As soon as they showed the JoyCon mouse control I was hoping there would be support for standard mice. It still doesn't do anything to steer me toward a Switch 2 over a Steam Deck, but it's an excellent move for accessibility.

Honestly I'd much rather see homesteading cycle in and out of the public zeitgeist than the trends of felonies disguised as "challenges."

• ARMS
• Big Brain Academy: Brains Vs. Brain
• Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
• Game Builder Garage
• New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
• Pokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet
• Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury
• Super Mario Odyssey
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
• The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

So Pokemon is finally getting the patch it needs just to function properly. It's just tied to a $400 console.

The majority of the Switch 2's marketing has focused on ports and upgrades for old games. Which a Steam Deck still does better. And at least Valve won't brick my system when their profit margin is threatened.

Of course it's Mike Lee.

Fuck Mike Lee.

I had a long, exhausting conversation with my father-in-law last week where my son and I both had to explain to him the basic fundamentals of what science actually is, how the scientific method works, and why and how the NSF awards grants.

We also kept having to explain that just because there's some junk science put out by bad actors to line up with an agenda, that doesn't mean all science is junk. We also, also, kept having to explain that there isn't some "the government" conspiracy manipulating all science behind the scenes to push out things that will kill us (that's good old capitalism, baby!)

AND the fact that science rarely gives you a hard, definite answer one way or the other because it's not meant to. And that continuously changing scientific consensus is not only a good thing, but that's how it's supposed to work.

AND! why the Joe Rogan thought process of "every conclusion is equally as valid regardless of evidence or actual knowledge" is not only invalid but incredibly dangerous, and further explaining the idea of the hierarchy of evidence, and that individual people are not sources, even if they're a PhD at Harvard or Stanford.

All that to say he stills sees this as a great thing. Because Fox News and Newsmax.

It's not a tax break. Emissions standards for vehicles were established a couple decades ago. Some lobbying happened, as it does, and an exception was given to pickup trucks. Not an exception carving out work trucks in particular, just all pickups. Then someone had the idea to build a minivan around a pickup truck chassis and now we have SUVs everywhere.

The second a platform becomes a viable avenue for advertisement is when it stops being viable for any kind of quality.

Not that AI does a lot good at that, anyway.

But sometimes I have mildly inconveniencing experiences with the postal service in my extremely rural town that require me to navigate my extremely rural town's nearly non-existent public services so we should absolutely surrender complete control to Amazon

My wife loves the shopping ads and always complains when the Pi-Hole blocks them.

Thankfully (weird to say), the current political climate has her worried about being tracked online and she's finally opening up to the idea of proper privacy.

Giving special consideration to a certain group he thinks may have experienced a disproportionate amount of hardship due to biological factors beyond their control?

Sounds like some woke DEI nonsense.

The action requires federal agencies to review and potentially rescind funding from schools that teach concepts suggesting individuals are “inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive” based on their race or that America is “fundamentally racist.”

So, do nothing because this isn't actually happening? Like every other non-issue that's been created?

They've been going after public media since Nixon. Of course, it would hit their key demographic--rural areas--the hardest, who rely on public media for things like emergency alerts. Not to mention public media is the only source of local quality journalism for a lot of places.

But who cares about all that when we can let Sinclair Broadcasting take over and get rid of all that "woke" stuff?