It didn’t work.

I feel obligated to mention that the “republican” was a Biden campaign donor who registered to vote in the republican primaries around the same time Reddit actively had a “regiater Republican to vote against trump in the primaries” campaign.

They didn’t try to put Bernie in jail. Or shoot him.

And notably, it looks completely different from the original concept (which would have just been a management game) so its safe to say the original got scrapped, they just liked the theme enough to make it into something else.

Some of these feel mutually exclusive…

The FBI spied on trump as well as got caught lying about the Biden laptop scandal to help Biden win the 2020 campaign so… Would it be surprising if he directed Patel to fuck with the FBI on purpose?

Yeah, if the end consequence is creating a giant database of photos of US ID’s (and storing which accounts theyre associated with as a nice bonus) then that is, in my opinion, not great.

I understand Discord is already rolling out ID verification in the UK and their solution is to use a 3rd party service (you send them your, they just send discord a "is over 18? YES/NO). Personally I don’t think thats much better but it won’t be Discord’s own liability when they find out call center employees in India or Vietnam are using the images of your ID to sell online or something.

Took him long enough.

As far as I understand, trans people are still a protected class under other statutes on the UK, but basically just don’t count for any laws like “50% of company board members must be women to receive this tax break”.

Which, idk, seems reasonable to me.

I would like to say, California instituted a $20 fast food minimum wage which was estimated to cause an 8% increase in overall wages (they already trend high there) but a 1.5% increase in menu prices. To my mind this tracks as wages are kind of small (too small) against ingredients, building lease, etc.

Granted, increasing the wages of everybody in the agricultural supply chain would probably have a bigger effect, but overall I think businesses tend to mcfucking lie about the impact of wage increases on consumer prices.

It’s not reddit, people can be sarcastic without the /s.

We had a pretty close call there. For a while, the president was pushing hard for a federal online censorship program that got caught lying as soon as it was formed, and also trying to get votes counted with no voter ID unlike every single other democratic country. The administration was also paying bail for protestors who burned down random businesses and pushing for prosecution of people who acted in self defense. Luckily we didn’t re-elect him and his handlers after that.

It threw off everybody’s bullshit calibration when the FBI announced in 2020 that the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, which included implications of Joe Biden taking foreign bribe money, was “Russian Disinformation”.

They also ordered (technically only “asked nicely”) Facebook and Twitter to engage in censorship campaigns based on this.

Later, after helping Biden win the election, they admitted that the laptop was real and not a Russian psyop as publicly claimed. Internal text messages revealed even later prove that while the FBI may have thought the laptop was not real at first, they did not believe it was a Russian plant, in other words, they lied.

So stuff like that might be why Republicans tend to believe “Russian Misinformation”.

More like Facebook worked overtime to tip the 2020 election towards Biden and Trump is still mad about it.

Well, FOIA requests revealed Facebook was extremely cooperative with both enacting government censorship requests, and keeping them secret, when those same censorship requests would have been utterly illegal if they were an official order, so…

Some deal like “You give us control over information and we leave your monopoly alone”, even unspoken, seems to be the gist of it.

I definitely remember reading about it a while before release in Game Informer, and I think the game was originally going to just be an RTS. At some point they made 3rd person gameplay most of the playtime and the RTS separate. As far as I remember the RTS battles are all in the main story and theres no way to play more RTS battles if you wanted to (theyre mid anyway).

The game was also obviously incomplete, with the whole middle act being especially bare bones.

Based on the age of the original, they probably toned down the one gay/bi party member a lot.

This statement manages to be sorta true while also missing that there’s more great games on steam than the entire, mature Switch 1 library.

Disappointing to hear, I liked Obduction and Firmament both.

One could also argue that the USDA killed like 12 million chickens under Biden.