Sorry to the heroin heads out there. The war in Afghanistan ended and the taliban effortlessly reduced opium farming to nearly zero within months. Weird that the US occupation couldn’t handle that problem so efficiently and that it in fact expanded rapidly under our watch!

Wherever the US goes on a violent adventure, the local drug market suddenly gets real locked in with ours eh

It’s pretty funny that we spent months hearing about the Venezuelan government trafficking fentanyl, rather than the cocaine that actually does come out of that country… then the US does a de facto occupation of the place and suddenly cocaine is flooding the US market

Peter Mandelson has been arrested - send up the hater signal. It's once again a poster's holiday.

Even though you rewrote this project in Rust it was socialized as Python

This is how I learn there was an assassination attempt yesterday.

Also funny that his press guy lied and said he wasn’t there and then Kash showed up drinking a beer and screaming in their dressing room livestream

I uh probably should be concerned that the news move at such a pace that I don’t see attempted presidential assassination news anymore despite being chronically online

genuinely so fucking funny kash patel was partying at the olympics almost simultaneously as trump was nearly assassinated by one of his own supporters again

hey everyone. just beginning my second week as crisis management pr coach at roblox today how am i doing so far

This is not my joke but he really is the first 40-year-old man groomed by teenagers

she's pioneering what scientists are calling "evil bisexuality"

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Do you ever think about how every characteristically "European" crop was originally domesticated in the Middle East Like even ones we immediately associate with Europe like beets, onions, and carrots

why did the tape delay actually cut free palestine but not a slur? it has to be malicious.

probably deliberate: bsky.app/profile/dapp...

even if from now everyone acts in the most perfect good faith way, apologies are made and all are understanding, kind and compromising beyond all reason its too late. the bbc/bafta have -allowed horrific racial abuse to be broadcast on tv -ruined a disabled guy's life -emboldened racists worldwide

i will allow myself one take on the tourettes thing which is this: you can take yourself pretty far on most issues by just blaming management. why was the guy ever in mic shot. why did the tape delay not cut anything. the bbc's negligence here is so colossal as to be malicious

*Taylor Sheridan pulling a slot machine arm* "Ok, we got... Kurt Russell... as a... Fire Chief in... Paducah, Kentucky" Paramount Exec: Sure whatever, here's $40,000,000. All of our parents: Prairie of Flames is the best show on TV

It's especially bad with TTRPGs because kink RPGs are doing some of the most innovative stuff with game mechanics in the last 20 years, so you're like: "What's REALLY cool about this gameplay loop is the player incentives it— what? Yes, I'm aware the cover art is a cartoon rat with a humongous ass."

There's a unique humiliation in being into blatant kink media for very vanilla reasons. You can't discuss it with normal people because of the kink, and you can't discuss it with the real fans because the fucked up psychosexual stuff does nothing for you, you're just fascinated by the lead's boobs.

I will say that most should have come up with -something- considering the "Do thing with brand" method is as old as gaming & studios made absolutely wild things on obscure IPs with lesser budgets but it's still insane that this has become the main buisness method. Idea guys just throwing money out

I will add to this that the rise of GenAi was so fast in higher positions because for over a decade most "concepts" for games were already Ai prompts basically. "God of War Live Service Game" isn't a concept, it's a brand + monetization scheme. Devs got handed prompts & were expected to just do it

The recession, the plateau in spending, the push for GenAi/NFTs, the hope of filling that spending void with Live Service income, all of that. It's bad But it's made worse by most games taking half a decade to make, sucking up money & that is when they even get beyond prototyping in that timeframe

This is not by far the only factor but we had almost a fucking -decade- of everyone being "Yeah we just need more money to make them it is what it is" while clearly most budgets were not sustainable or even realistic increases. This all just blew up when everything else did at the same time.

Hot take but I think one of the major factors behind the current video game crisis has been that many studios had already unsustainable production methods & the only response for years has been "More money" to keep doing that. That is now majorly coming back as revenue plateaus & companies fuck up

Netflix’s adherence to their model is crazy. Glass Onion made more per theater than Black Panther 2, they could’ve gone!

It’s really funny how badly Sony fumbled this. It’s Kendrick vs. Drake levels of being humiliated in a new way every day

i mean what it comes down to is that they simply don't see us as human beings with emotions and needs and wants. it's why they get particularly nasty when one of us "talks back". they don't like their punching bags talking back to them.

trans people were useful political props to cis liberals and now that the culture is shifting they're very upset we won't just stop existing

So basically they tell us trans people are mentally ill & destroy their bodies while they literally hit their heads with a hammer like a cartoon character loosing their mind?

If Xbox's "everything is an Xbox... Xbox titles everywhere" strat is failing, uh, where do you even go from here? How do you turn that around? End the console support and retreat back to Xbox hardware (which the strat has been killing sales of)? Unsure how you do a full u-turn.

I should add, because social media people are gross and weird - please read the full report, it's fantastic journalism. Spencer supported and backed this plan - Bond's idea, but he backed it. Unfortunately, it backfired, and it's so big a hit that Microsoft thought a full new leaf was needed.

This is why journalism is important. Yesterday, I was baffled as to why Sarah Bond would have been looked over. Today, this report paints a very ugly picture of her leadership and an incredibly damaging failure of her core strategy. It's, y'know, fair enough.

Apparently, Bond's "this is an Xbox" was pushed *hard* for two years, despite many staff strongly pushing back, and has led to an unwanted sharp decline in hardware sales + brand confusion. This strongly-pushed strategy hasn't worked and damaged the brand, perhaps irrevocably.

The Xbox shake-up has been explained, via great reporting. - Phil Spencer's retirement was planned - Sarah Bond led "this is an Xbox" as her core strategy - which has been a catastrophic, brand-killing failure - Staff say the writing was on the wall and are "relieved". (Read more at The Verge)

Like they're already just a multiplatform publisher now, their options for righting the ship are 'sell more' and 'spend less' and since the division seems incapable of shipping a big hit, to the extent even Doom kinda landed with a thud so not hard to see what option they'll probably go with

Not to be a downer but the fact they ejected Matt Booty to another position makes it pretty obvious they're gonna totally gut XBox, the only question is how fast

AOC thinks Israel committed genocide, just like every major human rights organization on the planet does and just like how 75% of Democratic voters do and just like how a dozen countries filing at the ICJ think so too. This is a stupid hill for these strategists to die on.

This piece is frankly really very strange because here is one former Democratic member of Congress admitting outright that anti Israel sentiment is driven first and foremost not by antisemitism but by the behavior of Israel.

Using a photograph of leaders of Uncommitted as the header is also interesting since this was an Arab American organization that explicitly supported the decision to have two Israelis speak at the DNC in 2024— they merely wanted a Palestinian speaker too.

To be blunt if the "Jewish Democrats" cited in this piece think that AOC and Analilia Mejia are anti Jewish then they're just not meant to be listened to. We can in fact assess these claims on the merits and determine that this is just hysteria. It sucks to say but that is just what it is.

it's good to be accurate, so that when one calls him a fascist slug who takes joy in tormenting the homeless one may do so with uncompromised authority

I have to concede, I jumped the gun because, damn, it is very easy to not give Newsom the benefit of the doubt. But that’s maybe why we should exercise greater diligence, especially if it involves people we don’t like.

Here's the full question and response.

I'm a certified Newsom hater, but this clip and summary of what he said isn't quite right.

The correct number of concentration camps we should have in this country is zero.