The researchers conclude that the EU should use its strong bargaining power due to the single market to induce the Chinese government to abandon the most harmful subsidies.

This is their advice? Make the technology for the green transition more expensive rather than enact your own subsidies?

Capitalists are going to burn this planet.

Because game devs have to pay their rent.

If they go off to form their own studio, they probably have to take out a business loan to pay themselves for the time being. Interest rates are high right now, and rent and food are both expensive. It’s a huge gamble to make a game and put it out on the assumption you’ll be able to pay back 6%+ interest on whatever you took out. Games are not a reliable money maker. Especially from new studios.

Even if you get some sort of deal with a publisher to fund your first endeavor, there will still be strings attached to that, and publishers are pretty tight with the purse strings right now.

Which means really the only viable option, assuming you’re not already independently wealthy, is that you have to work another job to work on the game in the meantime, which means it will take even longer to come out.

This report, funded by the UK government, takes the forced labor as a given. Their “research” is essentially, “we couldn’t trace supply lines, so we assume all green tech is tied to Xinjiang, and that anything made in Xinjiang has forced labor in the chain”. In fact the “report” is actually “investor advice”, and not purporting to be factual reporting of any kind.

I’m sure all the people who “worked” on this are enjoying their six figure e-mail jobs.

Toyota’s announced they’ll be using solid state batteries in their production EVs before the end of the decade.

If you take it at face value, which you should really never do when conservatives are involved.

By my estimation, this (and bills like it) are intended to do two things:

1. Reduce younger people’s access to points of view outside of the US political mainstream. In particular, Republican politicians seem very convinced that TikTok is turning kids gay/trans/atheist/communist/etc.
2. Allow for aggrieved conservatives to extract money via lawsuit from corporations Republican politicians view as hostile to them. Because laws like this will obviously be circumvented, and these laws are written such that the platform is liable in these cases, these laws open them up to potentially millions of lawsuits every time a teenager gets an Instagram account.

You think it’ll make money? The Avengers game barely made any money, right? And that was the Avengers. There have been two Suicide Squad movie bombs.

The enthusiast audience who could name Rocksteady already know this thing is radioactive.

It’s the same as Apple Arcade, essentially.

I have a very dumb cousin and it’s basically all they’ve been sharing lately.