I'd say it's incredibly stupid, but with everything we know about RFK, the Occam's razor explanation is that the point has always been to limit vaccine availability.
This just supports that he's not even going to do it above-board, he's going to use bad faith pretexts to do it.
The fact that the Senate breezed through her confirmation made it clear not just to us, but to Trump and Bondi, that Republicans intended to fully abdicate their oversight and check function.
If they had even gone through the motions of trying to commit her to be independent, she probably would not have gotten so brazen so fast. But nope, here we are.
Archive.is link to the article: https://archive.is/vRBow
I had to check to see and that's actually a Trump quote. You're right about the admission, though it's hard to even take note of it in the sea of madness we're all capsized in. But at least love to see the inevitable end for anyone deluded enough to ally themselves with Trump.
They are not charging for local streaming on your network. They are just charging for remote streaming, something that wasn't part of emby, does use their servers and network bandwidth, and chews up a huge amount of development time.
I'm sorry, what? How does me hosting my content on my server connected to the Internet with a connection I pay for, to a remote client that I own and also connected to the Internet that I pay for, "use their servers and network bandwidth"? How is basic remote streaming functionality that existed for the entire time I've used it "chew up a huge amount of development time"?
Their development time - the things they're bleeding self-hosted users to fund through this change - is entirely focused on their AVOD-hosting, SVOD-hub garbage that every other streaming startup is doing.
Wow, I've been curious who did that. Good to know Rubio's got that blood on his hands.
Asked about the technical support Musk and DOGE have provided to the federal government, Musk pointed to the overhaul of the country’s air traffic control systems, which is still a work in progress, as well as an upgrade to the White House’s own internet, provided by Starlink, a Musk-owned company.
The upgrade is complete, NBC News confirmed when an aide provided the password to the White House Wi-Fi and reporters logged in to the high-speed service.
Oh, good. Unsecure Starlink connections are certainly better than dedicated fiber lines shielded to prevent signal leak, connected directly to the agencies who protect government communications from hacking. Viva la upgrade.
Just to respond to the people here resigned to or encouraging the switch to all-digital, I get it. But let me rage against the dying of the light just a bit. There are some still-good reasons for preferring or demanding full-game cards:
Closing more philosophically: Games are shared culture. When you grow up with a game, or as an adult have a profound experience, that game becomes a part of you. At a societal level, that game becomes a part of us and of human culture - at that point it doesn't even "belong" to Nintendo exclusively.
Nintendo (not only, but focusing on them here) is choosing a path where there will be no alternative to re-paying to experience that memory throughout your life. SaaS is capitalism's most tragic 2000-era "innovation" - tether us to a subscription for our whole lives, if possible, extracting value - and Nintendo already has shown they will lock old games behind their subscription service rather than re-release them. Experiencing these games through museums 50 years from now may only be at corporate behest (if Nintendo still exists, which is less sure than it may feel in this moment).
So this may seem "duh, they're doing what everyone else is." But it is actually a bellwether moment. The future we're pointed, that we enable by treating these key-cards as viable, is re-purchasing or subscribing to access basic parts of ourselves and our culture, even after we've paid for it.
And to respond to the "but it's Nintendo's property" crowd: That is also actually antithetical to modern copyright law, which is vehemently not an inviolable property grant, but meant (since the Statute of Anne) to only give incentive to make more expression. Broader public good and culture is always the end-game of copyright. These works eventually are supposed to belong to us. These game key-cards are just one step in capturing that long-tail - the long-tail that belonged to preservationists, to museums, and to the public - from us all.
Well, imagine that.
No, I'm serious, please America - imagine that. That's what we should be doing.
Seems more and more like every headline could be: Senile Old Man Yells at the Sky*.
*with the authority of the US government.
Attention is invisible until you take the time to acknowledge it. People will never treat it as a resource of the same value as these companies, because they don't even recognize it as something being taken away from them (despite that it is actually the most precious resource - our literal lives), and that disparity will always be profitable.
I think a Republican congressman or two is also pushing for this.
Remember the progression with his election denial as well.
Jan. 6, 2021 and there were just a handful of plants who would try to object to the counting, before all hell broke loose, while the rest think they're being savvy and staying in their base's good graces while not taking flak by not denouncing it. Four years later, and they don't bat an eye when the literal insurrectionists that nearly killed them are all pardoned, and nobody will even go on record calling it anything but Trump's version.
By 2028, expect to see lockstep party agreement on this, as well as plans to actually do it - whether allowed or not - already well underway.
Only running slightly behind Hitler's January - March power consolidation. Trump just needs a Reichstag fire to give pretext for an Enabling Act.
That may be why ICE is so unconcernedly aggressive. It's a win/win situation for Trump, leading up to either kidnapping and expelling undesirables by masked secret police or, if someone fights back in a dramatic way, providing the basis to increase his power.