Here's hoping John Apple does what it takes to make me actually consider an Apple device! Like, I don't know, making user-friendly decisions without the EU getting on their ass about it first.

Does this mean you got access to your accounts again? No more worrying about the other device? If so, that's really awesome!

Of course, it's fucked up this happened at all. Fuck that dude.

Related, but not Argentina:

On my trip around the US south, something stood out to me in TN: there were signs posted in some parking lots that explicitly said people needed to park in the parking spots. It felt weird until I tried to park in a busy parking lot and saw why.

There were cars parked in no parking zones, including ramps, walkways, and fire lanes.

There were cars parked on sidewalks.

There were cars parked on the grass past the sidewalks.

I could barely navigate the parking lot on foot. I have no idea how I'd do so in a wheelchair.

Also, while I call out TN, it's not uncommon to see cars parked in no parking zones and especially in front of ramps and walkways across the rest of the US.

It's sad to see that this is a common issue in many parts of the world. Raising awareness can help, but there really probably needs to be more strict enforcement.

the camp was about religious indoctrination

This seems like the most likely reason to build the camp there. It must be intentionally designed so that you have to just have faith that your kid will make it home alive. Either that, or it's designed to help people's kids meet God or something.

I have no way of contacting the police, but even if I did, they wouldn't care.

You can visit the police in person or ask to borrow someone's phone, but also one of us can contact the police for you and ask them to drive out to you if you want. I'd at least make a police report even if they do nothing about it. Also, share it around your community, and someone might show up with two of their friends and "ask" for your phone back.

Seems pretty fucked up to steal from someone who lives out of their car, though.

Valve's cost of hosting is pennies.

Surely you can't mean this literally. They host downloads of hundreds of GB that get served to tens of millions of users. The bandwidth costs alone are going to be insanely high, putting aside the storage costs as well.

But anyway, I'd love to see them lower it to 5%. I think if they can afford to do that, they should take the lead.

I see this point come up all the time when it comes to Steam, but I have yet to see anyone really propose an alternative. How much should it cost to host your game on Steam? It obviously can't be free because of hosting costs, and you're also paying for marketing and discoverability, so what's a good price for it?

Until recently, 30% was the industry standard for large software stores. Google is apparently lowering its cut after losing their recent battle with Epic, so it's possible that the industry standard changes. I'd hope that Valve adjusts with it.

Then, uh, what were you doing?

I’m not even mad people take issue with my work. Good, fine. Who cares? What I take issue with is the idea that because they don’t like it, I’m not allowed to say it.

According to who? Nobody's stopping you from saying anything. You have the right to say whatever the hell you want. Nobody has the responsibility to give you a microphone, though.

The Hill is reporting that Iran is saying the Strait "will close again".

Edit: other sources are saying essentially "... if the US blockade continues".

Edit 2: And now it's closed again.

Before the crisis, more than 130 ships a day travelled through the strait, but this has reduced to a trickle under threats from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

Feels like one other party might also be responsible for blockading the Strait. I can't quite put my finger on which, though.

The benchmark European gas contract fell by about fell by about...

Lol.

We're only seeing the start of this transition, and so far it seems to be going in a good direction. Here's hoping his government does what he's saying and actually builds a media to serve the country rather than just himself. It seems like that is most likely the case, which is awesome!

Life gave him lemons. Seems like he's ready to make life take the lemons back.