Portal 2 has a big one that I think most people miss. You can find the biggest clue at the „bring your kid to work day“ exhibit where one submission of (I think it was) a potato plant was signed by a kid named „Chell“. Same name as the protagonist. It‘s easy to miss but it puts the entire story (many parts of which you can also miss) into a new perspective. I always loved that and was very surprised to her many players completely missed the connection there.

This is why Germany has air pollution zones that overall are becoming much stricter over time. The car industry still has a grip on the country however, no doubt.

Then again I doubt most of China‘s air pollution comes from cars or that their cities are cleaner than Germany‘s. Definitely not on average.

Because what you have to look out for is the OCEAN during a deadly heat wave! /s

News media will find any excuse to not treat global warming as our number one threat.

Funny how everything is overly dramatized by the media except if the catastrophe benefits the filthy rich.

Somehow I never even wondered what git stands for. If someone was to ask me I probably would’ve guessed „get it?“

At least it didn‘t end up being called geddit though. Can you imagine?

China is spamming clinical studies. Doesn‘t mean they‘re all worth much. I wouldn‘t care too much about the opinion of a Pfizer executive anyway. They‘re probably just pressuring for fewer regulations or something.

Slop machines that make everything horrendously expensive or self-preservation? Hmmmm. I know which I would choose.

We need a general strike and we need it yesterday.

This really reflects the reverse spiral gaming hardware has seen in recent years. The benchmarks are absolutely laughable for what you could get for the same price just a year ago. Go back 2 years and the gap is even larger. Gamers are being priced out by AI slop generators.

Perhaps it surprises you but a lot of people are such oil brained corpo shills they cannot fathom not burning the planet down to the ground. They call free energy ideologically driven in an obvious attempt at projection.

Which is to say that sadly a lot of people would never guess importing fossil fuels just to burn them might be a terrible idea actually.

Won‘t stop the tidal wave of heat pump installations though because most people actually like saving money.

Just what everyone was begging for and no sci-fi author in history was warning about.

Gaming isn‘t standing still though, it‘s reverting. You can‘t get the same hardware you got 5 years ago for the same price anymore. Hardware ALWAYS got cheaper until recently. This is truly unprecedented.

Ich bezweifle mittlerweile, dass Wasser noch hilft. Noch eine Woche unter diesen Bedingungen halte ich nicht aus. Holt mich hier raus!

One can only hope worker‘s spirits keep declining in big tech.

While not creating a meaningful amount of new jobs for any region outside of China. Seems to be a pattern.

It‘s not about lack of skill as prebuilt machines that go for roughly the same are more powerful as well. All the Steam Machine really has going for it is the size. That‘s it. Don‘t need your machine to be a tiny cube sitting under the TV? Get literally anything else. Want a Steam gaming system? SteamOS is free for everyone.

Really the most remarkable thing here is the software with SteamOS and Proton. By a long shot. Those are the big things we should be discussing.

The Gabecube will fade into obscurity in no time. It‘s unimportant and unremarkable.

Interesting framing there. A setback for one party rather than a victory to the other. I know, I know. Negative headlines sell better but man the news landscape looks grim enough as is.

Hidden debt? As in on top of all the obvious debt?

precious arch user repository

I think you vastly overestimate the importance of AUR. A lot of Arch users had to say something about the incident and many of them didn‘t even use it. It‘s definitely nothing essential.

Also Arch users still don‘t give a fuck about Windows. This whole AUR debacle has little to do with what OP was actually getting at.

What workers does Amazon NOT intimidate and monitor?