From the lack of private funding, I assume the projected ROI for the pipeline is not good.

I don’t think something that lists 21% as “Unknown” should be taken seriously.

The check in requirement turned out to only be for the first two weeks after buying a game, so you can’t refund the game and keep playing it offline forever.

The filing deadline was March 23 and he returned to the House last week, a little over 3 months after that, so I think he would have been MIA for a few weeks before the filing deadline.

Rep. Tom Kean was missing for four months without much explanation and there have been no consequences.

Even Speaker Mike Johnson suggested Kean should have said more sooner at a news conference Tuesday: “If it were me, I would have been more specific about that, and I encouraged him to be.”

Dude won his primary unopposed while he still missing.

Hurting minorities: There’s a totally non-racist reason

Helping minorities: Unacceptable consideration of race/Racist against white people

The Supreme Court already said these exact Trump comments weren’t racist in the TPS case and that was 6-3. And they seem OK with Trump hating immigrants.

But no, Alito said. There’s a perfectly nonracial explanation for all of the dog whistles. “None of the cited statements by either the President or the Secretary was overtly racial, and in substance all expressed policy views that could rest on race-neutral justifications.” In other words, the Trump administration hates all types of immigration and wanted to roll back the TPS system as a whole; therefore, it couldn’t have acted racially in its decision. On top of that, the court said that it’s pretty much just a coincidence that the majority of TPS countries are predominantly nonwhite. That’s not the administration’s fault; it’s because “the great majority of countries granted TPS have ranked among the poorest nations of the world, and no European nation falls into that category.” The stability (and therefore superiority) of European nations is evidence to be used against any argument that the Trump administration was unfairly motivated by illegal racial animus.

Microsoft is not going to remove .NET to attract software developers when they want developers to use .NET. Not having access to software that uses .NET probably wouldn’t be a good trade off for how little removing it from Windows would do to make Windows lighter.

It’s by IP:

The maths is brutal. On a match day, blocking just 4 to 20 IP addresses knocked out more than 400,000 unrelated domains. The outage lasted as long as the game.

None of this is new in kind, only in scale. Courts across Europe have long ordered providers to block pirate sites. Spain runs one of the continent’s most aggressive regimes. What has changed is the plumbing. The web now runs on shared infrastructure, so a crude IP block is a shotgun, not a scalpel.

Is smiting a valid punishment for blasphemy? If “god” would smite some of these assholes I might just become a believer.

The tier makes sense, if not the name. Google insists on including music streaming in Youtube Premium, and Premium Lite is a cheaper tier that doesn’t include music streaming. It’s missing some other features too, but it beats Premium for people who just want to not have ads and for some reason won’t use an ad blocker.

This support page about Premium Lite says it has no ads on “most non-music content, excluding Shorts. Ads may appear when you search or browse”. Still having ads on music content makes sense given that Premium Lite doesn’t include music streaming.

That seems like he thought a threesome is the three-person equivalent of a pair. I don’t know if “trio” would have been more correct but it definitely would have been less weird.

They also just announced that the PS3 and Vita Playstation Stores will be shutting down, starting next month in certain regions and everywhere by July 2027. At some point in the future it will be impossible to buy games for your old PS6 because it doesn’t support discs and the Playstation Store doesn’t support the system.

As an added “bonus”, the jerks could also use the airport pregnancy tests to keep pregnant women from traveling to somewhere they could get an abortion.

Good. They should have added an ad-supported tier people could opt in to, like everybody else did, instead of changing the existing tier to be ad-supported and requiring people to pay extra to opt out.

Need to un-MAGA the Supreme Court first or they’ll rule in favor of any suit challenging that law.

If it were real the prices would start at $250, for the US’s 250th birthday.

Yeah. The article doesn’t say anything about the dissenting opinions, but I think the 4 who dissented on the Fed case might have just been honest enough to say there’s no legal reason to treat it differently from the FTC.

The court was largely expected to go against Trump on this one because even they should understand that letting him mess with the Fed would be bad for their money, and it was still 5-4.

The tax proposed in California is a one-time thing. Any billionaires that end up paying it will almost certainly see their wealth increase by what they paid and then some by the time Newsom is in a position to implement a national tax (and he probably won’t do it). Newsom’s tax is not a reason not to go ahead with California’s tax.