DomeGuy

Ceremony can be a PITA,.no argument here.

But I would be shocked if Nintendo made a digital "eject" erase anything on the local console.

Fort Liberty had its name changed back to Fort Bragg by racists.

Please don't spread racist propaganda or take their

Assume that, for the first time in his life, Donald meant what he said. Pretend that he won't change his mind or panic, and assume that the same GOP which keeps missing Speaker of the House election layups won't break and let the Democrats take the tariff power away

The midterm congressional elections are always a swing to the other party. The Democrats are more likely to take at least one chamber of Congress than Trump is to say something dumb. But let's assume that for some reason they only take one, and you get gridlock enough to preserve the tarrifs until the next POTUS takes office in January 2029.

A factory would need to break even by that time to be worth a quick investment. And not just break even, but leave you with more wealth than if you just bought a bunch of crypto and stayed home until this all passes. And if you signed an deal today, your break even points might be as soon as only 45 months away.

You can't even get a car loan with a team that short.

This isn't true. Go look up the definition for either word, and it doesn't comport with the usage rules claimed.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/labyrinth

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maze

If you do want to draw a sharp distinction in modern usage, you could posit that a labyrinth is a type of maze that was made intentionally and can be walked through.

As I understand it, switch 1 digital games are console-bound, but you can migrate your whole console to a new device (such as if your switch breaks.). This was terrible and unfriendly, and why almost all of my family's switch games are physical.

I doubt "share once and let everyone play but the owner" was an intentional promise from Nintendo, but I'd have no trouble believing a tale about their DRM checks leaving open a hole like that.

If we still need to buy one copy of a gamer per simultaneous player,.then the rest of the differences are just ceremony.

Nothing indicates that moving a Nintendo digital card requires uninstalling the game locally. It just, like steam, does a DRM check to see if it's being played elsewhere.

Steam sells non-transferable lifetime licenses to each game you "buy", that let you play it on one PC at a time but never transfer it to anyone else, even as part of an inheritance after your death.

If you have a family there is a "sharing" plan which allows you to let family members also play some of the games in your library, but not at the same time.

Nintendo is imposing a bit more ceremony if you want to share digital games each time you share them, but the essential "one device at a time" nature is the same that steam imposes.

Nintendo made a huge deal about virtual game cards, saving us from exactly what you're afraid of.

Not as good as what Sony and Microsoft do, where we can essentially install our whole library on every console we have, but it's about as good as what Steam does.

Plus they're bringing back a "game share" like feature, so some multiplayer games should be playable in a local family with only one purchase.

This isnt 1984. You have as much freedom to say whatever you want as you did in an equally-dense area in 1955, and you're exactly as subject to what you say being reported inaccurately.

What's changed is that you actually have a plausible ability to broadcast yourself. Today's equivalent of newspapers and TV stations have infinite channels and infinite paper, and mostly just let you say whatever you want.

If you do cross that "whatever" , though, they can and do refuse to publish your stuff, but you're free to go elsewhere.

And if it's actual surveillance you're worried about... Well, much hasn't changed since "Enemy of the state" and you should be practicing both good privacy safeguards and rhetorical defense of the same whenever you can.

Exactly.

It says something about modern physics that possibly the two most famous bits of it were named by people trying to call bollocks.

What it says, though, is too many STEM folk skimp on humanities and are just really bad at naming things.

Not even.

2+2=(3,4,5) is just recognizing imprecision in the original measurement.

The "budget" not matching appropriations is "I'm only going to spend 100 on lotto tickets this month, and save 50" and then buying 150 in lotto and putting the 10 you 'won' in savings.

It's not the math ending up. It's just recognizing that budgets are nonsense if the actual spending is a wholly separate act of Congress.