The Pokemon games all being the same caused me to get bored of them years ago. And now with them suing Palworld for ‘capturing monsters with an object and summoning them in 3d space’, a patent made after Palworld released their trailer, I find the Nintendo brand actively harmful to the state of gaming.

Vehicles and fuel tanks are booming today!

If they want to control the company, without outright buying it, yes. It’s the classic way to acomplish a hostile takeover. Thing is, buying half the shares on the market is often more expensive than the current market cap, as mass buying shares sends the price up quickly.

When buying a company outright (ie, your company actually owns the purchased company and both sides agreed to the transfer), then it is common to buy out all the shares at (around) current market value.

Unless someone purchases the company. Then it is common to buy out all the shares at (around) the current market price. The market cap is a good measure of how expensive a public company is to buy outright.

The nationwide poll (aka, the election) was a pretty good data point for current feelings on the topic. It’s not nearly as cool today to hire people based on their race.

Sounds like Paypal/Honey is in a world of pain. This is the second lawsuit I have seen. They probably aren’t having a good time over there.

On how to respond; if it’s on the internet: It’s rude and stifling discussion, downvote and move on.

If it’s in person: Probably a good time to change topic. Or, if it is something that is actually important for that specific person, you need to tell them how it directly impacts them in a way they do care about. If they still give the ‘no one cares’ response, it’s absolutely a good time to change topic.

This seems like a bad idea to start with…

Shooting at it with your rifle seems 100x better, even if that isn’t terribly effective, you at least don’t kill yourself.

O, well. 🌻

The malware allowed arbitrary code execution, it sounds like the FBI sent the malware a script to delete itself.

That’s pretty darn cool!

in the US you loose your right to abortion entirely

This is a massive, massive exaggeration of the state of abortion access in the US.

The US is now trying to take Panama, Canada and Greenland

Trump likes to bluster. The US will not be invading Panama, Canada, or Greenland.

The US isn’t moving like you think it is moving. And that seems to be throwing off your views on how European and US relations have been and will continue to develop over the next decade.

Europe has been moving geopolitically closer to the US over the last few years as, most notably, Europe moves quickly away from Russian energy and toward US energy. We have also seen increased purchasing of US arms by European countries. Have a look at F-35 and HIMARS sales, for example. Poland, in particular, went on a huge buying spree for US and Korean arms.

Furthermore, European countries are building manufacturing plants in the US, rather than making the stuff in Europe and shipping it over. This is most apparent with German cars.

To answer your question: “Who do you see Europe collaborating more with in the future”, and the answer is resoundingly the US. With upticks in collaboration with SE Asian countries that aren’t China.

Perun does some excellent defense economics and analysis. Probably one of the channels I have learned the most from.

Jake Broe does regular updates on the Russo Ukraine war which I always find helpful.

And finally, Zeihan on Geopolitics, does, well, what the name says. I find he brings ideas I hadn’t thought of, or that are not well explained, into clarity.

I’m surprised more people don’t buy the SE’s. They are half the price of the other iPhones.

I feel like that’s saying that my computer monitor needs a “killer app”.

That’s the thing though, it has piles of them. Steam is absolutely jam packed with them. Additionally things like, video editors, photo editors, browsers, spreadsheets, word processors, code editors, etc, etc. All of these makes a monitor (or laptop screen) something almost everyone owns. All of these apps are best on a monitor.

What is best on a Vision Pro?

It’s just WAY too expensive for people to want to do so

Yep, the price can make or break a product. And the price makes this product…not good. Particularly when people don’t see much of a point in the product in the first place. VR headsets are niche as hell, the Vision Pro is a niche of a niche.

Yeah, the constant doomerism in particular annoys me, and it annoys many others. The whole thing is self-reinforcing. If you are someone bothered by it, you are almost certainly going to unsub from the doomer place after dozens of doomers give unhelpful replies to honest suggestions to improve their lives on a micro or macro scale. And now, because you unsubbed from there, it’s even more doomer-y. Repeat this millions of times and you get what we have. Many well-adjusted people refusing to participate online, and doomers self-reinforcing each other and finding themselves unable to improve their lives.

CA keeps all the small, controllable forest fires from happening, ensuring flammable material builds up in our forests. Then we get a mega fire that cannot be stopped which tears through everything. CA’s forest management policies have been fucked for decades.-

They will have to charge more. Get ready for the 10+% rate increase next year if you live in CA.

Good. In addition to the strategic reasons, three Russian ships recently spilled their oil in the Black and Azov Seas; two of which broke in half and sank. We don’t need those floating environmental disasters near our shores.

Thank God.

Nobody knew if “USB 3.2 Gen 1x2” or “USB 3.2 Gen 2x1” was better or even a different thing for that matter!

That drone had significantly more effect than I was expecting!