It's for the people who can't figure it out and the only thing preventing them from using the knowledge poorly are clear instructions.

First he doesn't understand how budgets work and then removes the FAA head days before a fatal mid air collision. Does Trump do anything that is accurate, useful, or valuable? What a maroon.

MATANGO!

It isn't about race. It's about making sure that all perspectives are taken into account when making a decision. That's it. The think tanks against it are against having rules put upon them. Removing DEI is the same as stripping out market regulation.

#Box office receipts are not an indication of the movie quality.

Box office is a combination of how many theaters it was played in and how much marketing is behind it.

Gaw damn, we need a chili map

Horchata, jamaica, or agua fresca. All are excellent. Horchata sits heavy though, so it makes me sleepy. Maybe if it was caffeinated it wouldn't be such a bad influence?

Oof. I agree with her that it's awkward and embarrassing to be put up as a model in public without consent.

Those fuckers keep delivering on their campaign promises.

If they cared about history before 1776 they would.

He's taking the picture

Meh, it tried too hard to be zany and serious. The tonal jumps are more jarring than the sudden arrival of fully uniformed weirdos. Cherry 2000 and Solar Babies are more in line with the strange post apocalypse of Fallout. There's also A Boy and His Dog, but that is for someone who wants to be a raider.

Wrath of Khan

Varus, give me back my air support!

What about a useful worm, like a guild navigator?

Luigi is American. Nathan Mahoney is American. The only people making moves are American. Clearly you are a troll who has to try harder.

Another way to see that 15% drop is hinted at in the article:

EA FC generates around $2 billion annually, Reuters reports, with around $800 million of that made up by Ultimate Team.

Loot boxes made EA $800M last year. It's easy to see why EA and other publishers demand MTX in games. Can we amend "Don't preorder" with "and ignore micro transactions"?

At the same time, social networking is built into the most popular Chinese online shopping platforms, like Taobao, Tmall, and JD.com. They feature livestreamed videos of shopping influencers, and robust chat and photo-sharing functions, blurring the lines between social media and e-commerce.

The model has delivered: In 2023, TikTok’s Chinese sister app, Douyin, said its platform sales exceeded 2 trillion yuan ($2 billion). Xiaohongshu doesn’t disclose detailed figures, but the app’s aggressive expansion into social commerce in 2023 coincided with the first year it turned a net profit to the tune of $500 million.

So China has several profitable social media companies and a model that works regardless of the platform. It feels like Insta has tried this and doesn't quite understand the mechanics but imitates showing influencer driven decisions. The difference is that western influencers sell their exposure while TikTok (et al) use influencers as their product and charge to alter the algorithm to expose the product to a targeted audience. It's insidious because people will be shown something that they didn't know they wanted and led to believe that they made the decision to get this thing. It's Inception, but with our hobbies and interests.

The ramifications for niche porn are tremendous. Both weird categories of pornography and the idea that small groups will be fed a constant stream of their own unique interests. Imagine if you didn't know this was happening and had an expensive hobby. Social media wants you to buy things and will give you the connection to spend instead of pursuing the hobby.

The hobby may soon not be about what we do but what we bought to show we are hobbyists. Consumption as participation. I guess we already do this with streaming entertainment, so why not?