Most people don’t have that granular kind of control. They have workplace 401k or pension plans with matching contributions from their employer. I get double-matched by my employer (I put in 7% and the employer puts in 14%), but I can’t call someone and have them move my money. I can attend annual meetings and vote, but I have no direct control over my money unless I divest from the program entirely to go with another program and lose that 14 percent.
ICE isn’t just supposed to be Nazi gestapo rounding up people the President is tarelgeting as a political distraction.
There is a place for undercover investigations of smuggling and human trafficking rings.
I loved Mass Effect 3’s multi-player despite expecting it to be horrible, but it was also the first game I really enjoyed that had such horrid lootbox mechanics.
ME3’s single-player was a masterpiece until the last hour. I didn’t even necessarily hate the endings. I just hated that in the end no matter what had happened, it came down to “pick the ending”. I would have been much more satisfied if your actions throughout the trilogy had determined the ending you got - especially since they had done so much tying together loose ends from the previous games.
I loved that you could actually save both the Geth and the Quarians, but only if you’d made the correct decisions in Mass Effect 2 AND 3. That same kind of logic could have been used to pick the ending.
The Biden administration slow-rolled the prosecution of Trump because they wanted to avoid any semblance of it being a political prosecution. That was a mistake, because there was no way for them to avoid the accusation of politicization, and failing to act quickly allowed Trump to retake the White House and overtly politicize the justice department.
And every recommendation category is that same 20 programs in a different order.
The em dash thing annoys me because I actually used em dashes a lot in my own writing. Now I’ve had to change how I write to keep people from assuming I’m using generative tools for writing.
In the plus side, our mayor loves my writing style because he thinks staff should be using AI for everything.
People should have been imprisoned over the Sony rootkit scandal.
For those who don’t know - their music CDs had malware built in that automatically installed itself on PCs without prompting or notification that gave unsecured root access to any PC through a hidden service that couldn’t be detected or disabled from within Windows. It was as bad as bad gets. There was no hidden EULA or anything. They just straight-up installed viruses on millions of PCs that opened the door for other malware to install itself at the root level where it couldn’t be detected.
Sony should have been shut down entirely over it.
Super Mario Brothers was released closer to WWII than to today.
No disagreement that they’ve failed in their mission and have become a tool of fascism, but conceptually there’s a place for an investigative law enforcement agency specializing in immigration and customs. Having undercover assets investigating human trafficking and smuggling would be appropriate as a part of that agency’s activities.
It should still be abolished, of course. ICE is irredeemable at this point.