What long weekend? Their asswipe of a boss doesn’t believe in anything but the 80-hour workweek for employees, and there’s no way he’s not demanding more overtime to rebuild after this fuck-up.

5 months.

2 for the new owners to come up with a plan on how to extract the most value from their purchase.

1 to implement a shitty idea that will immediately get community backlash, then revert it.

2 to wait for people to forget about it before introducing the same idea but presented in a less shitty way.

If I was to place any bets on what they would do, it’s either going to be: selling comments and mod descriptions to a corporation for LLM training; or adding time-tracking analytics to their modding client and selling that data to advertisers or research firms while making users require a subscription to use third-party clients.

I’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted here.

Apple is the company that brought us:

• Proprietary charging cables with DRM microchips.
• The first flagship phones with the headphone jack removed.
• The normalization of phones without expandable storage.
• A phone where you buy the charger separately.
• A walled-garden ecosystem without sideloading.
• An OS that removed support for kernel extensions.
• An authorized repair program that replaces instead of repairs.
• A line of ATX-sized desktop PCs with storage modules that are only accepted if they’re the same capacity as the ones you originally bought the PC with.

Their entire software and hardware is an affront to personal ownership, right to repair, and consumer rights.

What’s next, leaded gas?

Actually, probably. It’s a good way to make people grow up dumber and more irrational, and that’s basically the target demographic of their party.

Republicans later: Why are the peasants so mad Democrat Marxists dressing up as farmers and protesting when I hold town halls??

FTFY

Is prosperity supposed to be yellow and smell like asparagus?

With a couple of small changes, Send the Marines can be updated for 2025 standards.

What with President TACO practicing escalato on the Los Angeles
And then the ICE-est Crisis on top of that
It has been a nervous year
And people have begun to feel like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis

Fortunately, in times of crisis like this
America always has its number one instrument of diplomacy to fall back on
Here’s a song about it

When someone makes a move
Of which we don’t approve
Who is it that always intervenes?
U.N. and O.A.S
They have their place, I guess
But first - send the Marines

We’ll send them all we’ve got
John Wayne and Randolph Scott
Remember those exciting fighting scenes?
To the shores of Tripoli
But not to Mississippoli
What do we do? We send the Marines!

For might makes right
And till they’ve seen the light
They’ve got to be protected
All their rights respected
So somebody we dislike can stay elected

Members of the corps
All hate the thought of war
They’d rather kill them off by peaceful means
Stop calling it aggression

Ooh, we hate that expression!
We only want the world to know
That we support the status quo
They love us everywhere we go
So when in doubt
Send the Marines!

Fire doesn’t discriminate, but ICE totally does!

The good old dehu-Manosphere. Malignant, cancerous trash run by grifters and signal boosted by insecure mysognists.

Edit: I see we have some fans of Joe Rogaine, Jordan Small-Peterson, and or Andrew T-hate on here.

Preventing admission of anyone who undermines the domestic tranquility of the United States.

Any reasonable interpretation of this means that he just gave the order to keep himself from returning.

>misses the joke
>complains about other people
>gets downvotes

It would have been easier to just say:

“That’s coming with the update that adds Call of Duty and Fortnite into the game.”

This means either them or more junior developers will be brought in as glorified prompt engineers.

Oh, sweet summer child. It’s not going to be junior developers; they still have self-worth. An un(der)paid intern or outsourced contractors, however? They’re fine working for scraps and no health insurance.

Shedd, whose professional career was largely spent as a software integration engineering manager at Tesla before being tapped to head the TTS, came to the government with AI top of mind. He reportedly wants GSA to operate like a software startup

Last I checked, startup culture involved burning money to market and sell a “revolutionary” idea, with the end goal being to get purchased by a bigger player in the industry and walking away with a wad of cash.

It kind of puts 2025 into perspective if you look at it that way.

the Christian Right just doesn’t understand the religious text they claim to follow.

A less generous interpretation is that they do but don’t care about the parts they disagree with. There’s a lot of cherry picking going on with them, and that totally tracks with being the world’s #4 exporter of cherries.

MAGA don’t have goalposts. They have sticks with little flags that they move around whenever the locations aren’t convenient enough.

To be fair to Ubisoft, the newest Prince of Persia game was a great metroidvania game.

To be fair-er to Ubisoft, they can go fuck themselves for closing down the studio that made said game only a few months later.

They can make good games. They just clearly would rather rehash the same tired formula that they’ve been running with for the past decade while unreasonably expecting to make more money each time.

Whatever you need to tell yourself to justify your preferred mode of sitting on your ass and doing nothing.

Justification:

I don’t live in the States.

Result:

sitting on your ass and doing nothing [while complaining online about how other people are not doing enough]

no proper news outlet is reporting that.

And they probably won’t. The best we’ll get is watered-down slop or misreporting that frames the movement as small and unimportant.

It’s not in the interests of corporate media to accurately report on protests against the Trump administration. It might make some ad money in the short term, but it’s antithetical to the goals of both the owners and the corporations to piss off Trump:

1. Republicans benefit the wealthy and corporations and they don’t bite the hand that feeds.
2. The Trump administration has proven itself happy to retaliate against reporters and news agencies by banning them from press events.
3. The billionaires who own them don’t want to anger the guy they’re buying favors from.

Edit:

The AP certainly didn’t choose to publish many photos that show off the actual scale of the protests: https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/no-kings-protest-trump-us-b5de52994b7c592034fb19b7d3e9d577

This is what they should be showing: https://i.imgur.com/vR41TqH.mp4

Let’s not forget all the Bad Things™ the Republicans have dealt with this year! They have:

A Republican-funding billionaire throwing a tantrum at Daddy Donny.

A Republican senator arrested for CSAM.

Good American patriots are being targeted and singled out! Woe is them, it’s not fair! /s

It’s Kaboom. Reddit has r/conservative for kool-aid door to door salesmen, and Lemmy has a handful of well-known names as our fediverse equivalent.