As the old SubGenius proverb goes, the difference between Heaven and Hell is which side of the pitchfork you’re on.

We must imagine Sisyphus Hitler happy up to his eyeballs in a lake of boiling sewage

That’s an odd way to describe a Cybertruck

I’m guessing another round of privatisation would fix it. Maybe some regulation-free “free trade zones” as well.

Possibly not, but it may take you longer to return to the nitrogen cycle

Dude is under the impression that he made the new Citizen Kane or something.

Because you don’t use Typescript/JS perhaps?

Given the margin they make on games, and their absolute control of games for the platform, they could get away with a razors-and-blades pricing model of making a loss on the consoles and making it back from software. (IIRC, some game consoles historically were sold on this model.)

Not quite. The US economy is a large, slow-moving mass, and even with the chaos-monkey-in-chief doing his worst there will be meaningful economic activity: food will be grown, wages and rent paid, other goods manufactured even if only for local use. Crypto, meanwhile, has no connections to the world other than a fringe of payments which, for various reasons, cannot be made by other, vastly more efficient means. A scenario where the two are equally stable would look like a zombie apocalypse or similar.

Finally American superheroes will no longer need to go to Shanghai and work with a heroic PLA special agent to save the world.

I’ve taken my Deck on travels, but mostly taken it out to show to friends.

The mainstream conservatives (i.e. those within the Overton window of what’s acceptable in mainstream society, or not open Nazis/KKK) have the big corporate networks. Those Nazis who are too Nazi for Elon Musk have their own instances which everybody else fediblocks from orbit just to be sure, where they can run around, sieg-heil and shout racial slurs all day to their hearts’ content. Which leaves those to the left of the centre-right, who are divided between the tankie-triad instances (full of people who think that Stalin did nothing wrong and Putin’s OK too) and the rest (which ranges from liberals to ancoms).

It’s called the Switch 2 because you take one look at it and switch to a Steam Deck

It’s logically possible that he’s innocent, but, all evidence considered, it’s not terribly likely.

It’s somewhat more likely that he’ll walk, though rich, well-connected dudes have a way of evading consequences.

Ooh la la

MacOS, with its need for a pointing device and its exposed filesystem? I call bullshit.

Either it’ll run macOS as it currently is and be a usability catastrophe, they’ll nerf macOS to the point where desktop power users stop being able to do with it what they need, or they’ll make a new “macOS” for phones, which is essentially what iOS is. (And yes, they could unlock iOS further by letting users browse their filesystems or sideload apps or whatever, but if it runs primarily on a phone-like device, it’d still make more sense to call it iOS than macOS.)

One can blame Jack Tramiel’s refusal to invest in Commodore’s technology (beyond the initial purchase of MOS), instead sweating the assets to undercut competitors. He was gone by the time Commodore bought the Amiga project, but new management doesn’t seem to have reversed course and started ensuring that their fundamentals stayed ahead of the competition.

How’s his British accent? A Bond who is not canonically an Englishman would be like Superman not being American.

It could be a threat, or it could mean something like “hang in there” or “stay the course” (“dead” as in dead straight, dead reckoning or similar), possibly from some specialised vocabulary. Is there more context?

I suspect Nicole is a similar sort of operation to Aidana the pretty lady dentist from Kazakhstan, only aimed at people who’d be more sceptical. So instead of stealing images from a fitness influencer, they got some from a more average-looking young woman and made up a story. If it’s like Aidana, there’s a guy somewhere (probably in the hinterland of Russia or elsewhere in the former USSR) whose day job is to string the people who reply along, lead them into believing they have a relationship with this lady, make sure they’re absolutely sure this isn’t a scam, and then pig-butchering them for all they’re worth.