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He desperately wants to use a nuclear weapon. I would not be surprised if he does so.

I asked my Magic 8-ball what the problem is and it says “Outlook not so good”

Colorado just needs to take a page from the Texas playbook and pass laws creating civil liability for organizations performing this so-called ‘therapy’ where any victim can sue for damages at any time afterwards, even decades later. Make it financially unfeasible to engage in this practice since you can’t make it illegal.

States are well within their power to ignore most of this. They don’t answer to the executive branch.

His confabulation is becoming more obvious.

Given the performance improvements gained by using NTSYNC which game developers have used for years, I wonder if we’ll see improved performance on games running through Wine/Proton compared to native.

I, of course, sent the Hunt after one of my enemies. I’m not going to waste the opportunity to play “let’s you and him fight”.

My catspaws The rest of the circle are sometimes frustrated with my antics, but I’m too useful for them to ditch.

It’s very much like in OP, except I can just pickpocket a target’s name when they aren’t looking.

Like a lot of Sidereal charms, it’s deceptively useful but dependent on setting up a situation to make it good. I use it to either fuck with someone powerful (a CEO whose name can no longer be used by anyone is paralyzed) or to learn the name of someone I just met so I can convince them that we’ve met before to improve their initial reaction to me.

In one instance a villain summoned the Wyld Hunt and just as they appeared I swiped her name and proceeded to command the hunter because they were summoned by [villain’s name] and that was my name (now, anyway). Storyteller ruled it worked because it was a fey creature.

I do this to my storyteller when I play my Sidereal Exalt, abuse of Name-Pilfering Practice is probably my hallmark.

These yahoos are both from the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation, which is a conservative Republican think tank with ties to ALEC. Nothing they say should be taken at face value. They only serve billionaire interests.

TURN UP THE FEED, YOU WIGGLY MEAT THINGS! THIS IS THE NET! NOTHING’S REAL! YOU HAVE NO HEAD!

Yeah, my cat just wants effusive praise when she does this, she doesn’t want me touching her.

I mostly agree, but if my sister were fleeing the fascism here in the US I would recommend she pick a safer place, since the trajectory of the UK, while different from ours, still doesn’t look great.

I’m guessing none of these Americans are trans.

I had an old Arctis 7 that finally fell apart last month after 8 years of heavy use.

I got a new Arctis 7. It is complete garbage. Cheap materials, smaller to the point that it just doesn’t fit my head, my ears don’t fit in the cups.

And instead of having it register two devices for chat and game you get a single device and then have to use their software to mix the chat, which is a nonstarter for me on Linux. SteelSeries has enshittified hard.

It mostly looks like a mild slow down of user-facing release and rebrand of unpopular features.

It is not a retreat. The marketing team is just trying to figure out how to reframe things that caused public backlash.

Because if middle managers even in other companies are tracking people’s locations then people are more likely to think that my software that asks for their location will be used to track them even though it doesn’t.

That is certainly a direction. I hope you have robust redunacies on the concentrator.

This will break a lot of applications.

This shit makes my job harder. I am required by law to provide a PSAP with the location data of any 911 caller (within a pretty tight radius). I have to use software in concert with softphones which requires the user enter their location when logging in the phone on their computer, just in case it is used to dial 911. This isn’t optional, we could face serious legal penalties if a user dials 911 and the response is delayed because the responders go to the wrong place.

My stuff is only used for 911. We don’t keep track. Really. There’s not even a mechanism to do that.

But when MS pulls this invasive bullshit it makes people afraid that my 911 software is doing the same thing. It makes them lie on the form or refuse to put anything in it. It makes them less safe and it makes my life difficult trying to convince them that the software we are using really is just for safety and that nobody, not even me, has access to it.