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  • I don’t speak for anyone but myself.

    My demands are accountability first and foremost. Anyone who has played any part in enabling trump must face consequences. They need to be severe, if not it just happens again.

    Every ICE agent, every GOP house and Senate member, all the cabinet, etc. I am not okay with playing politics over this. It’s black and white. You followed orders that enabled treason, you are treasonous. The least guilty among them should have a minimum of 5 years to serve.

    Beyond that it’s a tax strategy that completely disables the possibility of any person having 100,000,000x the wealth of another person in the country. Like if you have $100M, literally all of the rest of your money can go to those worth less than $1.

    Idk how bout some real antitrust?

    Oh I know, no owning more than 1 parcel of land per county per person.

    No corporate ownership of land.

    C suite liability for corporate personhood or eliminate it.

    Universal healthcare

    Laws against predatory loan practices.

    Dismantling of the Patriot act…

    Total defunding of ice.

    I’d say that’s about the bare minimum.




  • This is a very complicated question. Many Microsoft employees would have a very heated debate over the answer to this question. It was the cause of a ton of internal conflict. Many Windows developers saw the Xbox ecosystem as a cannibalization of their existing product.

    The move was political. Microsoft wanted to get some of that PlayStation money. They were afraid of losing the living room to Sony. Sony had TVs, VCRs, DVD players, and now this other thing, PlayStation, that also plugged into the TV, that all the kids were essentially demanding have equal place among the other Sony gadgets.

    Microsoft already had PCs in homes. Well, operating systems. And many developers would have agreed it makes more sense to blow open the emerging market they were already champions of/adjacent to. But what they didn’t have was real estate beneath consumers televisions. And their competitor had all of it.

    It paid off. They were able to secure a fight over the living room rather than allow a competitor to take it on wholly. Pivoting to PC gaming wouldnt have solved this threat. Their goal was to secure a place in “Home Entertainment” markets beyond “Personal Computer” markets. They succeeded.

    Edit: It’s the same reason they created the Zune. It’s the same reason they did Windows Phones. They wanted that iPod, iPhone money. They didn’t want Apple to get it all. They… failed here. Miserably. If they had forked android and made compatibility layers for windows instead of forcing the windows experience into a touch screen pocket sized device, steamOS wouldnt be a thing that legitimately threatens Microsoft’s existence.

    While I’m cooking here… How long until Adobe realizes that the steamOS route would be genius for them? They already got customers paying stupid money monthly.






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    I could be wrong but I believe this is actually the only moment in Alex Honnald’s career that he had a panic attack.

    I think he, on Rogan or some shit said of this picture he had to take a few deep breaths and he couldn’t shake the feeling of “what the fuck am I doing right now?”



  • Hey sorry everyone’s being a twat. There’s nothing wrong with using the available tools at your disposal to try to learn about things that interest you. Just make sure it’s still a learning process and not a hand holding process. Leverage AI, don’t make it support your full weight.

    I can tell you this problem is out of your hands. The web app you’re using is causing it’s own error here.




  • Just for context, almost every federal court is a branch of a state court. State courts are still functioning. This is how a lot (not all) of the govt is.

    So yeah lots of workers furloughed but barely a single building unoccupied due to the shutdown.

    This is equally true of cybersecurity. For example, a non federal sysadmin may have privs to install, remove, maintain security software. That software is a private company and 24/7 SOC.

    Source: im a apart of your 24/7 SOC with lots of govt clients, many clients with both federal and state workers, etc. don’t worry. Our govt IT Infrastructure isnt protected by feds, it’s protected by firms like rapid7, Huntress, Crowd strike, Sentinel one, etc.