The fact that Merritt Garland was sandbagged by Republicans which ended his nomination for Supreme Court Justice at the end of Obamas term, made him an excellent nominee for Attorney General

Why? To “own” the Republicans? Spite is hardly a qualification.

bundled a game pass subscription

Most of the money MS gets from Office365 is from business users, not home users. I have a feeling that trying to sell game pass to corporate clients isn’t going to be a huge hit…

This was inevitable as soon as games started getting the budgets of blockbuster movies. No one wants to invest that much money into a project without getting some oversight and control in return.

Of course, very, very few people who have access to that kind of cash have any design sense whatsoever, and even fewer understand the creative process, or what makes games “good”… so they ask for shit that they think will be “safe” money-makers, and we get what we get: endless, samey, soulless shlock.

Luck?

To struggling working class people, that’s really a distinction without a difference.

You ARE the fucking oligarchy, you doddering old asshole.

Is there any case where cynicism is helpful?

A proposal that will be reversed in a week when Trump takes office again.

Someone call the FBI! This man just murdered the Speaker of the House!

warning shot

Warning shot implies that Gingrich has the ability to do actual damage to Trump if he wanted to, but come on… we all know the only thing this philandering, hypocritical, rage-baiting has-been could ever do damage to is an all-you-can-eat buffet.

$165 million

Would you believe this is only 0.04% of UHC’s total revenue in 2024? What a wild fucking system we live in that 165 MILLION DOLLARS is just a slap on the wrist…

There are insufficient funds for a meaningful answer.

This would place the cost of sequestration at… $100 tonne

I did some quick back-of-the-envelope math, and unless I’m mistaken that’s equivalent to about $1 per gallon of gasoline… which is a lot lower than I had expected, honestly.

If that’s all it costs, we should be sinking billions in public funds into this, especially if there’s an R&D component that’s seeking to drive down costs/increase efficiency.

Everyone knows Italians are criminals! Didn’t you watch the Sopranos??

Don’t forget microservices!

Nobody is seriously looking for ‘habitable’ planets because they expect humanity will someday inhabit them — this is all about the hunt for other life out there in the universe.

To astronomers, “habitable” just means that the planet gets to correct amount of energy from its star that liquid water could potentially exist on its surface. Liquid water may not actually be a requirement for life, but since we only have a single data point to work from, it makes sense to look for the preconditions of the kind of life we’re familiar with on earth, of which liquid water is a big one. (Another is carbon chemistry, so finding lots of atmospheric carbon isn’t necessarily a bad thing when searching for other life out there.)

disgraced

Is it even possible to ‘disgrace’ a man this shameless?

It has to compete with: Climate change

That’s the fun part, it doesn’t! The data centers that make modern “AI” possible are so energy-hungry that we have to dump megatons of carbon into the atmosphere just to power them!

AI can destroy civilization and cook the planet simultaneously.

Synergy, baby!

Which is too say, how we didn’t choose…

He’s hiding his pain in the big stock image gallery in the sky now…

Godspeed, Harold.