Christians are always so freaking cringe. It’s not even their beliefs IMO, just their awkward need to put it in everything. Nothing can be fun without something related to their personal beliefs. Then they wonder why everyone is sick of it.

I didn’t say that, I said it’s a skeleton crew, which it is. Are those people technical? Yes. But it’s not something worth bringing to your small town expecting jobs.

Do post ads when they are shaming a company. You don’t make the rules here.

You can make it 500 and it still isn’t that economic “boom” that big tech promises.

You’re talking in terms of an individual. 50 people is not bringing a lot of jobs to an economy and not worth giving tax breaks to. To a town of 5000 it would be 1% of the population working there, maybe 2% with electricians as you say. Politicians think it’s like their corporate headquarters where thousands of people will be working there

That could backfire proving that they “can” block “internet” though I’d think

All my is very quick to assume the absolute worst intentions, and don’t get me wrong it happens a lot, but yeah this seems a simple case of no one wants to see it. I don’t like him, why would I want to sit in a 3 hour documentary watching him?

Selection bias, of people who listen to podcasts regularly.

Datacenters do not bring jobs or tax income! I scream into a room of people who do already know that but it breaks my heart seeing the damage done there.

They bring massive land, energy, and water use, and are manned by only a skeleton crew of tech workers, even a small town wouldn’t notice a bump in population or revenue.

Leaders who approve them are either too naive and stupid by not understanding this (and thus should be voted out) or they are corrupt and accepting bribes (and should be kicked out or minimum voted out)

Hate when people think that there can be no nuance to things. That “yet you participate in society” meme.

Oh sweetie, they don’t care one bit about a petition

But unfortunately without the IP

Okay “Nonconfrontational” you’re obviously just wanting to stir something up, and I’m not going to give you what you want. Go find someone else.

Big two I fought for were for gay marriage and health care. Gay marriage was not legal when I was growing up and we had no state sponsored healthcare. Right now we have both of those thanks to people getting out and making their voices heard. Everyone rallied behind those two things and they happened.

Now they are at risk because people have become complacent. Sinicism and complacency go hand in hand. You do that and things like Roe get repealed, and now I’m worried we’ll backslide on these issues because people don’t care anymore.

I think good stories and corporations are at opposite ends. Corporations and the opposite of human, and thus can’t write good human relatable stories. They can’t make art. The more people in the room the more bland the outcome will be. Too much overhead - marking, advertisers, lawyers, HR, everyone. I think Bioware proves they can’t do it. I think smaller studios are the only ones really capable of it. The only outliers appear to be rockstar and CDPR, for the time being at least.

They’ve had 3 flops in a row, and the worst part is that they did absolutely no learning from any of them. Each failed for the same reason. Bland boring story, no risks, souless worlds from the studio that was known for epic deep lore based worlds. As sad as I am, EA and Bioware did it to themselves.

Phew to think how close it is to my private key

oh people are going to buy the shit out of this. Guaranteed. We can all boycott here, I know I’m not going to buy one, but Microsoft don’t care. Want to know what Microsoft sees?

• Sells well? Hooray profit, let’s give everything back to the shareholders
• Flops? Let’s close Xbox and lay everyone off, we just have an excuse now.

It’s a win win for them. Personally I think most people are going to happily line up at the slop line and eat up.

Good correction. Legislating is slow, rolling back is fast.

This isn’t really surprising. It’s the same as a company doing it, and frankly I’m surprised they didn’t already. They don’t need government people happily sending data up to Chinese dataminers.