@81f7a5c6@126749b9 if prominent republicans want to take the speakership and then humiliate themselves with legislation that can't go anywhere because the republican party is ideologically opposed to making deals with the party that controls the senate and whitehouse, so be it. We'll be back at the government shutdown hostage crisis in some 40ish days when the CR expires but that would have been equally as true with McCarthy as speaker as well.
@9890fc52@5a6a72fd I don't think their opinion matters anymore. As the article says: "A court-appointed special master will now draw Alabama’s congressional map for the 2024 election cycle."
@eaed19e6 This is a phenomenally naive perspective. The 2000s and sadly also deep into 2010s were an absolute nightmare for user privacy and safety. Users were at risk from top to bottom. Real things we had to deal with:
* Any unsophisticated script kiddie could walk into a cafe's wifi hotspot and trivially hijack user sessions for e.g. webmail or facebook.
* ISPs were actively injecting hostile scripts and advertising.
* Certain nations were conducting mass surveillance programs.
@e5dab4f2 "Certification issues" here means that the game is in such rough shape that it constantly crashes or is otherwise effectively unplayable, right? If console red tape is really the issue, why aren't they launching it on PC in the meantime?
@b57823a9 a lot of people I follow participate in monsterdon, and I do not. They use the hashtag to communicate with and find each other, and I block it so that my timeline doesn't get overwhelmed with posts about it.
@e77df6d7 I'm trying but the adversarial relationship even applies to the programs and websites that I've made for myself so this is a really tough thought exercise
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