. What happens when people can't afford to give to the food bank, like when there's a recession?

If it were a government agency that was guaranteed to have affordable/free food so that anyone could at least cover their basic dietary requirements, I'd definitely be agreeing with you here. But it's not. We need to understand that the government is failing us at the most basic level.

Thatâ(TM)s incredible hypocrisy coming from Rubio; a man who had Rumeysa Ã-zturk arrested for writing an Op-Ed.

If automated phone menus and AI phone support are garbage, it doesn't bode well for written text bots or other support.

From the NOAA technical report Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States.

Relative sea level along the contiguous U.S. (CONUS) coastline is expected to rise on average
as much over the next 30 years (0.25–0.30 m over 2020–2050) as it has over the last 100 years
(1920–2020).

You will have to forgive me for not getting worked up over 10 cm in 30 years. Yes, bad storms sometimes happen. Even if the storm you mention was the largest recorded, it still fits nicely into a chart that shows no significant change in storm activity since we started recording such information.

This is, remarkably, one of the worst takes I have ever seen.

Everything is politics. Especially art. Narrative and storytelling is always going to be political. There are games about war between actual countries on this earth and you think games aren't political? Maybe candy crush isn't and that's all you play. But there are political choices made throughout the development of a game, and they can and should be scrutinized through that lens.

Some games are more political than others, definitely. That's fine. But any game with more than a facile narrative better be something we can talk politics about or it's a huge waste of time.

Even this discussion of whether politics belongs/is possible to remove from games is a political topic. Polygon was a good site that often had interesting takes. Iâ(TM)ll be sad to see it turned to AI slop.

Funding has been restored by CISA for MITRE to run the CVE program.

Which direction things go given the creation of a few alternative structures remains to be seen.

This.

Remember when Kansas banned the teaching of evolution in public schools? Medical schools and biology companies treated all applicants from Kansas with deep suspicion for years. That was just one state. Imagine what will happen when all the Red states do the same. It will be havoc.

A cult is by definition centered around a charismatic leader or a specific ideology. The term can also refer to intense devotion to a person, idea, or object. Who are "anti-Trump" devoted to?

Your tu quoique fallacy falls apart under even basic scrutiny.

And yet the way he went about doing it is idiotic. Canada passed laws allowing cashiers to round to the nearest 5 cents. Trump didn't do that, instead he just stopped production, meaning you will have customers screaming at cashiers for their money and claiming theyre being robbed. (Any cashier will tell you they meet these people.) And he did it without Congress, meaning it can be reversed by the next president.

Only if you completely ignore the fact the the very first CRT video game created for entertainment was on an old tube style oscilloscope. In 1958 the game of Tennis for Two was created. Not exactly pong, but definitely in the same genre. However, I will give you Spacewar if you are only looking at commercially available video games.

Personally, I have to say Pinball was probably more influential as "programmable" entertainment. They predate modern video games by a couple of hundred years.

Meanwhile, according to NOAA, the average sea level rise for the last 100 years, has only been 2mm per year without a change in rate. Not exactly alarming data.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.climate.gov%2Fnews-f...

High schools didn't start having computer rooms until sometime in the later half of the 1980s.

Now get off my lawn...

Cuba would be in a much different and likely better position if the USA wasn't embargoing them and doing whatever they can to make sure the country never succeeds.

Local ordinances? Lack of subsidies? I live in the Okanagan in British Columbia, Canada. Everyone here has a heat pump. It's getting less and less common to see furnaces of any kind. But the government has been working hard to switch people over where they can, providing subsidies and showing how much lower your bills tend to be.

I greatly suspect Norway has also done something like that, considering the penetration of EVs there as well.