They can if those entities are doing business in California.

Yes, well, you are not “the people”, you are “a person”.

So they’re lying about the AI companies buying RAM?

…is this a documentary?

This is a >1 hour video and the first several minutes cover incidents from >20 years ago. tl;dw?

Yeah I opened a business as well but quickly realized it’s nearly impossible without capitulating to the monoliths that are modern advertising platforms from Meta and Google.

You can change your default search provider on any platform. The problem is no one actually does it, and Google is always the default, because they invest billions of dollars in that arrangement.

Does it let you change other people’s search providers?

Wondering what’s fueling the AI bubble? Spoiler: it’s not company profits. It’s this.

Sad to see the Swiss are still complying with demands from a fascist regime.

If you’re going to be doing illegal shit in your activism, you should consider using anonymous communication methods like SimpleX.

It’s kind of a shitty thing about modern gaming, is that the game revolves around the community, and if you’re not part of the community, you don’t know WTF is going on, because they never explain anything in the game.

I got pretty sucked into it playing Destiny 1 like 10 years ago but eventually it was too much fucking work and not enough fun.

I hope to never ever see this kind of behavior happen within the Fediverse, because we are supposed to be better than this.

That’s pretty naive, honestly.

Saying “The people voted for this” sounds logical but the reality on the ground makes the statement wholly disingenuous.

It’s not. There’s no other way to have a govt “for the people” than to hold an election.

it functions as a thought-terminating cliche and provides cover for a class of power who continuously work to keep this set of circumstances cemented in place.

That may be but it doesn’t make it untrue.

Unfortunately, the people voted for this.

That would feel even sweeter if they were losing money on every Helix sold.

They wouldn’t lose money for the same reason Steam doesn’t lose money; they sell them at market value. That’s (part of) why they’re so expensive.

I know. And it’s dumb. Which is why I don’t use it. And Mastodon is polluting the Fediverse with this crap.

FYI you don’t have to tag me, I got a notification when you reply to me.

Which quote

The one from Valve in the Polygon article.

it wasn’t wrong based on the information at the time.

It was. There was, at no time, any suggestion by Valve that the release was being delayed further, and especially not at the time the article was published.

The quote that I provided was directly from the Polygon article. Do you mean to suggest it was only clickbait shitfuckery when the article was first posted?

Even then, I would argue that that STILL does not “suggest further delays”.

They didn’t say valve said anything.

Its literally the title of the article…

When someone says 2026, it is a year. There is zero implication of one half or the other.

Yes, that’s exactly my point.

OP opined that the wait might be longer, which isn’t false.

No they didn’t. They said Valve suggested it would be longer, which did not happen.

The first half of this year is still 2026, sure, but 2026 isn’t just the first half of this year. 2026 by itself is a whole year.

…and? You’re reaching here. That is in no way any sort of suggestion.

Do you see what this has to do with the conversation?

No. No one said anything about a “promise”, at any time. Not me, not the author, and not Valve. Only you.