Have a look at his submissions story. The political ones. Full in propaganda outlets. Check his other public political commentary. Some of his comments here. It is strange how someone capable of thinking can hold on to these ideas without being blackmailed (eg. Epestin) or a grifting politician.
we had a member of my team at a company about ~15years ago that they tried to fire for installing steam on their corporate laptop when they had sent him to another city for for what was supposed to be a week but ended up being three weeks. this was against our wishes (he didn't need to be there, there was no good reason for it, he could do all the work remotely from our office and had been doing it successfully for three months, the project was 'at risk' due to schedules but none of that was our fault at all).
I had a knockdown drag out fight with both HR and Security. I agree that it was probably better for him to have packed his own personal laptop or similar gaming device but security had shown absolutely no risk and it was clear that HR was just 'clucking to cluck'. Eventually they relented with a mealy mouthed 'warning'. The fact that he had installed steam after his stay had been extended and they couldn't show any evidence that he was playing during working hours was a hillarious, and lucky, footnote.
I was working in the Techstop (40) @ Google, 2011-ish, when a nice person from PeopleOps came through and politely requested my admin powers to help them install Steam on their corp-issued Windows laptop.
I'm sorry, what?
Well see, PeopleOps was going to have an onsite intending to help recruiters better understand Engineering types, and part of the whole business was going to involve everyone firing up a copy of Portal and playing a puzzle-solving video game.
So I immediately got to it. Never heard back as to the success of the endeavor, but turns out there are circumstances where you can break out your Steam library at work.
The vote totals from that election are...odd. Somehow Biden got about 28% more votes than any US election in history and about 24% more votes than you would expect in that election. That's way outside the error bars. As in 5 sigmas or more. Other than that, I have nothing but only because I don't go down this specific rabbit hole.
Trump also got a weird and very high vote total in the 2020 election. People just chalk this up to mail in voting. Perhaps, but the 2024 vote totals fell back into line with previous expectations on both sides for vote totals. Make of that what you will.
I've been running the Apple TV app on a Shield and it's got a lot of other bugs. Lately it's been showing shows in the totally wrong aspect ratio unless I restart the app. I do think they consider it a second class citizen.
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