It was pointed out to me once that Microsoft is a software company that sells software and Apple (and Sony) are hardware companies that sell hardware. While it sounds simple viewing it in this light will make individual decisions made by the companies make a lot more sense.    It certainly makes the non-exclusive game pass decisions make sense.  

Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city; will you then sweep away the place and not forgive it for the fifty righteous who are in it?

 Ever since the 2008 housing crash it's been hard to trust insiders. Fuck those greedy bastards.  I'd say every presidential election since (save Biden) was won by the person who best ran an "outsider" campaign.

Numbers are important. ~10k calls a month= ~120k a year 5k missed is ~5/120=4% unless someone's got better numbers it's 4% not 10%. Damn I hate when people abuse numbers.

 Leave it to a braindead commie to complain within 3 sentences about trading with communist countries because of slave labor and then blame economic blockades for communist countries failing .  Which is it?  The slave labor isn't happening in capitalist countries so are we bank rolling slave labor or are refusing to trade? Pick an argument.  

I'm just appalled at the lack of ability to maintain a single non-contradictory thought for more than two seconds. 

That's such an odd take.

It's not just low pop, if you're old you get out of that area. I'm not sure you southerners can conceptualize how remote that area is.

Not in those areas.

I'm in Alaska and the Red areas in Alaska nobody lives. It's all remote wilderness. Small villages sometimes. The south and the southeast are the population centers. Any deaths in those areas are going to be hunters. If you're even getting sort of old you've left the red areas.

Sometimes you can see carbon in the air, it's called smoke.

Jump the gun has to do with starting pistols, there isn't even in violence involved.

Is this in reaponse to bullet point 2? Because I agree evaluations that the war would not have been won without Russia look at the loss of life on the eastern front and end there. It certainly helped to have Germany fighting on two fronts, but I dont the the evaluation that it would have been lost without Russia fully considers the industrial power of the rest of the allies.

Sometimes they aren't network connected and that is how votes are gathered. We can argue whether that's safer or not at another time.

What an interesting way for her to say she wasn't smart enough.

Going through engineering there were a ton of people, men and women that were weeded out because they didn't belong. Only about 20% made it all the way thorough

This feels like satire, please tell me this is satire.

I've been coding for 40 years, but I use such a variety of languages and IDEs that if you asked me to code on the spot with no computer, I'd look like a complete mess. Sometimes when switching languages I struggle to properly syntactically write a for statement.

I feel like you forgot a possibility. 4. Men question everyone over everything (even other men) they have even a little expertise in. Women only think it's just them getting questioned; because women are used to the world revolving around them and men don't complain.

I lean toward 4.

As an older (male) pokemon go player, I play pokemon go without interacting, mostly because I don't want to deal with vapid younger players.... so there you go, don't play those features.

Love stardust and Neverwhere, but American Gods was not good and while I like Gaiman and I like Pratchett I thought Good Omens was awful.

What's the count of Left leaning crazies randomly murdering Nazis to Right leaning crazies murdering randomly murdering socialists? It seems there's been a ton of this cold blooded killing lately. Does anyone have any reasonably stats?

Not a lawyer, but I did get divorced and I have been to court twice on criminal charges, and if you think anything in court is simple and can't be turned into a cluster fuck you've clearly never been to court.

The inherent contradiction between "Women are just like men and can do anything men can do" and "If women were in charge it would be totally different" always hurts my brain.

Must be different worlds, because I know quite a few regular people that are lesbian or gay. You wouldn't know they are gay in normal conversation, you could probably work with them for years before it came up naturally. I know exactly zero trans people where that isn't their WHOLE identity and personality as well. I know quite a few lesbian and gay people that it's just one aspect of them as a person.

The leaving the room one reminds me of my wife who when leaving for a night out gives me detailed instructions on how to take care of the kids. I normally do the primary care giving when she's in the house..... it's very strange.

seems possible, but I've met too many women who think like this so I'm not sure.