They didn't care how many doctors said Measles vaccines were safe or essential either. The only way to make policy decisions with this administration is to slip someone a bribe.
This isn’t something that’s nuanced or complex. Most people in any supervisory position never need to tell their subordinates to not break the law. It’s the lowest of low bars that doesn’t even deserve comment, much less “repeatedly.” On the rare occasion that someone does break the law, you may want to reinforce this concept.
How exactly do you reinforce the concept without saying it? There's two parts to accountability. Telling people the rules and noting down that they have officially been made aware is one of them. The other half is following through on the described consequences for transgression.
As anyone who has spent any amount of time in corporate America can tell you, all those quarterly/annual/etc trainings sound really dumb and obvious. Of course you should not sexually harass your coworkers. Of course you should not come to work drunk. Of course you should not do various and sundry criminal activity. But these trainings show up at two particular times: Regularly to make sure absolutely no one can say they didn't know it was wrong, and then again right after something happens, to make it extra clear because apparently, to some, it wasn't obvious.
I don't object in any way to various government officials saying that everyone in their office must follow the law. That's good. It requires follow through though.
Epstein distraction. That's all it was, nothing more, nothing less. Donald J Trump, the most peaceful president in US history, started a war military operation that sends US soldiers to die so that the news will talk about something other than his dead pedophile pal. That's it.
States should just call his bluff and decline the BEAD funding. This same "do what we demand or we'll take away your funding" trope is used all over the place to coerce states into doing things they otherwise would not want to do, a kind of reverse blackmail. Just choose not to participate in it. Sure, it costs more, but freedom has a price.
AAA game dev is getting too large for humans to perform. The teams required are too large to be managed effectively. The pace of output is too quick to be sustained. All this corner cutting isn't because the industry is lazy or cheap. It's because price pressure and output demands make it impossible to do anything else.
That doesn't make it acceptable, but it means there is hard cap (quality/size/fidelity/etc) on what the general public can reasonably expect a AAA game to look like that no amount of advances in technology will ever overcome. Eventually, the burden of adding one more developer to the team will not provide more value than it adds management complexity and QA requirements.
Fundamentally, does it matter if CBS news utterly flops? Consider, if CBS made $0, flat nothing, if the Ellison family just wrote a big check for the whole thing every year in perpetuity, would it be worth it for the information control alone?
I think it's been made pretty clear that taking over CBS News wasn't a business decision. They don't have a grand plan for making tons of money using it. What they are doing, clearly, is a hostile takeover of any opposition.
Certainly, some will try that, but it's going to be a hard sell convincing voters in October/November that you actually hate Trump when just six months previously you were doing a backflip to prove how Trumpy you could possibly be. I realize that six months is an ice age in politics but the seismic level of flip flop required for that maneuver is just too much.
Every Republican in congress knows that they only still have their seat because they are more adept at brown nosing Trump than the guy they replaced or the guys who tried to replace them over the last 2-6 election cycles (depending on which chamber you are in), and they know that if they step out of line the first thing that will happen is someone even more eager to swallow will be tapped to replace them.
They aren't going to magically grow a pair before election day 2026, because if you are in a deep red state then Donald Trump decides who occupies your office next year, not you. You want to pucker up and kiss that ass and hope you survive the coming storm. If you're in a purple state, you're fucking toast no matter what you do. You can choose to lose the primary or choose to lose the general but you can't win both.
Oh right. It's the fault of the party that controls neither chamber in congress, the executive branch, or the judiciary. It must be their fault. The republican party, which controls every aspect of government completely has no way of preventing this.
“Guarding an exit?” What the hell does that even mean? TSA agents don’t “guard exits.” No one “guards exits.”
I'm not sure if this is hyperbole to make a point or you haven't been to an American airport in the last 25 years but there absolutely are TSA agents (usually reading a book or asleep) stationed at control point exits. I would say look for them next time they are there but I guess you might not find them now. Look for the Call of Duty cosplayer reading a book or asleep instead, I guess.
I, for one, am cautiously optimistic about ICE deployments to airports. The TSA has never been a useful addition to airports. It is a Bear Patrol employment program for America's dullest and least competent people. For a quarter of a century Americans have enthusiastically assumed the position so that people who couldn't make it as a mall cop get to throw away their tooth paste tubes, ogle/molest their genitals, make unqualified executive decisions about what counts as breast milk, and of course riffle through people's luggage for petty cash. What I hope happens is that America as a whole finally realizes we don't need ICE in airports because we never needed the TSA.
They didn't care how many doctors said Measles vaccines were safe or essential either. The only way to make policy decisions with this administration is to slip someone a bribe.
Oh, this comment is going to age like fine wine come November.
In some ways that actually made the joke funnier.
Leopard, meet face.
warmilitary operation that sends US soldiers to die so that the news will talk about something other than his dead pedophile pal. That's it.It was never about immigration. It was about Minnesota voting heavily Democrat in the last election.
States should just call his bluff and decline the BEAD funding. This same "do what we demand or we'll take away your funding" trope is used all over the place to coerce states into doing things they otherwise would not want to do, a kind of reverse blackmail. Just choose not to participate in it. Sure, it costs more, but freedom has a price.
The problem with trying to ban VPNs is that no one uses VPNs in Enforcementland. Strangely, all traffic to prohibited websites comes from Useavpnia.
AAA game dev is getting too large for humans to perform. The teams required are too large to be managed effectively. The pace of output is too quick to be sustained. All this corner cutting isn't because the industry is lazy or cheap. It's because price pressure and output demands make it impossible to do anything else. That doesn't make it acceptable, but it means there is hard cap (quality/size/fidelity/etc) on what the general public can reasonably expect a AAA game to look like that no amount of advances in technology will ever overcome. Eventually, the burden of adding one more developer to the team will not provide more value than it adds management complexity and QA requirements.
Fundamentally, does it matter if CBS news utterly flops? Consider, if CBS made $0, flat nothing, if the Ellison family just wrote a big check for the whole thing every year in perpetuity, would it be worth it for the information control alone? I think it's been made pretty clear that taking over CBS News wasn't a business decision. They don't have a grand plan for making tons of money using it. What they are doing, clearly, is a hostile takeover of any opposition.
Certainly, some will try that, but it's going to be a hard sell convincing voters in October/November that you actually hate Trump when just six months previously you were doing a backflip to prove how Trumpy you could possibly be. I realize that six months is an ice age in politics but the seismic level of flip flop required for that maneuver is just too much.
Every Republican in congress knows that they only still have their seat because they are more adept at brown nosing Trump than the guy they replaced or the guys who tried to replace them over the last 2-6 election cycles (depending on which chamber you are in), and they know that if they step out of line the first thing that will happen is someone even more eager to swallow will be tapped to replace them. They aren't going to magically grow a pair before election day 2026, because if you are in a deep red state then Donald Trump decides who occupies your office next year, not you. You want to pucker up and kiss that ass and hope you survive the coming storm. If you're in a purple state, you're fucking toast no matter what you do. You can choose to lose the primary or choose to lose the general but you can't win both.
This is like insisting you're only going to learn how to read by browsing AOOO because you can't trust the copyright of books you read at the library.
Oh right. It's the fault of the party that controls neither chamber in congress, the executive branch, or the judiciary. It must be their fault. The republican party, which controls every aspect of government completely has no way of preventing this.
Sometimes people can be nuanced and something other than pure evil or pure good. Shocking, I know.
You can't defame someone with the truth.