Yep. There's a tendency to single out China's bad behavior for stuff other world powers (including the U.S. for sure) also do.

A great example is China's meddling in Canadian politics these last few years. An ex-RCMP official pointed out that a lot of other countries do it, including allies. He singled out Russia and India, but also the U.S. (I mean, how could the U.S. not try to influence their neighbors' politics.)

But China makes the headlines, every single time.

Made the switch to Aegis a little while back. I like it a lot.

Haha, he nearly passes out when he realizes he crashed the game. That kid is amazing.

Anyone who expected Starfield to win Most Innovative Gameplay, are you offering divination services to the public?

It was an easy call to make. Steam Awards are voted by the public, so it's all about name recognition.

The other finalists in that category were Shadow of Doubt, Contraband Police, Remnant II, and Your Only Move Is Hustle. Of all these, I had heard about Starfield and Remnant II.

I'm sure some of these games are awesome and I want to check them out by virtue of being finalists, but it was pretty clear Starfield was gonna win on brand recognition alone.

Steam Awards, like any publicly-voted award, is a name recognition contest.

Active users in the last six months. It will drop off when the usage peak is no longer included in the six-month period.

I tried this exact scenario and didn't see any difference in load times. I'm using an ad blocker and it's definitely sluggish, but switching to a Chrome user agent made no difference.

It's certainly more portable than a flamberge or partisan.

“Meng did nothing wrong, let her go with a quiet whisper not to come back”

That was absolutely not my read on it here. It's describing a realpolitik situation where Canada is on shaky legal grounds since they are not a signatory to a foreign embargo, and thus overreach their strict legal obligations to please an ally. The suggestion of letting Meng go isn't about her being right or wrong; it's about what's the savviest move Canada could have made here that would have neither pissed off China nor the U.S.

Simply refusing to act on behest of the Trump Administration and giving plausible deniability why isn't defying them. It's a neutral political move. The consequence of not doing so is what we've since experienced: deteriorating relations with a major foreign power with no gains in return with the ally we tried to suck up to.

the rest was just tooting China's horn

Is that what we're calling reporting on facts that don't completely feed the "China bad" narrative, now?

Linux users truly are the vegans of the tech world.

Not disputing your main point, but they fired CEO John Riccitiello over this.

He's the idiot who tried to pressure the devs of Cyberpunk 2077 into letting him appear in the game as himself.

Bold of the media to assume Space X is gonna get anywhere near Mars any time soon.

That counterpart, according to Ortis, briefed him about a "storefront" that was being created to attract criminal targets to an online encryption service. A storefront, said Ortis, is a fake business or entity, either online or bricks-and-mortar, set up by police or intelligence agencies.

The plan was to have criminals use the storefront — an online end-to-end encryption service called Tutanota — to allow authorities to collect intelligence about them.

Wait, WHAT?

We hate cars so much, we've come full circle to parroting fossil fuel industry propaganda against EVs, I see.

I've been reading "Trump is gonna be done any day now" articles since he started gaining steam in the 2016 GOP primaries. Fucker's still free and currently leading the incumbent president in presidential polls.