People have been trying that for a bit, it’s not working too well

Corporations want their money

Commenting/making posts has always required an account of some sort, at least as far back as I can remember. Maybe the IRC days you just needed a name

Term limits on SCOTUS should be 18 years, with one Justice retiring every other year.

Unless the court expands, then the term limits could be shorter

Democrats gave Republicans everything they wanted on the border in exchange for funding Ukraine

And then orange man said no, so the Republicans said “well now I am not doing it”

And so here we are, with both sidesists screaming that Biden has to do something about the “border crisis” when the Republicans have shot down their own bills

Chart really makes it looks like this happens every 10-20 years, and I doubt anything was changed those times it happened. The huge spike this time is because we had a global pandemic that started in 2020 and kept everything low

Google is paying something around $60m a year for AI training on reddit content

So that’s gonna be helpful lol

Made a legally binding decision to massively overpay what the company was worth, or probably ever would be. Of course the current owners are going to take it

Like what Cambridge Analytica did?

It’s basically the cable TV model just with more steps

Need like 5+ services you pay $5-20 a month to instead of one you pay $75 to (numbers made up)

Ghostcrawler is heading up a new MMO, probably a couple years out though

Not sure what Jeff Kaplan is up to, probably retired and I wouldn’t blame him

Relative to the cost of everything else / inflation, games actually were pretty cheap. They had been $50/60 for nearly 30 years. Now we’re in the shitty time where it’s $70 for the base game, $30 for day 1 dlc, battlepasses, micro (really macro) transactions, etc.

Put on your emergency lights and walk around the vehicle?

Oh for brake lights, yeah, some weight probably works best, or backing near something and seeing if it lights up, don’t even need a window

Apparently when cable first came to be, there were no ads

Which is weird, since there’s a new cod almost every year (or at least it feels like that)

How do you have worse aerodynamics than two bricks stacked on top of each other

Stock buybacks should be made illegal (well, just don’t allow them) again.

“our company only made 19 billion, we expected to make 19.1 billion, we are not sure how we are going to survive this”

Sometimes you have a product that’s a loss leader to hold marketshare instead

I can’t imagine adblockers are really that big of a deal, it’s just Google trying to get revenue off the 0.1% of people who use them

How VW, one of/the largest car manufacturers in the world, turns out the overpriced shit EVs it does, yeah… No wonder people are looking elsewhere

Covid also really did a number on the car market (like so many others), probably take another 2-4 years before the used market gets anywhere back to normal.