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My response was to the semi-sarcastic "wokeness made America work," and wasn't at all meant to suggest that the hateful racist fascists don't intend to be hateful racist fascists.

Using their vocabulary makes it sound silly, but when it comes down to it "woke" and "DEI" and all the other dogwhistles are standing in for the idea that people should get opportunities based on their skills and abilities without being limited by their skin colour or gender or sexuality. And...

The Last Spell is also great.

They're still playing a little bit coy, I think this one just gets Fake Newsed out of the cycle while nobody really tries to hold anyone accountable.

Hey, maybe he should be the next Defense Secretary!

I think it's pretty optimistic at this point to think that having them recorded would prevent them from lying about it, or result in repercussions for doing so.

Can't it be both? I feel like both are pretty dramatic fuckups.

But now there are calls for hearings about it, so there will definitely be meaningful consequences, right?

There's a difference between the affirmative "some people are [pointedly and specifically] not welcome" and the negative "not all people are welcome."

There's also the context provided by the hands of all skin colours on the banner, and the history of racism that the banner is self-evidently hung in defiance of. It's absolutely unambiguous that pressure to take the banner down is a statement that some people are not, in fact, welcome and not...

This is a new US talking point meaning "we don't respect their sovereignty or borders." Trump's made the same comments about the 'artificial' border with Canada.

And deport to randomly selected countries who are willing to accept the flights, yeah?

I'm not sure how I feel about treating constantly updated/Live Service™ games as if they're years old for this kind of analysis. The League of Legends or DotA or Fortnite that people are playing now aren't the same games they were playing 5 years ago or more.

You mean it was code for racism all along!?

It also uses data about American adults to support conclusions from the research that exclusively evaluated the skills of teenagers, and offers up studies of 15- to 18-year-olds to support its assertion that the impacts it's talking about are "across age groups." There's some interesting...

It looks like the article makes a point of specifying that it's talking about decreases in specific, measurable skillsets - attention span, reading by quantity, basic numeracy - that would pretty transparently be impacted by the advent and increasing use of smartphones, and not in actual human...

Been following the news lately? Tourists are already being grabbed and detained on flimsy (or no) pretenses.

This is the "real men wear diapers" base you guys think are going to turn on Musk because of a video they'll all definitely watch and care about?

If I'm understanding right, Scopely is also owned by the Saudi government, so even aside from the gameplay impacts there might be reasons to want to walk away.

The bigger issue with Universes Beyond now isn't even that it's reference-slop entirely chosen and developed to milk as much money from casual Magic players as possible without concern for the rest of the ecosystem (and that was frustrating enough). It's that as of this year, all of these...