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During a press conference on Wednesday, Smith said Microsoft has launched a formal investigation into Israel's reported use of Azure. "We are committed to ensuring that our human rights principles and our contractual terms of service are upheld in the Middle East," he said.

What a load.

Who the fuck even wants this?

Thank goodness that telling people they cannot have something means that they immediately comply rather than doing everything in their power to circumvent the obstacles you put in front of them.

Although subtle, there is a very slight difference between "right wing party drifting even further to the right to court voters sympathetic to fascism to line the pockets of themselves and their friends" and "firmly centrist but pretending not to be party drifting even further to the right to court voters sympathetic to fascism to line the pockets of themselves and their friends".

US Democrats are being completely late to the party when trying to copy a popular and successful conservative tactic? Shocking. Who could have seen this coming apart from literally every leftist?

Not super keen on the bombardment of cutscenes so far in 4, but it’s still pretty neat.

This isn't a spoiler but I need to warn you: the final cutscene is 40 minutes long with no break/checkpoint and you can only save your game after, not before or during. Literally everyone who goes into the game blind ends up trapped there late at night wanting to go to bed.

Possibly one of the best soundtracks of all time.

More testing of what? How to do basic market research so you don't release a full priced game in a space where the thriving competitors are free to play?

"Land of the free"

Thank you for expanding more on this, it's gone a long way to helping me understand better.

I still believe that social media, as it currently exists, is something which is harmful to children for reasons I laid out previously but connection and support are important.

The perfect solution would be to disallow any kind of traditional social media outside of break times whilst bolstering better spaces for support and friendship both online and offline; the first part of that is definitely a symptom of the second but I'm not sure how to best solve that outside of direct community support and advocacy for such spaces.

Not really what we were discussing and trivialises the harm done by systems of retributive punishment but okay.

The thread lays out my opinion retty clearly; characterising a discussion as an obsession is being deliberately disingenuous.