I am not quite in that demographic but getting pretty close. I’ve bought maybe a game a year for a very long time now. Most non-indie stuff is complete and utter trash. If I see a AAA publisher logo, I take it as a sign that it’s not worth my time or money.

Seems pretty normal for an orange cat. There’s something about that colour that causes extreme stupidity. They’re normally good fun though.

If you’re an EU citizen, just paying taxes does a lot.

Adam Something, is that you?

Even without the ratcheting, assuming the percentages are well calibrated, it works on everyone equally no matter your financial situation. A wealthy person paying tens or hundreds of thousands of euros for going 5km/h over the speed limit learns the lesson very quickly.

In some countries, the fine is not defined as a definite amount, but as a percentage of yearly income. In Finland, a mild speeding ticket is half your daily income. That means for Musk, if he was caught speeding there, would have to pay ~38,000,000 EUR as a mild slap on the wrist.

PhD in electrical engineering

Maybe this would be useful for you?

Thanks to previous abuse of the war powers act (unironic thanks Obama), they can kinda do whatever in that front mostly legally. A previously used tactic they can borrow is just to claim the same force is now part of a coalition force, so now it’s not a US war.

Newton is for throwing with intelligence

The whole thing is an exploration of one concept: temporal pincer maneuvers. The entire movie is one, and you have 3 more during the movie (car chase, Freeport, Stalsk).

Every time they do this, it gives cover to real antisemites to launder their hate. Attacks on Jews worldwide are going up in large part due to exactly this kind of insane hyperbolic rhetoric making the word antisemite lose all meaning, and therefore more difficult to combat.

Probably more useful to study the damage that can be caused by a dead worm to brain tissue.

I use the mnemonic “extract ze file” for tar -xzf

And when payment was late, that resulted in the first recorded labour strike

TELL ME HOW THE GRASS TASTES, LITTLE MAN!

So I guess copyleft licenses like CC BY enforce mandatory ads, by your logic?

China has been very obvious with their movements lately.

In a world of unpredictability and uncertainty, presenting your country as stable and certain is extremely profitable.

If you stroke me out, I’ll become more powerful than you think, or whatever.

I fully agree with your goals (last paragraph). Literally all I was disagreeing with was the finality of it, that your country is permanently wrecked. It is currently wrecked, but nothing is fully permanent, and with enough time (talking a decade at an absolute minimum, more likely multiple decades) and people commiting real effort, this is fixable.

Never say never. In 1986, it was utterly unthinkable that the dictator of my country (Romania) would ever be overthrown. 3 years later, he fails a mad scramble to get out of the country and ends up being executed.

Might not be visible now, might not be for years, but there’s always possibility.