in the UK yes. Some people take them to public spaces for a quick bbq since they are either not in … owned accommodation, or the constantly unpredictable weather/short summers doesn’t accommodate the need for multiple bbqs a season.

The thing that has turned me off more now than ever before is the way the game has fully stagnated. Every new release is just a reskinned iteration that calcified at the end of COVID. The mechanics have gotten cookie-cutter and have really divorced themselves from the different styles and themes between sets.

fucking a-men.

The most blatant of this was when Android : Netrunner was licenced by Fantasy Flight Games and every set not only DIDN’T HAVE LOOTBOXES/RANDOM PACKS, but almost every card design was unique.

At the very least, until they started trying to get into cycling sets out and new ones in to build standard, and instead of cards being balanced by later cards, they just dumped new broken sweeper shit in there (unavoidable tags into resource sweepers)

And then you compared it to the state of MTG which started becoming :

Every fucking card is either bullshit removal, or “When you resolve this spell turn a land into a 0/0 creature and put a +1/+1 counter on each land that turned into a creature this turn and draw a card if your land creatures have five enchantments”.

A planetary mass disc would collapse into a sphere

… but galaxies are “flat”?

Delivery drivers in Australia will be paid a minimum rate of $31.30 (US $22.05/£16.35)

justn to put it into context.

I assure you that electricity was going to be wasted on some dumb fuck thing anyway.

the problems with AI can be easily mitigated, they just aren’t for various reasons.

You can have an AI trained on public domain content, running on electricity from renewable sources and locally hosted. What’s the problem then?

I wonder if they can do that with Charlie Kirk? I wouldn’t put it past them, and his wife is very likely to go along with it.

innocent russians being painted with the same brush as malicious russians.

That sucks. The motivations are clear, but these kinds of things can hurt innocent people. Something similar happened to a family I know post USSR breakup, they were made to leave the SSR they were living in and had to migrate (back?) to Russia. They weren’t facing persecution there, but it was obviously upsetting to them.

Not everyone is a KGB (FSB?) agent. Some are, but not all, and they do suffer.

Here’s how to prevent this says nation where this happened for the first time.

🎵Here she is, Miss Universe, here she is , looking WEEEEEIIIRD🎵

… there are no job postings yet

I put it as something in .bash_aliases as

alias something='this command'

great another one to add to my alias pile, thank you

EDIT : this does not fix my issues

I think it’s reborn current time, not in the past

fair enough

I don’t see what the Obama presidency has to do with anything.

they gave moot the option to play their game, sell to someone who would, or end up in a ditch

Well, I don’t think the MAGAs were capable of threatening to put Moot in a ditch back then.

Thing is, the sale happened during the Obama presidency, in 2015.

[pre edit]… but he appeared in the epstein files in 2011 … so IDFK /tinfoil hat

I haven’t really heard of kids going hungry in Australia. Social security for young families is pretty good. There’s loads of free activities, and childcare is heavily subsidised and very accessible.

According to the ACOSS & UNSW Partnership, latest data from the ABS Survey of Income and Housing, indicates that in 2019–20, one in six children (16.6percent) in Australia lived below the poverty line after taking account of their housing costs, equating to 761 000 Australian children.[13]

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs/PovertyinAustralia/The_extent_and_nature_of_poverty_in_Australia/Chapter_4_-_Child_poverty

I guess maybe I should be more vauge, and also research a lot into the current climate of children specifically in australia, rather than these same fucking laws being shoved down the throats of the entire world, by , I have no idea who it could possibly be…

enhance surveillance. That was the intention of some corporate supporters perhaps

https://web.archive.org/web/20260313160140/https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings/

Facebook fucking wrote these laws worldwide, and are looking to get more fucking money, data and power through it. It’s called regulatory capture

The purported benefits of the legislation was not to “keep teens and kids safe” from predators and so on, but rather to preserve their cognitive function. At least that’s how I understood it.

That’s not the job of anyone but the fucking parents. The internet has been a toxic shithole since the dawn of ARPAnet , and it’s going to be that way until human communications cease entirely. As a responsable parent, you fucking buy Net nanny or equivalent and hey presto, no one’s human rights need to be violated.

That was the intention of some corporate supporters perhaps, but the legislators genuinely thought this would improve the quality of life of Australians.

Yeah sure. I brought my proof, show me more laws and regulations the ghouls that put this in action actually put effort into that actually, practically, make the lives of children actually better. Or are they all regulatory capture “Give BP and Shell a 100% tax cut , let’s say it moved me… TO A BIGGER HOUSE!”

PS : Let me guess, you also believe the PATRIOT ACT , Tempora, and dragnet surveilance is for “Anti terrorism” and “national security”?

George Carlin: It’s called the American Dream. Because you have to be asleep to believe it.