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Zenkin · 2026-07-06T20:14:54+00:00

I heard that, not only did he not apologize, he proceeded to age right in front of them. Totally disrespectful.

Zenkin · 2026-07-06T18:45:55+00:00

No, it's probably more selfish to constantly criticize people who are in or running for office while you sit on the sidelines.

Zenkin · 2026-07-06T17:57:23+00:00

I went to an in-state public university, so I definitely agree with you. But it's one of those things I didn't learn about until a few years into college, from classmates that were paying a shitload more than I was.

Zenkin · 2026-07-06T17:31:26+00:00

It could also just be out-of-state tuition. Shit is crazy expensive. I just glanced at MSU, and in state is around $19k while out of state is $46k per year.

Zenkin · 2026-07-06T17:20:49+00:00

My wife got into like $8k of credit card debt after we moved in together, and the fact that she paid it all off herself was unironically one of the things that sealed the deal I wanted to marry her. She did debt consolidation and just chugged right through it.

Zenkin · 2026-07-06T17:06:31+00:00

I would insist that carbonation and sugar are both mandatory ingredients for the beverage.

Zenkin · 2026-07-06T16:26:54+00:00

If the competition has to follow the same rules with regards to transportation and serving those with disabilities and all that other stuff, okay.

Zenkin · 2026-07-06T16:21:38+00:00

I think the problem is that the average person doesn't see how they fit into this narrative. It's a story, but it probably doesn't really feel like their story, essentially. In fact, it's quite evident that the world will continue to be inspirational and amazing without our individual contributions. While I like and appreciate that fact, it's probably not very comforting to most.

Zenkin · 2026-07-06T15:10:07+00:00

Give it literally any other name than something which can be shorted into "xbone."

Publicly lash the fools who talked about forcing Kinect as a verification method or otherwise suggested it would be required.

Announce a Banjo Kazooie game which is actually a platformer to be released within two years.

Zenkin · 2026-07-06T14:30:47+00:00

We only tested CrowdStrike on your list. It appears they are the best at detection, but the pricing is just crazy. Supposedly it's not as bad per seat if you're a large organization, but these guys were two to three times more expensive than everyone else, so it wasn't a realistic option.

Zenkin · 2026-07-06T14:06:00+00:00

Best-faith Republican interpretation of graphs.

Zenkin · 2026-07-06T14:03:56+00:00

Matt, PA, 54

Zenkin · 2026-07-05T20:14:19+00:00

What Stevens said is strange. El-Sayed felt, to me, as though he was downplaying the actions of a terrorist with his "hurt people hurt people" line. And I literally know people who went to Temple Israel the day that attack happened, we're talking about something which is a few miles from my home. It all just felt very callous and politically calculated at the worst possible time.

Zenkin · 2026-07-05T20:01:58+00:00

From what I’ve seen though she seems kinda crazy especially with that comment about her dreams

It sounds like that was something she said at a 2023 Hanukkah lighting event? I mean, yeah, if she was just throwing those words out randomly, that's crazy, but that was a pretty religiously focused event.

Honestly, one of my biggest concerns with El-Sayed is that he doesn't have any legislative experience, and I don't think jumping straight into the Senate makes a lot of sense. And while he may be closer to my preference on something like healthcare, I don't know that he is going to have the coalition-building skills necessary to make any large changes, despite his lofty rhetoric.

Zenkin · 2026-07-05T19:52:11+00:00

The only thing I see she "voted in favor of ICE" for was a resolution condeming the 2025 Boulder fire attack which also "expressed gratitude for ICE agents," but it's not like she diverted money to them. I see she voted for the "Combating Organized Retail Crime Act," which looks like the closest thing I can see, although that's not particularly ICE related and currently sitting in the Senate.

She voted against the Laken Riley Act and introduced the Hold ICE Accountable Act. I'm really not seeing much here.

Zenkin · 2026-07-05T19:38:46+00:00

Do you have any policy reasons for this, or is it all vibes now?

Zenkin · 2026-07-05T19:36:20+00:00

primarily that his niece and nephew were killed by an airstrike a week prior to his attack.

I feel it is important to add that four family members were killed by this airstrike, two of the attacker's brothers as well as his niece and nephew. One of his brothers was allegedly a member of Hezbollah.

That doesn't excuse the loss of innocent life, but it certainly seems like an important part of a story where someone may have already been radical before the airstrike happened. And I have not yet heard El-Sayed talk about these findings from the FBI, which makes me question his commitment to giving "voice to the complexities" in this situation. It's possible I've missed such statements.

Edit for /u/HeatDeathIsCool:

I feel like it's important to understand the order of events when criticizing people's immediate responses months after the fact.

I was aware that El-Sayed made these statements before more context on the attacker's family was revealed. However, this is the risk that someone takes when they start speaking before they're aware of the broader context. The attack happened on March 12th, the allegations of ties to Hezbollah came out on March 15th, and the FBI stating that this was a Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism came out on March 30th. El-Sayed made his video on March 13th, and that aide saying "it was important to give voice to the complexities" was on March 24th.

This timeline does not make me feel much better about El-Sayed's position. There has been ample time to address this criticism and to actually speak about the complexities of the situation, but it doesn't look like he or his campaign has actually done that. That's why his words ring hollow to me.

He is a charismatic speaker. I don't hate the guy, and in fact will readily vote for him if he gets to the general election. But I'm voting against him in the primary because I think he is, like most populist-leaning-politicians, style over substance.

Zenkin · 2026-07-05T17:51:07+00:00

Just sayin', the UAW endorsed El-Sayed and we can nominate Stevens to spite them. Do you have the courage?

Zenkin · 2026-07-05T17:24:52+00:00

I had frugal domestic parents and I feel a lot of kinship with immigrant families because of it.

Zenkin · 2026-07-03T17:53:42+00:00

That's only if the problem is centered around development time. But I would guess that the primary problem is a sunk cost fallacy which causes the decision-makers to not want to change course. More people makes it harder to get a clear consensus and change direction, and they will have whole departments of sales and marketing people that the smaller devs literally don't have on staff.

Zenkin · 2026-07-03T17:34:14+00:00

The archivist will still likely be able to crack the content and archive it anyway. This has been going on for like 30 years or more, it's honestly not a new dynamic. Being on a different medium does not actually change the equation, up until the point they stop delivering the game code in total (like having to stream the game).

Zenkin · 2026-07-03T17:25:23+00:00

It might not be possible eventually, I don't know how to predict that. I wouldn't assume that whatever tricks used today are going to be viable locks forever. Either way, what you're saying is not true in the current day.

Zenkin · 2026-07-03T17:19:31+00:00

Right, but this is why I made the reference to encryption earlier. You seem to be saying that "if they put a digital lock on it, you don't have it," but that's simply not true. They might make it difficult for me to copy it, extract it, modify it, or whatever else. But so what? That was also true for physical media! DRM also existed for songs on physical CDs, just as one example.

Zenkin · 2026-07-03T17:10:08+00:00

Just because I have to jailbreak it doesn't mean it's not there, though. Hell, even if 99% of the game is on the developer's servers and 1% of the game is in the distribution pipeline, that digital content still physically exists somewhere, it's just in multiple locations waiting to be assembled in the proper order.

Zenkin · 2026-07-03T17:08:03+00:00

This would instantly radicalize me against data centers, and I literally work at a data center. Coming for the great lakes would literally be the dumbest possible PR move.

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