as a matter of fact the Nazis did refer to themselves as the "national socialist German worker's party" even though they weren't any of that.

It feels more like a reverse psyop, like “look we are wearing masks now, isn’t this what you wanted”?

As long as the sides keep reducing common ground, the farther away from government for the people, by the people we go.

Tell me more about how "the sides" are reducing "common ground"?

Again, let's think of two children fighting over their shares of a cookie. Child A says he should get all of the cookie. Child B says that wouldn't be fair, the cookie should be split evenly, half and half.

The adult in the room decides to promote common ground, and gives 75% of the cookie to A and 25% to B.

who exactly is the adult in the room supposed to be in this analogy? There _is_ no adult in the room, just the two children.

The adult in the room here is the moralizing "enlightened centrist" that puts bothsideism in every conversation about politics.

> The article is talking about a license plate scanner website that was being used to track the movements of ICE vehicles, follow them and harass agents.

I fail to understand why this is a problem when they do the exact same thing to civilians? On top of that there are companies like Flock who monitor civilians when ICE isn’t there.

I don’t get why you love ICE so much and want to protect them like they’re doing you some big service and not going around instilling fear in others. Have you been living under a rock?

>I fail to understand why this is a problem when they do the exact same thing to civilians?

You are asking why a civilian can't do the same things that a federal agent can?

Do want to be targeted? Then don’t commit constitutional violations and murders

Do you want to be targeted? Then don't look Latino, black or foreign, work blue collar or service jobs or speak a language that is not English. There are plenty of examples of law abiding citizens getting illegally arrested or killed by ICE.

ICE is facing backlash because they are breaking the law and discriminating. Flock is facing backlash because they are enabling ICE and the general oppression of opposition to the current administration. Crimes should be investigated, but this falls outside of an immigration agency's responsibilities.

All this coming from a non-american by the way.

> a massive organized anti-ICE operation?

What operation? Did they go around hacking into servers and invade their privacy?

> Headline makes it seem like ICE just did this in a vacuum.

Would they not do it in a vacuum? There’s been a a vagrant disregard for laws on their side. Why are they getting the benefit of the doubt here? It’s very clear they have been targeting certain demographics and political leaning from its institution.

My “hot take”: they’re going the direction of Disney/Marvel hybrid. Have a few handful of IPs that are extremely successful, milk it out with licensing deals in every vertical (toys, games, merch, cross-dlcs, books, etc). They’re just missing theme parks. The actual game development portion would probably be very small.

What exclusive IP does Xbox even have anymore? They tanked all the studios that were doing good work for them and AFAIK Halo’s done.

What kind of exclusivity do they have on Elder Scrolls if all their games were releases on at least 3 platforms?

Do you meam potential upcomimg game that may be vaporware for a decade or two?

All those franchises are on a managed downward trajectory. Their Halcyon days are behind them.

None of those are exclusive to xbox.

Would not complain if Microsoft wanted to drop a few billion on a new US theme park. The Pacific Northwest is pretty light on amusement parks and I could imagine a park with Halo, Fallout, Elder Scrolls, and Minecraft "Lands" doing gangbusters. Supposedly they're already working with a UK amusement park operator on a Minecraft experience

I would totally go to a Halo theme park, that sounds cool.

Very disappointing that the Music app on iOS doesn’t render the page. Would have been super cool to scroll in the app with some haptic feedback along with the click sound. I can understand why it won’t be there as you can’t directly navigate to a pre-determined page, but instead they force you to portal through their search button.

Even still, I’m a little sad knowing what could have been! :(

Using the haptics in the MacBook touchpads for this would've been next level.

> privacy, checks and balances, and responsibility

In their eyes it goes like this:

Privacy:- why do you need it if you have nothing to hide?

Checks and balances:- you are the balance and I’m here to check you

Responsibility:- it is my responsibility to check you

I want to say I’m being sarcastic but I don’t know anymore. Arguably their motivation is to hunt and jail people, so it feels like “personal gain” on the fringes. No job is so far removed that it’s devoid of personal gain.

Maybe that last part was a smidge too radical.

> If you're enforcing the law, you need to actually know its contents and how it works.

Not disagreeing but I can’t see how this would be practical. I think any college degree should be the absolute minimum though.

Is it practical to give weapons and combat vehicles to under-qualified but readily-available individuals to enforce laws they don't understand (let alone have knowledge of) like we do now?

It's not. We just accept it as a default because it's easy to dismiss something obviously good (making sure police are mentally stable, law-aware, and held to a level of scrutiny commensurate to the job) because it may require effort.

Someone being handed a gun and told to go "keep people in line" should be held to an almost absurd standard before ever being let on the streets. That we don't already do this speaks volumes about the underdeveloped state of our civilization (despite our hubris to the contrary).

> Is it practical to give weapons and combat vehicles

I get what you mean, but with how easy it is to get a gun (especially in red states), it is practical in the sense that it seems pretty easy to do and there’s no shortage.

But should we? I agree with you, absolutely fucking not.

> I get what you mean, but with how easy it is to get a gun (especially in red states)

Have you tried? I live in Tennessee (aggressively red) and own multiple firearms. Mandatory background checks and a mandatory 3-day wait [1] are the standard. Even online transfers from an FFL require submission of an ATF registration form.

Tangential, but it's not as easy as one would think. Also, there are a shocking number of posers down here. Stars and bars and "don't tread on me" but not a lot of commitment to "the mission." There are far more grown men driving lifted trucks with glow lights on them than serious threats.

[1] https://www.stateregstoday.com/politics/gun-control/firearm-...

> Have you tried?

Just in one of the super blue states. My buddy lives in Texas, he’s got a couple of guns and says is easy to get.

> There are far more grown men driving lifted trucks with glow lights on them than serious threats.

The problem is these guys join ICE or act like they are, and that’s a serious threat. If you brandish Stars and Stripes / Dont Tread on Me, even if you’re a poser I’m not going to take a risk of finding out. That in itself is powerful.

While it might create new jobs, I don’t think what it affords you would be better.

Take the gig economy for example. There has been a rapid uptick of it taking a slice of the labor pie. If the majority of labor shifted to that, you’ll have plenty of new jobs but your quality of life will be substantially worse.

> $299 is not cheap … But even if it did cost $10, it would still be a waste of money because you spend $10 on an useless product

Moving goalposts aside, how do you know it’s useless? You might not have a use for it, but it’s weird to make such blanket statements for a product that hasn’t even been out yet.