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Gathered at Camp David, Biden's family tells him to stay in the race and keep fighting
  • I think you're suggesting that he committed to being a 1-term president as part of his campaign. You might be remembering a bunch of sensationalized articles based on a Politico article where an unnamed "prominent advisor" said "he won't be running for reelection" and a bunch of other mostly unnamed people also suggested he wouldn't/shouldn't run again. Which led to tons of other articles, which parroted it as fact.

    The Politico article even further went on to be updated after it was first published to add a quote from Biden's deputy campaign manager and communications director at the time, which stated Biden was "not privately considering declining to run for re-election."

    So he never made that commitment and the only official communication refuted the speculation.

    Reference Politico - Biden Single Term

    Slate even covered this recently in another article, where they were unable to locate any official commitment related to serving a single term.

    Reference Slate - Biden Single Term

    Disclaimer: I also wish we had another option, just presenting some evidence. Maybe it'll make you feel better with your choice.

  • It's wild how many job listings might be fake
  • I'm not at home to check at the moment, but I think it's Jobs Filterer for LinkedIn by Jonathan Kamens. Lets you prefilter with regex for like company or job title, and give you a button to manually hide specific listings as well.

  • L.A. County wants to cap rent hikes at 3%. Landlords say that would push them to sell
  • You'd limit Ultimate Beneficial Ownership of the properties, not direct ownership.

    I'd probably do something like: No individual or private entity may have Direct, Indirect or Ultimate Beneficial Ownership exceeding or of multiple of any of X(2-5?) Single Family properties, Y(2-3?) low density Multi-tenant properties, or Z(1-2?) high density Multi-tenant properties. Excluding the first wholely and solely owner occupied property. Excluding Ultimate Beneficial Ownership of less than A(.01-5?)% of a property. Excluding Ownership less than B(30-180?) days. Failure to comply results in forfeiture of newer ownership to REGULATOR-TBD until compliance is met. Multi-tenant properties have C (5-10?) residences

    IANAL, probably some other loopholes that need closing. But the intent would be to limit consolidated ownership of many properties. But not impact several of the more reasonable ownership structures, nor impact churn of properties. The regulator would sell whatever extra it gets to fund housing programs.

  • Analysts: PS5 Outsold Xbox Almost 5 To 1 This Past Quarter
  • Article feels weirdly biased, an Xbox mid-gen update has been talked about for over a year and is expected in the next like 4-6 months. Anyone in the market for a current gen Xbox is likely to consider that and may decide to postpone their purchase until then, making sales artificially lower than demand for an Xbox. The article doesn't even mention it, instead talking about even more speculative hardware that isn't likely more than some R&D project, if that.

    You can see similar effects for PS4 sales when the PS5 was announced, sales cratered. Can't tell too much with the PS4 to PS4 pro because they announced close to actual release.

    Feels like the author is clickbaiting the console war.

  • It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine
  • It's more about the hardware/firmware/software uniformity and reliability for some people. My friend is in this camp, he doesn't want to need to manage a PC, he just wants a box he can reliably turn on and use.

  • It's out now! The prologue for my solo project, a roguelike tower defense, is live. Check it out.
  • Played a couple runs. Definitely seems up my alley.

    Feedback:

    1. Idk why, but when cursoring UI menus, it just ticks from where I cursored to the top like I'm holding an up arrow. Happens in Menus, Stats, Level ups and Shop. Clicking works fine, just really couldn't read any stat descriptions.

    2. When teasing the locked towers/skills, when you obscure the text with the X of locks, it's hard for me to read and get excited about getting access to that thing. Maybe move the lock indicator somewhere there isn't text (top right?).

    3. This is maybe more fundamental, and idk how it fits with your vision, but scroll wheeling between skills feels clunky, could it maybe be key based (either as well or in addition), think that'd feel snappier to me.

  • Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track
  • Gotta crank up that dystopia meter.

    This is slowly moving toward having Content On Demand. Imagine being able to prompt your content app for a movie/series you want to watch, and it just makes it and streams it to you.

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