This is for commercial users, so if your company mandates MS Office, none of the free alternatives are much use.
On the plus side, the prices don’t really matter to those end users, so anyone outside procurement won’t notice any difference.

Raising home user prices would lead to a lot more backlash, but I wouldn’t put it past MS to try it anyway. They just can’t seem to get out of their own way.

1,205 games. $6,516 as of today. 19 year account.

The depressing part is that of the 1,205 games, 986 (81.8%) are showing as unplayed.

Lots of people say that want total freedom for anybody to post anything, but it becomes clear almost immediately that it’s completely unsustainable. Spam, CSAM, and other illegal stuff has to be moderated or users leave and the admins get in legal trouble.

What most people mean by “free speech absolutism” is “I want to be able to say stupid, offensive shit without being held accountable.” Even if that’s not your intent here, that’s the prevailing interpretation, so you’re being judged on that.

Laws will vary widely from state to state, but in most (many? some?) US states, the “sales tax” is more accurately titled “sales and use tax.”

You may be asked on your year-end tax return to list anything purchased out of state that was brought into your state for use, and to pay the appropriate tax on that.

In my state, it’s on the honor system. So almost entirely unenforceable, especially for small items. Look up the laws in your area, though.

To sum up: technically, probably not; practically, probably so. This is not tax advice.

Sounds like a fine way to abolish the existing Court, since the constitution is where it gets its power.

Yes, toasted bread so that the PB gets slightly melted when spread!

Sure, he says that, but until he actually endorses a bunch of good candidates, this should be taken with a few boulders of salt.

More likely is that he still supports the same evil morons he always has, but now he prefaces it with a “you all know I’m no blind Republican supporter, BUT”…

He’s trying to backdoor a false sense of balance to fake his way into credibility.

IMO, professional soccer in the US is way behind because it’s less TV friendly. No commercial breaks (other than halftime) means less money coming into the sport than more commercialized competition.

At youth levels, it’s one of the most played sports in the country. Then as soccer-playing American kids get further in their “career”, they get pushed toward other sports where more money is. Colleges rake in cash on football and basketball, and lots of these kids play multiple sports until a coach makes them choose.

4D chess: the pickpockets put up the warning signs.

Amazon spent millions on a single Ring ad during the Super Bowl that was so poorly received it killed a multi-million dollar business deal.

To be clear, all the companies involved are the worst of the worst, so fuck them, but all they had to do was nothing and it would have turned out better (for them, worse for the rest of us).

It’s photoshopped. His tie was too short, but not that short.

You’re basically asking about the difference between an authorized vs unauthorized biography.

If you sell the rights, that’s just getting some nominal fee in exchange for your participation in the process. You may have insights and knowledge of certain events that aren’t easy to find without your help, so some media production company may pay for you to fill in those gaps.

None of that is strictly necessary, though. Anyone can write about anyone else, so long as they aren’t making false claims about the source, or making other negligently false claims of fact. (Don’t do false advertising or libel.)

Turns out getting kicked in the head for a living is associated with making other bad decisions.

I haven’t actually fired it up in a while, but Gedonia might be up your alley.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1114220/Gedonia/

Looks like a sequel is currently in early access, too.

Wow, I haven’t fired this game up in probably 25+ years. Had no idea it was still being played at all.

It is reasonable to believe A) AIs are a poor substitute for a human at most jobs, and B) company management is still going to replace people in search of short-term profits, even at the expense of long-term stability.

Those two things are not contradictory.

Second, “AIs cannot create new, original things” is not the opposite of “AI can produce deepfakes”. That would be like saying every shuffle of a deck of cards is functionally unique (true), therefore I invented a new card game (false).

Peanuts are neither peas, nor nuts. Discuss.

Covid numbers wouldn’t be so bad if we stop testing, and ocean health won’t get worse if we stop measuring.

Kill that messenger!

…or like literally not ready, as in “you’ll need a 6090 Ti”?

Why are there seven hands in this picture?