This was an appeals court, and could be overturned by a higher court

The only higher court than a US circuit court is the Supreme Court of the United States.

this ruling only says that the companies still have to go to court

I mean, that is the headline … “must face thousands of lawsuits” doesn’t mean they’re guilty.

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is there any similarity at all besides “they’re both red”?

in fact, if there is a “stolen”, then SNES is doing the stealing. here’s Bethesda’s 1986–2000 logo. you can clearly see that the new logo is based on the “Bethesda” in this:

if you checked the headline of the article, you’ll see that it’s a nod to their retro days. i’ve heard of not reading the body content of the article, but this is the first time i’ve seen someone not even read the headline.

it’s composed in a way that’s both really good and something AI probably won’t do

this misses what happened to public colleges, like the land grant colleges you mention. at the height of counterculture, campuses exposed everyone to powerful ideas that made them do all kinds of organizing against the establishment. for example in 1970 the Ohio National Guard was called onto Kent State University and fired over sixty rounds into anti-war protestors, killing four. Ronald Reagan became California Governor, defunded universities, and introduced tuition to stop this onset of class consciousness; in his words, to bar “undesirables” from college. then in 1975, NYC went almost bankrupt, and regretfully adopted the same measures upon the City University system in a ton of cuts to tackle $14 billion and growing in debt. thus the same policies spread across the rest of the US. a similar reason is why the “leftist” party in Britain managed to landslide against 20 years of Conservative rule by promising to introduce tuition.

because through happy accidents (US tried to consciously do this through denazification but that was abandoned, while the USSR did successfully consciously do this for East Germany), the young (West) Germany was instilled with an extremely high sense of historical remorse partly because they were young.

i’ve never heard people say even half of “US is a young nation, they don’t understand history”

The executive order is separate from New York’s Responsible Data Center Development Act recently passed by the state legislature. That bill would have also banned data center permits for a year, but required energy efficiency goals for data centers and specific benefits for host communities. Governor Hochul has yet to sign that bill but is considering it.

what loopholes? this seems pretty clear:

hold in abeyance all applications for any discretionary permit, approval, license, or similar form of permission for the construction or expansion of a data center that (1) are or may hereafter be pending before DEC and (2) have not been determined to be complete by DEC before the date of this Executive Order

(until the state assesses the general impact of the rate of data center construction we’ve seen, that is)

it’s the first statewide ban

is the Acela a bullet train?

the article mentions this y’all

A national click-to-cancel rule introduced by the Biden administration was struck down by a federal judge in 2025, days before it was set to go into effect, over a procedural rule. Donald Trump’s FTC plans to pass a similar rule in coming months.

https://www.consumerfinancemonitor.com/2025/07/23/eighth-circuit-voids-ftc-click-to-cancel-rule/ :

Under federal law, the FTC must issue a preliminary regulatory analysis when a proposed rule would have an annual effect on the national economy surpassing $100 million. The FTC said that the rule would not have an annual $100 million impact on the economy. However, an Administrative Law Judge found that the proposed rule would have an annual effect surpassing the $100 million threshold. The FTC was not excused from having to prepare the analysis if its initial economic analysis was deemed inaccurate, the judges wrote. They said that after the Administrative Law Judge’s decision, the FTC could have reissued its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking with the required preliminary analysis.

Local TV stations branded under Fox are all editorially independent from Fox News (in some cases they’re even owned by Sinclair). There’s pretty much no such thing as a nominally independent TV station these days. You should be able to trust their coverage as much as, say, CBS 6.

what is this godforsaken screenshot formatting

The FCC does not have jurisdiction over streaming. Good luck should be wished for the legislature.

A 197–5 vote doesn’t happen in a state legislature — not on tax policy, not on anything.

<citation needed>

just to clarify that this only works for TV and not streaming, because the article is about streaming

for TV, yes, not for streaming.

FCC does not have jurisdiction over streaming.

vile missed rhyming opportunity

from (prep.)

1. […]
2. […]
3. Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
   1. Indicating a starting point in time.
      “Tickets are available from 17th July.”