It took the Emperor 20 years to remove the Senate in Star Wars.

If only the US Federal departments were set up to stop operations when budgets run out. But alas, the US government loves debt.

Not a new phenomenon. Proverbs has a fee sayings about ignoring fools.

What was the original justification for this redistricting effort? I’m sure they at least half-assed that.

Because businesses that use .NET are already paying for it with their visual studio subscription or higher Microsoft support. It’s a bare minimum product that has no incentive to improve because no one pays for it. But businesses force the use of it because “we’re already paying for it”

Executives are getting kickbacks? I’ve gotta do some research here.

I don’t think one ever came out. Microsoft closed their studio to make them.

Remember when inflation and corporate prices rose?

How many of the 20 demos won’t be released? I’m sitting at a solid 15, maybe 18.

IMO, any developer who uses URL parameters for required functionality is short sighted. They should use the path as required parameters.

Take the population, plug it into a video game map generator, tell it to make all population of sections equal, generate 30 variations, and put them to a vote.

If the reviews are good, I’ll spend the $20 on game pass for a month.

But only if the reviews are very good.

Or some other game caught my attention.

Or I’m replaying Outer Worlds 1

Or I’m still playing Monster Hunter.

Or… I think I’ll just pass on it.

I’ll take actions that confirms guilt for $400, Alex.

This is the only advertising that listen too. I wish online reviews were 10% as useful.

This feels like an executive saying “I want to have an Xbox handheld”. Then saying to make it profitable without market research.

I feel like the Xbox brand is not long for this world.

A source for further reading.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/why-gov-greg-abbott-wont-release-his-emails-with-elon-musk/

I wonder what is causing this. Netflix being unable to buy or create shows to fill demand, Hollywood Writing going downhill, or Executives cancelling shows quickly.

This is why we all need to talk with our friends, families, and even co-workers to get out and vote. Most voter turnout rates I’ve seen are 60-70%. There has too be more sane people outside of the cult.

Automation and AI have the potential to put lots of people into unemployment in the next 20 years. For the sake of preventing that unemployment, it’d be good if people had fewer kids. Yet for some reason, governments struggle really hard to comprehend that simple connection.

Because they assume all people will be consumers of goods. So if they have more people, there will be more consumers to buy things.

Now the assumption falls apart in any rigor since automation means that less people are needed for labor and would have money to buy gods. But that requires a government that thinks beyond the limited lifetimes of those running the government.

In an ideal world I think data center waste heat would be captured for use in a district thermal grid / seasonal thermal energy store like the one in Vantaa.

Yes, this would be the ideal for dealing with that issue. Re-use that heat to generate some of the energy the data center is demanding.

Imagine there’s an engineering & physics issue to be solved. But where would we find those top talent people to solve it?