It’s a plot in LA Confidential. It’s about the consolidation of organized crime under a corrupt police officer, and one of the operations he’s taking over is sexual blackmail.

But he’s also taking over the drug trade, and it’s violence over Heroin following the arrest of a mobster that sets everything in motion.

There were no regional managers named Jhonny. Your friend is a liar and you should cut them out of your life.

The books and films meant a lot to a lot of people, and I can’t blame people for loving the world she created for them.

I don’t regret having read the books and seen the films. But I’m also done with her and will never give her money again.

That person truly did great things for Civilization.

Bevlcause half of Gen Z is under 21 and the rest is broke?

I used to rollerblade everywhere as a kid in the 90s. It was awesome.

They don’t want people who can easily walk away. They need you to live paycheck-to-paycheck in fear of losing your job at all times.

They take the same cut as companies that monopolize the app stores on their hardware.

They take more than other PC platforms.

It’s more nuanced than that.

Choosing not to release on Steam isn’t easy because it’s not a balanced market, at all. It’s trying to release a Disney-style animated movie, but only in adult theatres.

Steam is the 900-pound gorilla. Yes, they have a good interface, but they take a ludicrous portion of game revenue. Epic has a shit interface, but they take well-under half of the fees Steammdoes for the same game.

Gabe is not your friend. He’s a billionaire yacht-collector. Half-Life 2 wasn’t designed to be a great game. It was designed to launch a digital storefront that allowed Valve to rake in 30% of all revenue for games sold on the platform - which is often a larger percentage than is paid to the actual people making the games.

Why are we defending a system where the fucking checkout system is valued as much as the people making the games?

He even had a cameo in the second Iron Man movie.

OEM licensing isn’t the important part. It’s everything that comes with it. Subscriptions, cloud storage, etc. In my city, a bunch of field workers are being moved from laptops to iPads and phones with the next hardware refresh due to the price jump in laptops. Microsoft won’t have integrated Onedrive and SharePoint and full Office Subscriptions for them.

We already use third-party web apps that aren’t Microsoft (and are mostly hosted by AWS) for a lot of their work, so the only Microsoft product they’ll have is an email address.

Us abandoning the Windows laptops costs Microsoft hundreds a year per employee.

Just click the footer, check a box to make changes apply only to a single page, and do whatever the fuck you want.

In a “fault” divorce, it could allow people to use the obligation of a spouse to perform sexual acts as a way to assign blame in the divorce. Basically allowing one partner to claim harm and therefore pursue financial damages or even leverage in custody disputes because they were owed sex. It trapped people in situations where they were forced to have sex or face potential civil penalties if their partner refused a no-fault divorce.

It’s almost like incidents without video filmed from multiple people and widely shared online don’t get as much attention as nurses telling a story they were told about an incident we don’t have video of.

It’s really bad, but it’s also entirely understandable that it gets less attention.

Why should I care about someone’s equity? Houses are for shelter and privacy. Why do we treat them as investment vehicles?

My car doesn’t become more valuable as it ages. Neither does my computer, or my clothing, or anything else. If they want their home to become more valuable, they should invest in improvements to it, not just depend on all houses getting more expensive for everyone else forever. It’s a ludicrous, unsustainable idea.

3.2 trillion is a stupid amount of money, but it isn’t all liquid. A 440 billion dollar hit (nearly 14%) would be very, very bad for them.

With the memory and SSD fiasco going on right now, fewer people are buying new PCs, which impacts their sales. Combined with the Windows 11 fiasco, the massive gaming division investments going nowhere, and the AI bubble, they’re probably the most vulnerable they’ve been in decades.

Didn’t apple go to war with the FBI over exactly this? Or did I miss where they changed their tune.

Android has a feature you can turn on that adds “lockdown mode” as an option if you hold the power button, which requires a password. I just tried taking a screenshot, but I don’t think I can while in the power menu.

You can also just turn your phone off. Biometrics don’t work on a fresh boot.

You can’t really do that on a lot of modern appliances, because what fails isn’t user-repairable.

The gas dryer we had from the 50s could be fixed with a screwdriver and a pulse.

The electric dryer we have now that we live somewhere without gas has a $1200 controller board (that probably costs $4 for the manufacturer) that goes out every 2 years, so we end up paying a $250/yr maintenance subscription to get it fixed under the “extended warranty”.

Microsoft contracts with the Pinkertons for private security.

Yes - those Pinkersons.