Wouldn't solve the problem.
If Steam republished all its now censored games, and magically developed and implemented a world class crypto payment system overnight...
Then Steam is still in breach of MC/Visas terms, and MC and Visa drop them, and now everyone has no choice other than to use GabeBucks or w/e to purchase Steam games with.
Also, Valve now pays employees and game publishers in GabeBucks.
Which would cause a fuck ton of games to leave Steam.
Quick question, which stablecoins have actually been stable for 5 years?
10?
They could easily accept crypto.
No, they could not, not easily.
The problem is paying devs and staff. You have to pay them with dollars or their native currency.
... Yes. These are... the main reasons why this is not easy.
You're basically either running your own FOREX exhange, which is costly, complicated, expensive and intensive...
Or you are holding a significant chunk of your operating budget in... one, many, all cryptos? Which is extremely financially risky...
Or, you're paying people directly in crypto, which ironically, probably a vast majority of people and entities that publish on Steam would quit the platform if that was mandated... kinda like how MC+Visa making a unilateral decision forced Steam to ban a bunch of games.
...
You're doing magical thinking.
Stop that.
A master class in framing/frame composition, in a single photo.
What are you saying, I don't understand...?
Anyway, what does this have to do with Sydney Sweeney's Nazi jeans, how are you not enraged by that?1?1!!!
You have to focus on the issues that matter, ok dummy?
/s/s/s
EDIT:
God fucking damnit, it happened again.
I made this comment as a joke, a day ago, and within 24hrs...
Republican representatives, offices directly under Trump, and of course Fox News...
Yep, they're all leaning into this, fanning the flames of this particular, latest culture war talking point, as an obvious distraction / rage bait tactic, basically trolling people with twitter posts and throwing red meat out to their core via Jesse Waters on cable TV.
So while Utah punches above its weight in tech, St. Paul area absolutely dwarfs it in population. Surely they have a robust cybersecurity industry there...
https://lecbyo.files.cmp.optimizely.com/download/fa9be256b74111efa0ca8e42e80f1a8f?sfvrsn=a8aa5246_2
Utah, #1 projected tech sector growth in the next decade, of all 50 states.
Utah, #8 for tech sector % of entire state economy, of all 50 states.
Minnesota?
Doesn't crack top 10 for any metrics.
Utah may not be the biggest or techiest state, but it is way more so than Minnesota.
The National Guard just seems like a desperate move.
Again, this is my argument, but you are only seeing desperation as due to incompetence, not due to... actual severity.
When they're deployed, they take orders from the the federal military,
Not actually true unless the Nat Guard has been given a direct command by the Pentagon.
and at peace, monitoring foreign threats seems like a federal thing.
... which is why the FBI were called in, in addition to the Nat Guard being able to report up the military CoC.
You call in the National Guard to put down a riot or something where you just need bodies, not for anything niche.
I mean, you yourself have explained that the Nat Guard does have a CyberSec ability, and I've explained they also have the ability to potentially summon even greater CyberSec ability.
I guess you would be surprised how involved the military is / can be in defending against national security threatening, critical infrastructure comprimising kinds of domestic threats.
Remember Stuxnet?
Yeah other people can do that to us now, we kinda uncorked the genie bottle on that one.
Otherwise, just call a local cybersecurity firm to trace the attack and assess damage.
It is not everyone's instinct or best practice to immediately hire a contracted firm to do things that government agencies can, and have a responsibility to do.
If this was like, Amazon being comprimised, yeah I can see that being a more likely avenue, though if it was serious, they'd probably call in some or multiple forms of 'the Feds' as well.
But this was a breach/compromise of a municipal network... thats a government thing. Not a private sector thing.
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Also, you are acting like either you are unaware of the following, or ... don't think its real?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
Kind of a really big deal in terms of Utah and the tech sector and the Federal government and... things that were totally illegal before the PATRIOT Act.
Exabytes of storage.
Exabytes.
Utah literally is where the NSA is doing their damndest to make a hardcopy of literally all internet traffic and content.
Given how classified this facility is, I wouldn't be surprised if their employees don't exactly show up in standard Utah employment figures.
Doesn't matter, it's collectively, broadly true.
Leftists and liberals generally spent more time arguing amongst themselves online and glomming on to mini personality cults of prominent online influencers, fully engaging in the distractions of gender and culture wars...
... than they did spend their time on any kind of actually effective, in any but the most superficial sense, kind of messaging or actions.
Sure, if you helped run a local homeless shelter, built up some kind of actual union or a a mutual aid network, knocked on doors, rallied people in person or at least phone banked, joined an outfit or did your own actually real and impactful journalism, consistently protested, set up something like an underground railroad, started actually laying a framework for an alternate economy that could be resilient to or function during a collapse of the broader economy...
Something actually tangible?
Then hey, you actually tried.
Basically every one else just whined and complained, ineffectively.
Doing this all with the greatest access to information and ability to coordinate that has ever been present in the history of humanity.
Nope, winning twitter arguments was more important.
They literally don't do anything other than have meetings and injest executive level reports.
CEOs are unironically the prime candidates for replacing employees with AI, from a direct cost to employ the employee perspective.
I don't give LLM AIs much credit, but they are more intelligent than the average CEO.
Also, LLM AIs, when well-manicured... are generally better at corpospeak and not having massive ego trips than most CEOs.
Probably less likely to intentionally commit crimes as well.
I refuse to use, or touch, C#, as a matter of principle at this point.
Only 0.43% of the population can write code.
Which doesn't include you.
I will never lose the ability and my services will always be needed.
You are a highly, highly specialized, but also simultaneously low skilled worker who can only work with a very specific set of services, which are all paygated by vendors, who will immediately jack the fuck up out of their pricing as soon as they are able.
You are delusional.
Even in some hyper dystopia where all coding is outsourced to an AI, all you are is a prompt generator.
Do you think an AI that can write inefficient code... cannot write prompts?
You are a loon.
=D