100%, really a fantastic soundtrack - still gives me chills.

Thank you for sharing this - here’s what I’ve had on my playlist recently: https://youtu.be/zWeGxKsPXZ4

This is the system. I was a juror in a trial against Oakland where they were found to have been doing this - well over a decade ago. Oakland’s police department in particular has been in disarray for a very long time.

Employees in any profession are going to test boundaries and see what they can get away with. There was a similar report of a BART employee racking up incredible overtime as well.

It’s ultimately whatever the system permits.

This, and what it demands. Is the place understaffed? Last I checked, yes. Are the overtime hours unnecessary, or there literally aren’t any others staffed to cover them? I did a ride along with OPD, and they were severely understaffed and the number of active unit cars at any given time were insanely small for the size of the city, not to mention a city with such a high crime rate.

If there are abuses of the system, they should be prosecuted, absolutely. I’m not sure that’s the entire story here though

It's both. OPD is dramatically under-staffed, and also trash. Needs a complete overhaul.

Corporations don’t need to, no. But they are systems, and it’s a beginner mistake to assume changing one part is going to affect the whole in some simple, predictable, logical way.

That sounds like an extremely lame excuse to preserve money losing activities.

I'll counter by saying that pruning off failing things is not only good, it's the core of capitalism. Creative destruction, as Schumpeter called it. You get efficiency by hunting down and eliminating inefficiency, redeploying the resources elsewhere.

> pruning off failing things is not only good, it's the core of capitalism

It's quite serious that you see "being good" as something inferior to "the core of capitalism".

Also, the core of capitalism is making money for private individuals, nothing more, nothing less. Whether that's done with or without "failing things", is really beside the point.

The core of capitalism is about where ownership of capital (value producing assets) resides, that is, by private individuals.

What private individuals choose to do with their capital, chase infinite growth and profit or sit on it, is up to them. This is as opposed to say, state ownership of capital.

People confuse the stock market with capitalism. You don't need a stock market for capitalism to function. Publicly traded companies in the United States are legally bound to maximize profit (Dodge vs. Ford Motor Co.)

> You get efficiency by hunting down and eliminating inefficiency, redeploying the resources elsewhere

Plants do this. What’s it got to do with capitalism?

Error is rampant. I saw a quote saying the difference between a good business and bad one is the good one makes the right decision 60% of time, the bad one 40% of the time.

So errors abound, and have to be subsequently corrected. This correction process is as natural to capitalism as breathing is to you being alive. Without it, things would rapidly grind to a halt. We see this in sclerotic centrally planned economies where errors persist for much longer.

Precisely. RoS turned TLJ into a mistake. A different sequel could have paid things off. Maybe.

Everything they'd said publicly kinda made it seem like they had no actual plan for how to follow up TLJ.

That said, I've never been a big Star Wars fan and not super invested either way.

It’s, what, 25 years old? There have been many sequels, prequels, remastering. The economic benefits of this IP are largely exhausted; that it is now leaked to the commons isn’t an alarming thing.

The game just had an update to support the Switch 2 only 2 months ago. It is still being used commercially.

Konami willing, they'll drag the IP to their grave. Lest we forget MGS3's first remaster... for Pachinko parlors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsJ4QgBpQN8

Recompilation efforts raise the bar for future re-releases, and incentivize proper remaster efforts like MGS Delta instead of the half-assed Master collection. I would love to see Konami thrive as a company and get more people interested in MGS, but their recent re-releases don't deserve to be priced at $60. Their monopoly of the source code feels like an existential threat to both future preservation and high-quality MGS remakes, it's healthier for Konami to simply let it go at this point.

Do you think this leak will harm sales of the Switch 2 version?

Yes I do think it will harm the sales, but it doesn't matter if it does or doesn't as releasing this goes against the wishes of the copyright owner.

It is also trivial to emulate these days, so to me I don't see any potential lost sales. Worst case it reveals some mostly already suspected story details that were cut or left unstated in the final versions. MGS4 might still have some value because you need expensive hardware to emulate decently and it isn't perfect still. But a 15 year old computer can emulate MGS2 better than it originally ran on the xbox.

> But a 15 year old computer can emulate MGS2 better than it originally ran on the xbox.

And you don't even need to emulate it because there was an official Windows port... well you probably need to emulate Windows XP to make it even run.

I have to go with The Birdcage. Just a silly movie, with Hackman playing a rather timeless portrayal of a politician. The meandering story about “purple mountains” always gets me for some reason.

Now imagine how the administration might deport 20 million “illegal aliens”, as they’ve promised.

"not replying to this email automatically renounces your citizenship and you must leave the United States within 48 hours"

But we'd need a way to email them all. Maybe we could give them all cell phones first.

Necessitating a government contract for Starlink's new sat to phone connectivity you say? Welcome to DOGE!

I chuckled, then cried. Ymmv

Do not pass go.

Many would be adjacent to the new ruler. The startup shutters but the VP of Engineering is already starting something new with his old reports.

The point still stands that the choice of response should be appropriate, and there are several choices between inaction and deployment of the military.