That sounds like a fun time. In modern day though I’d hope the selected representatives would have professional aides, especially where I am given your average American is practically illiterate. (It’d probably work better in Japan, lol.)

Can China demand regime change? Please?

I heard about this from my wife (who is Japanese), and it’s mostly a bad harvest along with few secondary reasons. If you’re like me and thought it’s the USs fault, it probably isn’t helping with trade but Japan can still very much import rice from the US. Korea just makes more sense right now, probably.

In fact, ironically, tarrifs might actually help-- less US demand for Japanese rice means very slight increase in domestic supply. But it’s likely not a lot.

They won’t. But I wish they would, as far as I’ve seen from my local LA government, they’re also really poorly prepared. The plan, for instance, is to hold events across several major LA venues (and not build any new ones) but since our public transit is complete trash, it’s going to be a logistics nightmare.

Basically us locals are going to straght up have to go full quarantine mode since the traffic is going to be so bad. And it’s a shame, last time I heard at LAEDCs forecast, they really need the revenue.

Well that’s one way to balance the budget, no more credit. We’re fuuuuuucked.

I wonder if this and others will force US rebuilding efforts to include governmental reform if and when Trump is out. No amount of Obamas can reassure people the US isn’t just going to flip out the left time it changes hands again.

Kinda like how self driving cars are still safer than the average driver, ya. Do they make mistakes? For sure, although the bigger annoyance is just how slow they are to turn sometimes. AI would be so so at leading but man is the bar low with Americans.

That’s what you get when everyone has a sauna.

And yes, many homes have it and one thing my Finnish friend does is sauna up and then jump in the snow. That’ll wake you up.

That was my thought, too, but yeah. Occam’s Razor, our government is just run by really stupid people.

To add a note, they’re famously private people, hence living out there in the first place. It’s not that unusual to go unnoticed when you live on a gated compound and don’t like socializing with your neighbors. From what I could tell they didn’t even know who those two were.

It’s too bad they can’t just do 50% on MAGA households and non voters. Somewhere in NY there is someone who actively campaigned to prevent this and continues to protest and they’re getting a 25% price hike anyway.

At least we can target businesses and billionaires more directly, although unlike the average voter they need a lot, lot more pain before they change.

Fairly neutral way of looking at it, and that’s a nice thing to consider although I’m not sure if the U.S. is executing that correctly if you’re correct. After all, making security guarantees is an even easier way to end the war, including appeasing Russia by at least allowing them to continue their occupation.

Hawks also have the possibility that Ukraine makes headway in the war itself, which was the hope of the Biden administration providing support in the first place since US-Russia relations aren’t as valuable to most people as US-EU+others, even if China allies with Russia (which could still happen, as Russia hasn’t proven to be trustworthy in the past, anyway).

In other words, hawks probably have it right that U.S. is better off with it’s current allies, but if we give Trump the benefit it the doubt (a literal devil’s advocate) then at least there’s some rational, even if misguided. Plus, there is the truth that Ukraine is having difficulty taking back, although you could certainly say the US and EU haven’t given them enough to push forward out if fear of nuclear retaliation.

The whole situation sucks, though, rationale or not.

Oh, I’m in LA and you should definitely come; just wait until after our civil war or coup or whatever it is that happens to get things to settle down. It’s a lovely city if you know where to go.

Also if it’s any consolation, we’ve practically got ICE protests almost every day. People here are fucking livid over this shit, particularly the Latino parts of town. (Although in typical LA fashion, part of the protesting is because of a TikTok trend).

I still find it ballsy af to hit up Fox News first and foremost after that episode. He understands their spin and getting ahead of it might be the best move (OAN and junk are too far gone and smaller audiences, the rest already kinda on his side).

Hot take, but I see it having a market for people who just want to play on a tablet dedicated to gaming without futzing with peripherals. During break I stole my daughter’s tablet to play Gameboy games and it was possibly better than my deck (lighter weight, bigger screen, and shaders that give it a pixel grid w/ a GBC border frame).

This big thing is still not for me, though, as I’d prefer the versatility of going portrait mode because I would likely use it as a 3DS emulator depending on how good the touch is. DS screens fit quite comfortably on tablets in portrait mode. (Assuming I even have the disposable income, which I do not).

I’ve doing bezels play an additional role of protecting the screen. My most fragile monitor is the one with almost no bezel-- a tiny bump and kaboom, fucked monitor. I’m sure that plays a part in the design decision.

There’s a very very interesting story about nesticle but unfortunately I’ve forgotten it. Some kind of drama, a bit edge lord stuff, and I think someone died? It’s actually one of the first emulators, ever, though.

It was a very niche community back then though, long before IGN caught wind. Weird I only found out because of a crazy conspiracy theory uncle, though. Thanks for reminding me about UltraHLE, though!

As with Yuzu, I won’t be buying any more switch games. I’ll still be playing switch games, and so will my friends, but we won’t my buying them.

Honestly, I’ve lived watching emulators for decades. They can come and go and there’s always more, even ones that aren’t forks. Just today I was reminiscing on my first emulators, zsnes, no$gmb and nesticle. Y’all remember the peaceful zsnes snowfall? Good times.

That was technically my thinking too, haha. If you’re ever targeted by this (and it can be as simple as having a Google image placeholder in an unindexed page) you just need to be stubborn and spiteful. It’s not worth their time with so many other patsies, haha.

Having been sued by copyright vultures, I definitely get the difficulty with court. The minimum just to have a lawyer retainer was 2500. The vultures told us to essentially give them 2400 and the problem would go away (a strongly worded email managed to get them off my back, but mostly because they clearly used bots).

I can see it weed out small cases less than that. I guess it’d help if I knew what people were sueing over.