EnsignWashout

Wow, I totally missed the part where Microsoft had a gun to your head.

Yes. Microsoft is good at hiding that part until it's too late to do much about it.

There’s no industry pressure to be on Gamepass, yet.

Microsoft doesn't willingly lose money on something unless they think they can make it into ~~a market distorting rent extraction hellscape.~~ something very profitable later.

A really high percentage on common hiring practices are completely illegal. Many people who should hire a little bit of legal advice usually don't.

On the scale of such things, this looks pretty chill.

Many firms are now slashing their number of new hires.

Yes. This sucks.

The main cause of this is artificial intelligence

Unlikely.

The main cause for a chill in hiring tends to be uncertainty about the future. And we know that folks are feeling high uncertainty about the future, right now. (Gestures broadly at current headlines in general and "Not The Onion", in particular.)

Historically, uncertainty about the future is particularly high when the people have low confidence that existing and new laws will be applied in a predictable manner.

I'll leave exactly what changed on that front as a thought exercise.

AI is interesting, but it is not the primary cause of the chill in hiring new graduates.

Good point.

There are folks who will use an unenforceable rule to convince their company to do the right thing. Many CEOs are uninformed or risk averse. So this still has value.

and the internet (in the current form) never gets developed.

based on my recent online shopping experiences, we may get there, soon.

It feels like nobody knows how to Java a Script anymore.

most agree it's an upgrade from the Znyder

Yeah. We figured. Synder's Superman is interesting, but in many ways unfun.

and Singer takes

How dare they! Superman Returns is a national treasure. We waited a long time for a third Singer X-Men film to get it, so we should treasure it.

Seems that some folks from Iowa would rather go to court than stop being cruel to animals.

I'll keep my judgement to myself, but it is scathing.

This economist is telling me they never fixed their own plumbing.

There's theoretically nothing hard about plumbing.

It stands to reason that we ought to be able to automate all plumbing repair quite soon.

Unlike this economist, I've enjoyed a delightful spray of educational water, more than once, highlighting the joy of discovery of one of the many more nuanced aspects of home plumbing.

If there's one thing I've learned over and over, it is that however complicated I think some aspect of the world is, it is actually at least slightly more complicated than that.

I find it particularly evocative when I happen to learn this lesson while I am literally "all wet".

Robots may become delightful-but-stupid helpers to many more roles, any day now - even plumbers.

Perhaps someday robots of various jobs may even become delightful while even not-too-terribly-stupid.

But thinking that all subject matter experts will be adequately replaced by robots is incredibly naive.

I personally consider that belief "all wet".

Sorry. We need to learn to ask nicely.

Please upgrade to Linux?

sudo upgrade to Linux?

RunAs -Admin upgrade to Linux?

Be sure to take a moment to reboot into desktop, and search the built in Linux app store for free games. There's some absolute gems.

Edit: And after installing, right click the game on the desktop or menu, and choose "Add To Steam", to make it show up in the usual Steam interface.