And as far as corpo rats go, at least Valve employees own 49% of the company.

I sometimes feel an anxiety when pondering what will happen when daddy Gabe isn’t here to keep the wolves at bay.

There are no minable deposits of rare earths anywhere. That’s why they’re called rare earth elements. Nowhere on Earth are there geologic processes that concentrate them into ores. The only way to get them is to process absolutely enormous volumes of dirt, at great expense in terms of energy used and pollution created.

Every country has them.

Who sells it is a question of which country is willing to render some portion of their territory uninhabitable for the foreseeable future, while also making a larger portion of their territory sick and dirty.

yeah, #3 is a time machine if you can spam it faster than light can travel 7 inches

“other” gets two zeros and your name on all of the lists

Right now, 500 million Europeans are begging 300 million Americans for protection from 140 million Russians who have been unable to overcome 50 million Ukrainians for three years.

counterpoint: nobody poops but you

its not like the us wasn’t getting anything in return

Thing is, what the USA was buying with its expensive umbrella over Europe was a disarmed Europe. At the time, the USA felt it was in their interest for EU to be weak.

For a variety of reasons, the rise of China perhaps being at the forefront, the USA no longer believes its in their interest to keep EU toothless.

Juche.

I wish I was kidding.

They’re doing a North Korea. Building a completely isolated war economy.

this sounds like what Google wanted to be since its inception: ask a question, get an answer

somewhere along the journey, the reality of needing to make money drove the enshitification of search results: ask a question, get offers to sell you an answer

this seems like a step in a better direction

Encouraging the automakers to stop outsourcing factory work and bring those jobs back to the States was the silver lining, so naturally the Republicans are going to fuck that up too.