Hello Pot. My name is Kettle.

First we give them just under a lethal dose of PCP. While the PCP is kicking in, start playing some pump up music. Put a mask on each of them; the mask being that person’s enemy. Benny Netanyahu wears a black person mask and Trumpty wears a Palestinian mask. Put them into a room that is playing more pump up music with the speaker saying words like “fight”, “attack”, “maim”. Throw in some makeshift weapons.

Charge like $20 to watch the livestream. If we’re lucky, both of them will kill each other.

This format can also be used for billionaires.

The Incredibles 2

“Math is fucking math.”

Not if we give both of them a little fair amount of PCP.

Fantastic video. Thanks for the recommendation!

There is a reason why cats rule the internet and have an entire meme dedicated to cats showing up in people’s lives.

A rising tide lifts all boats.

Ohh Mikey, when did Lumpty Trumpty departed from conservative principles? Was it when Lumpty Trumpty came done on the escalator and immediately started saying racist shit? Was it when Trumpty was caught on video claiming about sexually assaulting women? Or was it when the racist and sexist comments picked up? Was it the breaching of the constitutional rights?

Alex Blechman (@AlexBlechman) tweeted:

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus.

8 Nov 2021

“Customers have enormous choice” about where they purchase their games, Newell testified, including “whether they buy the game on an Xbox, whether they buy it on Steam, whether they buy it on Epic Games Store or whether they buy it directly from software developers.”

Last I checked, Steam only sells PC games, it does not sell Xbox games. No one cares about Epic cause it sucks. I don’t know how many devs directly sell their games to the public. Itch.Io is extremely niche. That leaves GOG which does not have anywhere the market share that Steam has.

At the same time, Steam is, if not a monopoly, awfully close to one: It is so deeply entrenched that Epic Games has spent years literally giving away its games, and has barely made a dent—in fact, New Blood boss Dave Oshry said earlier this year that Epic freebies were great for sales on Steam. The Epic launcher is admittedly not an optimal experience, but a big challenge Epic Games faces is simply that an awful lot of gamers don’t seem to want an effective Steam competitor: Steam rules the roost, and they like it that way. A big majority of game developers, meanwhile, reckons that Steam really does hold a monopoly on the PC games market.

From the Bloomberg article:

Gabe Newell, the co-founder and president of the gaming company Valve Corp., spent a morning in November 2023 with a handful of lawyers at the Arctic Club Hotel in downtown Seattle, talking in circles. Newell’s company runs Steam, the dominant online store for PC games, and was facing a lawsuit filed by a set of independent game developers who claimed that Steam operated an illegal monopoly in the $40 billion industry. Because developers relied so heavily on Steam, the suit argued, Valve has been able to stymie competition and charge “supracompetitive” fees.

The suit, which is ongoing, centers on what the developers alleged was a tacit company policy designed to punish them for offering discounts at competing online stores. But instead of defending the purported rule, Newell just denied it existed. “Valve does not have a policy or practice of dictating prices to third-party software developers on other platforms,” he said, according to a previously unreported transcript of his deposition. Presented with internal communications in which Valve employees appeared to be enforcing the rule, Newell repeated his denial, at times verbatim, again and again. When an attorney pressed him on how Valve would react if a developer did charge less money for a game on a competing store, Newell demurred. “I’m confused by your question,” he said, before later adding, “Many of our partners and many of our customers are quite happy with the service that we’re providing.”

But not all of Valve’s partners are thrilled with its influence over the market. In addition to the indie developers claiming to be burdened, court filings in the antitrust case contain email correspondence in which leaders from large corporations including Ubisoft Entertainment SA and Warner Bros. appear to be scrambling to do anything they can to avoid running afoul of Valve. The fear among some developers is that doing so can lead to penalties or even expulsion from Steam — a potentially devastating outcome for their game sales.

The US lawsuit Newell was deposed in, which has been certified as a class action, alleges that it “is not economically feasible” for game makers to leave Steam in favor of a rival store and that they are effectively “forced to comply” with Valve’s rules and high fees. A UK case echoes those claims, alleging Valve is “locking in” its users to Steam and earning “excessive” commissions.

There are horrific details. Kids are routinely slammed to the ground for minor misbehavior. Police punch children in the face. They shock students with Tasers for being in the wrong place. Or point guns at unarmed teens. Cops put handcuffs on a 6-year-old who later cried to his father, “The police wants me to die!” In some cases, low-level disciplinary infractions that should lead to no more than a trip to the principal’s office left children facing criminal charges; the well-documented school-to-prison pipeline in all its ignominy.

Gotta keep those private prisons stocked full future prisoners slaves.

And there is no mention in the Times investigation of the demographic profiles of the children abused by cops, but the videos in the report overwhelmingly show what appear to be nonwhite children enduring violent police abuse.

I’m shocked! Well not really shocked.

Sweet! What does mine say?

Damn it. I was doing so well too.

If you deny a person access to healthcare, that’s just good business.

Please, pretty please can we Supreme Court Justice Kid Rock. Let’s just abosuletly confirm that SCOTUS is just a circus.

What about an IOU?

Bring glory to your ancestors, comrade.

You just described Joss Whedon script writing.

Bezos will cry as he writes such an enormous check.

To a politician to make the charges go away. Tears of joy.

Don’t lie Brock. It’s when you give your Pokemon, some meth.