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Cool, a set of basically NFT trading cards went for $16.9m at auction. CryptoPunks NFTs sell at Christie’s for $16.9 million WWW.THEVERGE.COM Including one rare "alien" punk. To put that in prospective, the most expensive Pokemon card went for $360k. Magic card? $250k. How about a 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card? That went for $3.12m. However, this collection of randomly generated pixel art sprites made in 2017 just blew those all out of the water. Beeple's work was totally worth it as an artist. These? Just what are we doing?

Virginia State Police dashcam video shows arrest of Juanisha Brooks - CNN Video EDITION.CNN.COM Juanisha Brooks was stopped and arrested by a pair of Virginia State Police officers on March 6. A Virginia prosecutor now says she should never have been pulled over. I love that the prosecutor is saying the cops are wrong here, but just trips over himself to not call them liars. Juanisha Brooks: Virginia prosecutor calls for investigation into state police officer over traffic stop - CNNPolitics AMP.CNN.COM A Black employee of the Defense Department should not have been stopped by Virginia state troopers, says a prosecutor who dismissed the four charges against her and wants an...

Apple is being wildly arbitrary here. Tinder is giving you access to people. How is that a digital good and how it's Apple inserting itself in such a way as to prove delivery of such digital good? However, Apple still charges a percentage for other clearly not digital goods. Apple charges their 30% on small events like a highschool play advertised on Facebook. However, they don't charge that 30% for tickets to, like, Wicked. Neither are digital goods, but Apple treats both differently.

Oh I get what you mean here. It's just that a lot of this stuff is arbitrary distinctions made by Google, themselves, because Google is crazy and likes forcing people to install a thousand different apps that do the exact same thing. Hulu Live is just a part of the Hulu app. Even ESPN+ is offered as part of the Hulu app for those that subscribe to both. This is primarily a Google problem and you need not look any further than the fact they have Hangouts, Chat, Messages, Duo, Talk, Meet, and Allo...well, they shut down Allo like a year or so ago, but that's besides the point.

Eh, this is a two way push. They dropped YouTube TV in retaliation for Google not dropping their AV1 requirement and Google retaliated by pushing YouTube TV into YouTube to stop they're existing YouTube TV customers on Roku from jumping ship. It's not like YouTube TV is anything but YouTube with live channels, anyway. I was, at one point, an entirely Roku household. They just have not managed to keep up their tech and their fuckery with remaining truly service agnostic lost me. I don't even mind the ads. They've got to make their money somehow. I would just expect them to be the number one platform for everything and not pick and choose winners and losers based on arguments their customers care nothing about.

I'm actually with Google on this one. The whole spat is over Roku refusing to upgrade its hardware over a standard EVERYONE, even Apple, is trying to push that is designed save folks on bandwidth while also increasing video quality for more bandwidth limited connections. Google is threatening to send everyone with a YouTube TV subscription a new Chromecast TV for free, but Google already did that. They're always giving away stuff like this. Chromecasts with YouTube TV, Nest Mini speakers with YouTube Music, and Chromecast Ultras and a gamepad with Stadia. Not sure why this one would be an antitrust issue. Roku owns half the streaming hardware market and are using their footprint to force Google to not push AV1 onto them and forced them to upgrade all their stuff. As far as I'm aware, they aren't looking to brick everyone's Roku come January. I believe the force is just on new hardware. Now, if Google doesn't upgrade they're own Chromecast and gives themselves an exception with new hardware, that would be a major issue.

I'm pretty sure we could do this everyday. 6 people killed in apparent murder-suicide at birthday party in Colorado Springs WWW.NBCNEWS.COM The gunman is believed to be the boyfriend of one of the victims, based on a preliminary investigation. 1 dead, 7 wounded in shooting at downtown Phoenix hotel APNEWS.COM PHOENIX (AP) — One man was killed and seven other people were wounded in a shooting inside a downtown Phoenix hotel after an argument early Sunday, police said. Officers responded to a call about a... We have far fewer days without a mass shooting than with.

I just assume every random unknown site carrying some random negative rumor that's critical of like Brie Larson, Amber Heard, or whatever other actress alt right nerds love hating is bullshit. Look at their story and Captain Marvel maybe making an appearance in Thor. Exclusive: Brie Larson Is In Thor Love And Thunder WWW.GIANTFREAKINROBOT.COM Brie Larson has become the centerpiece of the next phase of Marvel’s entertainment universe. Iron Man and Captain America are about to pass the Avengers torch to Captain Marvel and probably Spider-Man... That's a hell of a first sentence.

Because Avatar is actually more popular than you might think it is. Disney spent hundreds of millions of dollars building Pandora...before they bought Fox. There are four sequels currently in production. Do you think the Avatar sequels are going to flops at the box office? I doubt they'll do as well as the original, but you can't be arguing that nobody is interested in watching these because there aren't enough memes for them out there or something, right?

Apple is trying to argue that allowing other app stores onto iOS would open the platform to offensive and pornographic material. I mean, sure half of Reddit is offensive and pornographic and sure there a regular old Internet browser, but think of the kids. This line is easily Apple's worse. I don't know why they're even bothering.

You aren't the only one...and I have toddlers running around while I work. I've checked on my time. I realized that even with the kids, it breaks even to being in the office. There are fewer pointless meetings because nobody REALLY likes Zoom. All the time I spend potty training is no different than dealing with folks randomly dropping by because their mouse stopped working when I don't even do that kind of work. Not everyone in IT is tech support. Yeah, I'd rather have to deal with my youngest sit on my lap while I run maintenance on a bunch of servers than the dude down the hall whose complaining about his laptop making weird clicking sounds. At least I can get work done with a two year old hanging on my shoulders pretending I'm the laziest horse in the west.

The best part of all of this. I like that Apple is pretending it moderates the content of apps within its store. It's as if Reddit doesn't have an iOS app.

I use to work at a security company and I remember how laughable some of Apple's decisions were. Like the way iPhones had a habit of automatically connecting to any open wireless network and broadcasting their info to see if it was a free and/or public hotspot. Best part? I worked for that company like six years ago. We informed Apple. The issue had literally only gotten worse... This ‘Magical Bug’ Exposed Any iPhone in a Hacker's Wi-Fi Range | WIRED WWW.WIRED.COM A Google researcher found flaws in Apple's AWDL protocol that would have allowed for a complete device takeover. So yeah. I don't believe for a second that Apple is as forthcoming about security breaches as they would like people to think.

This sounds about right. That's a damn good deal for Sony. I would think that the vast majority of Playstation owners aren't going to be ditching their consoles for PC ports. This is residually true if Sony isn't print to PC until years after release on console, like the three year has for Horizon Zero Dawn. I don't buy the entertainment device angle. That one doesn't make sense because the restrictions here are entirely arbitrary. However, the "we need our cut to subsidize hardware while Apple is profiting on hardware sales" is very compelling. Apple wanting Microsoft to prove it sells their consoles either at cost of at a loss, even late into its lifespan, makes sense. That just seems like a gamble based on what we know about consoles.

Some stuff doesn't get attention from sites like this one or in our general circles on social media, but that didn't mean people aren't watching and talking. The biggest TV series from Netflix last year were Bridgerton, The Queen's Gambit, and Emily in Paris. Quiz time: Who here had watched Netflix's most popular movie last year? It was the Polish 50 Shades-like 365 Days. It beat out the likes of Old Guard, The Social Dilemma, Project Power or even those shitty Adam Sandler movies that I assume Netflix loves because everyone watches them.

Here's a great piece to add some sexism to our little thread about racism... Why Black Women Are Often Missing From Conversations About Police Violence | FiveThirtyEight FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM When Lajuana Phillips was shot and killed by a police officer in late 2018, she was a mother of three children, a daughter and a cousin who was described by fam…

A lot of that comes down to who you're listening to or who do you expect to be talking about these movies. Many movie critics and sites like Reddit are filled with guys and target audiences that Captain Marvel didn't generally target. Awesome fire and glory and fucking heavy metal out a flaming guitar Mad Max totally strikes right at that same target audience and so garners a lot more talk in those same circles. Bridgerton is the biggest thing Netflix has ever done and there isn't even a thread for the series in this site. Reddit has multiple subreddits for Falcon and the Winter Soldier that are larger than anything for Bridgerton in spite of Bridgerton being watched by nearly 8 time as many people.

It absolutely did. Captain Marvel made a ton of money and walked away with an A Cinemascore. It was well liked among everyone other than Gamergate-types that hate Brie Larson. Just watch the same thing happen with Aquaman 2 and Amber Heard.

That's America for you. There's a reason we refuse to jump on the CRC. We need to be able to try children as adults and hand out more punitive punishments to teens than other countries do to adult offenders.

Sweet. This is finally happening. Tried sourcing some drives for a few servers and they're all backordered months. Every vendor is blaming shortages from Chinese cryptominors.

The latter isn't really true, though. That could be better summarized as wealthier immigrants have better educational achievements which couldn't be more obvious of a statement. Like nobody should really believe the numbers that come out of China... China is No. 1 on PISA — but here’s why its test scores are hard to believe - The Washington Post WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COM An expert examined PISA results going back years. Here’s what he found. Once you account for that, you end up with a random smattering of countries with strong education systems around the globe from Singapore to Estonia. Asians in the US have a higher average salary than their European or Latin American counterparts. Why? Again, immigrating to the US from the opposite side of the globe is expensive and complicated, so yeah, wealthier immigrants tend to do better in this country than less wealthy immigrants. Put another way, rich people find it easier to succeed in the US out anywhere. Tune in next time for more shocking news.

They bigger issue with the Asian thing is that it treats an entire continent of VERY different peoples as a monolith and that keeps it in the realm of racism. That's how you end up with something like Indians aren't really Asians in the equation here, even if they're like a third of all Asians. It also ignore things like "Hey, it's really expensive to fly and relocate to the US from South Korea, so anyone that does is already ahead of the game compared to most others immigrants." Either way, I think this dude goes over the subject best... In the end, any stereotypes, even if they are perceived to come from a good place removes the individuality of that person and in doing so is racist.

It's going to happen one way or the other, right? None of the stimulus checks were enough to dig people out of their holes and for families, the child tax check don't start hitting until later this summer.

Hey, looks like more houses and apartments may be coming back onto the market sooner than expected... Federal judge overturns national eviction ban WWW.CNBC.COM A federal judge struck down on Wednesday the national eviction moratorium, potentially leaving millions of Americans at risk of losing their homes.

That's exactly it. My wife had a few failed pregnancies before our first, but needed a DNC for one where she was some 18 weeks along. Our insurance was willing to cover medication to induce an abortion, but not the the procedure itself since it wasn't life threatening. Nothing like hearing from the insurance that you either pay for it all out of pocket or go home with some pills and wait anywhere from 1 to 4 weeks...if the pills actually do their thing. I told the hospital to schedule the surgery for as soon as possible and just bill me for the costs. That doesn't even cover the costs of the all the ultrasounds and tests she went through in the preceding weeks as doctors tried to see if the pregnancy was salvageable. Anyone that thinks or current system is great is either wealthy or has lived a wildly lucky/comfortable life.