Send them back to NK. Send them the first leg of the trip on a bus driven by a single unarmed soldier. If the North Koreans somehow manage to overpower the driver and commandeer the bus, and drive it to wherever they please… “Well, shucks, guys, we did what we could.”

The issue here is that I, as a gamer, want to know if developers espouse opinions that I strongly disagree with, because I don’t want to give them my money. So if a developer was (for example) in the Epstein Files, I would want to know that before buying their game. Reviews are an effective way to communicate that information, and I’d be rather upset to see them go.

You can’t reasonably allow reviews outlining some developer behavior and disallow others - that’s straight up censorship. As much as I disagree with the 'I will downvote games by someone who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death" stance, I think it’s their right to take that stance. I’m not really sure how you reconcile those two things without just banning them both.

What Steam could do is have a separate review category (from ‘normal’ ones and ‘off-topic’ ones) to categorize character profiles of the developers, and let people opt in or opt out of having those included in the aggregate score. Alternately, they could categorize reviews by the reason (e.g. “Performance / crashes”, “Unfun”, “Too hard”, “Too Woke”, “Developer is a horrible person”), and let people choose which categories they care about.

You like following rules, don’t you?

Oh, interesting - it seems you are right; I stand corrected.

Euthanasia is not something that’s allowed on a whim. It typically requires psychological evaluation, a prognosis that doesn’t allow for recovery or improvement, and a lengthy process to get approval. You can’t just walk into a doctor’s office, tell them you’re in pain and want to die, and have them hook you up to an IV.

Why do you think the father’s desire to keep her alive should trump her own bodily autonomy and right to choose for herself?

Or vehicular assault, which is its own category?

One could note that, since this man was arrested and so far none of the folks named in the Epstein files have been, they consider speaking for a few seconds past the allotted time to be a worse crime than sexually abusing children for decades.

It’s wrecked.

I see what you’re saying, but the obvious distinction here is that if someone is actively searching e.g. Google for a product, they don’t mind being shown products (and by extension being advertised to) - they’re actively seeking it out. What everyone has a problem with is being shown advertisements for products when they aren’t seeking them out and in fact actively want to avoid them.

I don’t even see how that’d be possible. Prices consumers paid were higher, but it wasn’t (in most cases) directly paying the tariffs - it’s just that the importer’s costs were higher because of the imports, so they raised their prices, too. Figuring out exactly what the reimbursement should be to each individual consumer would be functionally impossible even if they did mandate it.

Those reimbursements go to the importers, whereas the cost burden was on consumers, so really this has been a (successful) avenue for siphoning money from the poors to the rich.

I don’t know, I think it sounds lovely. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Maine residents are, as a whole, very nice people. Certainly a lot friendlier as a population than many other states I’ve spent time in. Calling them hateful and racist based purely on (by your own admission) their voting records is like saying the majority of US residents are MAGA because Trump got elected.

Source: Previously lived there for 26 years.

I really hope it doesn’t go away even after Trump is dead or in prison. This goes so far beyond Trump, and it shouldn’t ever go away. This should be a permanent addition to history books and nobody even remotely involved should ever escape its legacy.

Maybe someone should have taught their teacher not to pull off his human mask while standing right in front of an open window.

Might be a matter of what they can prove definitively. Better to hit him with a charge they know will stick than one that he has a chance to wiggle out from.

#Hero Snot Pests

I initially misread that as ‘gynecological and medical history’ and it put an entirely different and quite unpleasant spin on the whole story.

God said ‘Love thy neighbor’, Karen. If you’re not bi, you’re only loving half your neighbors at best, Karen. Get with the program, Karen.

8x8? Shit, dude, that’s luxuriously big.